Naked at Our Age - Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex - Joan Price - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2026 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

The classic guide to sex for seniors, offering real-life stories alongside expert advice "without apology, without shame and with accommodation, levit...

Uncommon Grounds (New edition) - The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World - Mark Pendergrast - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2019 -

First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and t...

Out There - - Darryl Pinckney - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2002 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

With this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal or neglected literary figures have a l...

Back to Earth - What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet—And Our Mission to Protect It - Nicole Stott - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2021 -

Inspired by insights gained in spaceflight, a NASA astronaut offers key lessons to empower Earthbound readers to fight climate change When Nicole Stot...

Dark Days, Bright Nights - From Black Power to Barack Obama - Peniel Joseph - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2013 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights...

The Wine-Dark Sea Within - A Turbulent History of Blood - Dhun Sethna - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2022 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role Inspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” ...

Mad In America (Revised) - Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill - Robert Whitaker - Paperback Bog - Basic

Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world''s poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert...

Golden Years - How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age - James Chappel - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2024 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Barred - Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison - Daniel S Medwed - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2022 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful convictions Thousands of innocent people are behind ba...

The Edge of the Sky - All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is - Roberto Trotta - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2014 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells...

The Constitution Today - Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era - Akhil Amar - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2018 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

In this “desperately needed” ( Time.com ) book, a leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the twenty-first ...

Relic - How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency - William Howell - Hardback Bog - Basic Books

Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot deal effectively...

Mean Genes - From Sex To Money To Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts - Terry Burnham - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2012 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Short, sassy, and bold, Mean Genes uses a Darwinian lens to examine the issues that most deeply affect our lives: body image, money, addiction, violen...

The Story Paradox - How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down - Jonathan Gottschall - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2021 -

Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies poss...

Thinking with Your Hands - The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts - Susan Goldin Meadow - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2023 -

An astounding account of how gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we learn and interact, which “changes the way you think about yourself and ...

The Abacus and the Cross - The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages - Nancy Brown - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2012

The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages -- in fact...

Myth America - Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past - Kevin Kruse - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2023 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past. The ...

Smart Money - How High-Stakes Financial Innovation is Reshaping Our World For the Better - Andrew Palmer - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2015 - Engelsk

Seven years after the financial crisis of 2008, financiers remain villains in the public mind. Most Americans believe that their irresponsible actions...

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman - Freeman Dyson - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2005 - Engelsk -

This collection from scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner highlights the achievements of a man whose career reshaped the world''s understanding of q...

Church of Spies - The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler - Mark Riebling - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2016 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

The heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII -- often labeled "Hitler''s Pope" -- was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Re...

The Collapse of Parenting - How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups - Leonard Sax - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2024 - Engelsk -

In The Collapse of Parenting , internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young ...

Free to Learn - Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life - Peter Gray -

"A lightning bolt of a book" makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn (Lenore Skenazy) In ...

A Time to Build - From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream - Yuval

“A moving call to recommit to the great project of our common life.” ( Wall Street Journal ) Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politic...

Nice White Ladies - The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It - Jessie Daniels - Hardback Bog - Basic Books -

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Kirkus An acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that white women play in perpetuating racism, and how they ca...

The Atoms Of Language - The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar - Mark C. Baker - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2002 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implica...

Lesser Beasts - A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig - Mark Essig - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2015 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at convert...

Team Players - The Five Critical Roles You Need to Build a Winning Team - Mark Murphy - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2025 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

A New York Times-bestselling author shows you how to build the most successful team

For God, Country, and Coca-Cola - The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It - Mark Pendergrast - Paperback

The fizzy, “marvelously entertaining” ( Los Angeles Times ) story of the world’s favorite beverage For God, Country & Coca-Cola is the definitive hist...

The Case for Trump - - Victor D Hanson - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2024 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

A New York Times bestseller and “a brilliant and bracing analysis” (Mark R. Levin) of Donald Trump, his presidency, and his vision of America’s future...

Language at the Speed of Sight - How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It - Mark Seidenberg - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2018

In this "important, alarming" ( New York Times ) book, see why so many American students are falling behind in their reading skills while others aroun...

The Red Prince - The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke - Timothy Snyder - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2010 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the coll...

The Perversion Of Knowledge - The True Story Of Soviet Science - Vadim J. Birstein - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2004 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not...

The Age of Revolutions - And the Generations Who Made It - Nathan Perl Rosenthal - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2024 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

A panoramic, "persuasive and inspiring" ( New Yorker ) new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe t...

The Dying Citizen - How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America - Victor D Hanson - Paperback Bog - Basic

A New York Times bestseller, “ The Dying Citizen is essential reading for any American who cares about the fate of our nation” (Mark R. Levin) Human h...

The Connected Parent - An Expert Guide to Parenting in a Digital World - John Palfrey - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2020 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

An essential guide for parents navigating the new frontier of hyper-connected kids. Today''s teenagers spend about nine hours per day online. Parents ...

Total Chaos - The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop - Jeff Chang - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2007 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

It''s not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film, t...

The Courage To Be Catholic - Crisis, Reform And The Future Of The Church - George Weigel - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2004 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

The Catholic Church in America is in a state of crisis. Yet few understand what the crisis really is, why it happened, or how the Church must respond ...

In Search of the Canary Tree - The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World - Lauren E. Oakes - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2019 -

The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman''s search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes...

Lying in State - Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse - Eric Alterman - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2020 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

This definitive history of presidential lying reveals how our standards for truthfulness have eroded -- and why Trump''s lies are especially dangerous...

Wounded Knee - Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre - Heather Richardson - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2011 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

“The story is tragic, the scholarship exhilarating” (Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains ) in this history of the massacre of the Lakota Siou...

The Virtue of Nationalism - - Yoram Hazony - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2018 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

In this “tour de force” ( National Review ), the leader of the National Conservatism movement argues that nationalism is the only realistic safeguard ...

The Nature Of Prejudice - 25th Anniversary Edition - Gordon Allport - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 1979 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

The classic psychological study of the roots of discrimination. First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimi...

How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog - - Chad Orzel - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2012 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But this "witty and clear thinking" ( New York Times ) book wonders, what about relativity? Physics pr...

The Virtue of Nationalism - - Yoram Hazony - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2025 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

In this "tour de force" ( National Review ), the leader of the National Conservatism movement argues that nationalism is the only realistic safeguard ...

The Right Mistake - The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow - Walter Mosley - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2009 - Engelsk -

From New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley, the third collection of Socrates Fortlow tales, "a thought-provoking exploration of wickedness—a...

The Case for Trump - - Victor D Hanson - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2019 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

This New York Times bestselling Trump biography from a major American intellectual explains how a renegade businessman became one of the most successf...

Red Team - How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy - Micah Zenko - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2015 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Essential reading for business leaders and policymakers, an in-depth investigation of red teaming, the practice of inhabiting the perspective of poten...

Synchronicity - The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect - Paul Halpern - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2020 - Engelsk -

In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books - The History and Future of Reading - Leah Price - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2019 - Engelsk -

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alo...

Charlatans - How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses - Moises Naim - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2025

From snake-oil salesmen to crypto grifters, the "fascinating" (Fareed Zakaria) story of charlatans—and why we fall for them For centuries charlatans h...

The Many Faces of Christ - The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels - Philip Jenkins - Hardback Bog - Basic Books -

The standard account of early Christianity tells us that the first centuries after Jesus'' death witnessed an efflorescence of Christian sects, each w...

Nature's Fortune - How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature - Jonathan S. Adams - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2013 - Engelsk -

What is nature worth? The answer to this question -- which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms -- is revolutionizing the way we do bu...

Fixing My Gaze - A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions - Oliver Sacks - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2010 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into...

The Fields Of Athenry - A Journey Through Ireland - James Roy - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2003 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

In The Fields of Athenry , James Charles Roy leads us through the Irish past and present with the central theme of his own personal experience with th...

The Romance Of Risk - Why Teenagers Do The Things They Do - Lynn Ponton - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 1998 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Dr. Lynn Ponton has devoted her clinical practice to a particular community -- teenagers in trouble. Whether these kids are struggling with peers, exp...

Holler If You Hear Me - Searching for Tupac Shakur - Michael Dyson - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2006 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson has ...

Every Life Is On Fire - How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things - Jeremy England - Hardback Bog - Basic Books - 2020 - Engelsk -

Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren''t. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will find ...