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Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.Founded in New York in 1817 by James Harper and his brother John, the company operated as J. & J. Harper until 1833, when it changed its name to Harper & Brothers, reflecting the inclusion of Joseph and Fletcher Harper.
Harper & Brothers, founded in 1817, merged with Row, Peterson & Company in 1962 to form Harper & Row, which was acquired by News Corp in 1987. The Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons, founded in 1819, was acquired by News Corp in 1989 and merged with Harper & Row to form HarperCollins. The logo for the firm combines the fire from ...
Books originally published by Harper & Row (1962—1990) From 1833 to 1962 the company was known as Harper & Brothers . Since 1990 the company has been known as HarperCollins .
HarperOne is a publishing imprint of HarperCollins, specializing in books that aim to "transform, inspire, change lives, and influence cultural discussions."Under the original name of Harper San Francisco, the imprint was founded in 1977 by 13 employees of the New York City–based Harper & Row, who traveled west to San Francisco to be at the center of the New Age movement.
‘Christianity is mainly wishful thinking’, he writes: ‘Even the part about Judgement and Hell reflects the wish that somewhere the score is being kept’. [5] As with many of Buechner’s works, central to Wishful Thinking is the mysterious nature of faith, the justifiableness of doubt, and the presence of God in the mundane.
First published by Harper and Row in 1970 as In Defense of Anarchism: With a Reply to Jeffrey H. Reiman's In Defense of Political Philosophy, it has since run to five editions, the latest of which is the University of California Press 1998 edition. [2] It is regarded as a classical work in anarchist scholarship. [1]
Silverstein had difficulty finding a publisher for The Giving Tree. [1] [2] An editor at Simon & Schuster rejected the book's manuscript because he felt that it was "too sad" for children and "too simple" for adults. [1] [2] Tomi Ungerer encouraged Silverstein to approach Ursula Nordstrom, who was a publisher with Harper & Row. [1]
Ursula Nordstrom (February 2, 1910 – October 11, 1988) was publisher and editor-in-chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row from 1940 to 1973. She is credited with presiding over a transformation in children's literature in which morality tales written for adult approval gave way to works that instead appealed to children's imaginations and emotions.