Böcker utgivna av Basic Books

A renowned historian of Christianity reveals that the "Lost Gospels" were never lost, and have shaped creeds across the world from antiquity to the present

This comprehensive guide to the future of therapy in collabourative practice combines a broad perspective with consideration of the detail.

An essential guide to the best and most practical survival information available from the American Armed Forces, edited for civilian use by the same packager who brought us The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Manual that sold over 600,000 copies in the 1980s.

"In this groundbreaking book, Dorothy Becvar shows how a spiritual orientation can be used to facilitate healing at the deepest level. By incorporating a "soul healing" perspective into their practices"

A book based on eyewitness accounts of the American Civil War by 120 children between the ages of four and 16. Their diaries, letters and reminiscences are a testimony to their resilience in the face of great adversity and their capacity to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.

A travel classic, revised after twenty years: a journalist's lyrical account of life in Castro's Cuba.

From the man who helped ignite the modern conservative movement, a delightful collection of eloquent and witty speeches.

A selection of author's letters to readers that were published in the columns of "National Review". It includes exchanges with such luminaries as Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Auberon Waugh, John Kenneth Galbraith and many others.

Part of a growing trend toward bridging the gap between rival schools of therapy, this book goes beyond other works to envision a mental health professional who, like a family doctor, can serve as a resource for an entire family either individually or together throughout their lives.

For the first time in paperback, the only annotated edition of Edwin Abbott's classic mind-bending tale of an alternate, two-dimensional universe presented side-by-side with mathematician Ian Stewart's revealing commentary and analysis.

A leading anthropologist studies the science behind "feeling at home" to show us how home made us human

Celebrates the leadership of Dr. King and challenges America to renew its commitment to his vision

A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce.

An intimate portrait of Ronald Reagan from his political mentor, ally, and friend, William F. Buckley Jr.

James Hutton proved that the earth was likely millions of years old, rather than the six thousand calculated by the bible, and that it was continuously shaped and re-shaped by myriad everyday forces rather than any single cataclysmic event. This book tells the remarkable story of this Scottish gentleman farmer.

An edgy and revealing examination of the lives, dreams, and goals of teenage boys today

The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham tells the forgotten story of New York's British prison camps--and the nearly 20,000 patriots who lost their lives there.

Best-selling author Rick Shenkman takes aim at our great national piety: the wisdom of the American people

A novel of lost love set in Paris in the 1960s by one of France's most famous novelists; richly translated and with an afterword by Douglas Hofstadter

"One of Africa's greatest writers" (San Francisco Chronicle) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language--and African culture itself

Cornelius Vanderbilt made his initial fortune building ferry cargo routes for sailing vessels. Then he moved into steamboats and railroads. With the New York Central, Vanderbilt established the nation's first major integrated rail system, linking New York with Boston, Montreal, Chicago and St Louis. This biography narrates the life of Vanderbilt.

From a distinguished conservative scholar, a call to reverse a century of wrong-headed foreign policy.

Challenges the conventional wisdom that media creates a toxic environment for America's youth, diverting us from the real origins of problems affecting children today

Presents an account of how the War on Cancer campaign has been distorted by economic interests. This book tells that even before its official launch, the War on Cancer was fighting many of the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons and the wrong leaders.

Why the theory of "predictable irrationality" in humans is wrong-a leading psychologist and a business school professor show that underneath all our biases and misjudgements lies a deeply rational ancestral system of decision-making

Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes readers from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her involvement in radical women's groups and the New York Gay Liberation Front.

Bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson collects his previously unpublished intellectual encounters-cordial and combative-with some of today's most influential thinkers and politicians

A leading Renaissance scholar examines what brought one of history's most fascinating eras to its end and how it gave rise to the modern era

This brilliantly argued, beautifully written book-now with a new introduction by the author-uses theories of feminist psychotherapy to present a new model of clinical psychotherapy.