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The Theoretical Minimum
Basic Books 2013; US$ 26.99A world-class physicist and a citizen scientist combine forces to teach Physics 101?the DIY way The Theoretical Minimum is a book for anyone who has ever regretted not taking physics in college?or who simply wants to know how to think like a physicist. In this unconventional introduction, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George... more...
Europe
Basic Books 2013; US$ 35.00If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe can control the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to seize... more...
Racial Paranoia
Basic Books 2010; US$ 15.95A provocative new paradigm of race relations in the twenty-first century, in which the overt racism of the past has been replaced by subconscious suspicions and whispered conspiracy theories more...
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Basic Books 2009; US$ 12.95In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin... more...
Life Everywhere
Basic Books 2007; US$ 15.00A lucid and surprisingly accurate introduction to the field of astrobiology and a thoughtful response to the Rare Earth hypothesis."--James R. Kasting, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center more...
On Becoming a Leader
Basic Books 2009; US$ 18.99Deemed ?the dean of leadership gurus? by Forbes magazine, Warren Bennis has for years persuasively argued that leaders are not born?they are made. Delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to achieve it, his classic work On Becoming a Leader has served as a source of... more...
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
Basic Books 2011; US$ 16.99Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime?s worth of school reforms and reveals the simple?yet difficult?truth about how we can create actual change in public schools more...
Spymaster
Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.95Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the intelligence agency?s shadowy methods. Revised and updated in the light of the KGB?s enduring presence in Russian... more...









