Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Lance Morrow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyLong couched only in theological terms, and popularly personified by the despots of history, the nature of evil has resisted...

• Author(s): Howard E. Gardner • Publisher: MIXIG • Publisher Imprint: MIXIG • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Educational PsychologyThe most complete account of the theory and application of Multiple Intelligences available anywhere. Howard Gar...

• Author(s): Jerome Kagan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentThe world-famous Harvard psychologist challenges many of psychology's most deeply held assumptions about human deve...

• Author(s): Michael S. Gazzaniga • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuropsychologyRecent, stunning discoveries suggest that natural selection affects not only physical characteristics but also mental processes, f...

• Author(s): Adrian Tinniswood • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFrom an acclaimed social and architectural historian, the tumultuous, scandalous, glitzy, and glamorous history of E...

• Author(s): Eric a. Johnson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HolocaustEric Johnson's exhaustive new history tackles the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship - terror - head on. By focusing on the role of the ...

• Author(s): Barry Bluestone | Irving BlueStone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralIt is no secret that corporate America is in trouble--as are labor unions--and a principal reason is our archai...

• Author(s): Richard John Neuhaus • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Death, Grief, Bereavement"A profoundly serious rumination on the meaning of life and especially on the meaning of death. Father Neuhaus's book pr...

• Author(s): Richard John Neuhaus • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christian Theology - ApologeticsNumerous writers and composers have been captivated by the suggestiveness of Jesus' Seven Last Words. But Richard...

• Author(s): Richard John Neuhaus • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralFather Neuhaus looks beyond recent controversies and proposes a forward-thinking way of being Catholic in America

• Author(s): Richard R. Beeman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)In 1768, Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the empty throne of King George III, over...

• Author(s): Edward Baptist • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette India • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved...

• Author(s): Mary Elise Sarotte • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GermanyOn the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by s...

• Author(s): Gerard Russell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryDespite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek ...

• Author(s): Michael Useem • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Corporate Finance - GeneralA behind-the-scenes look at today's kingmakers: institutional investors. Out of the public eye, a small group of professional...

• Author(s): John C. Whitehead • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political

• Author(s): Michael Novak | Jana Novak • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralIn Washington's God Michael Novak-one of America's leading neoconservative pundits-and his daughter, Jana, uncover G...

• Author(s): Don Norman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionWhy attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered designEmotions are inseparable from ho...

• Author(s): Julie Norem • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Personal Growth - GeneralHow often are we urged to "look on the bright side"? From Norman Vincent Peale to the ubiquitous smiley face, optimism has become...

• Author(s): Dan O'Neill • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyThe intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had b...

• Author(s): John Allen Paulos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Probability & Statistics - GeneralWhat two things could be more different than numbers and stories? Numbers are abstract, certain, and eternal, ...

• Author(s): Ian Bogost • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive ScienceHow filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and jo...

• Author(s): Jeremi Suri • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyA bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectat...

• Author(s): Stephen Shute • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PoliticalAre there any human rights that apply to all women and all men in all cultures at all times? Can we ground human rights in an abstract rational...

• Author(s): John Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryA genuine classic of literary criticism, On Moral Fiction argues that "true art is by its nature moral."

• Author(s): David Kaiser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyWhile Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before t...

• Author(s): Richard Leakey • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Science"The name Leakey is synonymous with the study of human origins," wrote The New York Times. The renowned family of paleontologists -- Louis Leake...

• Author(s): John D. Barrow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AstronomyThis text reviews speculative theories about the nature of time and the inflationary universe, explains wormholes, showing how they bear upon ...

• Author(s): Max Boot • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Law EnforcementHear about the judge who got busted for selling crack? What about the judge who released from jail a felon who then promptly killed a rookie c...

• Author(s): Mark Moyar • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - Special ForcesThe epic story of America's most elite warriors: the Special Operations Forces. Born as small appendages to the conventional armi...

• Author(s): Richard J. Gelles • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Abuse - General"Using the true story of a murdered child as a point of departure, a leading expert on family violence argues that society's first pr...

• Author(s): G. Bruce Boyer • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • BISAC: Fashion & StyleFrom choosing the right pair of eyeglasses to properly coordinating a shirt, tie, and pocket square, getting dressed is an art to be mastered. Y...

• Author(s): Ray S. Jackendoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatur...

• Author(s): Mark Pendergrast • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryOf all human inventions, the mirror is perhaps the one most closely connected to our own consciousness. As our first technology for contemplat...

• Author(s): John Allen Paulos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Investments & Securities - Stocks

• Author(s): Paul Pearsall • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Personal Growth - GeneralAlthough the tenets of self-help have been attacked before, Pearsall is the first psychologist to expose these deeply entrenche...

• Author(s): Jed Perl • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryAs art critic for The New Republic, Jed Perl is renowned for combining a passion for art and a skepticism about the current art establi...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Jones • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: African American & BlackIn 1656, a Maryland planter tortured and killed an enslaved man named Antonio, an Angolan who refused to work in the fiel...

• Author(s): Odd Arne Westad • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAs the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's ...

• Author(s): George Lakoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyWhat are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at...

• Author(s): Adam Phillips • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsAdam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher...

• Author(s): Adam Phillips • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisAs an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: a mastery of psychotherapy as both practitioner and theoris...

• Author(s): Adam Phillips • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernWritten in his beloved epigrammatic and aphoristic style, Equals extends Adam Phillips's probings into the psychological a...

• Author(s): Gerard Piel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryWhen historians of the future come to examine western civilization in the twentieth century, one area of intellectual accomplishment will stand out...

• Author(s): Darryl Pinckney • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American - African American & BlackWith this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal...

• Author(s): Constantine V. Pleshakov • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionOn May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ship...

• Author(s): Barbara Freese • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - General"Engrossing . . . Coal, to borrow a phrase, is king." -- New York Times Book Review In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on...

• Author(s): Robert Whitaker • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Expeditions & DiscoveriesIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South ...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Wawro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - World War IA masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The...

• Author(s): David Kairys • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Law EnforcementAn assortment of scholars and practitioners in law and related disciplines raise basic questions, challenging ideals like the separation o...

• Author(s): Michael Porter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeIn Can Japan Compete?, world-renowned competition strategist Michael Porter and his colleagues explain why America...

• Author(s): Sean McMeekin • Publisher: Aspect • Publisher Imprint: Aspect • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IWhen a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand'...

• Author(s): Carol Berkin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)The momentous story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams navigated the crises of ...

• Author(s): Tyler Nordgren • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Natural HistoryWith beautiful illustrations and a detailed map, Sun Moon Earth has everything you need to get ready for the next solar eclipse. On Ap...

• Author(s): Sarah Gristwood • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Medieval"[A] gem of a book . . . enlivened by incisive analysis, exquisite detail and an elegant and witty style." -- Alison Weir The Wars o...

• Author(s): Samantha Power • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFrom former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power...

• Author(s): Roger Collins • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralOne of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions, the papacy has also been amongst the most controversial. No one who ...

• Author(s): Peter W. Cookson | Caroline Hodges Persell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralWhy do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the a...

• Author(s): Clyde V. Prestowitz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDuring the six months prior to the World Trade Center attack, the United States walked away from a treaty to cont...

• Author(s): Alfred Lansing • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryExperience "one of the best adventure books ever written" (Wall Street Journal) in this New...