Basic Books

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

Details	Release Year	Readers Count	Rating
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius Graham Farmelo	2009	9 reads	4.05
Why Is Sex Fun?: Evolution of Human Sexuality Jared Diamond	1997	10 reads	3.5
The Arabs: A History Eugene Rogan	2009	6 reads	3.8
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees Thor Hanson	2018	7 reads	4.08
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum Leonard Susskind Art Friedman	2017	3 reads	4
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle Thor Hanson	2001	2 reads	3.5
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World Tom Holland	2019	2 reads	4
Discrimination and Disparities Thomas Sowell	2018	5 reads	4.38
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture Pamela Haag	2016	1 read	5
Darwin Among The Machines George B. Dyson	1998	0 reads	0
Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat Bee Wilson	2012	2 reads	3.5
Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism Roy Richard Grinker	2007	0 reads	0
Chernobyl Serhii Plokhy	2020	1 read	4
The Nature of the Child Jerome Kagan	1984	1 read	0
Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture Orlando Patterson	1991	0 reads	0
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott	1884	237 reads	3.67
In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business Charlan Jeanne Nemeth	2018	2 reads	4
World War One: A Short History unknown author	2010	0 reads	0
A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down Marion T.D. Lewis	2005	0 reads	0
False Alarm Bjørn Lomborg	2020	6 reads	3.8
Heyday: Britain and the birth of the modern world Ben Wilson	2016	0 reads	0
Escaping the Self: Alcoholism, Spirituality, Masochism, and Other Flights from the Burden of Selfhood Roy F. Baumeister	1991	0 reads	0
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism Thomas E. Mann	2012	0 reads	4
Biblical Images Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz	1984	0 reads	5
Ten Birds That Changed the World Stephen Moss	2023	3 reads	3.5
Emdr: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma Francine Shapiro Margot Silk Forrest	1997	0 reads	0
The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution Mike Rapport	2017	0 reads	0
Self-Made in America: Plain Talk for Plain People about the Meaning of Success John McCormack David R. Legge	1992	0 reads	0
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 Ernest Shackleton	1919	17 reads	3.56
The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2008] Seierstad, Asne Asne Seierstad	2007	1 read	4
The Human Brain: A Guided Tour Susan A. Greenfield	1997	1 read	2
The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall Eliot A. Cohen	2023	1 read	5
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II Paul Betts	2020	0 reads	0
Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848 Adam Zamoyski	2014	0 reads	0
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing	1959	192 reads	4.48
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions—and the Art of Knowing When Not To Kit Yates	2023	0 reads	0
Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games Marcus du Sautoy	2023	2 reads	3
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It Erica Thompson	2022	2 reads	5
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill Robert Whitaker	2002	0 reads	0
The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss George A. Bonanno	2009	0 reads	0
You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All Adrian Hon	2022	2 reads	5
The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife Lucy Cooke	2017	0 reads	0
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide Robert Jay Lifton	1986	4 reads	4.5
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love Thomas Maier	2009	1 read	0
The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain Haider Warraich	2022	2 reads	0
Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil Jack Katz	1988	0 reads	0
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005 Margaret Atwood	2005	0 reads	0
Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull Gary B. Nash Graham Russell Gao Hodges	2008	0 reads	0
The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution George W. Barlow	2000	1 read	2
The Art of Biblical Poetry Robert Alter	1985	3 reads	2
The Art of Biblical Narrative Robert Alter	1981	4 reads	3
Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson Peter C. Mancall	2009	0 reads	0
The Beloved Community Charles Marsh	2004	1 read	2
Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD Lou Cannon	1998	0 reads	0
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre Heather Cox Richardson	2010	1 read	3
The Computers of Star Trek Lois H. Gresh Robert A Weinberg	1999	1 read	2
The Galapagos: A Natural History Henry Nicholls	2014	0 reads	0
Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy, and the Self: A Basic Guide to the Human Personality in Freud, Erikson, Klein, Sullivan, Fairbairn, Hartmann, Jacobson, and Winnicott Harry Guntrip	1971	1 read	0
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality Edward Frenkel	2013	2 reads	3
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern Keith Devlin	2008	5 reads	4
The Saturated Self: Dilemmas Of Identity In Contemporary Life Kenneth J. Gergen	1991	1 read	0
Asian Psychology Roland Anthony Oliver	1968	1 read	0
Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride To Ethnic Terrorism Vamık D. Volkan	1997	1 read	0
Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet John Bradshaw	2011	3 reads	3.5
Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies Michael Albertus	2025	0 reads	0
The Science Of Aliens Clifford A. Pickover	1998	0 reads	0
The Musil Diaries: Robert Musil, 1899-1942 Robert Musil Philip Payne Mark Jay Mirsky	1998	0 reads	0
Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the Test Clifford M. Will	1986	0 reads	0
Fire in the Sky Eric M. Bergerud	1999	0 reads	0
The Buddha and the Sahibs: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion Charles Allen	2003	1 read	5
Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II Richard H. Pells	1997	1 read	4
Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I George Morton-Jack	2018	0 reads	0
The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War Adrian Tinniswood	2024	0 reads	0
Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal Abigail Carroll	2012	0 reads	0
The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station Lorraine B. Diehl	1985	1 read	5
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era Elaine Tyler May	1988	0 reads	0
Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan Johnny Smith	2023	0 reads	0
Comprehensive Guide To Interpersonal Psychotherapy Myrna M. Weissman John C. Markowitz Gerald Klerman	2000	0 reads	0
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History Thor Hanson	2015	5 reads	3.4
Venus and Aphrodite Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire Bettany Hughes	2019	1 read	3
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s Stephanie Coontz	2008	0 reads	0
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Michael Willrich	2023	1 read	4
The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard	1922	16 reads	3.54
Evolution of Desire David M. Buss	1994	0 reads	0
How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More Nicholas Mirzoeff	2015	0 reads	0
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved Steven Mithen	2024	2 reads	3.75
Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic Ed Offley	2011	0 reads	0
Island Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain David Reynolds	2020	0 reads	0
Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story Of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece Joan Schenkar	2000	1 read	5
The Library: A Fragile History Andrew Pettegree Arthur der Weduwen	2021	11 reads	3.86
Mammoth: The Resurrection Of An Ice Age Giant Richard Stone	2001	1 read	3
The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman	1988	61 reads	4.21
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work William Daniel Hillis	1998	4 reads	3.75
Meditations: The Annotated Edition Marcus Aurelius	180	5 reads	3.5
The Fateful Hoaxing Of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research Derek Freeman	1998	0 reads	0
Myths of Rich And Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think Michael W. Cox Richard Alm	1999	0 reads	0
The Moon: Myth and Image Jules Cashford	2003	0 reads	0
One Nation Under Gods Richard Abanes	2002	0 reads	0
Trance And Treatment Herbert Spiegel David Spiegel	1978	0 reads	0
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe Rachel Chrastil	2023	1 read	5