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Alone Together : Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Turkle, SherryBasic Books 2011Consider Facebook—it’s human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life l...
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The Wise King : A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
Doubleday, Simon R.Basic Books 2015 1. painosAn illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization "If I had been present...
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Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls : A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
Baker, JesBasic Books 2015Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for women of all sizes and ages. With smart and spirited eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be...
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The End of Power : From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
Naim, MoisesBasic Books 2014The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century — in government, business, and beyond. br> Power is shifting — from large, stable armies to l...
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The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Chang, IrisBasic Books 2014The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal—and forgotten—massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II, "p...
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Neanderthal Man : In Search of Lost Genomes
Pääbo, SvanteBasic Books 2014 1. painosA preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question of them all: how did our ancestors b...
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The Gap : The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Suddendorf, ThomasBasic Books 2013 1. painosThere exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Eart...
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Breathless : An American Girl in Paris
Miller, Nancy K.Basic Books 2013In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all. Breathless...
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July 1914 : Countdown to War
McMeekin, SeanBasic Books 2013When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand’s own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent a...
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Bloodlands : Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Snyder, TimothyBasic Books 2012From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center...
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Too Big to Know
Weinberger, DavidBasic Books 2012We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We’d nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. There’s mor...
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There Is No Alternative : Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
Berlinski, ClaireBasic Books 2011Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline — ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the ric...
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Studies on Hysteria
Breuer, Joseph; Freud, Sigmund,Basic Books 2009The cornerstone of psychoanalysis—and legacy of the landmark Freud/Breuer collaboration—featuring the classic case of Anna O. and the evolution of the cathartic method, in the defi...
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Hate Crimes Revisited : America's War On Those Who Are Different
Levin, Jack; Mcdevitt, JackBasic Books 2009Hate crimes-violence aimed at individuals because they are members of a particular group-were once considered the rare illegal actions of a small but vocal assortment of extremists...
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The Future of Nostalgia
Boym, SvetlanaBasic Books 2008Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic...
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Stasi : The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police
Koehler, John O.Basic Books 2008In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or "Stasi." The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of Eas...
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The Complete Art of War : Sun Tzu/sun Pin
Sun, Tzu; Sun, PinBasic Books 2007Sun Tzu's Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written. The profound insights of this book have endured for over two thousand years,...
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The Happiness Hypothesis : Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Haidt, JonathanBasic Books 2006"The most brilliant and lucid analysis of virtue and well-being in the entire literature of positive psychology. For the reader who seeks to understand happiness, my advice is: Beg...
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The Anarchist in the Library : How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
Vaidhyanathan, SivaBasic Books 2005From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debate over information technology in our lives has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want cybersp...