Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
Soulcatcher
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage.
Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history....
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian discusses “the Cold War, political parties, the presidency, and many broader philosophical issues [with] incisive wit” (Library Journal).
A celebrated historian, speechwriter, and adviser to President Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. draws on decades...
Making Conflict Work
Harnessing the Power of Disagreement
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
“An excellent workbook-like guide” to the nuts and bolts of professional conflict and the strategies you need to make conflict work for you (Booklist, starred review).
Every workplace is a minefield of conflict, and all office tension is shaped by power. Making Conflict Work teaches you to...
Israel, Palestine and Peace
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 1995
“Powerful” essays from a founder of the Peace Now movement and advocate for a two-state solution (Library Journal).
The haunting poetry of [Oz's] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture." —Washington Post Book World
Amos Oz was one of the first...
To the End of June
The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A New York Times Notable Book that “casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system” (NPR’s On Point).
Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster...
Sparks of Genius
The 13 Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Discover the cognitive tools that lead to creative thinking and problem-solving with this “well-written and easy-to-follow” guide (Library Journal).
Explore the “thinking tools” of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and learn how you...
Break Through
Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Two of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” reject the status quo of liberal politics and offer a bold vision for addressing climate change.
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay “The Death of Environmentalism,”...
Unweaving the Rainbow
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2000
**From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal).
Did Sir Isaac Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other...
The Canon
A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
The New York Times bestseller that makes scientific subjects both understandable and fun: “Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm.” —Richard Dawkins
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times science journalist and bestselling author of Woman, this is a playful, passionate guide...
The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
A Memoir of Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
“A deeply moving account of amnesia that . . . reminds us how we are all always trying to find a version of ourselves that we can live with.” —Los Angeles Times
On October 17, 2002, David MacLean “woke up” on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No...
Through a Window
My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The renowned British primatologist continues the “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania (Publishers Weekly).
In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting...
by Tom Shachtman
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
“A lovely, fascinating book, which brings science to life.” —Alan Lightman
Combining science, history, and adventure, Tom Shachtman “holds the reader’s attention with the skill of a novelist” as he chronicles the story of humans’ four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets...
by José Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 1996
A “marvelously amusing” political fable in which part of the European continent breaks off and drifts away on its own (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A Nobel Prize winner who has been called “the García Márquez of Portugal” (New Statesman) chronicles world events on a human scale...
Activation of Energy
Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1972
The renowned Jesuit thinker explores science, theology, and the course of human evolution.
Following in the footsteps of his earlier works, this collection of essays from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin brings greater clarity to the stunning potential of human energy if it is properly channeled,...