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Basic Books has published award-winning works in a variety of fields, including history, science, sociology, psychology, politics, and current affairs, since its founding in 1950. Stephon Alexander, Isaac Asimov, Edward Baptist, H. W. Brands, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Iris Chang, George Church, Niall Ferguson, Richard Feynman, Richard Florida, Martin Ford, Howard Gardner, Victor Davis Hanson, Jonathan Haidt, Judith Herman, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Hofstadter, Leszek Kolakowski, Kevin Kruse, Lawrence Lessig, Claude Levi-Strauss, Alice Miller, Robert Nozick Hachette Book Group owns the Basic Books imprint. They are focused on variety in their organization and their distributing programs, and to encouraging a culture of consideration for every one of their workers and creators. They are honored to be a part of Hachette Livre, the third-largest educational and trade publisher in the world.