Books published by Basic Books

Looks at the development of Social Pyschology through the personal histories of its most prominent living scholars.

"In Getting Beyond Race, Richard Payne takes the practical approach that race relations are ultimately about ordinary people interacting with each other. Payne argues that confrontation, blaming, and d"

Seeks to explain the minds and morality of all those who espouse rebellion, from political activists to terrorists, and works to define what types of rebellion are just.

Arising from a two-year project by the Council on Foreign Relations to articulate a next generation approach to American foreign policy, this study concludes that any conception of American security must change to address financial and technological opportunities, as well as emerging threats.

Argues that judges, lawyers, and law schools should emphasize experience and character over reason or arcane learning, to create a more democratic legal profession in tune with the public interest.

This is an explanation of how thieves exploit the U.S. health system and steal more than $100 billion each year. The author examines the effects of managed care on the problem, the government's attempts to grapple with fraud, and the campaign by provider associations to undermine those efforts.

A veteran White House reporter asks, Can a president's private life be separated from his performance in office?

Explores hypothetical situations in the realm of international security and predicts the probable U.S. response to them based on current politics and social norms.

Prostate cancer survivors discuss their experiences with the disease--from diagnosis, through treatment, to becoming informed patients working with their healthcare teams to ensure the best care. An essential and invaluable resource for all those affected by the disease, whether as patients, family members, friends, or healthcare providers.

Explores the historical link between mind-altering substances and religious experience in the United States.

A collection of over fifty articles originally published in Freedomways, one of the premier African American intellectual periodicals during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

"For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things a"

Illuminates the path down which our politics is headed in Clinton's second term and beyond.

Inspirational stories of eleven low-income women who are moving their families out of poverty by starting their own businesses

First published in 1949 and now brought up-to-date, We Survived offers a dramatic and historical documentation of personal survival under the terror and persecution of the Third Reich

A leading economic journalist explains why Washington's responses to globalization have created a global worker surplus that undermines both American workers and those in developing nations

A prize-winning investigative journalist illuminates the often problematic relationship between the child's best interest and the best intentions of child welfare agencies, policymakers, and the courts

Focuses on little-known moments in history when two cultures--previously unknown or little known to each other--met, and altered the course of history.

Most Turks and Turkish observers ignored signs of an Islamic revival and were stunned by the victory at the polls of the pro-Islamic party in 1994 and 1995. Marvine Howe, Ankara bureau chief for "The New York Times" before and after the 1980 military coup, examines the rise of the Islamic movement.

The only authorized, insider book on the history of broadcasting, by Richard Salant, former head of CBS News and the "patron saint" of broadcast journalism.

An account of Franklin Roosevelt's secret deal with Winston Churchill to provide England with American ships before America's entrance into World War II.

A work which sets out to show how future cities could provide the springboard for restoring humanity's harmony with its environment, describing how cities should be created for a planet that is growing smaller and smaller.

This examination of the impact of globalization on the American economy looks at controversies such as the perceived lowering of environmental and labour welfare standards to combat the loss of industry to low-wage countries. The conclusion is that the impact is less damaging than thought.

A fascinating comparative study of two myths that have shaped American culture not only at Thanksgiving and in the recent Disney film, Pocahontas, but also in the division between North and South in the Civil War and the way in which we have come to define our nation.

Anxiety Disorders: Psychological Approaches to Their Theory and Treatment is a distinctive textbook combining theoretical research developments with a discussion of the nature and treatment of anxiet

A revealing inquiry into the Islamic fundamentalist phenomenon, based on firsthand accounts of the movement and candid discussion with its key players.

A leading computer scientist shows why understanding computation is the key to understanding life

Options have been traded for hundreds of years - at least since the sixteenth century when they were used to buy and sell commodities in Antwerp and Amsterdam - but for centuries nobody knew what their true value really was. This title retraces the historical developments that ultimately led to the breakthrough of an options pricing formula.

The next step in organizational development, showing companies how to integrate all areas of human resource practice to drive continuous learning

As a fundamental aspect of our knowledge of the physical world, quantum mechanics remains a vital subject in physics. This is a collection of the late Richard P Feynman's lectures. It is suitable for students of physics and those seeking an introduction to the field from the inimitable Richard Feynman.