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By: Thomas Sowell

ISBN: 9780465081417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: Basic Books
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"I have found The Einstein Syndrome filled with insight, acute observations, and fertile ideas...This is an invaluable contribution to human knowledge by one of the great minds of our time."--Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works


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By: George A Bonanno

ISBN: 9781541674387
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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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 people really are


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By: Virginia Postrel

ISBN: 9781541617629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Street Journal)


(Hardback)

By: Matthew Sands

ISBN: 9780465023820
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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Eagerly awaited by scientists and academics worldwide, the complete series of Feynmans landmark Lectures on Physics


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By: Azra Raza

ISBN: 9781541699519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th December 2020
Publisher: Basic Books
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With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience of When Breath Becomes Air, a world-class oncologist examines the current state of cancer and its devastating impact on the individuals it affects -- including herself.


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By: Thomas Suddendorf

ISBN: 9780465030149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
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A leading psychologist argues that a capacity for fiction is what separates man from beast


(Hardback)

By: Eliot Cohen

ISBN: 9781541644861
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics


(Paperback)

By: Anne-Marie Slaughter

ISBN: 9780465078097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Basic Books
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A leading voice in global affairs calls us back to America's founding principles--and shows how they can guide us forward into the twenty-first century


(Hardback)

By: Adam Bulley

ISBN: 9781541675728
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future


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By: David N. Schwartz

ISBN: 9780465072927
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th December 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
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The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi


(Paperback)

By: Brian Fagan

ISBN: 9781541618596
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 12th December 2019
Publisher: Basic Books
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The groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed Europe and the world, from a renowned archaeologist -- updated with a new preface on the latest climate research


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By: Robert Whitaker

ISBN: 9780465057948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Basic Books
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"As enthralling as any epic novel. Full of mystery and danger, bravery and tragedy, with a rapturous love story at its core that transcends both time and continents. A marvellous read."-Dennis Lehane


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By: Scott E. Page

ISBN: 9781541675711
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Basic Books
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Want to be a data ninja A top expert reveals the most powerful statistical and mental tools available.


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By: Robert Lifton

ISBN: 9780465093397
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
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"This is not only one of the most important works on medical ethics yet written. It also breaks through the frontiers of historiography to provide a convincing psychological interpretation of the Third Reich and the crimes of National Socialism."-New York Review of Books


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By: Cathy N. Davidson

ISBN: 9780465079728
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
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A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past--and shows how we can revolutionize it to prepare students for our age of constant change


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By: Hernando De Soto

ISBN: 9780465016105
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: Basic Books
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A classic work on the economic answer to terrorism, by an acclaimed economist who has put his ideas into practice. "Brilliant. Original. A masterfully conceived book." --Hugh Thomas


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By: Freeman Dyson

ISBN: 9780465023950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2005
Publisher: Basic Books
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, including interviews, speeches, lectures, and articles.


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By: Iris Chang

ISBN: 9780465068364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
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The 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.


(Paperback)

By: Victor D Hanson

ISBN: 9781541674103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Basic Books
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A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian


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By: Dawn Dais

ISBN: 9781541620353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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An updated edition of the laugh-out-loud guide to the first year of motherhood, filled with helpful advice and wisdom from real moms and dads who aren't at all afraid to tell it like it is


(Hardback)

By: Jonathan Gottschall

ISBN: 9781541645967
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it


(Paperback)

By: Peniel Joseph

ISBN: 9781541619616
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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This "landmark" (Ibram X. Kendi) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders.


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By: David Weinberger

ISBN: 9780465085965
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
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"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger.... Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion that is just underway."-Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes


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By: Thomas M. Shapiro

ISBN: 9780465046935
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
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From a leading authority on race and public policy, a deeply researched account of how families rise and fall today

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