Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
**Finalist for the National Book Award
From the New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls comes a riveting exploration of manhood and all its complicated meanings through the portrait of an American Mountain Man. **
In this rousing examination of...
Before the Dawn
Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Nicholas Wades articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanitys origins as never before-a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings...
Scale
The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
**"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the...
How Not to Be Wrong
The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands
The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows...
In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
**From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in...
The Knowledge
How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?
If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath...
The Forest Unseen
A Year's Watch in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Look out for David Haskell's new book, The Songs of Tree: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors, coming in April...
The Face of Battle
A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1983
Master military historian John Keegan’s groundbreaking analysis of combat and warfare
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia,...
Denialism
How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.
In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution...
The Calculus Diaries
How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Kiss My Math meets A Tour of the Calculus
Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she-like most people-assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations...
Off the Grid
Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Mo dern America
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
**A look inside the subculture of off-grid living, taking readers across the ideological spectrum and across America **
Written by a leading authority on living off the grid, this is a fascinating and timely look at one of the fastest growing movements in America. In researching the stories...
by Kevin Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision oftechnology as a living force that can expand our individual potential
This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal...
Einstein's God
Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
A New York Times bestseller
"An exhilirating exploration of the meaning of it all." --Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God
Drawn from Krista Tippett's Peabody Award-winning public radio program, the conversations in this profoundly illuminating book reach for a place too...
The Story of Earth
The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres....