Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): James Abegglen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralWidely acclaimed as the best book yet on Japanese management by two experts, this important book offers a tou...

• Author(s): Michael Kahn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisIn Basic Freud, noted psychologist Michael Kahn shows that, even in the age of psychopharmaceuticals and cognitive therapy,...

• Author(s): John Keane • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PoliticalThis authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive accoun...

• Author(s): Michael Kammen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralIn American Culture, American Tastes, Michael Kammen leads us on an entertaining, thought-provoking tour of America's changing...

• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Economics - GeneralWith a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the co...

• Author(s): Lawrence M. Krauss • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsWill the universe continue to expand forever, reverse its expansion and begin to contract, or reach a delicately poised state...

• Author(s): George Lakoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyThis book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via concep...

• Author(s): Perri Klass • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PhysiciansOffers a glimpse inside the doctor's mind for aspiring physicians, medical buffs, and those who have ever been a patient. This book addresses th...

• Author(s): Alice Outwater • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyAn environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what n...

• Author(s): Edward J. Larson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionMore than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were la...

• Author(s): Robert B. Laughlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Atomic & MolecularA Nobel-winning physicist argues that fundamental physical laws are found not in the world of atoms, but in the mac...

• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - ChildFrom the Back CoverThe painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after ...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyRagnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Pau...

• Author(s): Peter W. Huber • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: TortsThis controversial book describes the transformation of modern tort law since the 1960s, and shows how the dramatic increase in liability lawsuits...

• Author(s): Mary Pipher • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette India • Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga • BISAC: Psychotherapy - CounselingMary Pipher's groundbreaking investigation of America's "girl-poisoning culture," R...

• Author(s): Richard Brookhiser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateAbraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacemen...

• Author(s): Thomas T. Perls | Margery Hutter Silver • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Healthy Living & Personal Hygiene

• Author(s): Nina Tumarkin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThis eye-opening book shows how Communist state and party authorities stage-managed the Soviets' memory of World War II, transforming a ...

• Author(s): Jeffrey A. Lockwood • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Animals - Insects & SpidersThroughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, ...

• Author(s): James Lovelock • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyIn The Revenge of Gaia, bestselling author James Lovelock- father of climate studies and originator of th...

• Author(s): Frans de Waal • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Physical

• Author(s): Hector Feliciano • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GermanyDuring the occupation of France, the Nazis confiscated nearly 100,000 works of art including work by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cezan...

• Author(s): David Frum • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFor many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David ...

• Author(s): Steve Lohr • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryIn Go To, Steve Lohr chronicles the history of software from the early days of complex mathematical codes mastered by a few thousand to today's era ...

• Author(s): John Bowlby • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentBowlby's seminal contribution to the way we understand attachment concludes with an examination of loss. He offers n...

• Author(s): Deborah A. Luepnitz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralThe classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writer Each generation of therapi...

• Author(s): George D. Lundberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryIn January 1999 George Lundberg, the highly respected editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, was fired by t...

• Author(s): Lothar Machtan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralLothar Machtan makes a compelling case that Adolf Hitler was homosexual, and that one cannot begin to understand him, his entry into politics, a...

• Author(s): Thomas Maier • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Medical (Incl. Patients)Dr. Benjamin Spock is known for how he revolutionized mainstream American family life with his book Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Ca...

• Author(s): David Gelernter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Machine TheoryWhen something works well, you can feel it; there is a sense of rightness to it. We call that rightness beauty, and it ought to be the s...

• Author(s): Thomas Maier • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralA portrait of the country's favorite political dynasty as the ultimate Irish Catholic family-and a revelatory look at how the America...

• Author(s): Benoit Mandelbrot | Richard L. Hudson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralFrom the inventor/founder of fractal geometry, the award-winning book that turns modern financial theory on its head.

• Author(s): David Tyack | Elisabeth Hansot • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Administration - GeneralCan America's faith in public education be restored? As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders su...

• Author(s): Michael Marquardt | Nancy Berger | Peter Loan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementThe pro- and anti-globalization forces may be logically at odds, but there's l...

• Author(s): Lynn Margulis | Dorion Sagan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionIn this groundbreaking book, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan present an answer to one of the enduring mysteries o...

• Author(s): Charles Marsh • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyA noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and h...

• Author(s): Charles Marsh • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralSeeking to come to terms with the haunting memories of his childhood in the deep South-Charles Marsh has crafted a memoir of small-t...

• Author(s): Ernst Mayr • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyAt once a spirited defence of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evol...

• Author(s): Susan H. McDaniel | Jeri Hepworth | William J. Doherty • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Couples & FamilyIn the narrative of every human life and family, illness is a prominent cha...

• Author(s): Anne Campbell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Gender StudiesWhy are men more aggressive than women? To find out, psychologist and criminologist Anne Campbell listened to the voices of ordinary men a...

• Author(s): Rosabeth Moss Kanter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralIn this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management th...

• Author(s): John R. Searle • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyDisillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most o...

• Author(s): Richard Hanley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Television - GeneralProfessor Richard Hanley faced the dilemma plaguing so many philosophy professors today--how to entice students into the classroom....

• Author(s): Douglas Hofstadter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyHofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

• Author(s): Karl E. Meyer | Shareen Blair Brysac • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - GeneralFrom the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, To...

• Author(s): Alice Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way m...

• Author(s): Dusty Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralMany books have described victims of rape and battering, but scant attention has been paid to another form of harm increasingly common among women...

• Author(s): Juliet Mitchell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisIn 1974, at the height of the women's movement, Juliet Mitchell shocked her fellow feminists by challenging the entrench...

• Author(s): Juliet Mitchell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisThis worthy successor to Psychoanalysis and Feminism is both a defense of the long-dismissed diagnosis of hysteria as a ...

• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuropsychologyThe first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?

• Author(s): Kenji Hakuta • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Bilingual EducationA leading Yale psycholinguist separates myth from fact in the first comprehensive account of the psychological, linguistic, educationa...

• Author(s): Chris Mooney • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismThe New York Times bestseller that exposes the conservative agenda to put politics ahead of scientifi...

• 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): 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...