Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): David Clay Large • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - HolocaustIn the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than ...

• Author(s): David Gollaher • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryFrom the extraordinarily painful initiation rite of the ancient Egyptians, through the Hebrew purification ritual, through its use by nineteenth...

• Author(s): Douglas R. Hofstadter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralWinner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is conc...

• Author(s): Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Schools - Levels - SecondaryWhat makes a good school? A prominent Harvard educator looks for the answers in six schools that have earned reput...

• Author(s): Barry Bluestone | Bennett Harrison • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political EconomyThis devastating critique by the authors of The Deindustrialization of America documents how the economic policies...

• Author(s): Christopher Hibbert • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: RoyaltyIn George III: A Personal History, British historian Christopher Hibbert reassesses the royal monarch George III (1738-1820). Rather than ...

• Author(s): Emily Fox Gordon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Women"During my years as a patient, I felt a guilty and unshakeable conviction that I was completely sane. Of course, my notion that patients were ex...

• Author(s): Andre Gerolymatos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralWhen it comes to the Balkans, most people quickly become lost in the quagmire of struggle and intractable hatred that ...

• Author(s): Terry Golway • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - GeneralOn September 11, 2001, the courage and sacrifice of the New York City Fire Department inspired the nation, giv...

• Author(s): Josh Gottheimer • Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher • Publisher Imprint: Civitas Book Publisher • BISAC: United States - GeneralRipples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire ...

• Author(s): Roger Green • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: MusicEnglish poet Roger Green left the safety of God, country, and whiskey to immerse himself in an austere and sober life on the Greek Island of Hydra. B...

• 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): Lewis L. Gould • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American Government - Legislative BranchThe definitive history of the modern United States Senate, and the outsized figures who shaped its role in the ...

• 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): Harold Holzer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateIn A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a gro...

• Author(s): George Weigel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christianity - Catholic - General"An engaging, lucid, and informative introduction to the teachings and traditions of Catholicism" (Wall Street Journal)...

• 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...

• Author(s): James T. Patterson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlOn June 4, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered what he and many others con...

• Author(s): Roger Moorhouse • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GermanyThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward wa...

• Author(s): Jean Bethke Elshtain • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThroughout the history of human intellectual endeavor, sovereignty has cut across the diverse realms of theology, p...

• Author(s): Helen Rappaport • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateHelen Rappaport's Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenin's years of exile in Europe, showing that this oft...

• Author(s): Alonzo L. Hamby • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateFrom an acclaimed historian comes an authoritative and balanced biography of FDR, based on previously untapped sources ...

• Author(s): Orrin Hatch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PoliticalFrom Square Peg: I had been a Senator only a few weeks when one night I noticed James Eastland walking toward me on the Senate floor. At the time...

• Author(s): Robert Harms • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Africa - WestThe groundbreaking history of the Atlantic slave trade, winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and the ...

• Author(s): Deborah Hayden • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Diseases - Genitourinary & STDsWas Beethoven experiencing syphilitic euphoria when he composed "Ode to Joy"? Did van Gogh paint "Crows Over the Whe...

• Author(s): Edward Zigler • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Schools - Levels - Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & KinderFrom the Back CoverEverybody likes Head Start. The only clear-cut victory of the War on ...

• Author(s): Hardy Green • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyCompany town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohl...

• Author(s): Thomas S. Kidd • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)A "thought-provoking, meticulously researched" testament to evangelical Christians' crucial contributio...

• Author(s): Yoram Hazony • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralIn what may be the most controversial book on Zionism and Israel published in the last twenty years, Yoram Hazony graphically portrays th...

• Author(s): Oliver Bullough • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe jagged peaks of the Caucasus Mountains have hosted a rich history of diverse nations, valuable trade, and incessant warfar...

• Author(s): Edward Tse • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International - GeneralNo major enterprise or financial institution can avoid doing business with China -- if not directly, then through myriad hidden conn...

• Author(s): R. D. Hinshelwood • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisA biography of Austrian psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, from the author of "What Happens in Groups" and "Dictionary of Kleini...

• Author(s): George Marsden • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had ...

• Author(s): Christopher Hitchens • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century." --Boston Globe In this widely acc...

• Author(s): Stephen A. Mitchell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisThe love affair that psychoanalysis has had with its own founder has obscured just how different the field is today ...

• Author(s): Roger Moorhouse • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralHistory remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and...

• Author(s): Douglas R. Hofstadter • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsOne of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and ...

• Author(s): Joan Hoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - IrelandIn 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary and remained missing for several days. At ...

• Author(s): Douglas R. Hofstadter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyWith contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of ...

• Author(s): James Horn • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: InspirationalThe definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history Although it was the first permanent English settle...

• Author(s): Peter W. Huber | Mark P. Mills • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EnergyThe sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we mus...

• Author(s): Michael J. Mahoney • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Aida D. Donald • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State

• Author(s): Claire Berlinski • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralGreat Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline -- ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for gl...

• Author(s): Don Oberdorfer | Robert Carlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - KoreaAn acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present day North Korea is an impoverished, famine-r...

• Author(s): Jacob Soll • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralA "brilliant" (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise an...

• Author(s): James Davison Hunter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsThe Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and m...

• Author(s): Steven M. Gillon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralFranklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." History woul...

• Author(s): Jim Marrs • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe explosive search for the truth about who killed JFK, "the final word until 2039-when government files on the case can be unl...

• Author(s): Douglas T. Kenrick • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition"Kenrick writes like a dream." -- Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology and Neurology, Stanford University; aut...

• Author(s): Leslie P. Peirce • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: RoyaltyThe "fascinating . . . lively" story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empir...

• Author(s): Linda Gong Austin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Personal Growth - Success

• Author(s): Cabinet Magazine • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralWhat were the leaders of the free world really doing during all those meetings? As the creators of Cabinet magazine reveal her...

• Author(s): Thomas Weber • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateAn award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powe...

• Author(s): Ellen Bialystok | Kenji Hakuta • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Study & TeachingMore than five thousand languages are currently spoken around the globe. Learning to speak one of them is virtually...

• Author(s): Irvin D. Yalom • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - General

• Author(s): William M. Pinsof • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralPart of a growing trend toward bridging the gap between rival schools of therapy, this book goes beyond other works to envision ...

• Author(s): Donald G. Dutton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralWhat kind of man deliberately hurts the woman he loves? Drawing on his pathbreaking studies of more than seven hundred abusi...

• Author(s): Gerald Klerman | Myrna M. Weissman | Bruce J. Rounsaville • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mood Disorders - DepressionReflecting the new and exciting trends in the treatment of psychiatric patients, ...