Basic Books: 1466 books
Transcendence
How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
How four tools enabled humanity to control its destiny
What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains,...
Schopenhauer's Porcupines
Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
The classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writer
Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine in her fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines, she recounts five true...
The Power and the Glory
Inside the Dark Heart of Pope John Paul II's Vatican
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Pope John Paul II was a leader to millions of Catholics at a time of tremendous change. Promising a renewed church, he became a symbol of hope worldwide. Now, four years after his death, calls for his sainthood continue. But is this the whole truth? In The Power and the Glory, David Yallop explores...
The Great Democracy
How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2019
A leading progressive intellectual offers an agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond
Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in our political history: the liberal era, stretching up to the 1970s, followed by the neoliberal era of privatization and austerity...
Games Primates Play
An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange of grooming behavior in rhesus macaques or chimpanzees. Interestingly, some of the major aspects of...
Diary Of A Baby
What Your Child Sees, Feels, And Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Every new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on infant development and psychiatry brings us closer than ever before to penetrating a your child's consciousness. In alternating sections of evocative prose, representing the baby's own voice, and...
by David Spiegel, Catherine Classen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
This extraordinary resource celebrates and expands on Dr. David Spiegel's discovery that a shared intimacy with mortality creates very different concerns in the patient from those that apply in conventional settings. Spiegel and Classen introduce mental health professionals to the awareness as well...
Should I Medicate My Child?
Sane Solutions For Troubled Kids With-and Without-psychiatric Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
With the publication of Running on Ritalin in 1998, Dr. Lawrence Diller established himself as the country's leading expert on the use of psychiatric drugs to treat children. Since then, parents have clamored for his expertise on psychological problems beyond ADD, drugs beyond Ritalin, and, most important,...
by Michele J. Karel, Suzanne Ogland-hand, Margaret Gatz
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Not only is depression among the elderly treatable but, given its increase in incidence and a rapidly aging population, it is a critical issue for the mental-health and medical communities. The authors review the range of late-life depressive syndromes and the strategies for assessing and treating...
Murder in the Model City
The Black Panthers, Yale, and the Redemption of a Killer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
May 20, 1969: Four members of the revolutionary Black Panther Party trudge through woods along the edges of the Coginchaug River outside of New Haven, Connecticut. Gunshots shatter the silence. Three men emerge from the woods. Soon, two are in police custody. One flees across the country. Nine Panthers...
The Pony Fish's Glow
And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
We may regard ourselves as the most advanced species on the planet, but have we really reached our optimum design? Isn't there always room for improvements? Before you answer, let noted evolutionary biologist George C. Williams remind you of both the exquisite adaptations and absurd maladaptations...
Seven Story Tower
A Mythic Journey Through Space And Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
From the white stag to the green knight, The Seven Story Tower examines how myth colors our perception of history, nature, and ourselves. Organized around seven key myths-representing the Irish, Greek, Sumerian, Indonesian, Amazonian, and Inuit cultures, as well as the fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien-this...
Ways of Heaven
An Introduction to Chinese Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A brilliant history of ancient China's masters of philosophy -- and how they help us understand China today
In Ways of Heaven, leading China scholar Roel Sterckx offers an engrossing introduction to classical China's world of ideas. Drawing on evocative examples from philosophical texts, literature,...
A Mad Love
An Introduction to Opera
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century
There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera--and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's...