Harper imprint: 2546 books
The Perfect Machine
Building the Palomar Telescope
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror...
A Square Meal
A Culinary History of the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner
From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced—the Great Depression—and how it transformed America’s culinary culture.
The...
The Man Who Made the Movies
The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A riveting story of ambition, greed, and genius unfolding at the dawn of modern America. This landmark biography brings into focus a fascinating brilliant entrepreneur—like Steve Jobs or Walt Disney, a true American visionary—who risked everything to realize his bold dream of a Hollywood empire.
Although...
The Mandibles
A Family, 2029-2047
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale....
Ecstatic Nation
Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
A New York Times Notable Book of 2013
A Kirkus Best Book of 2013
A Bookpage Best Book of 2013
Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was...
Spies in the Family
An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.
In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon was living in New Delhi with her family...
The Perfectionists
How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
The rise of manufacturing...
by Bergdorf Goodman, Holly Brubach, Sara James Mnookin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A gorgeously illustrated companion to the fashion documentary of the same name, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf Goodman is an unforgettable collection of anecdotes, from the hilarious to the poignant, in commemoration of the internationally renowned luxury specialty store’s 111th anniversary. With...
Staying O.K.
How to Maximize Good Feelings and Minimize Bad Ones
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
A sequel to I'm OK—You're OK. This book offers advice on making important changes and taking charge of your life, resolving conflicts, and rooting out the causes of worry, panic, depression, regret, confusion and feelings of inadequacy.
The Janus Affair
A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Hang onto your bowler hats, agents Books and Braun of Britain’s top-secret Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences are back in The Janus Affair. In their second wildly imaginative, utterly fantastic steampunk adventure, authors Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris carry readers back to an alternate history Edwardian...
Shelter for the Spirit
How to Make Your Home a Haven in a Hectic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Even though Americans spend thousands on furniture, appliances and interior decoration, many of our homes have become little more than drop-off zones where we collapse after work, glued to the TV while gulping down a microwave dinner.
The home can be so much more than that, says Victoria Moran....
Maybe Esther
A Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving debut memoir that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman’s family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany.
Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across...
"I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode Or Not"
A Collection of Legends, Lies, & Cherished Myths of American
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Provocative and amusingly heretical, "I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not" (a quote attributed to Warren Harding) offers eye-opening revelations debunking long-held American legends.
The Queen
A Life in Brief
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
the Queen
Elizabeth II was not born to be queen. She came into the world on April 21, 1926, the equivalent of the modern Princess Beatrice, first-born daughter of the Duke of York, destined to flutter on the royal fringe. So while Lilibet was brought up with almost religious respect for the...