Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
**New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018
A New York Times Notable Book
The #1 New York Times bestseller.
A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing...
A Life Decoded
My Genome: My Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
The triumphant memoir of the man behind one of the greatest feats in scientific history
Of all the scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps none can match the deciphering of the human genetic code, both for its technical brilliance and for its implications for our future. In A Life...
Wooden Boats
In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
There are fewer than 10,000 wooden boats in America, but the circulation of WoodenBoat magazine exceeds 180,000. What is it about these boats that has captured the popular imagination? With his "lively blend of reportage [and] reflection" (Los Angeles Times), Michael Ruhlman sets off for...
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
The Truth About College
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
A caustic expose of the deeply state of our colleges-America's most expensive Ponzi scheme.
What drives a former English major with a creative writing degree, several unpublished novels, three kids, and a straining marriage to take a job as a night teacher at a second-rate college? An unaffordable...
A Shining Affliction
A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
"Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactlty what goes on in the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient."-The Los Angeles Times.
How to Make a Spaceship
A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
**A New York Times bestseller!
The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight
A Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award**
Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
When a disturbed young Russian man came to Freud for treatment, the analysis of his childhood neuroses—most notably a dream about wolves outside his bedroom window—eventually revealed a deep-seated trauma. It took more than four years to treat him, and "The Wolfman" became one of Freud's most...
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Father of Modern Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized...
Martin Luther
The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey.” —The Washington Post
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man...
Darling
A Spiritual Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
An award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9/11
Hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing...
The 14th Dalai Lama
A Manga Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
A new way of getting to know one of the world's most beloved spiritual leaders.
Featuring a charmingly illustrated format that will appeal to readers of all ages, this unique biography is an ideal introduction to the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Born in 1935 to a peasant family...
Hitler's Pope
The Secret History of Pius XII
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
The “explosive” (The New York Times) bestseller—now with a new introduction by the author
When Hitler’s Pope, the shocking story of Pope Pius XII that “redefined the history of the twentieth century” (The Washington Post ) was originally published, it sparked a firestorm of controversy...
The Prison Angel
Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually...
Prayers and Devotions
365 Daily Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This treasury of selected passages from the writings and addresses of perhaps the most impressive leader of the Catholic Church the world has ever known offers, as its editor suggests, "a harvest from the mind and heart of Pope Wojtyla." And so here is a chance for the modern reader, engaged...