Harper Perennial: 508 books
The Erotic Mind
Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Challenging accepted theories about what makes for terrific sex, The Erotic Mind is a breakthrough exploration of the least understood dimensions of human sexuality—the psychology of desire, arousal, and fulfillment. Nationally known sex therapist Dr. Jack Morin offers a bold new perspective that...
This Will Make You Smarter
150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills and improve our cognitive toolkits, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more. Featuring a foreword by New York Times columnist David Brooks and...
Lady Killers
Deadly Women Throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.
When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper,...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
"A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be ready by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." --Howard Fast
With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller...
Stasiland
Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
“Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic.” —Claire Tomalin, Guardian “Books ofthe Year”
AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germany’s...
Jungleland
A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
"I began to daydream about the jungle...."
On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba,...
How Not to Write a Novel
200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
"What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted.
"Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call 'really awful writing.'"
"But how shall I absolve this dilemma?...
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition
An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write...
In the City of Bikes
The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
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
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
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
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
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
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...