Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Peter Fritzsche • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - World War IIA vivid account of German-occupied Europe during World War II that reveals civilians' struggle to understand the terrifying cha...

• 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): Michael Porter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeIn Can Japan Compete?, world-renowned competition strategist Michael Porter and his colleagues explain why America...

• 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): Carol Berkin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)The momentous story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams navigated the crises of ...

• Author(s): Tyler Nordgren • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Natural HistoryWith beautiful illustrations and a detailed map, Sun Moon Earth has everything you need to get ready for the next solar eclipse. On Ap...

• 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): Ben Wilson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyHeyday brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by...

• Author(s): John Bradshaw • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Dogs - Training & ShowingA leading anthrozoologist and the bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why we are so drawn to pets. Hist...

• 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): Simon R. Doubleday • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: RoyaltyAn illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Weste...

• Author(s): Don Norman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Industrial Design - GeneralEven the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure our which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to p...

• Author(s): Hans H. Strupp | Jeffrey L. Binder • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralRooted in the landmark, systematic studies of the Vanderbilt University research team, time-limited dynamic ...

• 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...

• 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): Paul Bass | Douglas W. Rae • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe murder of a Black Panther opens a revealing window into the volatile, confusing era that bridged the 1960s ...

• Author(s): Gerald M. Edelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Neuroscience

• 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...