Basic Books

Since its founding in 1950, Basic Books has shaped public debate by publishing award-winning books in history, science, sociology, psychology, politics, and current affairs. Basic’s list of influential authors includes Stephon Alexander, Isaac Asimov, Edward Baptist, H.W. Brands, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Iris Chang, George Church, Niall Ferguson, Richard Feynman, Richard Florida, Martin Ford, Howard Gardner, Victor Davis Hanson, Jonathan Haidt, Judith Herman, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Hofstadter, Leszek Kolakowski, Kevin Kruse, Lawrence Lessig, Claude Levi-Strauss, Alice Miller, Robert Nozick, Steven Pinker, Samantha Power, Diane Ravitch, Eugene Rogan, Thomas Sowell, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Eric Topol, Sherry Turkle, Timothy Snyder, Nicholas Stargardt, Michael Walzer, George Weigel, Bee Wilson, James Q. Wilson, Richard Wrangham, Irvin Yalom, and Shing-Tung Yau. Basic Books is an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

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Six easy pieces - essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant tea

The six easiest chapters from Feynman's landmark work, "Lectures on Physics"-- specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader.

€10.40 excl tax

Around the World in Eighty Games

€15.20 excl tax

False Alarm

€17.30 excl tax

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

€11.70 excl tax

The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840

€24.20 excl tax

Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell

€17.30 excl tax

The Rise of the Creative Class

€13.10 excl tax

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

€13.10 excl tax

Deep Medicine

€19.30 excl tax

Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

An award-winning psychologist draws on years of research to unveil “a simple but persuasive hypothesis for a new way to think about evil” (New York Times).

€9.10 excl tax

House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

“A joy to read…one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years” (Dan Jones, Sunday Times), this is the definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealthiest and most powerful in medieval Europe and forged France as we know it today

€17.70 excl tax