Basic Books

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

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Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World
Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World
  • Fatema Mernissi
  • Mary Jo Lakeland (Translator)
19920 reads0
A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science
A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science
  • Peter J. Feibelman
19934 reads4
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
  • Alan Boss
20091 read0
The wreck of the Batavia
The wreck of the Batavia
  • Simon Leys
20030 reads0
Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
  • Matt Strassler
20241 read0
The Design of Future Things
The Design of Future Things
  • Donald A. Norman
20060 reads0
Uncommon Grounds The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Uncommon Grounds The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
  • Mark Pendergrast
19990 reads0
Respect: An Exploration
Respect: An Exploration
  • Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
19991 read0
Justice at Nuremberg
Justice at Nuremberg
  • Robert E. Conot
19830 reads0
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power
  • Ijeoma Oluo
20200 reads0
Clockspeed : Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage
Clockspeed : Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage
  • Charles H. Fine
19980 reads0
Versailles
Versailles
  • Colin Jones
20180 reads0
Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head?: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasy
Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head?: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasy
  • Brett Kahr
20081 read2
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
  • John Palfrey
  • Urs Gasser
20081 read3
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
  • John Palfrey
  • Urs Gasser
20081 read3
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
  • Cesar A. Hidalgo
20150 reads0
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
  • Serhii Plokhy
201518 reads4
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It
  • Dambisa Moyo
20180 reads0
Studies on Hysteria
Studies on Hysteria
  • Josef Breuer
  • Sigmund Freud
18950 reads0
The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
  • William F. Stark
20031 read5
Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator
Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator
  • Gianni Guadalupi
20010 reads0
The Sea's Bitter Harvest: Thirteen Deadly Days on the North Atlantic
The Sea's Bitter Harvest: Thirteen Deadly Days on the North Atlantic
  • Douglas A. Campbell
20010 reads0
Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus
Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus
  • The Baseball Prospectus
20121 read2
Letters to a Young Mathematician
Letters to a Young Mathematician
  • Ian Stewart
20065 reads3.5
Linked: The New Science of Networks Science of Networks
Linked: The New Science of Networks Science of Networks
  • Albert-László Barabási
20021 read2
Shooting War
Shooting War
  • Moeller
19890 reads0
The Catholics of Ulster
The Catholics of Ulster
  • Marianne Elliott
20011 read3
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
  • William Daniel Hillis
19984 reads3.75
Art, Mind and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity
Art, Mind and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity
  • Howard Gardner
19820 reads0
Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness
Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness
  • Betty Jean Lifton
19940 reads5
The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-and The Rest Of Us-can Harness The Power Of True Partnership
The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-and The Rest Of Us-can Harness The Power Of True Partnership
  • Roger L. Martin
19900 reads0
After Theory
After Theory
  • Terry Eagleton
20030 reads0
Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime
Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime
  • Michael Woodiwiss
20050 reads0
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1
  • Richard P. Feynman
  • Robert Leighton
  • Matthew Sands
19632 reads4.5
The Search for the Elements
The Search for the Elements
  • Isaac Asimov
19621 read5
Linked: The New Science of Networks
Linked: The New Science of Networks
  • Albert-László Barabási
20021 read3
Basic Freud
Basic Freud
  • Michael Kahn
19530 reads0
The Case for Trump
The Case for Trump
  • Victor Davis Hanson
20192 reads4.5
The Hidden Hitler
The Hidden Hitler
  • Lothar Machtan
20012 reads4.5
Ecocide in the USSR: Health And Nature Under Siege
Ecocide in the USSR: Health And Nature Under Siege
  • Murray Feshbach
19930 reads0
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
  • Frank Close
20251 read4
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
  • Lauren Oakes
20180 reads0
The System: A Story Of Intrigue And Market Domination
The System: A Story Of Intrigue And Market Domination
  • Terry Waghorn
  • Ken Blanchard
20020 reads0
Metaracism
Metaracism
  • Tricia Rose
20240 reads0
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
  • Graham Farmelo
20099 reads4.05
No Turning Back: Dismantling The Fantasies Of Environmental Thinking
No Turning Back: Dismantling The Fantasies Of Environmental Thinking
  • Beverley Naidoo
19940 reads0
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
The black book of Bosnia
The black book of Bosnia
    19960 reads0
    Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
    Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
    • Thor Hanson
    20187 reads4.08
    The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
    The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
    • Graham Farmelo
    20099 reads4.05
    Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
    Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
    • Douglas R. Hofstadter
    1979141 reads4.45
    How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
    How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
    • Ann Marlowe
    19990 reads0
    Vertigo
    Vertigo
    • Harald Jähner
    20220 reads0
    Cover 5

    America and the world

    America and the world
    • Zbigniew K. Brzezinski
    0 reads0
    Rot
    Rot
    • Padraic X. Scanlan
    20251 read4
    Lawless Republic
    Lawless Republic
    • Josiah Osgood
    20250 reads0
    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    • Alfred Lansing
    1959198 reads4.5
    Fathers' Rights: Hard-hitting And Fair Advice For Every Father Involved In A Custody Dispute
    Fathers' Rights: Hard-hitting And Fair Advice For Every Father Involved In A Custody Dispute
    • Jefferey Leving
    • Kenneth Dachman
    19970 reads0
    A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein
    A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein
    • Palle Yourgrau
    20045 reads3.5
    Trust on trial
    Trust on trial
    • Richard B. McKenzie
    20000 reads0
    What's Holding You Back?: Eight Critical Choices For Women's Success
    What's Holding You Back?: Eight Critical Choices For Women's Success
    • Linda S. Austin
    20010 reads0
    A Conflict of Visions
    A Conflict of Visions
    • Thomas Sowell
    19869 reads4.71
    House of Lilies
    House of Lilies
    • Justine Firnhaber-Baker
    20242 reads4.5
    The Republic
    The Republic
    • Plato
    -400262 reads3.83
    The Art of War
    The Art of War
    • Sun Tzu
    -500631 reads3.68
    Living to 100
    Living to 100
    • Thomas T. Perls
    • Margery Hutter Silver
    19990 reads0
    The psychology of memory
    The psychology of memory
    • Alan Baddeley
    19760 reads0
    Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
    Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
    • Derrick A. Bell
    19922 reads4
    The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
    The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
    • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    • Thomas P. Whitney
    • H.T. Willetts
    197352 reads4.12
    The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
    The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
    • Vanessa S. Williamson
    20250 reads0
    The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
    The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
    • Vanessa S. Williamson
    20250 reads0
    Code: Version 2.0
    Code: Version 2.0
    • Lawrence Lessig
    19997 reads3
    Theory Z
    Theory Z
    • William G. Ouchi
    19810 reads0
    Code: Version 2.0
    Code: Version 2.0
    • Lawrence Lessig
    19997 reads3
    Cover 4

    The Little Ice Age

    The Little Ice Age
    • Brian Fagan
    20000 reads0
    High wire
    High wire
    • Peter Gosselin
    20080 reads0
    Snoop
    Snoop
    • Sam Gosling
    20017 reads3.14
    Economic facts and fallacies
    Economic facts and fallacies
    • Thomas Sowell
    200710 reads4.25
    Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil
    Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil
    • Jack Katz
    19880 reads0
    40 sonetti di Shakespeare
    40 sonetti di Shakespeare
    • William Shakespeare
    • Giuseppe Ungaretti (Translator)
    1058 reads4.15
    40 sonetti di Shakespeare
    40 sonetti di Shakespeare
    • William Shakespeare
    • Giuseppe Ungaretti (Translator)
    1058 reads4.15
    40 sonetti di Shakespeare
    40 sonetti di Shakespeare
    • William Shakespeare
    • Giuseppe Ungaretti (Translator)
    1058 reads4.15
    40 sonetti di Shakespeare
    40 sonetti di Shakespeare
    • William Shakespeare
    • Giuseppe Ungaretti (Translator)
    1058 reads4.15
    The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
    The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
    • Jon Dunn
    20214 reads4.67
    The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
    The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
    • Jon Dunn
    20214 reads4.67
    Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
    Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
    • Thomas Sowellm
    20035 reads4
    The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
    The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
    • Jon Dunn
    20214 reads4.67
    Three essays on the theory of sexuality
    Three essays on the theory of sexuality
    • Sigmund Freud
    • James Strachey
    19050 reads0
    Doubt And Certainty: The Celebrated Academy Debates On Science, Mysticism Reality
    Doubt And Certainty: The Celebrated Academy Debates On Science, Mysticism Reality
    • Tony Rothman
    • George Sudarshan
    19980 reads0
    Space biology
    Space biology
    • James Stephen Hanrahan
    • David Bushnell
    19600 reads0
    You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
    You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
    • Adrian Hon
    20222 reads5
    The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
    The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
    • Jorge Luis Borges
    • Christopher Cherniak
    • Richard Dawkins
    • Douglas E. Harding
    • StanisÅ‚aw Lem
    • Justin Lieber
    • Terrel Miedaner
    • Harold J. Morowitz
    • Thomas Nagel
    • Robert Nozick
    • Rudy Rucker
    • David Hawley Sanford
    • John Rogers Searle
    • Raymond M. Smullyan
    • A.M. Turing
    • Allen Wheelis
    • Arnold Zuboff
    196217 reads3.73
    The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
    The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
    • Iris Chang
    199771 reads4.26
    The long weekend life in the English country house, 1918-1939
    The long weekend life in the English country house, 1918-1939
    • Adrian Tinniswood
    20152 reads3
    Wealth, Poverty and Politics
    Wealth, Poverty and Politics
    • Thomas Sowell
    20151 read0
    Message Of The Genes
    Message Of The Genes
    • Chris Sullivan
    19670 reads0
    Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race
    Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race
    • Beverly Daniel Tatum
    19695 reads5
    Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
    Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
    • Sherry Turkle
    201113 reads3.33
    Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
    Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
    • Roger Moorhouse
    20190 reads0
    Starborn
    Starborn
    • Roberto Trotta
    20231 read4