Harper Perennial: 508 books
Opium Nation
Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond. KhaledHosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation...
Margaret Thatcher
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime minister in modern times sought to change the British nation and its place in the world as radically as she did.
Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is...
A Teacher's Guide to Their Eyes Were Watching God
Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
For teachers
We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.
This...
What to Think About Machines That Think
Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”
Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others,...
The Night Shift
Real Life in the Heart of the E.R.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
In The Night Shift, Dr. Brian Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an E.R. after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other...
Mind over Money
The Psychology of Money and How to Use It Better
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money—perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics.
We know we need money and...
Flatscreen
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
“OMFG, I nearly up and died from laughter when I read Flatscreen. This is the novel that every young turk will be reading on their way to a job they hate and are in fact too smart for.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
Indie-lit star and Faster Times editor Adam Wilson...
After Daniel
A Suicide Survivor's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Moira Farr discovered Daniel Jones’ body on Valentine’s Day, 1994. Struggling with deep depression, he had killed himself using a method clearly outlined in the bestselling book, Final Exit. Six years later, in an account both deeply personal and thoughtfully political, Farr reflects on Daniel’s...
Apologies to My Censor
The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The story of a young man's outrageous adventures in China and his search for identity in the most unexpected of places.
Mitch Moxley came to Beijing in the spring of 2007 to take a job as a writer and editor for China Daily, the country's only English-language national newspaper. The Chinese...
The Myth of Moral Justice
Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
We are obsessed with watching television shows and feature films about lawyers, reading legal thrillers, and following real-life trials. Yet, at the same time, most of us don't trust lawyers and hold them and the legal system in very low esteem.
In The Myth of Moral Justice, law professor and...
by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the...
Mornings Like This
Found Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old--and often odd--books, and composes ironic poems--some serious, some light--on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new.
Beggar's Garden
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Critically lauded, The Beggar’s Garden is a brilliantly surefooted, strikingly original collection of nine linked short stories that will delight as well as disturb. The stories follow a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters, from...
Care of the Soul Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
#1 New York Times Bestseller
With a new introduction by the author and additional material, this 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller by Thomas Moore provides a powerful spiritual message for our troubled times.
In this special 25th anniversary edition of Thomas...