Basic Books

Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York City, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history.

Books from Basic Books

• The Echoing Universe: How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos by Chapman Ph.D., Dr. Emma
• Untitled on Stendhal by Zaretsky, Robert
• The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Morton, Nicholas
• The Invention of Design A Twentieth-Century History by Maggie Gram
• Destroyer of Worlds The Deep History of the Nuclear Age by Frank Close
• 1923 The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup by Mark Jones
• The Last Tsar The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
• The Age of Revolutions And the Generations who Made it by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
• How to be a Citizen Learning to be Civil Without the State by C. L. Skach
• Hungry Beautiful Animals The Joyful Case for Going Vegan by Matthew C. Halteman
• Escape from Shadow Physics The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory by Adam Forrest Kay
• The Mongol Storm Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
• The Right The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism by Matthew Continetti
• Truth and Repair How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Herman
• Justinian Emperor, Soldier, Saint by Peter Sarris
• Bismarck's War The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil
• America's Black Capital How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
• Thinking with Your Hands The Surprising Science Behind how Gestures Shape Our Thoughts by Susan Goldin-Meadow
• Where We Meet the World The Story of the Senses by Ashley Ward
• For Profit A History of Corporations by William Magnuson
• Partisans The Conservative Revolutionaries who Remade American Politics in the 1990s by Nicole Hemmer
• Another America, Otra América Con Traducción Español Por Rebeca Cartes by Barbara Kingsolver
• Rule of the Robots How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything by Martin Ford
• Life Is Simple How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Unlocked the Universe by Johnjoe McFadden
• The Tyranny of Experts Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly
• How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World by Dambisa Moyo
• The Gilded Page The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley
• Insane America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth
• Bound by War How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century by Christopher Capozzola
• Average is the New Awesome A Manifesto for the Rest of Us by Samantha Matt
• The Kindness of Strangers How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code by Michael E. McCullough
• A Traitor to His Species Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg
• They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties by Lisa Levenstein
• Island Stories An Unconventional History of Britain by David Reynolds
• Children of Ash and Elm A History of the Vikings by Neil S. Price
• Vanguard How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
• Sperm Wars Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles by Robin Baker
• Heirs of an Honored Name The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America by Douglas R Egerton
• The Cold War A World History by Odd Arne Westad
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Books The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price