Books published by Basic Books

Based in a decade-long study of nearly five thousand workers, this pathbreaking book identifies a clear connection between work-related illness and workers' lack of control.

"Infinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm--brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Act"

With wit, humor, and decades of personal experiences from which to draw, Alan Dershowitz dispenses advice on career, law, and life in a book aimed at those just starting out in the legal profession.

A look at what Americans remember (and what they have forgotten) about one of the most traumatic domestic political event in the America's post-war history.

When The Sibling Bond was first published, the word sibling was almost synonymous with the word rivalry. But Stephen Bank and Michael Kahn changed all that with this pathbreaking book, which provides a rare glimpse into the inner lives of siblings and explores their unique and enduring relationships.

The world-famous Harvard psychologist challenges many of psychology's most deeply held assumptions about human development,arguing, for example, that early experience does not inexorably shape our lives and that the influence of the family is more subtle than has been supposed.

The best-selling author of Flow and an award-winning sociologist draw on a unique longitudinal study to reveal how adolescents develop attitudes, skills, and expectations about their adult careers.

"This important book, by the most distinguished Soviet psychologist of our time, is the product of almost forty years of extensive research aimed at understanding the cerebral basis of human psychologi"

Highly influential discoveries about the evolution of humans, and their subsequent colonization of the earth.

A research biologist tells the clear-eyed story of modern plant genetics, the human manipulation of biotechnology, and the reality of genetically engineered plants worldwide

A sweeping condemnation of the decline of American culture since the 1970s by one of America's leading conservative writers.