Basic Books Summaries and Reviews
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100 Plus
How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Careers, Relationships, Family, and Faith
Basic Books, 2011
A Crude Look at the Whole
The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
Basic Books, 2016
Captains of Consciousness
Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
Basic Books, 2001
Confronting Iran
The Failure Of American Foreign Policy And The Next Great Conflict In The Middle East
Basic Books, 2006
Empire
The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Basic Books, 2003
False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Basic Books, 2021
Getting (More of) What You Want
How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything in Business and in Life
Basic Books, 2015
The Battle
How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
Basic Books, 2010
The Big Ratchet
How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis: A Biography of an Ingenious Species
Basic Books, 2014
The Biological Mind
How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
Basic Books, 2018
The Bottomless Well
The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
Basic Books, 2005
The Cigarette Century
The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
Basic Books, 2007
The Climate Fix
What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming
Basic Books, 2010
The Dark Genius of Wall Street
The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
Basic Books, 2005
The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
Basic Books, 2014
The Gridlock Economy
How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
Basic Books, 2008
The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, Be a Good Blamer, and Throttle Your Inner Child
Basic Books, 2005
The Laws of Disruption
Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age
Basic Books, 2009
The Master Algorithm
How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Basic Books, 2015
The Mystery of Capital
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Basic Books, 2000
The New Education
How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
Basic Books, 2017
The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets
Basic Books, 2009
The Partnership Charter
How to Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (Or Fix the One You're in)
Basic Books, 2004
The Rise of the Creative Class
And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
Basic Books, 2002
The Story Factor
Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling
Basic Books, 2006
The Sword and the Shield
The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Basic Books, 2020
The U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Survival Manual
Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself and Your Family from the Growing Terrorist Threat
Basic Books, 2003
Too Big to Know
Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
Basic Books, 2012
Trauma and Recovery
The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Basic Books, 1997
Vanguard
How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Basic Books, 2020
What Matters Most
How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening
Basic Books, 2003
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
And Other Conversations About Race
Basic Books, 2017