Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
Finding Your Element
How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The New York Times bestselling author of The Element gives readers an inspirational and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformation
Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk video and groundbreaking book, The Element, introduced readers to a new concept of self-fulfillment...
Creative Schools
The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by Ken Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking.
Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education,...
Oneness With All Life
Inspirational Selections from A New Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
#1 New York Times bestselling author Eckhart Tolle highlights the most inspiring and beautiful insights of A New Earth
When Oprah announced A New Earth as her 61st Book Club selection, it skyrocketed to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, selling over five million copies in paperback...
The Good Gut
Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The groundbreaking science behind the surprising source of good health
Stanford University’s Justin and Erica Sonnenburg are pioneers in the most exciting and potentially transformative field in the entire realm of human health and wellness, the study of the relationship between our bodies...
by Robert Macfarlane
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
From the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." --Bill McKibben
Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a...
Drawdown
The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
**• New York Times bestseller •
The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world
“At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative...
Soonish
Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
**The instant New York Times bestseller!
A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!
A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year!
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation...
Wanderlust
A History of Walking
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Men Explain Things to Me
Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit...
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
**“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**
The author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller...
Salt
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World
In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from...
The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
What is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman Doidge’s inspiring guide to the new brain science explains all of this and more
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable, and proving that...
Whole Earth Discipline
Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoeng ineering Are Necessary
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet
According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is...
Four Fish
The Future of the Last Wild Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
"A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why." —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review.
Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the...
by Jerry A. Coyne
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
"Coyne's knowledge of evolutionary biology is prodigious, his deployment of it as masterful as his touch is light." -Richard Dawkins
In the current debate about creationism and intelligent design, there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the evidence. Yet the...