Books published by Basic Books

The author of The Troubled Crusade and other important books and writings on education brings her own blend of sanity, common sense, and commitment to excellence to the problems of the nation's schools.

It would be hard to imagine a better, or more readable, analysis of United States policy over the last fifty years than Clyde Prestowitz's Rogue Nation. -Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books

The love affair that psychoanalysis has had with its own founder has obscured just how different the field is today from what it was a century ago, when Freud was writing. Now Stephen A. Mitchell, a central figure in the modernization of psychoanlalysis, shows how the field is moving beyond the confines of Freudian drive theory to encompass the concerns of contemporary life.

A brilliant state-of-the-art report on how the landmark theory of multiple intelligences is radically changing our understanding of education and human development.

Drawing on The New Republic's searing reportage, this timely guide fills the need for basic information about the war in Bosnia: its origins, its horrors, and its moral challenge to America.

In this unique attempt to address the dilemma in contemporary education, the noted cognitive scientist weaves the lessons garnered from three vantage points: his own traditional education as an American child, his years of research on creativity at Harvard, and what he saw in modern Chinese classrooms,into a program that draws on the best of both modes, traditional and progressive.

Seven leading political philosophers grapple with the key question of contemporary political philosophy: articulating universal human rights that always apply in all cultures.

Based partly on his experiences as a therapist, but more importantly on his insight, Dr. Farber's observations provide us with a glimpse into ourselves that is frequently startling, but in the end always consoling.

Written over 2000 years ago, Sun-tzu's "Art of War" embodies the Eastern tradition of strategy. This translation, written in simple language, is intended to be of equal value to both military historians and students of business strategy.

The dramatic unfolding of how, against seemingly hopeless odds at the end of World War II, the most important international organization in the world, the United Nations, came to be

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Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachment to standardized mass production for a system of flexible specialization.

The co-discoverer of the split brain" theory tells how science is recasting the age-old question of nature versus nurture to create a startling new view of human behaviour. Recent discoveries suggest that natural selection affects not only physical characteristics but also mental processes, from learning to substance abuse.

A provocative, compelling, and entertaining look at how the power of images dominates every aspect of our lives.

"This is the first-ever application to group therapy of the popular, replicable, time-limited, evidence-based approach initially developed to treat individual depression. Denise Wilfley adapted it in t"

A multifaceted exploration of the dynamics of posttraumatic body symptoms and a clinically sophisticated presentation of new therapy techniques by an internationally acclaimed roster of trauma experts.

Late-life depression can be addressed. This practice-oriented, research-based casebook draws on the authors' extensive clinical and academic experience to provide an essential resource for practitioners and researchers.

A noted political philosopher offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of the biblical story of Exodus - from oppression to deliverance and the promised land.

"In his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term "underclass" to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of pe"

In the first book to argue that neurotic, psychotic, and borderline personality disorders can be identified, diagnosed, and treated even in the young, a renowned child psychiatrist marshalls her developmental perspective and adduces clinical evidence to support it. Kernberg and her colleagues elucidate assessment criteria and advance therapeutic approaches for each disorder.

"In The Tao of Spycraft, for the first time anywhere Ralph Sawyer unfolds the long and venerable tradition of spycraft and intelligence work in traditional China, revealing a vast array of theoretical"

A strongly-argued critique of environmentalism from the right - the conservative's answer to Al Gore's Earth in the Balance.

The personal history of a pioneer woman oceanographer and her role in the development of science during the Cold War

A gripping eyewitness account of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution as told by the only American present throughout the turmoil

A reissue of this best-selling, soldier's-eye view of the 45th Infantry Division and its heroic efforts during World War II, from the beaches of Italy to the liberation of Dachau.

"Between 1841 and 1865, some forty thousand children participated in the great overland journeys from the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In this engaging book, Emmy Wer"

Offers a controversial argument that the main currents of political Islam, despite recent world events, are rejecting militancy for the sake of democratic politics -- a shift of historical importance

The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?