books by Basic Books     books:     Basic Books      The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law Norm Goldstein Basic Books, 2007 AP Stylebook Review The 2008 AP Stylebook is a useful guide to any potential journalist. It is necessary to know the ins and outs of writing and nothing articulates it better than this book.             Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces Frank Wilczek Basic Books, 2008 Mass and QCD explained This book continues the themes of "Fantastic Realities" (which was more a collection of articles than a real book), but it is much more intelligible. The title corresponds to the fact that a human being is 95% pure energy. The reason: proton's and neutron's masses are ...             The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children ... Tony Wagner Basic Books, 2008 Beyond "test-prep" and towards "life-prep" This is a scholarly and accessible book that addresses the need to rethink the education system. It recommends that schools should focus on teaching mental processes through teaching content rather than making content the end goal. The need to facilitate the ...             Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2007 difficult, yet worthwhile read Sowell systematically lays out the basis for free market economics. I must admit, I was exceedingly ignorant of economics as a whole prior to reading this and "Classic Economics", also by Sowell. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.             Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror Judith Herman Basic Books, 1997 A study of trauma and a process for healing Traumatic experiences can permanently scar or change you. In this groundbreaking work, Judith Herman meticulously explores the impact of trauma on the human psyche, whether the trauma originates from a natural disaster, political terror, captivity or combat. Writing ...             Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives John Palfrey, Urs Gasser Basic Books, 2008 Excellent. There is nothing more important than the safety of our children. There is also nothing more important than the education, creativity and innovation that has been, and can still further be, unleashed and harnessed with suitably crafted policies, and incentives, focused ...             Economic Facts and Fallacies Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2007 Required Reading for candidates My fantasy of having great wealth is to start a foundation that would give a book a week to every member of Congress, every state legislator, every government policymaker, every opinion columnist and every candidate. This would be the second book we'd give out. First ...             Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books, 1999 Computer Science Godel, Escher and Bach, written by Douglas Hofstadter, while the title would suggest it is discussion of a mathematician, an artist, and a composer, is a complex examination of how human beings develop perception and meaning. More specifically, the book explores, ...             The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman Basic Books, 2002 A Must Read for every Designer As a human being we think we know other people and how they see and use products. This book tells many amusing anecdotes about products that were not successful because the designer made the things is a way he would have liked and not in the way real users use it. The ...             America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft, ... Basic Books, 2008 ENLIGHTENING! If you had suppositions about how you thought the world was, this book brings to light that we are in an emerging age of the politicization of the world. The ushering out of the old Cold War mentality is now being replaced by a new awareness of self beyond borders and ...             The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Jonathan Haidt Basic Books, 2006 Outstanding field of psychology This book provides a great overvieuw of the latest developments in positive psychology. This is the first really new thing I learned in the field of psychology since i obtained my master (2004) It is written very well and is a must for every person who seeks to ...             The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin & Reward Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson Basic Books, 2006 Outstanding explanation of math and markets To begin, I am not a mathematician or investor, however, this book opened the world of those topics to me in an understandable way. The author is an out-of-thebox thinker who clearly explained the topic well, causing me to investigate the ideas more.             Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing Basic Books, 1999 Just Incredible Account ,Absolutely Incredible This account of Shackelton's expedition to Antarctic is a read like no other. I could not put this book down,nor could I believe the constitution each person on the crew had to continue forth under such insurmountable odds. The author, Lansing has provided a compelling ...             The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 Philipp Blom Basic Books, 2008 Europe, 1900?1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and the rivalry of superpowers. The twentieth century was not born in the trenches of the Somme or Passchendaele?but rather in the fifteen vertiginous ...             Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men Leonard Sax Basic Books, 2007 Best Teen Boy Book Ever Written!!!!!!!! This is the best, most sensible book ever written about underachieving teenage boys. It is well written, easy to read, and easy to understand. All the indicators have been right under our noses for years but to see them summed up in print by authority on the subject is ...          products you might be interested in search for books achievement, conversations, misbehavior, underachieving, understanding, unification      geepe.com    web randomly chosen DVD: The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition)