Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books

In the City of Bikes

The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist

by Pete Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

Pete Jordan, author of the wildly popular Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, is back with a memoir that tells the story of his love affair with Amsterdam, the city of bikes, all the while unfolding an unknown history of the city's cycling, from the craze of the 1890s,...

How to Read Novels Like a Professor

A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

by Thomas C Foster
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing...

The Story of Ain't

America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published

by David Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014

Created by the most respected American publisher of dictionaries and supervised by the editor Philip Gove, Webster's Third broke with tradition, adding thousands of new words and eliminating "artificial notions of correctness," basing proper usage on how language was actually spoken. The...

Dogfight at the Pentagon

Sergeant Dogs, Grumpy Cats, Wallflower Wingmen, and Other Lunacy from the Wall Street Journal's A-Hed Column

by Wall Street Journal
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

A delightful collection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful culled from the Wall Street Journal’s popular, and long-standing A-hed column. One of the Wall Street Journal’s most popular features for more than seventy years, the daily A-hed column—named for a headline that looked...

Genome

The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

by Matt Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013

The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the...

What Should We Be Worried About?

Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

by John Brockman
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest...

Thinking

The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets

by John Brockman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013

Unlock your mind From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower, problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious...

This Idea Is Brilliant

Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know

by John Brockman
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by today’s most innovative minds What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of the acclaimed science salon Edge.org (“The world’s smartest website”—The Guardian),...

The Red Queen

Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

by Matt Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles...

Evolutionaries

Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science's Greatest Idea

by Carter Phipps
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

“Carter Phipps brilliantly expands our understanding of evolution by showing us that a new science is emerging—one that will holistically integrate our understanding of consciousness, cosmology, and evolution.” —Deepak Chopra Blending cutting-edge ideas with incisive spiritual insights,...

A Crack in the Edge of the World

America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

by Simon Winchester
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look...

Proust and the Squid

The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

by Maryanne Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable...

Imagine

Living in a Socialist U.S.A.

by Frances Goldin, Debby Smith, Michael Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population....

Swimming with Warlords

A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War

by Kevin Sites
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

The veteran journalist and author of In the Hot Zone and The Things They Cannot Say explores the impact of more than a decade of war on Afghanistan, from the American invasion after 9/11 to today, and offers insights into its future and the possible consequences for the U.S. Kevin Sites made...
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