Basic Books

Basic Books is a publisher who has published at least 127 editions.

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

January 1, 2009 • Physical Book • 33 Readers • 539 pages 4.1

Why Is Sex Fun?: Evolution of Human Sexuality

January 1, 1997 • Physical Book • 22 Readers • 180 pages • Format Paperback 3.5

The Arabs: A History

The Arabs: A History
ByEugene Rogan

January 1, 2009 • Physical Book • 19 Readers • 592 pages • Info Revised and Updated Edition 3.8

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

January 1, 2018 • Physical Book • 15 Readers • 304 pages • Format Hardcover 4.1

Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum

4 Theoretical Minimum

January 1, 2017 • Physical Book • 14 Readers • 425 pages • Info 1st Edition, First Edition 4

Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

January 1, 2001 • Physical Book • 10 Readers • 352 pages • Format Hardcover 3.5

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

January 1, 2019 • Physical Book • 4 Readers • 671 pages • Info Illustrated 4

Discrimination and Disparities

March 20, 2018 • Physical Book • 3 Readers • 320 pages • Info Enlarged 4.4

The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture

January 1, 2016 • Physical Book • 2 Readers • 530 pages • Info 1 5

Darwin Among The Machines

Darwin Among The Machines
ByGeorge B. Dyson

October 8, 1998 • Physical Book • 2 Readers • 308 pages

Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat

October 9, 2012 • Physical Book • 2 Readers • 354 pages • Format Kindle Edition • Info 01 3.5

Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism

January 1, 2007 • Physical Book • 2 Readers • 352 pages

Chernobyl

Chernobyl
BySerhii Plokhy

March 10, 2020 • Physical Book • 2 Readers • 432 pages 4

The Nature of the Child

September 1, 1984 • Physical Book • 2 Readers • 307 pages • Info Tenth Anniversary Edition

Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture

January 1, 1991 • Physical Book • 2 Readers • 487 pages • Info 1st, First Edition

Flatland

January 1, 1884 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 239 pages • Info Annotated 3.7

In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business

January 1, 2018 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 257 pages 4

World War One: A Short History

April 27, 2010 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 240 pages

A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down

March 1, 2005 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 272 pages

False Alarm

False Alarm
ByBjørn Lomborg

June 23, 2020 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 320 pages • Info Reprint 3.8

Heyday: Britain and the birth of the modern world

January 1, 2016 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 517 pages • Info 1

Escaping the Self: Alcoholism, Spirituality, Masochism, and Other Flights from the Burden of Selfhood

January 1, 1991 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 268 pages • Info 1st, First Edition

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism

May 1, 2012 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 242 pages • Format Kindle Edition • Info 1st Edition 4

Biblical Images

Biblical Images
ByAdin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

January 1, 1984 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 230 pages 5

Ten Birds That Changed the World

January 1, 2023 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 301 pages 3.5

Emdr: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma

January 1, 1997 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 366 pages • Info Updated

The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

January 1, 2017 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 364 pages • Format Hardcover • Info 1

Self-Made in America: Plain Talk for Plain People about the Meaning of Success

September 1, 1992 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 240 pages

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

January 1, 1919 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 450 pages • Format Paperback 3.6

The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2008] Seierstad, Asne

The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
ByÅsne Seierstad,Nadia Christensen(Translator)

January 1, 2007 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 341 pages • Info First Edition 4

The Human Brain: A Guided Tour

The Human Brain: A Guided Tour
BySusan A. Greenfield

January 1, 1997 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 178 pages • Format Paperback 2

The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall

January 1, 2023 • Physical Book • 1 Reader 5

Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II

January 1, 2020 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 544 pages

Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848

October 1, 2014 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 437 pages

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

January 1, 1959 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • Format Kindle Edition • Info 2nd 4.5

How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions—and the Art of Knowing When Not To

January 1, 2023 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 371 pages

Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It

January 1, 2022 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 239 pages 5

Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

January 3, 2002 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 419 pages

The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss

January 1, 2009 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 266 pages • Info 1

You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

January 1, 2022 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 297 pages 5

The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife

October 19, 2017 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 330 pages • Format Kindle Edition • Info 1

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

January 1, 1986 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 592 pages • Info 2 4.5

Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love

March 20, 2009 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 351 pages • Format Kindle Edition • Info 1

The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain

January 1, 2022 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 339 pages

Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil

January 1, 1988 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 376 pages • Format Paperback

Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005

January 1, 2005 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 427 pages • Info 1st, First Edition

Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull

March 24, 2008 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 328 pages • Info 1

The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution

January 1, 2000 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 352 pages 2

The Art of Biblical Poetry

January 1, 1985 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 246 pages 2

The Art of Biblical Narrative

January 1, 1981 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 272 pages 3

Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson

January 1, 2009 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 303 pages • Info 1

The Beloved Community

The Beloved Community
ByCharles Marsh

December 28, 2004 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 320 pages 2

Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD

January 1, 1998 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 720 pages • Info Reprint

Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre

November 8, 2011 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 392 pages • Info Illustrated 3

The Computers of Star Trek

The Computers Of Star Trek
ByLois H. Gresh,Robert E. Weinberg,+1 more

January 1, 1999 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 174 pages 2

The Galapagos: A Natural History

January 1, 2014 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 226 pages

Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

October 1, 2013 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 304 pages 3

The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

January 1, 2008 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 210 pages 4

The Saturated Self: Dilemmas Of Identity In Contemporary Life

January 1, 1991 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 296 pages • Info Reprint

Asian Psychology

Asian Psychology
ByRoland Anthony Oliver

January 1, 1968 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 238 pages • Info First Edition, Second Printing

Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride To Ethnic Terrorism

November 1, 1997 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 288 pages • Info Illustrated, 10/28/98

Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet

January 1, 2011 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 312 pages • Info 2 3.5

Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies

January 14, 2025 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 336 pages

The Science Of Aliens

The Science Of Aliens
ByClifford A. Pickover

January 1, 1998 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 240 pages • Info 1st, First Edition

The Musil Diaries: Robert Musil, 1899-1942

The Musil Diaries: Robert Musil, 1899-1942
ByRobert Musil,Philip Payne,+1 more

January 1, 1998 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 557 pages • Info First Edition

Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the Test

November 30, 1986 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 290 pages • Info 2nd edition

Fire in the Sky

Fire in the Sky
ByEric M. Bergerud

January 1, 1999 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 723 pages • Info First Edition

The Buddha and the Sahibs: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion

January 1, 2003 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 322 pages • Info F First Edition 5

Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II

January 1, 1997 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 464 pages • Info Revised ed. 4

Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I

September 6, 2018 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 582 pages • Format Hardcover • Info Illustrated

The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War

January 1, 2024 • Physical Book • 1 Reader

Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal

September 1, 2012 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 346 pages • Format Kindle Edition • Info 1

The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station

January 1, 1985 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 168 pages • Info 1st, First Edition, 1st THUS 5

Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

January 1, 1988 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 269 pages • Info 58696th

Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan

January 1, 2023 • Physical Book • 1 Reader

Comprehensive Guide To Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Comprehensive Guide To Interpersonal Psychotherapy
ByMyrna M. Weissman,John C. Markowitz,+1 more

January 14, 2000 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 484 pages • Info 1, First Edition

The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

March 24, 2015 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 320 pages • Info Reprint 3.4

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November 14, 2019 • Audiobook • 1 Reader • Format Audiobook 3

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

June 30, 2008 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 256 pages • Info First Trade Paper Ed

American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

October 31, 2023 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 401 pages 4

The Worst Journey in the World

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The Worst Journey in the World
ByApsley Cherry-Garrard

January 1, 1922 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 704 pages • Format Paperback • Info 2nd edition 3.5

Evolution of Desire

Evolution of Desire
ByDavid M. Buss

January 1, 1994 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 430 pages • Info 4

How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More

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June 4, 2015 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 343 pages • Info Illustrated

The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved

March 7, 2024 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 336 pages 3.8

Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic

January 1, 2011 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • Info 1

Island Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain

January 1, 2020 • Physical Book • 1 Reader

Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story Of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece

January 1, 2000 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 442 pages 5

The Library: A Fragile History

The Library: A Fragile History
ByAndrew Pettegree,Arthur der Weduwen

November 9, 2021 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 544 pages • Info Reissue 3.9

Mammoth: The Resurrection Of An Ice Age Giant

August 1, 2001 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 264 pages 3

The Design of Everyday Things

January 1, 1988 • Audiobook • 1 Reader • Format Audiobook • Info Revised and Expanded Edition 4.2

The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work

January 1, 1998 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 164 pages • Info 1st, First Edition 3.8

Meditations: The Annotated Edition

January 1, 180 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • Info Annotated 3.5

The Fateful Hoaxing Of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research

January 1, 1998 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 304 pages

Myths of Rich And Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think

January 1, 1999 • Physical Book • 1 Reader • 272 pages

The Moon: Myth and Image

The Moon: Myth and Image
ByJules Cashford

January 1, 2003 • Physical Book • 400 pages • Format Paperback • Info Illustrated

One Nation Under Gods

One Nation Under Gods
ByRichard Abanes

January 1, 2002 • Physical Book • 672 pages • Format Paperback

Trance And Treatment

Trance And Treatment
ByHerbert Spiegel,David Spiegel

January 1, 1978 • Physical Book • 382 pages • Info First Edition

Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

January 1, 2023 • Physical Book 5