Author: Betty Boyd Caroli
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: women, roosevelt
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0465071341
ISBN-13: 9780465071340

From the bestselling author of First Ladies, Inside the White House, and America’s First Ladies comes the first look at the women of one of the most influential families in American history: The Roosevelts. The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful presidents and dashing men of high society. In The Roosevelt Women, Betty Boyd Caroli finally gives the women of the remarkable Roosevelt clan their due. An exceptionally gifted historian, Caroli weaves together stories culled from a rich store of letters, memoirs, and interviews to chronicle nine extraordinary Roosevelt wom

Author: Paul Starr
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: liberalism, force, true, power, freedom
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-04-03
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 046508186X
ISBN-13: 9780465081868

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, and intellectual argues for liberalism as the only viable response to the political and economic challenges of the modern world. Liberalism in America is in greater peril than at any other time in recent history. Conservatives treat it as an epithet, and even some liberals have confused it with sentimentality and socialism. But Paul Starr, one of America’s leading intellectuals, claims that, properly understood, liberalism is a sturdy public philosophy, deeply rooted in our traditions, capable of making America a freer and more

Author: Omar Nasiri
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: qaeda, life, jihad, inside
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0465023894
ISBN-13: 9780465023899

Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe’s top foreign intelligence services--including France’s DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), and Britain’s MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in Belgium, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, he risked his life to defeat the emerging global network that the West would come to know as Al Qaeda. Now, for the first time, Nasiri shares the story of his life--a life balanced precariously between the world of Islamic jihadists and the spie

Authors:George Lakoff, Mark Johnson,
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: western, thought, challenge, mind, flesh, embodied, philosophy
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0465056741
ISBN-13: 9780465056743

Two leading thinkers offer a blueprint for a new philosophy. "Their ambition is massive, their argument important.…The authors engage in a sort of metaphorical genome project, attempting to delineate the genetic code of human thought." -The New York Times Book Review "This book will be an instant academic best-seller." -Mark Turner, University of Maryland This is philosophy as it has never been seen before. Lakoff and Johnson show that a philosophy responsible to the science of the mind offers a radically new and detailed understandings of what a person is. After first des

Author: Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: lawyer, letters
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2001-10
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0465016316
ISBN-13: 9780465016310

As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful and profound sense of justice. In this meditation on his profession, Dershowitz writes about life, law, and the opportunities that young lawyers have to do good and do well at the same time.We live in an age of growing dissatisfaction with law as a career, which ironically comes at a time of unprecedented wealth for many lawyers. Dershowitz addresses t

Author: Tony Wagner
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: survival, skills, children, need, new, teach, achievement, gap, schools, don, global
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2010-04-06
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0465002307
ISBN-13: 9780465002306

In The Global Achievement Gap, education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the larger context of the demands of the global knowledge economy. With insights gained from visits to classrooms in leading suburban schools, he analyzes performance by considering the skills needed to get a good job and become a productive citizen. Highlighting discussions with young people and the adults who work with them, Wagner also explains the ways in which today’s generation is differently motivated to excel.A manifesto for the twenty-first century, The Global Achievement Gap is a must-read f

Authors:C. Gordon Bell, John E. Mcnamara,
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: success, entrepreneurial, guide, ventures, tech
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1991-07-22
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0201563215
ISBN-13: 9780201563214

This book is written primarily for people who are creating the future high-tech world by designing, building, and marketing innovative products. More specifically, it is for all engineers, engineering managers, entrepreneurs and intapreneurs. The book provides insight into the problems entrepreneurs face and gives a model for successful startup companies in a formal checklist.