Harris: 3642 books
The Watchers
The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Using exclusive access to key insiders, Shane Harris charts the rise of America's surveillance state over the past twenty-five years and highlights a dangerous paradox: Our government's strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on the rest of us.
Our surveillance state...
Thrifty Gardening
From the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Bestselling author and gardening columnist Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide for gardeners at every stage of life. Whether you're moving into your first apartment or condo, upgrading to a house, or downsizing to smaller digs, Harris shares the best tips on how to create a beautiful...
by Walter Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondant he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the...
by Sam Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2005
Natalie Angier wrote in The New York Times: "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."
This important...
High on the Hog
A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Winner of the IACP Award for Culinary History
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, and tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone...
by William C. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2018
In Lincoln and Congress, William C. Harris reveals that the relationship between the president and Congress, though sometimes contentious, was cooperative rather than adversarial. During his time as president, Abraham Lincoln embodied...
Women and Recovery
Finding Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
A breakthrough recovery plan for women who struggle with alcoholism, based on a groundbreaking new model
Tens of millions of women today drink to excess and their numbers are growing. Now Dr. Kitty Harris, an experienced counselor and therapist who is herself a recovering alcoholic with more...
by Robert Lee Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
...why, why God, why? presents a series of true and
powerful stories about life. Some are conversations with God, and
others are conversations author Robert Lee Harris had with other
people.
All the stories drive home some simple truths about life and its challenges
tales in which God has shown...
The Four Horsemen
The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in print for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an...
The Next American Civil War
The Populist Revolt Against the Liberal Elite
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The tea parties, the guns at town hall meetings, the protests against health care reform, and the general unrest in America today have taken many people by surprise. Some interpret it in terms of economic hard times, but Lee Harris offers a different explanation. Today's populist revolt is only the...
by Judith Rich Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
A groundbreaking theory of personality.
The author of the controversial book The Nurture Assumption tackles the biggest mystery in all of psychology: What makes people differ so much in personality and behavior? It can't just be "nature and nurture," because even identical twins who...
The Nurture Assumption
Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they...
The Myths of Standardized Tests
Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...
Hoist on My Own Petard
Or: How Writing 10% Happier Threw My Own Advice Right Back in My Face
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
#1 New York Times Bestseller
REVISED WITH NEW MATERIAL
Winner of the 2014 Living Now Book Award for Inspirational Memoir
"An enormously smart, clear-eyed, brave-hearted, and quite personal look at the benefits of meditation."
—Elizabeth Gilbert
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