Basic Books: 1466 books
Winner Take All
China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance-their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life-few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper headlines and...
The Misbehavior of Markets
A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Mathematical superstar and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has spent the past forty years studying the underlying mathematics of space and natural patterns. What many of his followers don't realize is that he has also been watching patterns of market change. In The (Mis)Behavior of...
A Crude Look at the Whole
The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challenges
Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A revised and enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's essential examination of differences of wealth and income between nations and within nations
Wealth, Poverty and Politics challenges the assumptions, the definitions, the evidence and the reasoning of most of what is said about differences of...
The Model Thinker
What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
How anyone can become a data ninja
From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Thomas Sowell's classic book on the influence of modern intellectuals
The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has...
A Conflict of Visions
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Thomas Sowell's classic analysis of the opposing visions behind today's ethical and ideological disputes
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. This revised edition of a classic analyzes...
Lifecycle Investing
A New, Safe, and Audacious Way to Improve the Performance of Your Retirement Portfolio
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Diversification provides a well-known way of getting something close to a free lunch: by spreading money across different kinds of investments, investors can earn the same return with lower risk (or a much higher return for the same amount of risk). This strategy, introduced nearly fifty years ago,...
Chernobyl
The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of...
Unsavory Truth
How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
America's leading nutritionist exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit
Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help cheat death? News accounts bombard us with such amazing claims, report them as science, and influence what...
In Defense of Troublemakers
The Power of Dissent in Life and Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
An eminent psychologist explains why dissent should be cherished, not feared
We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased,...
Code
And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control. Code, first published in 2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no nature.”...
The Way We Eat Now
How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
An award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats--and shows us how we can change it for the better
Food is one of life's great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion?
Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone...
The Discipline of Market Leaders
Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
The classic bestseller outlining tactics for any business striving to achieve market dominance
What does your company do better than anyone else? What unique value do you provide to your customers? How will you increase that value next year? Drawing on in-depth studies and interviews with the...