Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): William L. Benzon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Instruction & Study - AppreciationWhy does the brain create music? In Beethoven's Anvil, cognitive scientist and jazz musician William Benzon fi...

• Author(s): Kathi Diamant • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresIn this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka's heart and kept his liter...

• Author(s): David Darling • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionTo many people, the main question about extraterrestrial life is whether it exists. But to the scientific community, that quest...

• Author(s): Thulani Davis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cultural HeritageBeloved novelist and playwright Thulani Davis takes a journey through her ancestral history and finds tartan plaid, unlikely lovers, an...

• Author(s): Keith Devlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

• Author(s): Laura Marshak | Milton Seligman | Fran Prezant • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralThe study of disability and its clinical treatment has become exponentially more complex as ever more interventi...

• 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): Daniel N. Stern • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Stages - Infants & Toddlers - GeneralEvery new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on ...

• Author(s): Robert Musil • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresRobert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diari...

• Author(s): Reed Larson | Maryse Richards • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralA study of the causes of family conflict draws on the Experience Sampling Method to argue that family life breaks dow...

• Author(s): Henri F. Ellenberger • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisThe definitive history of psychiatry's origins "A truly great book." --Dr. Jordan Peterson The Discovery of the Unc...

• Author(s): Freeman Dyson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralThe classic intellectual autobiography of a great theoretical physicist

• Author(s): Michael Franz Basch | Basch | M. F. Basch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Counseling"Here is a practical guide to doing psychotherapy which, unlike most other manuals that present an...

• Author(s): J. Allan Hobson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralA Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and neuroscientist shows how dream science draws on psychology and neurobiology to provide new insight in...

• Author(s): Manthia Diawara • Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher • Publisher Imprint: Civitas Book Publisher • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalIn this deeply personal and unflinchingly honest exploration of what it means to be African, Manthia Diaw...

• Author(s): Alan M. Dershowitz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political AdvocacyThis is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are...

• Author(s): Fred Pine • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisIn this important new book, the noted theoretician Fred Pine provides a synthesis of the four conceptual domains of psychoanalysis...

• Author(s): Keith Devlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyIn 2000, the Clay Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extr...

• Author(s): Thomas Fleming • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyAll school children know the story of the fatal duel between Hamilton and Burr - but do they really? In this rema...

• 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): Ellen Winner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Special Education - GiftedWinner examines the latest scientific evidence about the biological basis of giftedness as well as the role played by parents a...

• Author(s): Michael Eric Dyson • Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher • Publisher Imprint: Civitas Book Publisher • BISAC: GeneralA widely acclaimed reassessment of the remarkable life, art, struggles, and death of an American icon, from the celebr...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryFor anyone forced to wrestle with the likes of Derrida and Foucault during their college days, Terry Eagleton needs no introducti...

• 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): Hilde Bruch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - Eating DisordersThe synthesis of forty years of pioneering work by the world's leading authority on the emotional aspects of eating diso...

• Author(s): Zbigniew Brzezinski | Brent Scowcroft | David Ignatius • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWritten by two of the most respected figures in American foreign policy - both...

• Author(s): William F. Buckley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateNo two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald...

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

• Author(s): Richard Florida • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesn't't matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeabl...

• Author(s): Marybeth Hamilton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Genres & Styles - BluesLeadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; torm...

• Author(s): John L. Jackson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysThe Civil War put an end to slavery, and the civil rights movement put an end to legalized segregation. Crimes motivated by racism are punished ...

• Author(s): Anthony Lewis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Civil RightsTells the story of how free-speech rights were created in five distinct areas: political speech, artistic expression, libel, commercial spee...

• Author(s): John R. Lukacs • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateOn May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister. Euro...

• Author(s): Michael I. Meyerson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Aside from the Constitution itself, there is no more important document in American politics and l...

• 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): Jeanne Safer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Grief & Loss

• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Artists, Architects, PhotographersThe most important scientist of the twentieth century and the most important artist had their periods of greatest crea...

• Author(s): Klaus Eidam • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: MusicIn this new biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, Klaus Eidam brings the icon of Baroque music into focus as never before.

• Author(s): Abigail Trafford • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Stages - General

• 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): Alistair Cooke • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th Century

• 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): Marianne Elliott • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christianity - Catholic - GeneralThere can be few European communities more soaked in their bloody history than the Province of Ulster, but the Catho...

• Author(s): Jean Elshtain • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: TerrorismInspired by the surge in global terrorism and violence, one of America's foremost political philosophers mounts an impassioned defense of "just...

• 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): David Berlinski • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Religion & ScienceFrom a bestselling author, an "incendiary and uproarious" assault on the pretensions of scientific atheists (National ...

• 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): David Lindley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - General"For more than a century physicists have hoped that they were closing in on the Holy Grail of modern science: a unified theory that wou...

• 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): 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 ...