Basic Books

Basic Books is a publisher who has published at least 413 editions.

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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
19764 reads4.5
Making of Modern Zionism
Making of Modern Zionism
  • Shlomo Avineri
19811 read0
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
1959198 reads4.5
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
The life of super-Earths how the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet
The life of super-Earths how the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet
  • Dimitar Sasselov
20112 reads4
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
Judaism For Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through The Vibrant Lessons Of The Jewish Faith
Judaism For Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through The Vibrant Lessons Of The Jewish Faith
  • Shmuley Boteach
20020 reads0
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
  • João 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
  • George Hrabovsky
201311 reads3.5
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
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
  • Michael Wood
20030 reads0
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
  • João Silva
20001 read0
Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels
Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels
  • Antonio Santosuosso
20041 read4
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
Armies of heaven the first crusade and the quest for apocalypse
Armies of heaven the first crusade and the quest for apocalypse
  • Jay Rubenstein
20110 reads0
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
19642 reads0
Impact Jupiter: The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
Impact Jupiter: The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
  • David H. Levy
19950 reads0
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
The Working Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychology
The Working Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychology
  • Alexander R. Luria
19730 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
James Madison
James Madison
  • Richard Brookhiser
20115 reads3.5
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
Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa
Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa
  • Linda Diebel
20050 reads0
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 Romance Of Risk: Why Teenagers Do The Things They Do
The Romance Of Risk: Why Teenagers Do The Things They Do
  • Lynn E. Ponton
19970 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
20222 reads4
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
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
  • Paul Halpern
20242 reads2
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Letters to a Young Contrarian
  • Christopher Hitchens
200124 reads4.05
Knowing the Score: What Sports Can Teach Us about Philosophy
Knowing the Score: What Sports Can Teach Us about Philosophy
  • David Papineau
20170 reads0
The Haves and the Have-Nots
The Haves and the Have-Nots
  • Branko Milanović
20101 read4
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
Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success
Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success
  • Shalini Shankar
20190 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
202030 reads4.17
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
The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art
The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art
  • Hector Feliciano
19970 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
  • André Gerolymatos
20041 read3
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
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 3: Quantum Mechanics
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 3: Quantum Mechanics
  • Richard P. Feynman
  • Robert B. Leighton
  • Matthew Sands
19641 read0
Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 2: Mainly Electromagnetism & Matter
Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 2: Mainly Electromagnetism & Matter
  • Richard P. Feynman
  • Robert B. Leighton
  • Matthew Sands
19630 reads0
The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency
The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency
  • Philip H. Melanson
  • Peter F. Stevens
20020 reads0
Blood Sisters: The French Revolution In Women's Memory
Blood Sisters: The French Revolution In Women's Memory
  • Marilyn Yalom
19931 read0
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
  • Thor Hanson
20187 reads4.08
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
  • Thor Hanson
20212 reads4
The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist
The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist
  • Jessica Warner
20040 reads0
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
  • Jay Cost
20180 reads0
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter
  • Richard P. Feynman
  • Robert B. Leighton
  • Matthew L. Sands
19630 reads0
Markets And Minorities Paper
Markets And Minorities Paper
  • Thomas Sowell
19810 reads0
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
  • John Bradshaw
20131 read3
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession
  • Irvin D. Yalom
19921 read0
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America for Americans

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
  • Erika Lee
20191 read5
Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
  • Thomas M. Shapiro
20171 read4
The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine
The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine
  • Peter W. Huber
20130 reads0
Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems
Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems
  • John Palfrey
  • Urs Gasser
20120 reads0
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
  • Katja Hoyer
20230 reads0
An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
  • Sharman Apt Russell
20030 reads0
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
  • Dhun Sethna
20221 read2
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum
  • Leonard Susskind
  • Art Friedman
20173 reads4
This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
  • Nick Riggle
20220 reads0
Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
  • Sam Leith
20110 reads0
The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of History
The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of History
    19710 reads0
    Creatures of a Day
    Creatures of a Day
    • Irvin D. Yalom
    20150 reads0
    The Ghosts Of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, And Other Ecological Anachronisms
    The Ghosts Of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, And Other Ecological Anachronisms
    • Connie Barlow
    20010 reads0
    The Trainable Cat: A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat
    The Trainable Cat: A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat
    • John Bradshaw
    • Sarah Ellis
    20162 reads3.5
    The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
    The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
    • Barry Glassner
    19991 read3
    The Very Best of the Feynman Lectures
    The Very Best of the Feynman Lectures
    • Richard P. Feynman
    20051 read3
    Thousand Small Sanities The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
    Thousand Small Sanities The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
    • Adam Gopnik
    20190 reads0
    All around the town
    All around the town
    • Herbert Asbury
    19340 reads0
    Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
    Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
    • Thomas Sowellm
    20035 reads4
    Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
    Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
    • David Pietrusza
    20030 reads0
    Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer
    Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer
    • Kathleen Crane
    20040 reads0
    The Cooper's Wife Is Missing The Trials Of Bridget Cleary
    The Cooper's Wife Is Missing The Trials Of Bridget Cleary
    • Joan Hoff
    • Marian Yeates
    20001 read3
    Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
    Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
    • Douglas R. Hofstadter
    1979141 reads4.45