Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
Good Old Dog
Expert Advice for Keeping Your Aging Dog Happy, Healthy, and Comfortable
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
From the renowned veterinary school at Tufts University: “A must read for pet lovers who want to ensure their dog has quality golden years” (USA Today).
Our dogs are living longer than ever thanks to enormous advances in medical treatment and a highly evolved understanding of what they...
by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Eliminate mistakes and improve your vocabulary with this engaging guide to the world’s most misused words.
Do you know your delegate from your relegate, your cachet from your cache?
At one time or another we’ve all suffered the embarrassment of having our remarks corrected by a family...
by October Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
He’s a dog with a phone . . .
My dog sends me texts. Yeah. It’s weird.
When October Jones figured out he could send text messages to himself on his mobile phone, he naturally decided that the best use of this discovery was to send passive-aggressive messages to himself under the...
by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Avoid vocabulary mistakes with this fun guide to tricky and troublesome words!
With concise and authoritative usage notes from the editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries, this guide explains common English-language errors—whether it’s mixing up affect and effect; blatant and flagrant;...
The Goldilocks Enigma
Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
An acclaimed physicist and cosmologist considers the multiverse and more: “Very readable indeed . . . This is Doctor Who, but for real.” —*TheGuardian***
The Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies’s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller...
Time Travel in Einstein's Universe
The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A Princeton astrophysicist explores whether journeying to the past or future is scientifically possible in this “intriguing” volume (Neil deGrasse Tyson).
It was H. G. Wells who coined the term “time machine”—but the concept of time travel, both forward and backward, has always provoked...
God Particle
If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2006
A Nobel Prize–winning physicist’s “funny, clever, entertaining” account of the history of particle physics and the hunt for a Higgs boson (Library Journal).
In this extraordinarily accessible and witty book, Leon Lederman—“the most engaging physicist since the late, much-missed Richard...
Water
The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
An award-winning, alarming account of “one of the central challenges facing civilization” (The Washington Post Book World).
Offering ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, this “well-researched and thought-provoking book” (Minneapolis Tribune) explains how we are using, misusing,...
A New New Testament
A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
“Important both historically and theologically. Readers will not be able to see the New Testament in the same way again.” —Marcus Borg, author of The Heart of Christianity
“A New New Testament does what some of us never dreamed possible: it opens the treasure chest of early Christian...
What the Robin Knows
How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
A guide to listening to songbirds—the key to observing nature in a whole new way. Includes audio of bird vocalizations!
A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important...
Patterns of Culture
An Enduring Classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
An anthropologist compares three diverse societies in this groundbreaking, “unique and important” cultural study (The New York Times).
A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture made history in exploring the role of culture in shaping our lives. In it, the renowned...
Driving Mr. Yogi
Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
“A warm, sentimental look at a baseball icon” (The Tampa Tribune).
Driving Mr. Yogi is the story of a unique friendship between two New York Yankees legends—a pitcher and catcher—who share rides, meals, and a bond that transcends the twenty-five-year difference in their ages.
The...
That First Season
How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The story of a team, a town, and a leader: Vince Lombardi’s first year as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and how he turned them into a powerhouse.
The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock by the late 1950s. They hadn’t fielded a winning team in more than a decade, and...
The Foods of the Greek Islands
Cooking and Culture at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2000
This New York Times Notable Book is “a real working guide to preparing the traditional dishes found all over Greece” (Newsweek).
Stretching from the shores of Turkey to the Ionian Sea east of Italy, the Greek islands have been the crossroads of the Mediterranean since the time of Homer....