Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Andrew Burstein • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State

• Author(s): Margaret Caffrey • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Social Scientists & PsychologistsOften far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honin...

• Author(s): Richard Brookhiser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWhat would George Washington do about weapons of mass destruction? How would Benjamin Franklin feel about unwed mothe...

• Author(s): James MacGregor Burns • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American Government - Executive Branch

• Author(s): Vincent J. Cannato • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - GeneralVincent Cannato takes us back to the time when John Lindsay stunned New York with his liberal Republican...

• Author(s): Andrew Burstein • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresWashington Irving-author, ambassador, and Manhattanite-has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations are well know...

• Author(s): Sheldon Cashdan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentIn The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts ...

• Author(s): Jeff Chang • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip HopThe author of the award-winning Can't Stop, Won't Stop assembles the most innovative and provocative voices in hip-h...

• Author(s): Len Fisher • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Game TheoryThe IgNobel Prize-winning author of How to Dunk a Doughnut draws on the science of game theory to explain how human beings cooperate i...

• Author(s): William J. Doherty • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralPaul, a divorced father, wants to back out of his child care arrangement and spend less time with his children. Nathan has b...

• Author(s): Joyce Chaplin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoricalFamous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin -- he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography c...

• Author(s): Lee Harris • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Terrorism

• Author(s): Richard Wiseman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Social PsychologyFor over twenty years, psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman has examined the quirky science of everyday life. In Quirkology, he nav...

• Author(s): Aida Donald • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateNew York State Assemblyman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, New York City Police Commissioner, Governor of New Y...

• Author(s): Seymour Papert • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ElementaryIn his classsic book, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and powerful Ideas , Seymour Papert set out a vision of how computers could change sch...

• Author(s): Chol-Hwan Kang • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Asia - General"Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea wa...

• Author(s): Malcolm Gaskill • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind th...

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ClassicsFlatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edw...

• Author(s): Edward Pauly • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Teaching - GeneralAccording to Edward Pauly, education reformers have looked everywhere except the classroom, where education really takes place. Drawing...

• Author(s): Gene D. Cohen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AgingA renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist draws from more than thirty years of research to show that surprising positive changes in our brains have...

• Author(s): David S. Bennahum • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryToday's digital culture traces its roots to the 1980s, when the first computer generation came of age. These original techno-kids grew up wit...

• Author(s): Alice Miller • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Developmental - ChildThis "rare and compelling" (New York Magazine) bestseller examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has on an ...

• Author(s): Alice Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - Lifespan DevelopmentSeveral poignant scenarios and two essays of reflection focus on a range of issues -- from birth, motherhood, and par...

• Author(s): Timothy J. Colton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateEven after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Al...

• Author(s): Robert Darnton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the appre...

• Author(s): David Reynolds • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century

• Author(s): Michael Eric Dyson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyCelebrates the leadership of Dr. King and challenges America to renew its commitment to his vision

• Author(s): Ian Stewart • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Reference

• Author(s): Brendan Simms • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralIn the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Tradition...

• Author(s): Jack Repcheck • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryJames Hutton proved that the earth was likely millions of years old, rather than the six thousand calculated by the bible, and that it was contin...

• Author(s): Dieter Reinisch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialReports on the body of research on what qualities of cities and towns actually make people happy in their lives. L...

• Author(s): Kevin P. Phillips • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - Revolutions & Wars of Independence (See Also UnitA strikingly fresh and revisionist explanation for the rise of Anglo-America as the ...

• Author(s): Flo Conway | Jim Siegelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EducatorsThe story of Norbert Wiener, child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician

• Author(s): Norman Stone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAfter the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, valued vengeance even m...

• Author(s): Gerald M. Edelman | Giulio Tononi • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuroscienceWhat goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous ti...

• Author(s): Terry Eastland • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: American Government - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn the 1960s, we resolved as a nation never to judge people by the color of their skin. But today, race...

• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: CivilizationThis book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on...

• Author(s): Colin McGinn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyIn recent years the nature of consciousness--our immediately known experiences--has taken its place as the most profound problem that scie...

• Author(s): Robert G. Cooper • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Marketing - ResearchAs we learned from New Coke, Pets.com, Apple's original handheld device, the Newton, and the reissued Ford Thunderbird, all the p...

• Author(s): Margaret S. Creighton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Gettysburg has been written about and studied in great detail over the last 140 years, but there are...

• Author(s): Lawrence Friedman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost le...

• Author(s): Barbara Crossette • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesFor the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionar...

• Author(s): Alice Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AbuseMiller incorporates psychohistorical analyses of Hitler, Stalin, and Ceausescu to reveal the links between the horrors of their childhoods and the h...

• Author(s): Stanley Crouch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Jazz

• Author(s): Mary Ann Mason • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Divorce & SeparationHow should the courts decide custody cases that involve adoption, divorce, and single parenting? Should an abusive husband be g...

• Author(s): Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - AdolescentHow do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-scho...

• Author(s): William L. Benzon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Instruction & Study - AppreciationWhy does the brain create music? In Beethoven's Anvil, cognitive scientist and jazz musician William Benzon fi...

• Author(s): Kathi Diamant • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresIn this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka's heart and kept his liter...

• Author(s): David Darling • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionTo many people, the main question about extraterrestrial life is whether it exists. But to the scientific community, that quest...

• Author(s): Thulani Davis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cultural HeritageBeloved novelist and playwright Thulani Davis takes a journey through her ancestral history and finds tartan plaid, unlikely lovers, an...

• Author(s): Keith Devlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

• Author(s): Laura Marshak | Milton Seligman | Fran Prezant • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralThe study of disability and its clinical treatment has become exponentially more complex as ever more interventi...

• Author(s): Alan M. Dershowitz • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Lawyers & JudgesAs defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspo...

• Author(s): Daniel N. Stern • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Stages - Infants & Toddlers - GeneralEvery new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on ...

• Author(s): Robert Musil • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresRobert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diari...

• Author(s): Reed Larson | Maryse Richards • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralA study of the causes of family conflict draws on the Experience Sampling Method to argue that family life breaks dow...

• Author(s): Henri F. Ellenberger • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisThe definitive history of psychiatry's origins "A truly great book." --Dr. Jordan Peterson The Discovery of the Unc...

• Author(s): Freeman Dyson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralThe classic intellectual autobiography of a great theoretical physicist