Basic Books: 1466 books
Anatomy Of A Rose
Exploring The Secret Life Of Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
In Anatomy of a Rose, Sharman Apt Russell eloquently unveils the "inner life" of flowers, showing them to be more individual, more enterprising, and more responsive than we ever imagined. From their diverse fragrances to their nasty deceptions, Russell proves that, where nature is concerned,...
The Evolution of Desire
Strategies of Human Mating
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The groundbreaking, provocative book that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love
If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent...
Flatterland
Like Flatland Only More So
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls "a superb sequel." Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired...
Do Dice Play God?
The Mathematics of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
A celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictable
We would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect definitely committed a crime. But the odds...
The Atoms Of Language
The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality--and thus mutual intelligibility--of human thought.We are now on the verge...
The Emperor's New Drugs
Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Do antidepressants work? Of course-everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually...
Gene Machine
The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule
"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end."
--Siddhartha...
On Their Own
What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
On Their Own tells the compelling stories of ten young people whose lives are full of promise, but who face economic and social barriers stemming from the disruptions of foster care. This book calls for action to provide youth in foster care the same opportunities on the road to adulthood that most...
by Calvin Clawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The secret of constellations, the enigma of the golden mean, and the brilliance of a proof-these are just some of the wonders Clawson explores with unbridled delight in this recreational math book. Throughout the book he divulges the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptians,...
by Thomas L. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The Jewish people's historical claims to a small area of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean are not only the foundation for the modern state of Israel, they are also at the very heart of Judeo-Christian belief. Yet in The Mythic Past, Thomas Thompson argues that such claims are grounded in literary...
Physics in Mind
A Quantum View of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
No one can escape a sense of awe when reflecting on the workings of the mind: we see, we hear, we feel, we are aware of the world around us. But what is the mind? What do we mean when we say we are aware” of something? What is this peculiar state in our heads, at once utterly familiar and bewilderingly...
Advice to War Presidents
A Remedial Course in Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
War presidents” are hardly exceptional in modern American history. To a greater or lesser extent, every president since Wilson has been a War President. Each has committed our country to the pursuit of peace, yet involved us in a seemingly endless series of wars-conflicts that the American foreign...
The League
How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America
The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $14 billion in annual revenue. But it was not always a success. In The...
Beyond The Learning Organization
Creating a Culture of Continuous Growth and Development through State-of-the-Art Human Resource Practicies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Beyond the Learning Organization will help executives, managers, and human resource professionals put the concepts of the developmental organization” into practice. Experts in the field of human resource and organizational development, Jerry W. Gilley and Ann Maycunich examine how the latest advances...