Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
by Pat Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers’ guides every year, at last there’s one that tells the ugly truth: writers who can’t get published are usually making a lot of mistakes. This honest, often funny, book shows them how to identify their own missteps, stop listening to bad advice,...
A Man of Parts
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
A riveting novel about the remarkable life—and many loves—of author H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric...
The Good Story
Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
**J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
J.M. Coetzee: What relationship do I have with my life history? Am I its conscious author, or should I think of myself as simply a voice uttering with...
Descent into Chaos
The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
The #1 New York Times bestselling author provides a shocking analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West.
Ahmed Rashid is “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” (Christopher Hitchens). His unique knowledge of this vast and complex...
by Kahlil Gibran
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
**"My all-time favorite collection of poems . . . [Gibran's] poetry always roots me in my humanity." --Rupi Kaur, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers
A stunning new hardcover edition--with a full linen case, copper stamping, turquoise gilded edges,...
Here Comes Everybody
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
An extraordinary exploration of how technology can empower social and political organizers
For the first time in history, the tools for cooperating on a global scale are not solely in the hands of governments or institutions. The spread of the internet and mobile phones are changing how people...
New
Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Why are we attuned to the latest headline, diet craze, smartphone, fashion statement? Why do we relish a change of scene, eye attractive strangers, develop new interests?
How did Homo sapiens survive near-extinction during an environmental crisis 80,000 years ago, while close cousins very like...
Moral Tribes
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
“Surprising and remarkable…Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”—The Boston Globe
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group...
The Powerhouse
Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
A Soul of a New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology
A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult...
Social Physics
How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence
If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland....
Cookoff
Recipe Fever in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America is an anecdotal and entertaining look at the amazingly extensive subculture of cooking contests in America. Such contests range in importance from Spam contests at county fairs to the granddaddy of them all, the Pillsbury Bake-Off in San Francisco, where the grand...
Crypto
How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2001
If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy-the author who made "hackers" a household word-comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in...
by Lynn Kurland
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
****This is a Read Pink edition. In October 2010, Penguin Group (USA) launched a new initiative in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This October, we are pleased to continue the program with a donation of $25,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation(r) and are presenting eight beloved...
The Incredible Misadventures of Boo and the Boy Blunder
An Undead Novella A Penguin Group Special from Berkley Sensation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A classic tale of love and laughter with a touch of the Undead from the New York Times bestselling author of the Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor novels. A vampire hunter gets the surprise of her life when the man she saves from a bloodthirsty vampire is so grateful for her service that he decides to become her sidekick—much to her dismay.