
Lara Heimert
@laraheimert
President & Publisher, the Basic Books Group; ardent traveler; compulsive Scrabbler; mother of Maximilian
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13-04-2011 16:15:31
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With the 250th anniversary of the #BostonTeaParty due in two weeks’ time, thank you, Patrick O’Shaughnessy FRSA for this mention of my Pulitzer finalist book about the chain of events that led to America’s Revolutionary War…



25% preorder discount for my new book, The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America’s Most Famous Hispanic War Hero Barnes & Noble Basic Books #BNPreorder barnesandnoble.com/w/the-ballad-o…


Today thru Friday, April 17-19, B&N premium and rewards members can score my forthcoming Vietnam War at a 25% discount! Pull the trigger before the weekend. Use code PREORDER 25. Barnes & Noble Basic Books #BNPreorder barnesandnoble.com/w/the-vietnam-…




Congratulations to Dr Eugenia Cheng --no advice please--'s IS MATH REAL? for winning the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology 🎉 Read more about it ⤵️ lat.ms/3Us1dT6 #mathematics







Intent to Destroy is here! A book that I never imagined writing, hated to write and now so glad I did. This is the UK version, the US one has a different cover, though both are published by Basic Books Basic Books and Basic Books UK. So, a short 🧵



John Banville wrote a lovely review of my biography of Bergson for The Nation calling it “fascinating and lively” He also says that I have “a genius for condensing complex philosophical and scientific postulates into digestible bites.” thenation.com/article/cultur…
