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"Dr. Leonard Sax's The Collapse of Parenting should be required reading for all parents."―Dr. Nancy Kehoe, author of Wrestling with Our Inner Angels In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally...

An authoritative and fast-moving account of the events that led up to the Wall's demise. --Financial Times On November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement...

What if a doctor could stop cancer by targeting a single malignant cell before it multiplied? Imagine a paper-thin "power suit" that could keep you warm on a winter day? What about a computer that...

Sometimes our understanding of our universe is given a huge boost by one insightful thinker. Such a boost came in the first half of the twentieth century, when an obscure Belgian priest put his mind...

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious?even...

In The Design of Future Things, best-selling author Donald A. Norman presents a revealing examination of smart technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Exploring the...

An unflinching collection of essays that takes on the subjects of Biggie Smalls, Three 6 Mafia, The King Family, and what it takes to be black at the turn of the twenty-first century.Author: William...

What caused the Black Death? What really happened to the Russian Royal Family? Did Anastasia survive the Russian revolution? Could the unnamed victims of the Titanic be returned to their families? In...

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer?and has helped them to apply...

A New York Times bestseller, "The Dying Citizen is essential reading for any American who cares about the fate of our nation" (Mark R. Levin) Human history is full of the stories of peasants,...

A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible...

With "groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience" (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient...

In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the ?Golden Apple,? as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding...

If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss...

The Fabric Of Civilization: How Textiles Made The WorldAuthor: Virginia PostrelPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Dec 07, 2021Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

InThe Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the...

In this "compelling scientific detective story," a leading neuroscientist looks for the nature of human kindness in the brains of heroes and psychopaths (Wall Street Journal). At fourteen, Amber...

Author: Azra RazaPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Dec 01, 2020Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1541699513ISBN-13: 9781541699519

The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The UniverseAuthor: Steven WeinbergPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Aug 18, 1993Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most...

Hurricane Katrina, the internet stock bubble, disease outbreaks -- are these predictable, preventable events, or are we merely the playthings of chaos? A compelling, irreverent, elegantly written...

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over...

An acclaimed natural history writer follows the trail of the remarkable hummingbird all over the world. Hummingbirds are a glittering, sparkling collective of over three hundred wildly variable...

One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half century shows how physics and math were combined to give us the theory of gravity and the dizzying array of ideas and insights that has come from...

A "monumental, sweeping" (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and...

A feat of both scholarship and storytelling (Wall Street Journal)--the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic...

The bestselling author of The Righteous Mind draws on philosophical wisdom and scientific research to show how the meaningful life is closer than you think The Happiness Hypothesis is a book about...

Author: Arthur KleinmanPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Oct 13, 2020Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1541647122ISBN-13: 9781541647121

A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024 A Financial Times Best Book of 2024 A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 A Daily Telegraph Best Book of 2024 A "beautifully composed and...

The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive TextAuthor: Sigmund FreudPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: February 23, 2010Number of Pages: 688 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...