Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
The Wounded Giant
America's Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity An eSpecial from The Penguin Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A farseeing and controversial analysis of the military America needs and the military we can afford from the director of research at Brookings.
As total federal debt trends toward 100 percent of the GDP, and America wavers on the edge of another recession, Congress has responded with a plan...
Fury
True Tales of a Good Girl Gone Ballistic
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Read Koren Zailckas's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.
The author of the iconic New York Times bestseller Smashed undertakes a quest to confront her own anger.
In the years following the publication of her landmark memoir, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, Koren...
New Worlds, Lost Worlds
The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
No period in British history has more resonance and mystery today than the sixteenth century. New Worlds, Lost Worlds brings the atmosphere and events of this great epoch to life. Exploring the underlying religious motivations for the savage violence and turbulence of the period-from Henry VIII's...
by Claude McKay
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
**The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.
A Penguin Classic**
Buried in the...
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
For the first time in Penguin Classics, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's bestselling Civil War classic
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel The Gates Ajar, in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven...
The First 20 Minutes Personal Trainer
The Right--and the Wrong--Workouts for Everyone (A Penguin Special from Hudson S treet Press)
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A terrific companion to Gretchen Reynolds's New York Times bestseller *THE FIRST 20 MINUTES, *this Penguin Special features new material and a wealth of perscriptive insight for those looking to get in shape, stay in shape, or push themselves even farther. The First 20 Minutes Personal Trainer offers...
Short Stories in Russian
New Penguin Parallel Text
Language: Russian
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A dual-language edition of Russian stories—many appearing in English for the first time
This new volume of ten short stories offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without constantly having to refer to a dictionary.
The stories—many...
Short Stories in Chinese
New Penguin Parallel Text
Language: Chinese
Release Date: June 25, 2013
A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time
This new volume of eight short stories offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature from the world’s most spoken language, without having to constantly...
by Carlos Bulosan, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo
Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer...
The Kite and the String
How to Write with Spontaneity and Control--and Live to Tell the Tale
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A targeted and insightful guide to the stages of writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps, while wisely navigating the writing life, from an award-winning author and longtime teacher
“A book-length master class.” —The Atlantic
Writing well does not result from...
Trust Us, We're Experts PA
How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2002
The authors of Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! unmask the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data, and manufactured facts.
We count on the experts. We count on them to tell us who to vote for, what to eat, how to raise our children....
Light the Dark
Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
**A stunning masterclass on the creative process, the craft of writing, and the art of finding inspiration from Stephen King, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, and more of the most acclaimed writers at work today
"For artists in need of a creative fix,...
by Ali Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
“A stimulating combination of literary criticism, essay, and fiction” (The New Yorker) from the incomparable Ali Smith
Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world—it is about the things art can do, the things art is made of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness....
Decoding Love
Why It Takes Twelve Frogs to Find a Prince, and Other Revelations from the Scien ce of Attraction
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
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A smart, entertaining, and eye-opening look at the science of love, publishing for Valentine's Day
Relationships should be so simple. You meet someone. You fall in love. You live happily every after. This "romantic story line"...