Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Yuval Levin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralAn acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism In The Great Deb...

• Author(s): Lester Luborsky • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisIn this splendid book a master psychotherapist, one of the field's most respected researchers, provides the first definitive...

• Author(s): Larrie D. Ferreiro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryIn the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the...

• Author(s): Robert Jay Lifton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Personality"Proteanism"--or the protean self--describes a psychological phenomenon integral to our times. We live in a world marked by breathtaking ...

• Author(s): Ben Wilson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyHeyday brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by...

• Author(s): Brendan Simms • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryWith "verve and panache," this magisterial history of Europe since 1453 shows how struggles over the heart of the continen...

• Author(s): James T. Patterson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAt the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assas...

• Author(s): John Horgan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsAs staff writer for Scientific American, John Horgan has a window on contemporary science unsurpassed in all the world. Wh...

• Author(s): Simon R. Doubleday • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: RoyaltyAn illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Weste...

• Author(s): Don Norman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Industrial Design - GeneralEven the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure our which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to p...

• Author(s): Hans H. Strupp | Jeffrey L. Binder • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralRooted in the landmark, systematic studies of the Vanderbilt University research team, time-limited dynamic ...

• Author(s): David Lindley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Quantum Theory"Few revolutions in science have been more far-reaching--but less understood--than the quantum revolution in physics. Everyday e...

• Author(s): Theodore K. Rabb • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThere is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more difficult to pi...

• Author(s): Iris Chang • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal--and forgotten--massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capi...

• Author(s): Andre Resendez • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Adventurers & ExplorersFrom a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, the "gripping" tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America i...

• Author(s): Martin Rees • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsA scientist known for unraveling the complexities of the universe over millions of years, Sir Martin Rees now warns that hu...

• Author(s): Edward J., Jr. Renehan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: BusinessAcclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the por...

• Author(s): Ishmael Reed • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American - GeneralIshmael Reed has been described as cavorting "like a black bull in the china shop of Western culture," and The Reed Reader is a collect...

• Author(s): Paul Bass | Douglas W. Rae • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe murder of a Black Panther opens a revealing window into the volatile, confusing era that bridged the 1960s ...

• Author(s): Gerald M. Edelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Neuroscience

• Author(s): Roy Schafer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe manner in which we "narrate" our lives is the central theme of psycho-analytic discourse and a critical issu...

• Author(s): H. W. Brands • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateFrom the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy RooseveltLauded as "a rip-roaring li...

• Author(s): Richard Dawkins • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionHow did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with charact...

• Author(s): Rosalyn Baxandall • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn Picture Windows, Baxandall and Ewen shatter naive stereotypes of suburban life, replacing them with a clear and compelling hist...

• Author(s): Louis P. Galambos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentA panoramic survey of the interactions between American business and public policy, from J.P. Morgan to Lee Iacocca.

• Author(s): Allan M. Brandt • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralThe widely acclaimed, award-winning history of the cigarette.

• Author(s): Randall Robinson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - GeneralBestselling author and bold social commentator, Randall Robinson explores the singularly curious and ultimately ...

• Author(s): Lawrence H. Rockland • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralIn recent years therapists have been treating more and more seriously disturbed patients, who do not respond well to insig...

• Author(s): Andrea Rock • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: DreamsOver the past few decades, there has been a revolution in scientific knowledge about why we dream, what's actually happening to the brain when we do...

• Author(s): David Rothenberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - OrnithologyThe astonishing richness of birdsong is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Evolutionists have never bee...

• Author(s): Mark S. Rosentraub • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Industries - GeneralA welfare system exists in this country that transfers hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers to individuals who hardly...

• Author(s): Sharman Apt Russell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PovertyEvery day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the h...

• Author(s): Anna Salter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: CriminologyWhat motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophist...

• Author(s): Sally Satel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryDrawing on a wealth of information PC, M.D. documents for the first time what happens when the tenets of political correctness-includi...

• Author(s): Richard N. Haass • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - Diplomacy"A concise, comprehensive guide to America's critical policy choices at home and overseas . . . without a partisan...

• Author(s): Diane Ravitch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralThe author of The Troubled Crusade and other important books and writings on education brings her own blend of sanity, common sense, and commitme...

• Author(s): P. W. Atkins • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Chemistry - Physical & TheoreticalCome on a journey into the heart of matter -- and enjoy the process! -- as a brilliant scientist and entertaining t...

• Author(s): Lynn Margulis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionAlthough Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most rem...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralMathematics has the power to open our eyes to new and unsuspected regularities in nature - the secret structure of a cloud or the hidden rhythms of...

• Author(s): Robert A. Weinberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Oncology - GeneralCancer research has reached a major turning point. The quality and quantity of information gathered about this disease in the pas...

• Author(s): William H. Calvin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeurologyIf you're good at finding the one right answer to life's multiple-choice questions, you're "smart." But "intelligence" is what you need whe...

• Author(s): Stephen H. Schneider • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Laboratory Earth taps the relevant knowledge from physical, biological, and social scie...

• Author(s): E. Fuller Torrey | Ann E. Bowler | Edward H. Taylor • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralAn important contribution to the ongoing debate over the origins of mental illness, this ...

• Author(s): Clifford a. Pickover • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: UFOs & ExtraterrestrialsIf extraterrestrials ever landed on Earth, they would find us extremely strange. Their first intimation of our existe...

• Author(s): Daniel C. Dennett • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Neuropsychology

• Author(s): Oliver Bullough • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesRussia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity mas...

• Author(s): David B. Seaburn | Alan D. Lorenz | William B. Gunn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Clinical PsychologyWith vivid case examples, the authors provide an important new model that shows how therapists ...

• Author(s): Daniel L. Schacter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuropsychologyMemory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosopher...

• Author(s): Michael Piore | Charles Sabel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Industries - GeneralTwo MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachm...

• Author(s): Alexander Borbely • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: DreamsOne of the world's leading sleep researchers provides the latest word on sleep, dreams, and sleep disorders.

• Author(s): Åsne Seierstad • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFrom the best-selling author of The Bookseller of Kabul, an account of thirteen ordinary Serbian people and how their lives cha...

• Author(s): Tim Severin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesFor nearly three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has been the archetypal castaway, the symbol of survival in uninhabited wilds. In this...

• Author(s): Robert Shogan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - SouthShows a long-neglected slice of American history to be a saga of the conflicting political, economic and cultur...

• Author(s): Lee Siegel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysSex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut, Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels ...

• Author(s): Kenneth Shropshire • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: SportsA biography of Sugar Ray Robinson and an intellectual expedition into the culture of celebrity in sports

• Author(s): Anne-Marie Slaughter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political FreedomThe Washington Post Book World named The Idea That This is America one of the best books of 2007 When Army Captain Ian Fishback...

• Author(s): Stephen P. Bank | Michael D. Kahn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: SiblingsUpdated with a new introduction by the authors, this anniversary edition shows the sibling relationship as a distinctive emo...

• Author(s): Kevin Smokler • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysAn anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers, Bookmark Now boldly addresses the significance of the production of litera...

• Author(s): Marshall | John R. • Publisher: INGRAM • Publisher Imprint: INGRAM • BISAC: NeuropsychologyFrom the Back CoverEveryone feels shy or nervous occasionally, but for millions of Americans even signing a check or eating a sandwich in publ...

• Author(s): David Stevenson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I