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• 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): Oliver Bullough • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesRussia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity mas...

• 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): Leigh McCullough Vaillant • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralThe mechanism of emotional change is central to the field of mental health. Emotional change is necessary for healing...

• Author(s): Lee Siegel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysSex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut, Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels ...

• 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): Mark Perry • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyA gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadership The Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic ac...

• 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): Janet L. Jones • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralDespite its importance as a primary tool in creating and comprehending the self, memory is largely neglected in the therapeutic ...

• 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...

• 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): Hanna Levenson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralTen years ago, Hans Strupp and Jeffrey Binder's Psychotherapy in a New Key introduced a powerful, empirically tested model of br...

• 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): Harold Russell | Alan Beigel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralWhen it first appeared in 1976, Understanding Human Behavior for Effective Police Work quickly became the foremo...

• 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...