Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
The Social Sex
A History of Female Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
From historian and acclaimed feminist author of How the French Invented Love and A History of the Wife comes this rich, multifaceted history of the evolution of female friendship.
In today’s culture, the bonds of female friendship are taken as a given. But only a few centuries ago, the idea...
Truth Facts
The Truthiest Truths and Factiest Facts of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In an age of "alternative facts," we all need a little more truth in our lives. And humor.
Welcome to Truth Facts, a collection of information graphics that poke fun at societal quirks and everyday absurdities through charts and graphs. Danish writer Mikael Wulff and cartoon artist...
by William Glasser M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
This interesting societal study by the father of Reality Therapy presents a view that since survival is no longer the major issue for humans, development of self and identity is a normal social quest.
The Agile Gene
How Nature Turns on Nurture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior.
Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to...
Brain Lock
Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The 20th anniversary edition of the definitive classic on defeating obsessive-compulsive behavior, with all-new material from the author.
An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something...
Ten Days to Self-Esteem
The Leader's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Do you wake up dreading the day?
Do you feel ciscouraged with what you've accomplished in life?
Do you want greater self-esteem, productivity, and joy in daily living?
If so, you will benefit from this revolutionary way of brightening your moods without drugs or lengthy therapy. All you need...
Life
The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The newest addition to John Brockman’s Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world’s leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists—including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson.
Scientists’ understanding of life is...
Coming to America (Second Edition)
A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
One of our generation’s best historical accounts of immigration in the United States from the earliest colonial days
“Encyclopedic in scope, yet lively and provocative…. One of those rare book that will serve experts and the general public equally well.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Former...
Five Nights in Paris
After Dark in the City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
An irresistible nighttime tour of Paris, past and present, by the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
Every guidebook to Paris is crammed with sites to see during the day, but visitors are often cast adrift once the sun sets and the Louvre, Notre Dame, and other tourist...
The Pious Ones
The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to astonishing proportions, veteran New York Times journalist Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles—and the social and political implications...
Reading the Silver Screen
A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film.
No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked,...
The Sense of Wonder
A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
First published a half-century ago, Rachel Carson's award-winning The Sense of Wonder remains the classic guide to introducing children to the marvels of nature
In 1955, acclaimed conservationist Rachel Carson—author of Silent Spring—began work on an essay that she would come to consider...
A Big Storm Knocked It Over
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In A Big Storm Knocked It Over, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage, friendship, motherhood, and careers as experienced by a cast of endearing, idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, A Big Storm Knocked It Over will stand as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction's most original voices.
by John Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living...