Harper Perennial
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The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium
$19.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed sequel to the international bestseller Flow: an intelligent, inspiring guide to unlocking the evolutionary history of our present consciousness, and “becoming at one with the power that
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062842587
- Language: English
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Sick: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year: Real Simple, Entropy, Mental Floss, Bitch Media, The Paris Reivew, and LitHub.
Time Magazine’s Best Memoirs of 2018 – Boston Globe’s 25 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 – B
- Author: Khakpour, Porochista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 006242873X
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval Village
$18.99 Read moreMedieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages
This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415662
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of the Myths: How Greek Mythology Can Change Your Life
$18.99 Add to cart“A marvelously wise and expansive book. . . . Ferry writes with warmth, wit, and energy; one could call his prose conversational, but it’s rare to have a conversation quite this wonderful.” — Boston
- Series: Learning to Live
- Author: Ferry, Luc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0062215450
- Language: English
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Women of Trakhis: A New Translation
$8.99 Add to cartAmong the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Women of Trakhis is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynami
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132040
- Language: English
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The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
$16.99 Add to cart“I adore the Beekman boys’ story. Their unlikely story of love, the land, and a herd of goats is hilariously honest. If these two can go from Manhattan to a goat farm in upstate New York, then I can’t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kilmer-Purcell, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0061997838
- Language: English
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In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
$21.99 Add to cartPete 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 bike
- Author: Jordan, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0061995207
- Language: English
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The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers
$20.99 Add to cart“A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China’s secretive rulers.
- Author: McGregor, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0061708763
- Language: English
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The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing
$18.99 Add to cart“A splendid book for journalists (new or old), fiction writers, essayists, and critics. But it could also be of great use to the intelligent common reader, the man or woman who wonders why it’s imposs
- Author: Flaherty, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0061689157
- Language: English
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The Lost Heart of Asia
$17.99 Add to cartA land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin’s cruelest deportations. A remote and
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061577677
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Wife
$16.99 Add to cartLittle is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England’s greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare’s Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Greer, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0061537160
- Language: English
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Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq
$20.99 Add to cartGuerrilla warfare is not just the tool of modern-day terrorists in the Middle East. Its roots stretch back to our very own revolution.
In Violent Politics, William R. Polk takes us on a concise, brilli
- Author: Polk, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0061236209
- Language: English
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The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
$17.99 Add to cartWarning *
This book contains the following:
Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives
Cultivation of illegal crops
Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activities
Piloting
- Author: Cleverly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 006115928X
- Language: English
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Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945
$20.99 Add to cartThe man the New York Times has called “the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust” tells the stories of those who caused, experienced, and witnessed the great human catastrophe.
- Author: Hilberg, Raul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0060995076
- Language: English
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Many Roads One Journey: Moving Beyond the Twelve Steps
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Women, Sex, and Addiction, a timely and controversial second look at 12-Step programs, helping all readers to draw on the steps’ underlying wisdom, adapting them to their own experi
- Author: Kasl, Charlotte S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0060965185
- Language: English
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
$19.99 Add to cart“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history of 192
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060956658
- Language: English
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
$19.99 Add to cartPeter Watson’s hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such con
- Author: Watson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 852
- Publish Date: December 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0060935642
- Language: English
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
$19.99 Add to cart“Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation’s circumscribed public discourse on race.” —New York Times
From the author of the award-winning be
- Author: Steele, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060931043
- Language: English
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Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
$17.99 Add to cartCrimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation’s first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation’s impact on local inhabitant… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Robert F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0060746882
- Language: English
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Judge Sewall’s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience
$14.99 Add to cartThe most evocative and richly contextualised account of the Salem Witch trials in print.
The Salem witch trials of 1692 have assumed mythical status. Immortalised by Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, the
- Author: Francis, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1841156779
- Language: English
