Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Ishmael Reed • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American - GeneralIshmael Reed has been described as cavorting "like a black bull in the china shop of Western culture," and The Reed Reader is a collect...

• Author(s): Roy Schafer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe manner in which we "narrate" our lives is the central theme of psycho-analytic discourse and a critical issu...

• Author(s): H. W. Brands • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateFrom the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy RooseveltLauded as "a rip-roaring li...

• Author(s): Richard Dawkins • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionHow did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with charact...

• Author(s): Rosalyn Baxandall • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn Picture Windows, Baxandall and Ewen shatter naive stereotypes of suburban life, replacing them with a clear and compelling hist...

• Author(s): Louis P. Galambos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentA panoramic survey of the interactions between American business and public policy, from J.P. Morgan to Lee Iacocca.

• Author(s): Allan M. Brandt • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralThe widely acclaimed, award-winning history of the cigarette.

• Author(s): Randall Robinson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - GeneralBestselling author and bold social commentator, Randall Robinson explores the singularly curious and ultimately ...

• Author(s): Lawrence H. Rockland • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralIn recent years therapists have been treating more and more seriously disturbed patients, who do not respond well to insig...

• Author(s): Andrea Rock • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: DreamsOver the past few decades, there has been a revolution in scientific knowledge about why we dream, what's actually happening to the brain when we do...

• Author(s): David Rothenberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - OrnithologyThe astonishing richness of birdsong is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Evolutionists have never bee...

• Author(s): Mark S. Rosentraub • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Industries - GeneralA welfare system exists in this country that transfers hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers to individuals who hardly...

• Author(s): Sharman Apt Russell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PovertyEvery day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the h...

• Author(s): Anna Salter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: CriminologyWhat motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophist...

• Author(s): Sally Satel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryDrawing on a wealth of information PC, M.D. documents for the first time what happens when the tenets of political correctness-includi...

• Author(s): Richard N. Haass • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - Diplomacy"A concise, comprehensive guide to America's critical policy choices at home and overseas . . . without a partisan...

• Author(s): Diane Ravitch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralThe author of The Troubled Crusade and other important books and writings on education brings her own blend of sanity, common sense, and commitme...

• Author(s): P. W. Atkins • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Chemistry - Physical & TheoreticalCome on a journey into the heart of matter -- and enjoy the process! -- as a brilliant scientist and entertaining t...

• Author(s): Lynn Margulis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionAlthough Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most rem...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralMathematics has the power to open our eyes to new and unsuspected regularities in nature - the secret structure of a cloud or the hidden rhythms of...

• Author(s): Robert A. Weinberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Oncology - GeneralCancer research has reached a major turning point. The quality and quantity of information gathered about this disease in the pas...

• Author(s): William H. Calvin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeurologyIf you're good at finding the one right answer to life's multiple-choice questions, you're "smart." But "intelligence" is what you need whe...

• Author(s): Stephen H. Schneider • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Laboratory Earth taps the relevant knowledge from physical, biological, and social scie...

• Author(s): E. Fuller Torrey | Ann E. Bowler | Edward H. Taylor • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralAn important contribution to the ongoing debate over the origins of mental illness, this ...

• Author(s): Clifford a. Pickover • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: UFOs & ExtraterrestrialsIf extraterrestrials ever landed on Earth, they would find us extremely strange. Their first intimation of our existe...

• Author(s): Daniel C. Dennett • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Neuropsychology

• Author(s): David B. Seaburn | Alan D. Lorenz | William B. Gunn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Clinical PsychologyWith vivid case examples, the authors provide an important new model that shows how therapists ...

• Author(s): Daniel L. Schacter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuropsychologyMemory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosopher...

• Author(s): Michael Piore | Charles Sabel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Industries - GeneralTwo MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachm...

• Author(s): Alexander Borbely • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: DreamsOne of the world's leading sleep researchers provides the latest word on sleep, dreams, and sleep disorders.

• Author(s): John Bowlby • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentThe world-famous psychiatrist and author of the classic works Attachment, Separation, and Loss offers important guid...

• Author(s): Åsne Seierstad • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFrom the best-selling author of The Bookseller of Kabul, an account of thirteen ordinary Serbian people and how their lives cha...

• Author(s): Tim Severin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesFor nearly three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has been the archetypal castaway, the symbol of survival in uninhabited wilds. In this...

• Author(s): Robert Shogan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - SouthShows a long-neglected slice of American history to be a saga of the conflicting political, economic and cultur...

• Author(s): Kenneth Shropshire • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: SportsA biography of Sugar Ray Robinson and an intellectual expedition into the culture of celebrity in sports

• Author(s): Anne-Marie Slaughter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political FreedomThe Washington Post Book World named The Idea That This is America one of the best books of 2007 When Army Captain Ian Fishback...

• Author(s): Stephen P. Bank | Michael D. Kahn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: SiblingsUpdated with a new introduction by the authors, this anniversary edition shows the sibling relationship as a distinctive emo...

• Author(s): Kevin Smokler • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysAn anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers, Bookmark Now boldly addresses the significance of the production of litera...

• Author(s): Marshall | John R. • Publisher: INGRAM • Publisher Imprint: INGRAM • BISAC: NeuropsychologyFrom the Back CoverEveryone feels shy or nervous occasionally, but for millions of Americans even signing a check or eating a sandwich in publ...

• Author(s): David Stevenson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I

• Author(s): Paul Starr • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Media StudiesAmerica's leading role in today's information revolution may seem simply to reflect its position as the world's dominant economy and most powe...

• 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): 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...