Basic Books Summaries and Reviews

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9 Book

The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2002
10 Book

The Biological Mind
How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
Alan Jasanoff
Basic Books, 2018
9 Book

For Profit
A History of Corporations
William Magnuson
Basic Books, 2022
8 Book

False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Bjorn Lomborg
Basic Books, 2021
9 Book

The New Education
How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
Cathy N. Davidson
Basic Books, 2017
8 Book

The Essential Art of War
Sun Tzu and Ralph D. Sawyer
Basic Books, 2005
8 Book

Rest
Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Basic Books, 2016
10 Book

The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod
Basic Books, 2006
7 Book

The Story Factor
Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling
Annette Simmons
Basic Books, 2006
8 Book

The Nowhere Office
Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future
Julia Hobsbawm
Basic Books, 2022
8 Book

Red Team
How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy
Micah Zenko
Basic Books, 2015
9 Book

Buzz
The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 2018
8 Book

Emotional Design
Why we love (or hate) everyday things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2005
9 Book

The Happiness Hypothesis
Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Basic Books, 2005
7 Book

Basic Economics
A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2000
8 Book

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
including The Art of War
Ralph D. Sawyer
Basic Books, 1993
9 Book

Free Speech
A History from Socrates to Social Media
Jacob Mchangama
Basic Books, 2022
9 Book

Deep Medicine
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Eric Topol
Basic Books, 2019
8 Book

How We Talk
The Inner Workings of Conversation
N. J. Enfield
Basic Books, 2017
8 Book

The Master Algorithm
How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
Basic Books, 2015
8 Book

The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, Be a Good Blamer, and Throttle Your Inner Child
Paul Pearsall
Basic Books, 2005
8 Book

Getting (More of) What You Want
How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything in Business and in Life
Margaret A. Neale and Thomas Z. Lys
Basic Books, 2015
10 Book

Applied Economics
Thinking Beyond Stage One
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2003
9 Book

The Hydrogen Revolution
A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy
Marco Alverà
Basic Books, 2021