Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Peter Brian Medawar • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralTo those interested in a life in science, Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel laureate, deflates the myths of invincibility, superiority, and genius; ...

• Author(s): Peter Steinglass | Linda A. Bennett | Steven J. Wolin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Substance Abuse & Addictions - AlcoholThis pathbreaking book paints a radical new picture of alcoholism, off...

• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralControversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remar...

• Author(s): Jr. Buckley William F. • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Form - EssaysNational Review has always published letters from readers. In 1965 the magazine decided that certain letters merited different tre...

• Author(s): Jonathan D. Sarna • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Judaism - Rituals & PracticeThe preeminent scholar Jonathan Sarna reflects on identity, family, and faith in this accessible introduction to the...

• Author(s): Erskine Clarke • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ReligiousIn early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a strange seventeen year ...

• Author(s): Arthur C. Brooks • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysDemocrats and Republicans have two very different visions of America. Which one will make us happier?

• Author(s): Richard Brookhiser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateHow one mans struggles and successes two centuries ago can serve as a model-and an inspiration-for leaders today

• Author(s): Warwick Anderson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: DiscriminationIn nineteenth-century Australia, the main commentators on race and biological differences were doctors. But the medical profession ente...

• Author(s): Christopher Andrew • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Military - GeneralIn 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions...

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

• Author(s): Darrin M. McMahon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralGenius. With hints of madness and mystery, moral license and visionary force, the word suggests an almost otherworldl...

• Author(s): David Reynolds • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoriographyWinston Churchill fought the World War II twice over-first as Prime Minister during the war, and then later as the war's premier historia...

• Author(s): William F. Buckley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismLet Us Talk of Many Things, first published in 2000, brings together Buckley's finest speeches ...

• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Economics - GeneralNow revised and updated--the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of America's most revered ec...

• Author(s): Ali Ansari • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - Arms Control

• Author(s): Tony Campolo • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christian Ministry - EvangelismNamed by Christianity Today as one of the twenty-five most influential preachers of the last fifty years, best-selling aut...

• Author(s): Zbigniew Brzezinski • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe "compelling" and "devastating"* New York Times best-seller by America's most distinguished living commentator...

• Author(s): Susan Dunn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,For decades, the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. The premier state in population, ...

• Author(s): Norman Macafee • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsThis collection of RFKs 1968 presidential campaign speeches demonstrates his eloquence, passion, and human...

• Author(s): Raymond Aron • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralIn this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the rise of nationalism in...

• Author(s): Paul Davies | P. C. W. Davies • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Astronomy - General

• Author(s): Steve Marquis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American Government - GeneralOffering a fresh look at what's wrong with how Americans fund the arts--and why--this book, based on wide-ranging interview...

• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralA revised edition of Gardner's classic on the development of creativity. Illustrated throughout with children's art, this book is a systematic e...

• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - CounselingIn a provocative discussion of the sources of human creativity, Gardner explores all aspects of the subject, from the young c...

• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralPsychologists have long understood that the art works of children relate to their intellectual and emotional development but this is the first b...

• Author(s): Angelo M. Codevilla • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Security (National & International)From a distinguished conservative scholar, a call to reverse a century of wrong-headed foreign policy.

• Author(s): William H. Goetzmann • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralFrom 1776, when Citizen Tom Paine declared, "The birthday of a new world is at hand," America was unique in world h...

• Author(s): Bernard W. Lewis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Middle East - Iran

• Author(s): Alexander Keyssar • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralOriginally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from ...

• Author(s): Randall Balmer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismThe distinguished author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory returns with a searing examination of a n...

• Author(s): John Boslough • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyIn the early 1990s, a NASA-led team of scientists changed the way we view the universe. With the COBE (Cosmic Background Explor...

• Author(s): Tara McKelvey • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Conspiracy TheoriesIn April 2004, the Abu Ghraib photographs set off an international scandal. Yet until now, the full story has never been told. Tara M...

• Author(s): Robert Axelrod | Michael D. Cohen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Management ScienceHarnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations ...

• Author(s): Connie Barlow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EcologyA new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the d...

• Author(s): Simon Baron-Cohen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Neuropsychology

• Author(s): David Shapiro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuropsychologyBeginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence,...

• Author(s): Aaron Beck | Gary Emery | Ruth L. Greenberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAt the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renowned psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck turn...

• Author(s): Burton Hersh • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PoliticalIn this riveting account of the explosive relationship between Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover, renowned journalist and author Burton Hers...

• Author(s): Andrew S. Zimbalist • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Baseball - GeneralA savvy analysis of the game's financial problems (Los Angeles Times), now updated throughout and featuring a new chapter on rec...

• Author(s): Joseph Ratzinger • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Christian Living - InspirationalPope Benedict XVI and the President of the Italian Senate offer a critique of the spiritual and political crises affe...

• Author(s): Frank H. Wu • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWriting in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twent...

• Author(s): Bill Berkeley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Africa - GeneralSince 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands-Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and ...

• Author(s): Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Reed Larson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Stages - AdolescenceA pioneering psychologist's portrait of the sorrow, joy, and strife of being a teenager "A hopeful boo...

• Author(s): Thomas L. Thompson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - GeneralThe Jewish people's historical claims to a small area of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean are not...

• Author(s): Malcolm K. Sparrow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Law EnforcementDrawing on the experiences of innovative police departments that have tried new approaches to policing in cities as diverse as Los A...

• Author(s): Jeffrey E. Garten • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeA dramatic transformation of global power is under way, one only dimly recognized by most Americans. As economi...

• Author(s): Svetlana Boym • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Social HistoryFrom an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging "A remarkable book....

• Author(s): James Griffith | Melissa Griffith • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: DiseasesThis book offers all clinicianspsychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, nurses, physicians, and family therapistsa way ...

• Author(s): Stephen R. Weissman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American Government - Legislative BranchFrom the Back CoverArguing that 'Congress has substantially ceded its fundamental constitutional role in f...

• Author(s): Joseph S., Jr. Nye • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIs America still Number 1? A leading scholar of international politics and former State Departm...

• Author(s): Alfie Etc Kohn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyFrom the Back CoverDrawing from hundreds of studies in half a dozen fields, "The Brighter Side of Human Nature" makes a po...

• Author(s): Richard Florida • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralThe USA has often failed to capitalise on its technological breakthroughs. This analysis of the weaknesses a...

• Author(s): Gerald M. Edelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Movements - HumanismA nobel laureate's revolutionary vision of how the mind originates in the brain

• Author(s): Grace Palladino • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Stages - TeenagersNobody worried about "teenagers" prior to the 1940s. In fact, as a culturally or economically defined entity they did not exist...

• Author(s): Paul Bloom • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - ChildAll humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social wo...

• Author(s): Kira Brunner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThe New Killing Fields revisits Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor-sites of four of the worst instances of s...

• Author(s): Thomas Blass • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Social Scientists & PsychologistsStanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of our time. Creator of the famous Obedience Experiments c...