Basic Books: 1466 books
Grass Roots
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana
In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago, only...
Burn Math Class
And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A manifesto for a mathematical revolution
Forget everything you've been taught about math. In Burn Math Class, Jason Wilkes takes the traditional approach to how we learn math--with its unwelcoming textbooks, unexplained rules, and authoritarian assertions-and sets it on fire.
Focusing...
Not To People Like Us
Hidden Abuse In Upscale Marriages
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
This important book brings the ignored population of abused upper-income women to light, revealing for the first time the depth and severity of "upscale abuse"
How is it possible for a highly educated woman with a career and resources of her own to stay in a marriage with an abusive...
by Mary Morse
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
An eye-opening and honest look at the enduring sexism within the scientific community and what women are doing to change it.
The Body Economic
Why Austerity Kills
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health—and have even exacerbated them, by adopting harsh austerity measures and cutting key social programs at a time when constituents...
The Weblog Handbook
Practical Advice On Creating And Maintaining Your Blog
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Finally a book for anyone who has ever thought about starting a Weblog but wasn't sure how to post, where to find links, or even where to go to register. The Weblog Handbook is a clear and concise guide to everything one needs to know about the phenomenon that is exploding on the Web. Rebecca Blood...
Fab
The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? According to Neil Gershenfeld, the renowned MIT scientist and inventor, the next big thing is personal fabrication-the ability to design and produce your own products, in your own home, with a machine that...
by Jody Heymann
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2001
This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is hospitalized? How do poor families cope with work-family...
Punishment Without Crime
How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals
Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive...
by Margaret S. Mahler, Fred Pine, Anni Bergman
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic process of a child's emergence from symbiotic fusion with the mother toward affirmation of his own psychological birth. Available for the first time in paperback...
Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head
The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
In the largest study ever undertaken on sexual fantasy, world-renowned psychotherapist and researcher Brett Kahr reveals the astonishing truths behind secrecy, shame, and taboo in this groundbreaking book based on surveys of 23,000 men and women from eighteen to ninety years of age. The definitive...
Rosa Lee
A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.For four years Leon Dash of the...
We Have To Talk
Healing Dialogues Between Women And Men
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1999
We have to talk.” For many men, these are the four worst words in the English language, especially when they're uttered by a female partner. But it doesn't have to be that way, argue Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey in their pathbreaking and practical new book. Male relational dread”-that all-too-familiar...
Monstering
Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In April 2004, the Abu Ghraib photographs set off an international scandal. Yet until this book, the full story behind that scandal has never been told. Tara McKelvey-the first U.S. journalist to speak with female prisoners from Abu Ghraib-traveled to the Middle East and across the United States to...