Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Abigail Trafford • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Stages - General

• Author(s): Jacqueline Jones • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery wa...

• Author(s): Alistair Cooke • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th Century

• Author(s): Timothy Snyder • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom the palaces of the Habsburg Empire to the torture chambers of Stalin's Soviet Union, the extraordinary story of a life suspend...

• Author(s): Matthew Goodman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyOn August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discov...

• Author(s): Marianne Elliott • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christianity - Catholic - GeneralThere can be few European communities more soaked in their bloody history than the Province of Ulster, but the Catho...

• Author(s): Jean Elshtain • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: TerrorismInspired by the surge in global terrorism and violence, one of America's foremost political philosophers mounts an impassioned defense of "just...

• Author(s): Jean Bethke Elshtain • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoricalIn this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential "public intellectual" Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean B...

• Author(s): Chris Mooney | Sheril Kirshenbaum • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsJournalist and bestselling author Mooney and scientist Kirshenbaum offer an impassioned polemic about...

• Author(s): David Berlinski • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Religion & ScienceFrom a bestselling author, an "incendiary and uproarious" assault on the pretensions of scientific atheists (National ...

• Author(s): Åsne Seierstad • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)

• Author(s): David Lindley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - General"For more than a century physicists have hoped that they were closing in on the Holy Grail of modern science: a unified theory that wou...

• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisThe most complete edition of Sigmund Freud's classic work on the psychology and significance of ...

• Author(s): Greg Marinovich • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: JournalismThe Bang-Bang Club is the story of four young photographers who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the most memorable photo...

• Author(s): Robert B. Laughlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsA Nobel Laureate physicist argues that ours is not an age of information but an age of disinformation and ignorance,...

• Author(s): Philipp Blom • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralEurope, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalizatio...

• Author(s): Edwin G. Burrows • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham tells the forgotten story of New York's British prison...

• Author(s): Steven M. Gillon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyA riveting account of the critical hours following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and transfer of power t...

• Author(s): Mark Thompson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IIn May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless ...

• Author(s): Alan Boss • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyWe are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe -- we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets aroun...

• Author(s): Mike Rapport • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsA "lively, panoramic" history of a revolutionary year (New York Times) In 1848, a violent storm of revo...

• Author(s): Thomas Metzinger • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyExamine the inner workings of the mind and learn what consciousness and a sense of self really means - and if it even exists. We're us...

• Author(s): Richard John Neuhaus • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe paradox of being Catholic in America, explored with grace and economy by one of the country's most influential--and co...

• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralThis classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, ...

• Author(s): Andrew Wheatcroft • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralIn 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred...

• Author(s): Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: European - GeneralSparked by reading Jim Falen's beautiful English version of Eugene Onegin (published in 1992), Douglas Hofstadter pres...

• Author(s): W. Ralph Eubanks • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlLike the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and North Toward Home, Ever Is a...

• Author(s): Irvin D. Yalom • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - Anxieties & PhobiasThe many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love's Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an...

• Author(s): Richard J. Evans • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - HolocaustIn ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah ...

• Author(s): Myrlie Evers-Williams • Publisher: Basic Civitas Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Civitas Books • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalOne of America's leading black intellectuals teams up with Myrlie Evers-Williams to bring us the first-ev...

• Author(s): Janine R. Wedel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Government & BusinessIt can feel like we're swimming in a sea of corruption. It's unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The sa...

• Author(s): James Palmer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaIn the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternb...

• Author(s): Peter J. Feibelman • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Careers - GeneralEverything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist. Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and techni...

• Author(s): Brian Fagan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: North AmericanWhat gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of Spain to co...

• Author(s): Niall Ferguson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralA bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as "a rattling good tal...

• Author(s): Deborah Anna Luepnitz | Paki Wieland • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Couples & FamilyThe paradox of the contemporary family is that it is both patriarchal and father-absent. Fami...

• Author(s): Leslie Farber • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PersonalityThe psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of...

• Author(s): Lawrence M. Krauss • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - General"Assume the cow is a sphere." So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling wa...

• Author(s): Omar Nasiri • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: TerrorismFrom Europe's burgeoning terrorist underground, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, this is a unique and chil...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsMany appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engag...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThis collection from scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner highlights the achievements of a man whose career reshap...

• Author(s): Caroline Finkel • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman EmpireThe definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most in...

• Author(s): Edward P. Kohn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyOne of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppre...

• Author(s): Steven Weinberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsA Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and ...

• Author(s): Kate Clifford Larson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)In The Assassin's Accomplice, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt...

• Author(s): Elaine Tyler May • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Abortion & Birth ControlIn 1960, the FDA approved the contraceptive commonly known as "the pill." Advocates, developers, and manufactur...

• Author(s): Owen Flanagan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyScience has always created problems for traditional ways of seeing things, but now the very attributes that make us human -- free will, t...

• Author(s): John Curtis Perry | Constantine V. Pleshakov • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe most comprehensive history yet of the last years of Russia's imperial family

• Author(s): Thomas Fleming • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th Century"A gripping, controversial, informative and at times infuriating look at FDR's leadership as the nation entered and fought ...

• Author(s): Thomas Fleming • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IBest-selling historian Thomas Fleming gives a scathing new look at President Woodrow Wilson's handling-and mishandlin...

• Author(s): Douglas R. Hofstadter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionReaders of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ...

• Author(s): Madhusree Mukerjee • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World...

• Author(s): Jennifer Price • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysIn five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections -- and missed connections -- wi...

• Author(s): Robert V. Remini • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn 1850, America hovered on the brink of disunion. Tensions between slave-holders and abolitionists mounted, as the debat...

• Author(s): James Horn • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)In 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke...

• Author(s): James L. Haley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresBorn a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876, Jack London spent his youth as a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling...

• Author(s): Nadia Comaneci • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: WomenIf there were such a thing as an "elder" stateswoman in women's gymnastics today, Nadia Comaneci would win that title as readily as she once won g...

• Author(s): George C. Daughan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - NavalThe American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous mid...

• Author(s): John Keay • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAn authoritative account of five thousand years of Chinese history Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; Ch...

• Author(s): Andrea Tone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryAnxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimat...