Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
The Confidence Game
Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
**"It’s a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime.”
—Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and bestselling author of Devil in the White City
Think you can’t...
Free Culture
The Nature and Future of Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004
Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before...
Closing the Leadership Gap
Add Women, Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
The defining examination of the new role of women in America?now fully revised
When first published in 2004, Marie Wilson?s Closing the Leadership Gap finally drew attention to what everyone knew but no one talked about?the lack of women in America?s leadership positions, even though compelling...
by Ally Condie
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an...
War Without Death
A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
In this masterpiece of sports reportage, Washington Post staff writer Mark Maske--one of the most respected journalists working both on and off the field--draws on unprecedented access to produce a behind-the-scenes look at the NFL's bitterest rivals: the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants, Washington...
Cabin
Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Inspired by his From the Ground Up New York Times blog, a beautifully written memoir about building and brotherhood.
Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come in middle age-job loss, the death of his mother, a health scare, a divorce-Lou Ureneck needed a project that...
The Up Side of Down
Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
“Clever, surprisingly fast-paced, and enlightening.” —Forbes
Most new products fail. So do most businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional lives. So what determines who will bounce back and follow up with a home run?...
Hospital
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
A warts-and-all exploration of the struggles suffered and triumphs achieved by America's health-care professionals, Hospital follows a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn,...
Born Round
A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough
Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant...
Command and Control
Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
**The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America's nuclear aresenal.
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear...
Mozart
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history
Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life was a whirlwind...
A Love Supreme
The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that...
Always Magic in the Air
The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling...
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes
Our narrator...