Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Warren G. Bennis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Structural Adjustment

• Author(s): Frederick Law Olmsted • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningFrom the Back CoverThis collects Olmsted's plans for New York, San Francisco, Buffalo, Montreal, Chicago, and B...

• Author(s): Christine Wiltz • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,The incredible life of French Quarter legend Norma Wallace -- and a portrait of an...

• Author(s): Arthur C. Brooks • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysDemocrats and Republicans have two very different visions of America. Which one will make us happier?

• Author(s): Svetlana Boym • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Social HistoryFrom an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging "A remarkable book....

• Author(s): Chol-Hwan Kang • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Asia - General"Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea wa...

• Author(s): Timothy J. Colton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateEven after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Al...

• Author(s): Brendan Simms • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralIn the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Tradition...

• Author(s): Norman Stone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAfter the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, valued vengeance even m...

• Author(s): Lawrence Friedman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost le...

• Author(s): Alan M. Dershowitz • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Lawyers & JudgesAs defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspo...

• Author(s): Andrea Dworkin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralAlways innovative, often controversial, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movemen...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ReferenceOpening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new medley of games, paradoxes, and r...

• Author(s): William F. Buckley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political

• Author(s): Douglas Hofstadter • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Mind & BodyAnalogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize -- winning author Doug...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Jones • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery wa...

• Author(s): Timothy Snyder • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom the palaces of the Habsburg Empire to the torture chambers of Stalin's Soviet Union, the extraordinary story of a life suspend...

• Author(s): Matthew Goodman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyOn August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discov...

• Author(s): Jean Bethke Elshtain • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoricalIn this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential "public intellectual" Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean B...

• Author(s): Chris Mooney | Sheril Kirshenbaum • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsJournalist and bestselling author Mooney and scientist Kirshenbaum offer an impassioned polemic about...

• Author(s): Jay Rubenstein • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Medieval

• Author(s): Elaine Fox • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PersonalityA leading experimental neuroscientist shows how we can brighten our outlooks on life by rewiring our brains.

• Author(s): Åsne Seierstad • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)

• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisThe most complete edition of Sigmund Freud's classic work on the psychology and significance of ...

• Author(s): Greg Marinovich • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: JournalismThe Bang-Bang Club is the story of four young photographers who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the most memorable photo...

• Author(s): Jack Hurst • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Civil WarFrom the author of the acclaimed Men of Fire, the next stage of the clash between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate h...

• Author(s): Robert B. Laughlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsA Nobel Laureate physicist argues that ours is not an age of information but an age of disinformation and ignorance,...

• Author(s): Philipp Blom • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralEurope, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalizatio...

• Author(s): Edwin G. Burrows • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham tells the forgotten story of New York's British prison...

• Author(s): Steven M. Gillon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyA riveting account of the critical hours following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and transfer of power t...

• Author(s): Mark Thompson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IIn May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless ...

• Author(s): Alan Boss • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyWe are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe -- we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets aroun...

• Author(s): Mike Rapport • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsA "lively, panoramic" history of a revolutionary year (New York Times) In 1848, a violent storm of revo...

• Author(s): Thomas Metzinger • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyExamine the inner workings of the mind and learn what consciousness and a sense of self really means - and if it even exists. We're us...

• Author(s): Richard John Neuhaus • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe paradox of being Catholic in America, explored with grace and economy by one of the country's most influential--and co...

• Author(s): Andrew Wheatcroft • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralIn 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred...

• Author(s): John Long • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: RoboticsWhat happens when we let robots play the game of life?BR> The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past -...

• Author(s): Ralph D. Sawyer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - AncientThe history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, o...

• Author(s): Janine R. Wedel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Government & BusinessIt can feel like we're swimming in a sea of corruption. It's unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The sa...

• Author(s): James Palmer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaIn the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternb...

• Author(s): Peter J. Feibelman • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Careers - GeneralEverything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist. Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and techni...

• Author(s): George G. Szpiro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Economic HistoryOptions have been traded for hundreds of years - at least since the sixteenth century when they were used to buy and sell commodities...

• Author(s): Michael Neiberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAs the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Ot...

• Author(s): Edward P. Kohn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyOne of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppre...

• Author(s): Kate Clifford Larson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)In The Assassin's Accomplice, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt...

• Author(s): Elaine Tyler May • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Abortion & Birth ControlIn 1960, the FDA approved the contraceptive commonly known as "the pill." Advocates, developers, and manufactur...

• Author(s): Madhusree Mukerjee • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World...

• Author(s): Robert V. Remini • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn 1850, America hovered on the brink of disunion. Tensions between slave-holders and abolitionists mounted, as the debat...

• Author(s): James Horn • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)In 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke...

• Author(s): James L. Haley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresBorn a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876, Jack London spent his youth as a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling...

• Author(s): Nadia Comaneci • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: WomenIf there were such a thing as an "elder" stateswoman in women's gymnastics today, Nadia Comaneci would win that title as readily as she once won g...

• Author(s): George C. Daughan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - NavalThe American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous mid...

• Author(s): John Keay • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAn authoritative account of five thousand years of Chinese history Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; Ch...

• Author(s): Andrea Tone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryAnxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimat...

• Author(s): Deborah Blum • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Developmental - Lifespan DevelopmentIn Love at Goon Park, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum charts a profound cultural shift from how doctors ...

• Author(s): Eric Darton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History - GeneralWhen the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudson's edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly ast...

• Author(s): Howard E. Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionFrom a pioneering psychologist and education expert, a sweeping examination of how great leaders harness the pow...

• Author(s): Benjamin K. Bergen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWhether it's brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool f...

• Author(s): Julian E. Zelizer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyIt has long been a truism that prior to George W. Bush, politics stopped at the water's edge -- that is, that partis...