This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in
A biopsychologist explores the origins of human feelings, showing how they have been shaped by millions of years of evolution, and how they function as the basis of learning and reasoning. Reprint.
It provides a transition from elementary calculus to advanced courses in real and complex function theory and introduces the reader to some of the abstract thinking that pervades modern analysis.
From the National Legal Director of the ACLU, an essential guidebook for anyone seeking to stand up for fundamental civil liberties and rightsOne of Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2016I
Algorithms increasingly run our lives. They find books, movies, jobs, and dates for us, manage our investments, and discover new drugs. More and more, these algorithms work by learning from the trails
"Our fascination with numbers begins when we are children, and continues, for most of us, throughout our lives. We start counting our fingers and toes, and end up balancing check books and calculating
"Our fascination with numbers begins when we are children, and continues, for most of us, throughout our lives. We start counting our fingers and toes, and end up balancing check books and calculating
The proactive CBT approach to controlling the self-destructive behaviors of bulimia nervosa and binge-eating.The accessible and straightforward books in the Overcoming Series treat disorders by chang
The classic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy guide to managing anxiety.The accessible and straightforward books in the Overcoming Series treat disorders by changing unhelpful patterns of behavior and tho
Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness
The classic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy guide to managing low self-esteem.The accessible, straightforward, and practical books in the Overcoming series outline affordable and easy-to-follow treatmen
A helpful and balanced approach using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to manage the symptoms associated with body image problems.The accessible, straightforward, and practical books in the Overcoming se
Although the tenets of self-help have been attacked before, Pearsall is the first psychologist to expose these deeply entrenched ideas to scientific scrutiny. And unlike other debunking books, The Las
Basic Books is proud to announce the next two volumes of the complete audio CD collection of the recorded lectures delivered by the late Richard P. Feynman, lectures originally delivered to his physic
Everyone knows what organized crime is. Each year dozens of feature films, hundreds of books, and thousands of news stories explain to an eager public that organized crime is what gangsters do. Closel
Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey, a remarkable husband-and-wife team, challenge bestselling books that say men and women must resign themselves to inherent differences between them. Drawing on their exte
Psychologist Howard Gardner, creator of the multiple intelligences framework and author of many books on the mind, explores the major facets of leadership from the perspective of psychology. In this w
A reprint of the very popular Basic Books original of 1977, with a substantial new afterword by Weinberg: "Cosmology Since 1977." Cited in BCL3 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
The author of The Troubled Crusade and other important books and writings on education brings her own blend of sanity, common sense, and commitment to excellence to the problems of the nation’s school
This new edition of one of the books most closely identified with clinical psychology since 1965 will expose a new generation to Shapiro’s stunningly defining conceptualizations of the Obsessiv
We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We'd nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. There's more knowledge than eve
The Epic of New York City is among the most comprehensive books ever published on New York City. From Peter Stuyvesant to Boss Tweed to Fiorello LaGuardia, from the first subway (one block long) to t
"Rated by Fortune Magazine as one of the best management books of 1991, this instant business classic and bestseller is now recognized as the Bible of customer service.
Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review, this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author’s two-and-a-half year adventure in
Basic Books is proud to announce the final two volumes of the complete audio CD collection of the late Richard P. Feynman’s lectures, originally delivered to his physics students at the California Ins
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedDo you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite
