Basic Books

Basic Books is a publisher who has published at least 304 editions.

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The Connected Parent: An Expert Guide to Parenting in a Digital World
The Connected Parent: An Expert Guide to Parenting in a Digital World
  • John Palfrey
  • Urs Gasser
20201 read0
Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, And The German Atomic Bomb
Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, And The German Atomic Bomb
  • Mark Walker
19950 reads0
The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
  • Cara Fitzpatrick
20230 reads0
The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe
The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe
  • John C. Mather
  • John Boslough
19960 reads0
The Recollections Of Eugene P. Wigner: As Told To Andrew Szanton
The Recollections Of Eugene P. Wigner: As Told To Andrew Szanton
  • Eugene Paul Wigner
  • Andrew Szanton
19920 reads0
Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live
Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live
  • Kennon M. Sheldon
20220 reads0
The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
  • Massimo Pigliucci
20220 reads0
Algebra the Beautiful: An Ode to Math's Least-Loved Subject
Algebra the Beautiful: An Ode to Math's Least-Loved Subject
  • G. Arnell Williams
20220 reads0
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
  • Frank Close
20222 reads3.5
Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior
Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior
  • Erez Yoeli
  • Moshe Hoffman
20220 reads0
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds
  • Brian Butterworth
20220 reads0
The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need --And What We Can Do about It
The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need --And What We Can Do about It
  • Tony Wagner
19800 reads0
The Idea of the Brain: A History
The Idea of the Brain: A History
  • Matthew Cobb
20200 reads0
The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
  • John Farrell
20050 reads0
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy
  • Rudy Rucker
20050 reads0
Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability
Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability
  • Colin Bruce
20000 reads0
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
  • Thomas Sowell
20002 reads5
Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You
Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You
  • Andreas Weigend
20170 reads0
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
  • Rick Levine
20000 reads0
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
  • Seymour Papert
19800 reads0
The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time
The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time
  • Julian Barbour
20202 reads4
Caliphate: The History of an Idea
Caliphate: The History of an Idea
  • Hugh Kennedy
20160 reads0
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
20000 reads0
Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies
Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies
  • Ann Hornaday
20170 reads0
Latino USA, Revised Edition: A Cartoon History
Latino USA, Revised Edition: A Cartoon History
  • Ilan Stavans
  • Lalo Alcaraz
20000 reads0
How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
  • Nigel Spivey
20051 read3
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
  • Robin Lane Fox
20200 reads0
A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors
A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors
  • Anthony Blond
19941 read2
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
  • Susan Goldin-Meadow
20230 reads0
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
  • Ken McGoogan
20010 reads0
Winning at New Products: Creating Value Through Innovation
Winning at New Products: Creating Value Through Innovation
  • Robert G. Cooper
20111 read0
The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
  • Jonathan Rottenberg
20121 read2
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
  • Heinrich Päs
20231 read4
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
  • Lee Smolin
20003 reads3.5
All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
  • Jason Sokol
20120 reads0
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
  • Matthew Continetti
20221 read4
Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton
Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton
  • Joe Moshenska
20210 reads0
The Right To Vote: The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States
The Right To Vote: The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States
  • Alexander Keyssar
20000 reads0
Sleepyhead: The Neuroscience of a Good Night's Rest
Sleepyhead: The Neuroscience of a Good Night's Rest
  • Henry Nicholls
20181 read5
Evaluation in Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance, and Change
Evaluation in Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance, and Change
  • Darlene Russ-Eft
  • Hallie S. Preskill
20011 read3
A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal
A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal
  • Ă…sne Seierstad
20030 reads0
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
  • Ă…sne Seierstad
  • Sindre Kartvedt (Translator)
20000 reads0
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
  • Roger Moorhouse
20230 reads0
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
  • Sarah Percy
20230 reads0
Inside The Cult Of Kibu: And Other Tales Of The Millennial Gold Rush
Inside The Cult Of Kibu: And Other Tales Of The Millennial Gold Rush
  • Lori Gottlieb
  • Jesse Jacobs
20020 reads0
Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
  • Stephen Westaby
20171 read0
Making of Modern Zionism
Making of Modern Zionism
  • Shlomo Avineri
19811 read0
The Vietnam War: A Military History
The Vietnam War: A Military History
  • Geoffrey Wawro
20240 reads0
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
  • Norman F. Dixon
19763 reads4.5
The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are (Still) Going Broke
The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are (Still) Going Broke
  • Elizabeth Warren
  • Amelia Warren Tyagi
20032 reads3
Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power
Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power
  • Joseph S. Nye Jr.
19900 reads0
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
  • Alfred Lansing
1959121 reads4.53
Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations
Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations
  • Brian M. Fagan
19991 read3.5
Einstein's Dream: The Search For A Unified Theory Of The Universe
Einstein's Dream: The Search For A Unified Theory Of The Universe
  • Barry Parker
19861 read0
The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach
The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach
  • Howard Gardner
19950 reads0
Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary
Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary
  • Arnold Thackray
  • David C. Brock
  • Rachel Jones
20151 read0
The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
  • Simon Baron-Cohen
20031 read0
A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
  • JoĂ£o Magueijo
20091 read0
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
  • Leonard Susskind
20137 reads4
1848: Year of Revolution
1848: Year of Revolution
  • Mike Rapport
20081 read0
Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease
Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease
  • Robin Karr-Morse
20120 reads0
Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution
Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution
  • Christopher Wills
19981 read0
Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics
Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics
  • Edward Teller
  • Judith Schoolery
  • Judith Shoolery
20011 read0
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots From a Hidden War
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots From a Hidden War
  • Greg Marinovich
  • JoĂ£o Silva
20001 read0
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
  • Werner R. Loewenstein
20131 read0
Frame Reflection: Toward the Resolution of Intractrable Policy Controversies
Frame Reflection: Toward the Resolution of Intractrable Policy Controversies
  • Donald A. Schön
  • Martin Rein
19940 reads0
The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
  • Hardy Green
20100 reads0
Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World
Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World
  • Benjamin Reiss
20170 reads0
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New Yor
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New Yor
  • Matthew Goodman
20081 read0
Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers
Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers
  • Calvin C. Clawson
19960 reads0
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
  • Richard P. Feynman
19641 read0
What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration
What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration
  • Laura Major
  • Julie Shah
20200 reads0
Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics
  • Leonard Susskind
20140 reads0
Huey: Spirit of the Panther
Huey: Spirit of the Panther
  • David Hilliard
20051 read0
Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men, Revised Edition
Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men, Revised Edition
  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
19870 reads0
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
  • Diane Ravitch
20100 reads0
For Profit: A History of Corporations
For Profit: A History of Corporations
  • William Magnuson
20221 read3
Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933
Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933
  • Henry Ashby Turner Jr.
19961 read5
The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives
The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives
  • Ted Sargent
20051 read4
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
  • Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
  • Thomas Ramge
20181 read1
Feyman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-Solving Supplement to The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Feyman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-Solving Supplement to The Feynman Lectures on Physics
  • Richard P. Feynman
20050 reads0
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
  • Bhaskar Sunkara
20190 reads0
The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
  • Tim Palmer
20220 reads0
Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America--and How We Can Get More of It
Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America--and How We Can Get More of It
  • Arthur C. Brooks
20080 reads0
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Letters to a Young Contrarian
  • Christopher Hitchens
200117 reads4.07
Knowing the Score: What Sports Can Teach Us about Philosophy
Knowing the Score: What Sports Can Teach Us about Philosophy
  • David Papineau
20170 reads0
God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution
God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution
  • Thomas S. Kidd
20100 reads0
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
  • Jacob Mchangama
0 reads0
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
  • Neil Price
202017 reads4.19
Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
  • Adrian Goldsworthy
20230 reads0
A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History
A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History
  • Jay Sexton
20180 reads0
The Last Secret: The Delivery to Stalin of Over Two Million Russians by Britain & the United States
The Last Secret: The Delivery to Stalin of Over Two Million Russians by Britain & the United States
  • Nicholas Bethell
19740 reads0
Thread Of The Silkworm
Thread Of The Silkworm
  • Iris Chang
19950 reads0
Managing By The Numbers: A Commonsense Guide To Understanding And Using Your Company's Financials
Managing By The Numbers: A Commonsense Guide To Understanding And Using Your Company's Financials
  • Chuck Kremer
  • Ron Rizzuto
  • John Case
20000 reads0
What mad pursuit
What mad pursuit
  • Francis Crick
19880 reads0
Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War And The Origins Of The Soviet-American Rivalry, 1943-1949
Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War And The Origins Of The Soviet-American Rivalry, 1943-1949
  • AndrĂ© Gerolymatos
20041 read3
The End Of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy
The End Of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy
  • Russell Jacoby
19990 reads0
All around the town
All around the town
  • Herbert Asbury
19340 reads0
Applied Economics
Applied Economics
  • Thomas Sowell
20032 reads4.5
Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer
Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer
  • Kathleen Crane
20040 reads0