Hachette Non-Fiction

• 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): Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: European - GeneralSparked by reading Jim Falen's beautiful English version of Eugene Onegin (published in 1992), Douglas Hofstadter pres...

• Author(s): W. Ralph Eubanks • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlLike the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and North Toward Home, Ever Is a...

• Author(s): Philip J. Guerin | Leo F. Fay | Susan L. Burden • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Couples & FamilyCouples seek therapy for a variety of reasons, from short-lived adjustment difficu...

• Author(s): Irvin D. Yalom • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - Anxieties & PhobiasThe many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love's Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an...

• 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): Irvin D. Yalom • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralThe definitive account of existential psychotherapy. First published in 1980, Existential Psychotherapy is widely considered t...

• Author(s): Richard J. Evans • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - HolocaustIn ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah ...

• Author(s): Myrlie Evers-Williams • Publisher: Basic Civitas Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Civitas Books • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalOne of America's leading black intellectuals teams up with Myrlie Evers-Williams to bring us the first-ev...

• Author(s): John Keay • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralDispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants-the generations born since the 1947 "midnig...

• Author(s): Peter Savodnik • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralLee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying and hotly debated crimes in Ameri...

• 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): Brian Fagan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: North AmericanWhat gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of Spain to co...

• Author(s): Adrian Tinniswood • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New EnglandThe period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history. These three decad...

• Author(s): Niall Ferguson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralA bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as "a rattling good tal...

• Author(s): Deborah Anna Luepnitz | Paki Wieland • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Couples & FamilyThe paradox of the contemporary family is that it is both patriarchal and father-absent. Fami...

• Author(s): Leslie Farber • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PersonalityThe psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of...

• Author(s): Lawrence M. Krauss • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - General"Assume the cow is a sphere." So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling wa...

• Author(s): Omar Nasiri • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: TerrorismFrom Europe's burgeoning terrorist underground, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, this is a unique and chil...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsMany appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engag...

• Author(s): Caroline Finkel • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman EmpireThe definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most in...

• 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): Edward P. Kohn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateTheodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his politic...

• Author(s): Heather Cox Richardson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, "the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its co...

• Author(s): Steven Weinberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsA Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and ...

• 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): Owen Flanagan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyScience has always created problems for traditional ways of seeing things, but now the very attributes that make us human -- free will, t...

• Author(s): John Curtis Perry | Constantine V. Pleshakov • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe most comprehensive history yet of the last years of Russia's imperial family

• Author(s): Thomas Fleming • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th Century"A gripping, controversial, informative and at times infuriating look at FDR's leadership as the nation entered and fought ...

• Author(s): Thomas Fleming • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IBest-selling historian Thomas Fleming gives a scathing new look at President Woodrow Wilson's handling-and mishandlin...

• Author(s): Douglas R. Hofstadter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionReaders of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ...

• 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): Jennifer Price • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysIn five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections -- and missed connections -- wi...

• 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): Lynn Hoffman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralOf all the therapeutic modalities in force today, none shows greater promise for dramatic personal change than the fast-growing field of family th...

• 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): Daniel N. Stern • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Couples & FamilyStern presents a major synthesis of the newly exploding field of infant mental health and creates a new model of t...

• Author(s): Howard Gardner | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | William Damon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Educational PsychologyA brilliant state-of-the-art report on how the landmark theory of multiple intelligences is radically changing our understanding ...

• Author(s): Leonard Garment • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Conspiracy TheoriesMore than a quarter century after Bob Woodward introduced his Scotch-drinking, cigarette-smoking, garage-skulking friend and source...

• Author(s): Jeffrey E. Garten • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: LeadershipBased on extensive and highly personal interviews with 40 chief executives around the world this title takes us on a journey into the inne...

• Author(s): William H. Gass • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)In the words of the late Walker Percy, William Gass is a "totally committed, totally uncompromising, and extraordinarily ...

• Author(s): William H. Gass • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PoetryThe greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke's duino elegies-and gives ...

• Author(s): Peter W. Huber • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EvidenceA scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used--and the...