Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
Making It All Work
Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
The companion to the blockbuster bestseller, Getting Things Done.
Since its publication in 2001, Getting Things Done has become, as Time magazine put it, "the defining self-help business book" of the decade. Having inspired millions of readers around the world, it clearly spoke to...
Zen and the Art of Making a Living
A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
The most innovative, unconventional, and profoundly practical career guide available--newly revised and updated
With today's economic uncertainties, millions of Americans realize they must seize control over their own career paths. They want work that not only pays the bills but also allows...
Streetfight
Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets...
Bourbon Empire
The Past and Future of America's Whiskey
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
How bourbon came to be, and why it’s experiencing such a revival today
Unraveling the many myths and misconceptions surrounding America’s most iconic spirit, Bourbon Empire traces a history that spans frontier rebellion, Gilded Age corruption, and the magic of Madison Avenue. Whiskey has...
Deluxe
How Luxury Lost Its Luster
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on...
Gastrophysics
The New Science of Eating
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
The science behind a good meal: all the sounds, sights, and tastes that make us like what we're eating—and want to eat more.
Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one other person, and 75 percent more when dining with three? How do we explain the fact that people who like...
Museum
Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
An ?intriguing? oral portrait of the people behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Entertainment Weekly)
Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning writer Danny Danziger creates a fascinating mosaic of the people behind New York?s magnificent Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the aristocratic,...
More Awesome Than Money
Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Can Facebook be trusted with your data? Years ahead of their time, Diaspora tried to do better. This is their David-versus-Goliath effort to build a revolutionary social network that would give us back control of our privacy.
In June of 2010, four nerdy NYU undergrads moved to Silicon Valley to...
Breaking Rockefeller
The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr., and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire
Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889, John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of...
The Sugar King of Havana
The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
"Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and...
Blessed Unrest
How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change
Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes,...
The China Price
The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
In this landmark work of investigative reporting, former Financial Times correspondent Alexandra Harney uncovers a story of immense significance to us all: how China's factory economy gains a competitive edge by selling out its workers, environment, and future. Harney's firsthand reporting brings...
by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
**Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.
In the book that *People *magazine...
by Robert Greene
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
From the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a vital work revealing that the secret to mastery is already within you.
Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master. Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship,...