Basic Books: 1466 books
What Doesn't Kill Us
The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
For the past twenty years, pioneering psychologist Stephen Joseph has worked with survivors of trauma. His studies have yielded a startling discovery: that a wide range of traumatic events-from illness, divorce, separation, assault, and bereavement to accidents, natural disasters, and terrorism-can...
The Longest Afternoon
The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe-Napoleon's forces on one...
Talking to Terrorists
Why America Must Engage with its Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
It has long been an article of faith that the United States does not talk to terrorists”-that to engage in dialogue with groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood would be tacitly to acknowledge their status as legitimate political actors. Not so, argues Middle East expert Mark...
Measure of the Earth
The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s first international, cooperative scientific expedition. Intent on making precise astronomical measurements at the Equator, they were poised to resolve...
The Fortress
The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2020
A prizewinning historian tells the dramatic story of the siege that changed the course of the First World War
In September 1914, just a month into World War I, the Russian army laid siege to the fortress city of Przemysl, the Hapsburg Empire's most important bulwark against invasion. For six...
Armies of Heaven
The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders- their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads-indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached...
The Origin Of The Universe
Science Masters Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
There is no more profound, enduring or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now John Barrow, who has been at the cutting edge of research in this area and has written extensively about it, guides us on a journey to the beginning of time, into a world...
by Bruce W. Scotton, Allan B. Chinen, John R. Battista
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This important new book brings together the work of top scholars and clinicians at leading universities and medical centers on the benefits and risks of transpersonal therapy. After comparing a variety of multicultural approaches-Zen Buddhism, existential phenomenology, and Christian mysticism, among...
1619
Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand
Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course...
Local Knowledge
Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume...
by Ross Kraemer, William Cassidy, Susan L Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Is there a God? What evil lurks beyond the stars? Can science save one's soul? Profound questions like these have consumed human thought over the ages; they also inspired the original creators of the Star Trek canon of TV series and films. Religions of Star Trek tackles these challenging questions...
by George Captain Galdorisi
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
In this comprehensive guide, military experts teach you how to survive an attack on American soil, from North Korean missiles to weaponized smallpox
North Korean nukes. Dirty bombs in train stations. Chemical warfare. Americans have more reasons than ever to be afraid. If a nuclear missile...
by Tamler Sommers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality
To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to...
The Essential Difference
Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
We all know the opposite sex can be a baffling, even infuriating, species. Why do most men use the phone to exchange information rather than have a chat? Why do women love talking about relationships and feelings with their girlfriends while men seem drawn to computer games, new gadgets, or the latest...