Basic Books: 1466 books
The Crowded Universe
The Search for Living Planets
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
We are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe-we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets around other stars. But will we find any?
In The Crowded Universe, renowned astronomer Alan Boss argues that based on what we already know about planetary systems, in the...
by Mitchell Begelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Turn Right at Orion is the account of an epic astronomical journey, discovered sixty million years in Earth's future-the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader to far distant shores, across a vast ocean of...
Sexing the Body
Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by...
Screen Time
How Electronic Media-From Baby Videos to Educational Software-Affects Your Young Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
As a mother, Lisa Guernsey wondered about the influence of television on her two young daughters. As a reporter, she resolved to find out. What she first encountered was tired advice, sensationalized research claims, and a rather draconian mandate from the American Academy of Pediatrics: no TV at...
The Ego Tunnel
The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain-an internal image, but one we cannot...
by Lois H. Gresh, Robert Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
The depiction of computers on the various "Star Trek" series has ranged from lame to breathtakingly imaginative. This book covers the gamut, and makes lucid and entertaining comparison of these fictional computers with those that now exist or are likely to inhabit our future. Throughout...
by Tony Campolo
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Named by Christianity Today as one of the twentyfive most influential preachers of the last fifty years, best-selling author Tony Campolo has spent decades calling on readers and audiences around the world to live their faith through committed activism. A tireless crusader for human rights and the...
EMDR
The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
When EMDR was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades. In the twenty years since, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy has successfully treated psychological problems for millions of sufferers worldwide. In this...
by Paulina F. Kernberg, Alan S. Weiner, Karen Bardenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
In the first book to argue that neurotic, psychotic, and borderline personality disorders can be identified, diagnosed, and treated even in the young, a renowned child psychiatrist marshalls her developmental perspective and adduces clinical evidence to support it. Kernberg and her colleagues elucidate assessment criteria and advance therapeutic approaches for each disorder.
The Firecracker Boys
H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However, the plan was blocked by a handful of Eskimos and biologists who succeeded in preventing massive nuclear devastation potentially far greater than that...
The Burning Shore
How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The untold story of two men-an American pilot and a German U-boat commander-whose clash off the coast of North Carolina brought the horrors of World War II to American shores
Passchendaele
The Lost Victory of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The definitive account of Passchendaele, the months-long battle that epitomizes the immense tragedy of the First World War
Passchendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized...
Sons of Freedom
The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The definitive history of America's decisive role in World War I
The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic. But...
The Lost Oasis
The True Story Behind The English Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
The Lost Oasis tells the true story behind The English Patient. An extraordinary episode in World War II, it describes the Zerzura Club, a group of desert explorers and adventurers who indulged in desert travel by early-model-motor cars and airplanes, and who searched for lost desert oases and ancient...