Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): David J. Rothman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryWhat caused physicians in the USA to confront committees, forms, and active patients? Tracing the revolution that transformed the doctor-patie...

• Author(s): Adin Steinsaltz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Judaism - TheologyA classic of Jewish mysticism by the world-renowned scholar in which he seeks to answer the major questions asked by the modern Jew ...

• Author(s): Adin Steinsaltz • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • BISAC: Judaism - TalmudA masterful introduction to the to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud In The Essential Talmud, the renowned Israeli scholar and te...

• Author(s): Josef Breuer | Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralThe cornerstone of psychoanalysis--and legacy of the landmark Freud/Breuer collaboration--featuring the classic ...

• Author(s): Bruce Lincoln • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralFor Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that...

• Author(s): Cass R. Sunstein • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismAn original and timely analysis of one of the country's most contentious issues: the hard right t...

• Author(s): Susan Sugarman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisThis book analyzes a subtle but intriguing mental event--the paradoxical surprise that people sometimes feel when they co...

• Author(s): Judith S. Wallerstein | Joan B. Kelly • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralBased on the Children of Divorce Project, a landmark study of sixty families during the first five years after divorce, t...

• Author(s): Mark Svenvold • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoricalBorn 1880. Died 1911. Buried 1977. These are the misadventures of America's most fascinating dead outlaw. When Elmer McCurdy was shot dead by...

• Author(s): Strobe Talbott • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralSeptember 11 marked the beginning of a new era--an age of terror in which counter-terrorism will be one of the highest priorities of national go...

• Author(s): Karla Jay • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: WomenKarla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes readers from her early days ...

• Author(s): Aaron Lynch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryFans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs and readers of Wired Magazine) will reve...

• Author(s): Janet L. Jones • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralDespite its importance as a primary tool in creating and comprehending the self, memory is largely neglected in the therapeutic ...

• Author(s): Ray Marshall | Marc Tucker • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Economics - GeneralWhy should employers pay American workers much more to work far fewer hours a year than the competition? They won't--unl...

• Author(s): Eric A. Johnson | Karl-Heinz Reuband • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GermanyAn American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did th...

• Author(s): Robert Smith Thompson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralBy moving China to center stage, Robert Smith Thompson expands the traditional boundaries of the Pacific Theater of World War II ...

• Author(s): Rhona Mahony • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Gender StudiesWhy do so many smart, career-oriented, even ardently feminist women end up with nearly sole responsibility for running their households and...

• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryIn this unique attempt to address the dilemma in contemporary education, the noted cognitive scientist weaves the lessons garnered from three va...

• Author(s): Hayim H. Donin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Judaism - Rituals & PracticeIn a society with so many distractions, how can American Jewish parents teach their children to know and appreciate wha...

• Author(s): Lenore Terr • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - ChildIn 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the chi...

• Author(s): Gerald M. Edelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyIf you had a complete copy of a dinosaur's DNA and the genetic code, you still would not be able to make a dinosaur--or even ...

• Author(s): E. Fuller Torrey | Michael B. Knable • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mood Disorders - GeneralThis book will be a godsend to those affected directly or indirectly by this disease. - Psychology Today

• Author(s): Abigail Trafford • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Aging

• Author(s): Diane Ravitch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryThis widely praised history of the controversies that have beset American schools and universities since World War II is essential reading for an...

• Author(s): Robert Klitgaard • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentSelected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review , this is ...

• Author(s): Gilles Fauconnier | Mark Turner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionIn its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, le...

• Author(s): Harold Russell | Alan Beigel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralWhen it first appeared in 1976, Understanding Human Behavior for Effective Police Work quickly became the foremo...

• Author(s): Linda Chavez • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PoliticalWhen President George W. Bush nominated Linda Chavez to be Secretary of Labor in January 2001, most political observers saw it as a nod to the r...

• Author(s): Conevery Bolton Valencius • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyMany have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has explored these sett...

• Author(s): Christian de Duve • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Evolution"Is the emergence of life on Earth the result of a single chance event or combination of lucky accidents, or is it the outc...

• Author(s): Jennifer Washburn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherJennifer Washburn, a scholar and journalist, reveals how the growing influence of corporations over universities compromise...

• Author(s): James Mellow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Artists, Architects, PhotographersThe Depression Era photographs of Walker Evans (1903-1975) remain some of the most indelible and iconic images in the A...

• Author(s): Michael Schudson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralA look at what Americans remember (and what they have forgotten) about one of the most traumatic domestic political event in the America's pos...

• Author(s): Clifford N. Will • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - RelativityFrom the Back CoverFirst published in 1986, this award-winning account of how Einstein's theory holds up after more than seventy-...

• Author(s): Stephanie Coontz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyThis text is a guide to the causes and consequences of today's family trends, demonstrating that historically-inform...

• Author(s): Samuel Shem | Janet Surrey | Stephen Bergman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)"We have to talk." For many men, these are the four worst word...

• Author(s): Bob Johnstone • Publisher: Perseus Books Group • Publisher Imprint: BasicBooks • BISAC: International - GeneralAre the Japanese faceless clones who march in lockstep to the drums beaten by big business and the bureaucrats of MITI, Ja...

• Author(s): Anne Wells Branscomb • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ReferenceDrawing on eleven case studies, a communications lawyer addresses the issue of who owns information, explaining the ramifications of the...

• Author(s): Zachary Karabell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherPresident Clinton declares that a two-year education should be the right of all Americans. Congress passes a 40 billion pack...

• Author(s): David R. Williams • Publisher: Perseus (for Hbg) • Publisher Imprint: Perseus (for Hbg) • BISAC: Writing - CompositionCheeky, original, and decidedly practical, this guide to effective writing is perfect for anyone who wants to hone ...

• Author(s): Katie Whitaker • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresFor a seventeenth-century Englishwoman, Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish did the unprecedented -- she published her writing. Her extraordinar...

• Author(s): Myron P. Glazer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationFrom the Back CoverWhat kind of person puts a successful career at risk in order to warn the public of a dangerous ...

• Author(s): Aleksandr R. Luria • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuroscienceThis important book, by the most distinguished Soviet psychologist of our time, is the product of almost forty years of extensive resea...

• Author(s): Lillian B. Rubin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Minority StudiesThe classic that is widely acknowledged to be the most valuable and insightful book ever written on the dynamics of working-class fam...

• Author(s): George Weigel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralThe Catholic Church in America is in a state of crisis. Yet few understand what the crisis really is, why it happened, or ho...

• Author(s): George Weigel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PhilosophyFrom the best-selling biographer of Pope John Paul II, the acclaimed critique of the crisis of secularism that is afflicting Europe and the West

• Author(s): Peter Woit • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Number TheoryHas physics gone off in the wrong direction? Peter Woit presents the other side of the growing debate on string theory--arguing that it's not ...

• Author(s): Tim Naftali • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn this revelatory new account, national security historian Timothy Naftali relates the full back story of America's attempt...

• Author(s): Jean Fagan Yellin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cultural HeritageIn this remarkable biography, Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the full adventures of Harriet Jacobs, before and after slavery. Jacobs's ...

• Author(s): Palle Yourgrau • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryIt is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein...

• Author(s): Stephen Church • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishme...

• Author(s): Paul Starr • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History"A monumental achievement" (New York Times) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark hist...

• Author(s): Randy Roberts • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: African American & BlackThe first book to bring to life the influential friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali In 1962, boxing writers and fa...

• Author(s): Yuval Levin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Commentary & OpinionAmericans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish, and leaves workers insecure. Income inequality, cultural divi...

• Author(s): James Traub • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State"Penetrating, detailed, and very readable. . . . A splendid biography." -- Wall Street Journal Few figures in American his...

• Author(s): Stephen Zanichkowsky • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: MemoirsBorn eighth in a family on its way to becoming almost twice that size, Stephen Zanichkowsky immediately learned that his life was to be no...

• Author(s): Allan Bloom • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThe definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the his...

• Author(s): Eugene Rogan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Middle East - Arabian PeninsulaThe internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times...

• Author(s): Zbigniew Brzezinski • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyBestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's c...

• Author(s): David Shapiro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralThis new edition of one of the books most closely identified with clinical psychology since 1965 will expose a new generation to Shapiro's stunni...