Basic Books: 1466 books
Beeline
What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generation Z--and why they are destined for success
At first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and constantly tracked on...
Illegal
How America's Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
A political scientist explains how the American immigration system ran off the rails -- and proposes a bold plan for reform
Under the Trump administration, US immigration agencies terrorize the undocumented, target people who are here legally, and even threaten the constitutional rights of...
All Our Kin
Strategies For Survival In A Black Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
"This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Here is the chronicle of a young white woman’s sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto comm"
The Mousedriver Chronicles
The True- Life Adventures Of Two First-time Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
It all started late one night at The Ginger Man, a popular restaurant in Dallas, Texas. Using the back of a beer coaster and the bartender's pen, Kyle Harrison, in a moment of inspiration, began sketching an unusual computer mouse, shaped like the head of a driver golf club. He took the idea with...
The Unsettling of Europe
How Migration Reshaped a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe
Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years. But as we consider the current refugee crisis, acclaimed historian Peter...
Mind in Motion
How Action Shapes Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought
When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better...
Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs
How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty And Became Their Own Bosses
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Over the last five years, the number of women-owned businesses has grown at twice the rate of all U.S. firms; in the next few years, the number is expected to surpass the six million mark. Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs tells the inspirational stories of eleven low-income women who have marshaled the...
Predators
Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2020
From a leading expert, a window into the psychology that motivates sexual predators-and how we can protect ourselves from them
Psychologist Anna Salter has been studying sex offenders and their victims for more than forty years. In countless hours of interviews with sexual predators-from respected...
Mortal Republic
How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military...
Hitler
A Global Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler
Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism...
Life Finds a Way
What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science
In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb...
The Incurable Romantic
And Other Tales of Madness and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A psychologist explores the intersection of love and madness through the riveting stories of the patients he has treated
In The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: a woman becomes utterly convinced that her...
The Secret Lives of Boys
Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Teenage boys have come a long way since the staid 1980s when they were all lumped into the Breakfast Club categories of Brains, Druggies, and Jocks. Crisscrossing the country-meeting with boys from different cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds-journalist Malina Saval introduces readers to the...
by Daniel Boulud
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
Daniel Boulud is a pioneer of our contemporary food culture-from the reinvention of French food to the fine dining revolution in America. A modern man with a classical foundation and a lifetime of experience, Boulud speaks with passion about the vocation of creating food. Part memoir, part advice...