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Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement
Richard Brookhiser
Basic Books, 2009
This will bring the Bush and Nixon Bashers out of the woodwork!
A brilliant book that captures not only the House that Buckley Built, but all the sights and sounds of the epoch that ushered in the Reagan years, and ushered them out.
It also touches on the abject moral bankruptcy of the left and its 80 marxist/relativism and ...
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The Associated Press Stylebook 2009 (Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law)
Basic Books, 2009
The style of the Associated Press is the gold standard of news writing. With The AP Stylebook in hand, you can learn to write with the clarity and professionalism for which the Associated Press is famous. Fully revised and updated, this new edition contains more than 3,000 A to Z entries?including more than 200 new ones?detailing the AP?s rules ...
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Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2007
Thomas Sowell does it again
This book is a must have. It puts in place the current econominc fallacies which are widely held as truisms.
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Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2007
Great book but......
I love this book but there is this nagging little thing... Mr Sowell is an economist and a supply sider, so he is working within a particular economic model. His observations are all correct and spot on but..... In light of the current recession/depression, it seems ...
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The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility
Angelo Codevilla
Basic Books, 2009
This book should be read by every American citizen.
Angelo Codevilla's The Character of Nations is at once a well-written, closely argued and thoroughly documented look at how today's United States of America has made almost a 180-degree turn from the USA of de Tocqueville's time. Codevilla is at his best when he shows ...
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard Wrangham
Basic Books, 2009
A brilliant and important hypothesis
Around 1.8 to 1.9 million years ago, Homo habilis (a chimpanzee-like primate, but with a bigger brain and tool-making skills) evolved into Homo erectus. The changes were spectacular: Homo erectus had a 40% larger brain than Homo habilis; looked much more like a modern ...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
Basic Books, 1999
Man's will to survive...
I have this strange attraction to books that revolve around survival in inclement weather conditions. Books like In Thin Air both fascinate and unnerve me, in that I can't figure out *why* someone would want to go through that potential experience. But all those ...
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Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fifth Edition
Irvin D. Yalom, Molyn Leszcz
Basic Books, 2005
Great book on group counseling
This book has great information and many excellent examples to make all the skills more clear. It is a must have!
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The Housing Boom and Bust
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2009
The Most Important Whodunnit You'll Ever Read!!
Thomas Sowell has built a good part of his career on explaining economics to non-economists (in addition to producing solid works of economic theory like Knowledge and Decisions). This is certainly one of his best - and most timely - books to date. In Housing Boom and ...
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The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
Andrew Wheatcroft
Basic Books, 2009
Why the Turks lost at Vienna
This was a very readable book, written like an adventure with excellent detail and analysis.
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"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of ...
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Basic Books, 2003
Great condition
This book appears to be brand new. It also arrived in less than a week from when I ordered it. Great business!
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Susan R. Barry
Basic Books, 2009
We depend so much on vision, yet even most doctors know little about it
I first heard about "Stereo Sue" from Dr. Sacks' article in the New Yorker and was intrigued. "Fixing My Gaze" expands the story and is a great read.
Reading Sue's story made me aware of optometric vision therapy (OVT), and I quickly found that it could help my ...
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The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2002
"Required Reading" that became a favorite
It's not often that a book you are required to read for a college course becomes a favorite, but this one did. In fact, today I did a Google search for "norman door." Sure enough, Google has it cataloged. I even found a discussion on the term on a blog site. Even when ...
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
Basic Books, 2005
Difficult to Imagine
This book is a "must read" for anyone conerned about personal freedoms and human rights. What the author has endured is unspeakable in any kind of civilized society. The detailed description of the concentration camp and it's workings will mesmerize the reader and then ...
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Basic Books, 2006
Superlative beyond all superlatives!
There's no point beating around the bush with this one: this is perhaps the best book I've ever read!
Haidt has effectively done what I could only dream of doing. Specifically, he has (a) thoroughly surveyed the literature of ancient and modern philosophy and ...
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