Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
A Call to Service
My Vision for a Better America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
In more than three decades of public service, from the battlefields of Vietnam to the floor of the U.S. Senate, John Kerry has proven himself to be one of our country’s great statesmen. A leader noted as much for his independence as for his integrity, he has always been inspired by the principles...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1977
Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot
A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American hands
In The Great Leader and the Fighter...
Falling Into the Fire
A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital;...
My Stroke of Insight
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment
On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed...
Galileo's Middle Finger
Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
**New York Times Book Review
"[S]mart, delightful... a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism and science.”
Editors's Choice, New York Times Book Review**
An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo’s...
A Life Decoded
My Genome: My Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
The triumphant memoir of the man behind one of the greatest feats in scientific history
Of all the scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps none can match the deciphering of the human genetic code, both for its technical brilliance and for its implications for our future. In A Life...
Wooden Boats
In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
There are fewer than 10,000 wooden boats in America, but the circulation of WoodenBoat magazine exceeds 180,000. What is it about these boats that has captured the popular imagination? With his "lively blend of reportage [and] reflection" (Los Angeles Times), Michael Ruhlman sets off for...
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
The Truth About College
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
A caustic expose of the deeply state of our colleges-America's most expensive Ponzi scheme.
What drives a former English major with a creative writing degree, several unpublished novels, three kids, and a straining marriage to take a job as a night teacher at a second-rate college? An unaffordable...
A Shining Affliction
A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
"Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactlty what goes on in the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient."-The Los Angeles Times.
How to Make a Spaceship
A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
**A New York Times bestseller!
The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight
A Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award**
Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed...
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Father of Modern Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized...
Martin Luther
The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey.” —The Washington Post
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man...
Darling
A Spiritual Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
An award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9/11
Hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing...