Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Richard John Neuhaus • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christian Theology - ApologeticsNumerous writers and composers have been captivated by the suggestiveness of Jesus' Seven Last Words. But Richard...

• Author(s): Richard John Neuhaus • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralFather Neuhaus looks beyond recent controversies and proposes a forward-thinking way of being Catholic in America

• Author(s): Richard R. Beeman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)In 1768, Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the empty throne of King George III, over...

• Author(s): Edward Baptist • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette India • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved...

• Author(s): Chris Taylor • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn 1973, a young filmmaker named George Lucas scribbled some notes for a far-fetched space-fantasy epic. Some forty years a...

• Author(s): Mary Elise Sarotte • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GermanyOn the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by s...

• Author(s): Gerard Russell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryDespite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek ...

• Author(s): Michael Useem • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Corporate Finance - GeneralA behind-the-scenes look at today's kingmakers: institutional investors. Out of the public eye, a small group of professional...

• Author(s): Michael Novak | Jana Novak • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralIn Washington's God Michael Novak-one of America's leading neoconservative pundits-and his daughter, Jana, uncover G...

• Author(s): Don Norman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionWhy attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered designEmotions are inseparable from ho...

• Author(s): Julie Norem • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Personal Growth - GeneralHow often are we urged to "look on the bright side"? From Norman Vincent Peale to the ubiquitous smiley face, optimism has become...

• Author(s): Dan O'Neill • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyThe intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had b...

• Author(s): John Allen Paulos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Probability & Statistics - GeneralWhat two things could be more different than numbers and stories? Numbers are abstract, certain, and eternal, ...

• Author(s): Stephen Shute • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PoliticalAre there any human rights that apply to all women and all men in all cultures at all times? Can we ground human rights in an abstract rational...

• Author(s): John Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryA genuine classic of literary criticism, On Moral Fiction argues that "true art is by its nature moral."

• Author(s): David Kaiser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyWhile Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before t...

• Author(s): Richard Leakey • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Science"The name Leakey is synonymous with the study of human origins," wrote The New York Times. The renowned family of paleontologists -- Louis Leake...

• Author(s): John D. Barrow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AstronomyThis text reviews speculative theories about the nature of time and the inflationary universe, explains wormholes, showing how they bear upon ...

• Author(s): Max Boot • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Law EnforcementHear about the judge who got busted for selling crack? What about the judge who released from jail a felon who then promptly killed a rookie c...

• Author(s): Richard J. Gelles • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Abuse - General"Using the true story of a murdered child as a point of departure, a leading expert on family violence argues that society's first pr...

• Author(s): Ray S. Jackendoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatur...

• Author(s): Mark Pendergrast • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryOf all human inventions, the mirror is perhaps the one most closely connected to our own consciousness. As our first technology for contemplat...

• Author(s): John Allen Paulos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Investments & Securities - Stocks

• Author(s): Paul Pearsall • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Personal Growth - GeneralAlthough the tenets of self-help have been attacked before, Pearsall is the first psychologist to expose these deeply entrenche...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Jones • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: African American & BlackIn 1656, a Maryland planter tortured and killed an enslaved man named Antonio, an Angolan who refused to work in the fiel...

• Author(s): Odd Arne Westad • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAs the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's ...

• Author(s): George Lakoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyWhat are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at...

• Author(s): Adam Phillips • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsAdam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher...

• Author(s): Adam Phillips • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisAs an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: a mastery of psychotherapy as both practitioner and theoris...

• Author(s): Adam Phillips • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernWritten in his beloved epigrammatic and aphoristic style, Equals extends Adam Phillips's probings into the psychological a...

• Author(s): Constantine V. Pleshakov • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionOn May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ship...

• Author(s): Barbara Freese • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - General"Engrossing . . . Coal, to borrow a phrase, is king." -- New York Times Book Review In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on...

• Author(s): Robert Whitaker • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Expeditions & DiscoveriesIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South ...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Wawro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - World War IA masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The...

• Author(s): David Kairys • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Law EnforcementAn assortment of scholars and practitioners in law and related disciplines raise basic questions, challenging ideals like the separation o...

• Author(s): Sean McMeekin • Publisher: Aspect • Publisher Imprint: Aspect • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IWhen a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand'...

• Author(s): Sarah Gristwood • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Medieval"[A] gem of a book . . . enlivened by incisive analysis, exquisite detail and an elegant and witty style." -- Alison Weir The Wars o...

• Author(s): Samantha Power • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFrom former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power...

• Author(s): Roger Collins • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralOne of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions, the papacy has also been amongst the most controversial. No one who ...

• Author(s): Peter W. Cookson | Caroline Hodges Persell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralWhy do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the a...

• Author(s): Clyde V. Prestowitz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDuring the six months prior to the World Trade Center attack, the United States walked away from a treaty to cont...

• Author(s): Alfred Lansing • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryExperience "one of the best adventure books ever written" (Wall Street Journal) in this New...

• 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): Richard Brookhiser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoricalJames Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story -- although all too often overshadowe...

• 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): Peter C. Whybrow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EmotionsWhen first published in 1997 this groundbreaking work on the science of mood both redefined the field and--with compassion, understanding, an...

• 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): Peniel E. Joseph • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: African American & BlackFrom the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael off...

• 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): 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): Donald A. Schon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Social WorkA leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions -- engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and tow...

• 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...