Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Seymour Papert • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ElementaryIn his classsic book, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and powerful Ideas , Seymour Papert set out a vision of how computers could change sch...

• Author(s): Chol-Hwan Kang • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Asia - General"Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea wa...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ClassicsFlatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edw...

• Author(s): Edward Pauly • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Teaching - GeneralAccording to Edward Pauly, education reformers have looked everywhere except the classroom, where education really takes place. Drawing...

• Author(s): Gene D. Cohen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AgingA renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist draws from more than thirty years of research to show that surprising positive changes in our brains have...

• Author(s): David S. Bennahum • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryToday's digital culture traces its roots to the 1980s, when the first computer generation came of age. These original techno-kids grew up wit...

• Author(s): Alice Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - Lifespan DevelopmentSeveral poignant scenarios and two essays of reflection focus on a range of issues -- from birth, motherhood, and par...

• Author(s): Timothy J. Colton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateEven after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Al...

• Author(s): Robert Darnton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the appre...

• Author(s): David Reynolds • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century

• Author(s): Michael Eric Dyson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyCelebrates the leadership of Dr. King and challenges America to renew its commitment to his vision

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Reference

• Author(s): Jack Repcheck • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryJames Hutton proved that the earth was likely millions of years old, rather than the six thousand calculated by the bible, and that it was contin...

• Author(s): Dieter Reinisch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialReports on the body of research on what qualities of cities and towns actually make people happy in their lives. L...

• Author(s): Kevin P. Phillips • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - Revolutions & Wars of Independence (See Also UnitA strikingly fresh and revisionist explanation for the rise of Anglo-America as the ...

• Author(s): Flo Conway | Jim Siegelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EducatorsThe story of Norbert Wiener, child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician

• Author(s): Gerald M. Edelman | Giulio Tononi • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuroscienceWhat goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous ti...

• Author(s): Terry Eastland • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American Government - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn the 1960s, we resolved as a nation never to judge people by the color of their skin. But today, race...

• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: CivilizationThis book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on...

• Author(s): Colin McGinn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyIn recent years the nature of consciousness--our immediately known experiences--has taken its place as the most profound problem that scie...

• Author(s): Margaret S. Creighton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Gettysburg has been written about and studied in great detail over the last 140 years, but there are...

• Author(s): Lawrence Friedman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost le...

• Author(s): Barbara Crossette • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesFor the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionar...

• Author(s): Alice Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AbuseMiller incorporates psychohistorical analyses of Hitler, Stalin, and Ceausescu to reveal the links between the horrors of their childhoods and the h...

• Author(s): Stanley Crouch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Jazz

• Author(s): Mary Ann Mason • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Divorce & SeparationHow should the courts decide custody cases that involve adoption, divorce, and single parenting? Should an abusive husband be g...

• Author(s): Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - AdolescentHow do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-scho...

• Author(s): William L. Benzon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Instruction & Study - AppreciationWhy does the brain create music? In Beethoven's Anvil, cognitive scientist and jazz musician William Benzon fi...

• Author(s): Kathi Diamant • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresIn this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka's heart and kept his liter...

• Author(s): David Darling • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionTo many people, the main question about extraterrestrial life is whether it exists. But to the scientific community, that quest...

• Author(s): Thulani Davis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cultural HeritageBeloved novelist and playwright Thulani Davis takes a journey through her ancestral history and finds tartan plaid, unlikely lovers, an...

• Author(s): Keith Devlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

• Author(s): Alan M. Dershowitz • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Lawyers & JudgesAs defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspo...

• Author(s): Daniel N. Stern • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Stages - Infants & Toddlers - GeneralEvery new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on ...

• Author(s): Robert Musil • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresRobert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diari...

• Author(s): Reed Larson | Maryse Richards • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralA study of the causes of family conflict draws on the Experience Sampling Method to argue that family life breaks dow...

• Author(s): Henri F. Ellenberger • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisThe definitive history of psychiatry's origins "A truly great book." --Dr. Jordan Peterson The Discovery of the Unc...

• Author(s): Freeman Dyson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralThe classic intellectual autobiography of a great theoretical physicist

• Author(s): J. Allan Hobson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralA Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and neuroscientist shows how dream science draws on psychology and neurobiology to provide new insight in...

• Author(s): Manthia Diawara • Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher • Publisher Imprint: Civitas Book Publisher • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalIn this deeply personal and unflinchingly honest exploration of what it means to be African, Manthia Diaw...

• Author(s): Alan M. Dershowitz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political AdvocacyThis is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are...

• Author(s): Keith Devlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyIn 2000, the Clay Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extr...

• Author(s): Thomas Fleming • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyAll school children know the story of the fatal duel between Hamilton and Burr - but do they really? In this rema...

• Author(s): Andrea Dworkin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralAlways innovative, often controversial, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movemen...

• Author(s): Ellen Winner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Special Education - GiftedWinner examines the latest scientific evidence about the biological basis of giftedness as well as the role played by parents a...

• Author(s): Michael Eric Dyson • Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher • Publisher Imprint: Civitas Book Publisher • BISAC: GeneralA widely acclaimed reassessment of the remarkable life, art, struggles, and death of an American icon, from the celebr...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryFor anyone forced to wrestle with the likes of Derrida and Foucault during their college days, Terry Eagleton needs no introducti...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ReferenceOpening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new medley of games, paradoxes, and r...

• Author(s): Hilde Bruch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - Eating DisordersThe synthesis of forty years of pioneering work by the world's leading authority on the emotional aspects of eating diso...

• Author(s): Zbigniew Brzezinski | Brent Scowcroft | David Ignatius • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWritten by two of the most respected figures in American foreign policy - both...

• Author(s): William F. Buckley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateNo two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald...

• Author(s): William F. Buckley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political

• Author(s): Richard Florida • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesn't't matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeabl...

• Author(s): Marybeth Hamilton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Genres & Styles - BluesLeadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; torm...

• Author(s): John L. Jackson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysThe Civil War put an end to slavery, and the civil rights movement put an end to legalized segregation. Crimes motivated by racism are punished ...

• Author(s): Anthony Lewis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Civil RightsTells the story of how free-speech rights were created in five distinct areas: political speech, artistic expression, libel, commercial spee...

• Author(s): John R. Lukacs • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateOn May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister. Euro...

• Author(s): Michael I. Meyerson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Aside from the Constitution itself, there is no more important document in American politics and l...

• Author(s): Jeanne Safer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Grief & Loss

• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Artists, Architects, PhotographersThe most important scientist of the twentieth century and the most important artist had their periods of greatest crea...