Random House Publishing Group: 10573 books
How to Run the World
Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Here is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relations—a system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West, rich versus poor, democracy versus authoritarianism, free markets versus state capitalism. Written by the...
by Sarah Sentilles
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference.
“How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and...
The Victory of Reason
How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull ahead of the rest of the world by the end of the Middle Ages. The most common explanations cite the West’s superior geography, commerce, and technology. Completely overlooked is the fact that faith...
Monsoon Diary
A Memoir with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Shoba Narayan’s Monsoon Diary weaves a fascinating food narrative that combines delectable Indian recipes with tales from her life, stories of her delightfully eccentric family, and musings about Indian culture.
Narayan recounts her childhood in South India, her college days in America, her...
World's Fair
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Winner of the National Book Award • “Marvelous . . . You get lost in World’s Fair as if it were an exotic adventure. You devour it with the avidity usually provoked by a suspense thriller.”—The New York Times
Hailed by critics from coast to coast and by readers of all ages, this resonant...
Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Updated with the latest information
A completely revised edition of the classic guide to PMS-the first book on this pressing health issue ever published in the United States
Soon after Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome came out more than fifteen years ago, it was established as the...
Hard News
The Scandals at The New York Times and the Future of American Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core and revealed...
Second Lives
A Journey Through Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented places and populations that is entered and inhabited...
What Terrorists Want
Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
“This is at the top of my list for best books on terrorism.”–Jessica Stern, author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
How can the most powerful country in the world feel so threatened by an enemy infinitely weaker than we are? How can loving parents and otherwise...
Turkmeniscam
How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
“As I have often said, I would represent the devil himself for the right price–it’s not personal, just business.”
–a Washington, D.C., lobbyist
For nearly as long as there have been politicians in the United States, there have been lobbyists haunting the halls of Congress–shaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for
a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language.
Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to
the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to implement it immediately. It is a unique...
It's Not You, It's the Dishes (originally published as Spousonomics)
How to Minimize Conflict and Maximize Happiness in Your Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Your marriage is fine, right? Sure, there are showdowns over who unloads more dishes, and some simmering discontent over who drives more car pools, cleans more dust bunnies, and keeps the social wheels of your existence greased. The sex is good, though you can’t remember when you last had it. Come...
I Only Say This Because I Love You
How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2001
Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're...
Guiding Lights
The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
We all need people to help us find the way. In this stirring new book, acclaimed author and educator Eric Liu takes us on a quest for those guiding lights. He shares invaluable lessons from people whose “classrooms” are boardrooms, arenas, concert halls, theaters, kitchens, and places of worship–and...