Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Douglas R. Hofstadter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Translating & InterpretingThis text presents a translation of a short poem by 16th-century French poet Clement Marot.

• Author(s): Gerald M. Edelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyIf you had a complete copy of a dinosaur's DNA and the genetic code, you still would not be able to make a dinosaur--or even ...

• Author(s): E. Fuller Torrey | Michael B. Knable • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mood Disorders - GeneralThis book will be a godsend to those affected directly or indirectly by this disease. - Psychology Today

• Author(s): Abigail Trafford • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Aging

• Author(s): Diane Ravitch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryThis widely praised history of the controversies that have beset American schools and universities since World War II is essential reading for an...

• Author(s): Robert Klitgaard • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentSelected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review , this is ...

• Author(s): Gilles Fauconnier | Mark Turner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionIn its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, le...

• Author(s): Linda Chavez • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PoliticalWhen President George W. Bush nominated Linda Chavez to be Secretary of Labor in January 2001, most political observers saw it as a nod to the r...

• Author(s): Conevery Bolton Valencius • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyMany have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has explored these sett...

• Author(s): Christian de Duve • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Evolution"Is the emergence of life on Earth the result of a single chance event or combination of lucky accidents, or is it the outc...

• Author(s): Jennifer Washburn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherJennifer Washburn, a scholar and journalist, reveals how the growing influence of corporations over universities compromise...

• Author(s): James Mellow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Artists, Architects, PhotographersThe Depression Era photographs of Walker Evans (1903-1975) remain some of the most indelible and iconic images in the A...

• Author(s): Michael Schudson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralA look at what Americans remember (and what they have forgotten) about one of the most traumatic domestic political event in the America's pos...

• Author(s): Clifford N. Will • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - RelativityFrom the Back CoverFirst published in 1986, this award-winning account of how Einstein's theory holds up after more than seventy-...

• Author(s): Stephanie Coontz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyThis text is a guide to the causes and consequences of today's family trends, demonstrating that historically-inform...

• Author(s): Samuel Shem | Janet Surrey | Stephen Bergman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)"We have to talk." For many men, these are the four worst word...

• Author(s): Bob Johnstone • Publisher: Perseus Books Group • Publisher Imprint: BasicBooks • BISAC: International - GeneralAre the Japanese faceless clones who march in lockstep to the drums beaten by big business and the bureaucrats of MITI, Ja...

• Author(s): Anne Wells Branscomb • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ReferenceDrawing on eleven case studies, a communications lawyer addresses the issue of who owns information, explaining the ramifications of the...

• Author(s): Zachary Karabell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherPresident Clinton declares that a two-year education should be the right of all Americans. Congress passes a 40 billion pack...

• Author(s): David R. Williams • Publisher: Perseus (for Hbg) • Publisher Imprint: Perseus (for Hbg) • BISAC: Writing - CompositionCheeky, original, and decidedly practical, this guide to effective writing is perfect for anyone who wants to hone ...

• Author(s): Katie Whitaker • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresFor a seventeenth-century Englishwoman, Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish did the unprecedented -- she published her writing. Her extraordinar...

• Author(s): Myron P. Glazer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationFrom the Back CoverWhat kind of person puts a successful career at risk in order to warn the public of a dangerous ...

• Author(s): Aleksandr R. Luria • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuroscienceThis important book, by the most distinguished Soviet psychologist of our time, is the product of almost forty years of extensive resea...

• Author(s): Lillian B. Rubin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Minority StudiesThe classic that is widely acknowledged to be the most valuable and insightful book ever written on the dynamics of working-class fam...

• Author(s): George Weigel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralThe Catholic Church in America is in a state of crisis. Yet few understand what the crisis really is, why it happened, or ho...

• Author(s): George Weigel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PhilosophyFrom the best-selling biographer of Pope John Paul II, the acclaimed critique of the crisis of secularism that is afflicting Europe and the West

• Author(s): Peter Woit • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Number TheoryHas physics gone off in the wrong direction? Peter Woit presents the other side of the growing debate on string theory--arguing that it's not ...

• Author(s): Tim Naftali • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn this revelatory new account, national security historian Timothy Naftali relates the full back story of America's attempt...

• Author(s): Jean Fagan Yellin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cultural HeritageIn this remarkable biography, Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the full adventures of Harriet Jacobs, before and after slavery. Jacobs's ...

• Author(s): Palle Yourgrau • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryIt is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein...

• Author(s): Paul Starr • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History"A monumental achievement" (New York Times) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark hist...

• Author(s): Randy Roberts • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: African American & BlackThe first book to bring to life the influential friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali In 1962, boxing writers and fa...

• Author(s): Yuval Levin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Commentary & OpinionAmericans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish, and leaves workers insecure. Income inequality, cultural divi...

• Author(s): Dan Flores • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Natural HistoryThe New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United Sta...

• Author(s): James Traub • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State"Penetrating, detailed, and very readable. . . . A splendid biography." -- Wall Street Journal Few figures in American his...

• Author(s): Stephen Zanichkowsky • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: MemoirsBorn eighth in a family on its way to becoming almost twice that size, Stephen Zanichkowsky immediately learned that his life was to be no...

• Author(s): Allan Bloom • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThe definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the his...

• Author(s): Eugene Rogan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Middle East - Arabian PeninsulaThe internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times...

• Author(s): Zbigniew Brzezinski • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyBestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's c...

• Author(s): David Shapiro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralThis new edition of one of the books most closely identified with clinical psychology since 1965 will expose a new generation to Shapiro's stunni...

• Author(s): Harry Guntrip • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisDr. Guntrip concerns himself specifically with the self and its interpersonal and object relations. Through the work of Freud,...

• Author(s): Lenore Terr • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralCan a long-forgotten memory of a horrible event suddenly resurface years later? How can we know whether a memory is true or false? ...

• Author(s): Margaret S. Mahler | Fred Pine | Anni Bergman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentThe pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and indiv...

• Author(s): David Shapiro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralShapiro's keenness of observation and profound clinical wisdom are once again in evidence, as he brings to bear his brilliant ide...

• Author(s): David Shapiro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralIn his first new book in ten years, David Shapiro extends the stubbornly intuitive clinical vision that informed his phenomenally successful Neur...

• Author(s): Daniel N. Stern • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentA View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology Challenging the traditional developmental sequence as we...

• Author(s): Hugh Wilford • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFrom the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught ...

• Author(s): Daniel Bell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Economic HistoryIn 1976, Daniel Bell's historical work predicted a vastly different society developing--one that will rely on the "economics of informatio...

• Author(s): John Bowlby • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Divorce & SeparationThe experience of separation and the ensuing susceptibility to anxiety, anger, and fear constitute the flip side of the attachment...

• Author(s): Robert S. Weiss • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Divorce & SeparationDr. Weiss makes concrete, practical, and humane suggestions designed to ease the transition and to aid in the reorganization o...

• Author(s): Kevin M. Kruse • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that th...

• Author(s): Robert Gallo • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - MicrobiologyFrom the Back CoverThe co-discoverer of the AIDS virus tells his story of scientific discovery.

• Author(s): Barbara R. Bergmann • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Labor - General"At a time when quotas and preferences are under attack nationwide, Barbara Bergmann courageously show that without the help of aff...

• Author(s): Michael Axworthy • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Middle East - IranThe definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic repub...

• Author(s): Stephanie Coontz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American familyLeave It to Beaver was not a documen...

• Author(s): Colson Whitehead • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group • Publisher Imprint: Little, Brown Book Group

• Author(s): Paul Mendelson • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group • Publisher Imprint: Little, Brown Book GroupMost people playing online poker think they are winning players when they're actually losing month after month. But, if you have basic ...

• Author(s): John Lewis-Stempel • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group • Publisher Imprint: Little, Brown Book GroupA practical guide to finding and preparing food from hedgerows, parks, fields, woods, rivers and seashore. Aimed at the beginner, i...

• Author(s): Paul Jager | Sue Lehmann • Publisher: Robinson Press • Publisher Imprint: Robinson Press • BISAC: Real Estate - Buying & Selling HomesThis title helps buyers to: navigate the property maze like an expert; successfully negotiate t...

• Author(s): Shirt, Virginia • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group • Publisher Imprint: Right WayVirginia Shirt presents a detailed guide for anyone considering keeping chickens in their own back garden. It contains detailed visual references for...