Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
by Alexa Chung
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Now available in paperback: musings, inspirations, and styling tips from the darling of the fashion world
With influences that range from the sultry beauty of Jane Birkin to the rocker chic of Mick Jagger, it’s no wonder that everything worn by Alexa Chung instantly becomes the latest trend....
It's What I Do
A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review)
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What...
The Art Detective
Adventures of an Antiques Roadshow Appraiser
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun
What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their...
Decoding the Universe
How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everythingin the Cosmos, fromOu r Brains to Black Holes
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our world
Previously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe,...
Reality Is Broken
Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
A visionary game designer reveals how we can harness the power of games to boost global happiness.
With 174 million gamers in the United States alone, we now live in a world where every generation will be a gamer generation. But why, Jane McGonigal asks, should games be used for escapist entertainment...
Citizenville
How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
“Citizenville offers both an impassioned plea for more tech-enabled government and a tour d'horizon of the ways some governments have begun using technology to good effect… a fast-paced and engaging read” --San Francisco Chronicle
A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital...
The Age of Spiritual Machines
When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity...
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.
"It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his...
Wendy and the Lost Boys
The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
The authorized biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
In Wendy and the Lost Boys bestselling author Julie Salamon explores the life of playwright Wendy Wasserstein's most expertly crafted character: herself. The first woman playwright to win a Tony Award, Wendy Wasserstein...
Five Came Back
A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Now a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris, premiering on March 31,2017: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever
Here is the remarkable, untold...
The Chris Farley Show
A Biography in Three Acts
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The New York Times bestselling biography of an American comedy legend
After three years of sobriety, Chris Farley's life was at its creative peak until a string of professional disappointments chased him back to drugs and alcohol. He fought hard against them, but it was a fight he would lose...
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school
Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick...
The Numbers Game
Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding—and winning—the most popular sport on the planet.
Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually...
Tammy Wynette
Tragic Country Queen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
The first full-scale biography of the enduring first lady of country music
The twentieth century had three great female singers who plumbed the darkest corners of their hearts and transformed private grief into public dramas. In opera, there was the unsurpassed Maria Callas. In jazz, the tormented...