Harper imprint: 2546 books
Lift
Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A fascinating cultural history of fitness, from Greek antiquity to the era of the “big-box gym” and beyond, exploring the ways in which human exercise has changed over time—and what we can learn from our ancestors.
We humans have been conditioning our bodies for more than 2,500 years,...
by Justin Bua
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Sweeping in its scope, The Legends of Hip Hop is an intimate look at the visionaries, the movers and the shakers, and the pioneers who have helped shape the world of hip hop.
Groundbreaking artist Justin Bua profiles and paints fifty key figures, including everyone from Afrika Bambaataa and...
The Bradbury Chronicles
The Life of Ray Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to private archives, he uncovered never–before–published...
Sundancing
Hanging Out And Listening In At America's Most Important Film Festival
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Every winter, 8,000 feet above sea level in the Utah snow, the hopes and dreams of young moviemakers are put on display at the Sundance Film Festival--the haven for independent films where you can show up a kid and go home a star. In barely twenty years of existence, the festival--now overseen by...
Death in Slow Motion
A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful...
by Mark McNairy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The renowned designer’s views on dressing and behaving well: Ivy League meets street, sartorial rules are made and broken in this must-have style guide for traditionalists and hipsters alike, filled with Mark McNairy’s humorous, sometimes snarky, spot-on observations. With a Foreword by Nick Wooster.
Supported...
Us
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together—and what happens, and what we learn about...
Nevertheless
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
**“A thorough and sophisticated effort to answer an interesting question: How did an indifferently raised, self-flagellating kid from a just-making-ends-meet, desultorily functioning Long Island family, in Massapequa, turn into Alec Baldwin, gifted actor, familiar public figure, impressively thoughtful...
Why Comics?
From Underground to Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A New York Times Notable Book
Filled with beautiful full-color art, dynamic storytelling, and insightful analysis, Hillary Chute reveals what makes one of the most critically acclaimed and popular art forms so unique and appealing, and how it got that way.
“In her wonderful book,...
Polaroids from the Dead
And Other Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.
For years, Coupland's...
by Francoise Heritier
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Françoise Héritier’s international bestseller The Sweetness of Life is a celebration of the small, sweet moments that make life worth living—and the importance of taking the time to savor them.
Busy juggling so many responsibilities in our overextended lives, we often miss the precious...
City of Nets
A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywood's decline: anticommunist...
Elia Kazan
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important and influential director in the nation, simultaneously dominating both theater and...
Thornton Wilder
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
"Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." —James Earl Jones, actor
"Comprehensive and wisely fashioned….A splendid and long needed work." —Edward Albee,...