Basic Books: 1466 books
Predictive Health
How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget—nearly 175 billion—is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental...
Running with Reindeer
Encounters in Russian Lapland
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Russian Lapland, a region of amazing contrasts. Here lies the last true wilderness of Europe, a rich and pristine ecosystem teeming with bird and animal life. But here too lie the dark, satanic mills of the former Soviet Union and the rotting remnants of nuclear submarines. Running with Reindeer is...
Taking Away the Distance
A Young Orphan's Journey and the AIDS Epidemic in Africa Crusade to Unite Children Orphaned by the E
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
In this emotional story of hope and inspiration, an African boy, orphaned by AIDS becomes a catalyst for AIDS orphans worldwide. Living in a shantytown in Kenya, Kevin Sumba's life was one of loneliness and hardship. Yet he was determined to get an education. Miles Roston, a documentary filmmaker,...
Desert Sojourn
A Woman's Forty Days and Nights Alone
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
At age 31, having left a stifling decade-long marriage, Debi Holmes-Binney set off alone into the harsh Utah desert to find direction and spiritual renewal. Armed with only basic supplies and her writing journals, she planned to spend forty days and nights alone; what followed was an extended sojourn...
by Jamie Little, Danielle McCormick
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Despite the many advances women have made since the internal combustion engine was invented, there is still one widely held belief that won’t seem to go away: that when it comes to cars, women should just leave it to the men. In Essential Car Care for Women, ESPN NASCAR pit reporter Jamie Little...
Drink Like a Woman
Shake. Stir. Conquer. Repeat.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Cocktail marketers and male bartenders like to tell women what we want to drink-and it’s usually fruity, frilly, fancy, and pink.
In Drink Like a Woman, Jeanette Hurt shakes up barroom expectations, stirs up some new ideas, and pours a lively collection of feminist cocktails that are just...
The Thorn Necklace
Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
For devotees of Bird by Bird and The Artist's Way, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing
Francesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including the award-winning Weetzie Bat series. Her writing has been called "transcendent"...
Can You Hear Me Now?
The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Over the last 20 years, Michael Eric Dyson has become one of America’s most visible—and quotable—public intellectuals. Whether in his sixteen books, or in countless newspapers, television and radio appearances, or on stages, podiums, and pulpits across the world, Dyson has spun an enchanting...
Book by Book
The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Mothers and daughters share a special bond. . . why not further this bond through reading together? Book clubs have been growing in popularity over the past ten years, started by a variety of people with various interests and goals. Mother-daughter book clubs offer a great way for families to grow...
This Is the Place
Women Writing About Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
A thought-provoking collection of personal essays about home
What makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to us to feel like we belong? In this collection, 30 women writers explore...
Total Chaos
The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
It's not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film, to become one of the most far-reaching and transformative arts movements of the past two decades.American Book Award-winning journalist Jeff Chang, author...
Introducing Bert Williams
Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
According to critics of his time, Bert Williams was the Greatest Comedian on the American Stage.” A black Bahamian immigrant, Williams made his start as a barker advertising the rough-and-tumble medicine shows” that dotted the Wild West at the end of the nineteenth century. Not long after...
Being Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and First Celebrity Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Muhammad Ali memorably referred to Sugar Ray Robinson as the king, the master, my idol,” and rarely a fight fan has chosen to argue too much with those words. With a career spanning three decades, multiple championships, over two hundred fights (without once taking a 10-count), and more victories...
The Hip Hop Wars
What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
How hip hop shapes our conversations about race--and how race influences our consideration of hip hop
Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar, hip hop has long given voice to the African American experience. As scholar and...