Best Penguin Random House products in the Reference books category
On this page you'll find a ranking of the best Penguin Random House products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've already ranked the most important information about the products for you.
1. Penguin Random House Meditations
This book offers spiritual reflections and exercises developed by the author, who struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. It covers topics such as the question of virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods, and Aurelius's own emotions.
2. Penguin Random House Good to Great
This text attempts to show how a good company can become a great company. It looks at the type of leadership required, the one thing a company must focus on, the correct uses of technology, and how to make the changes last.
3. Penguin Random House The Anxious Generation
The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
"Jonathan Haidt is a modern-day prophet, disguised as a psychologist... He points the way forward to a brighter, stronger future for us all." - Susan Cain
"Compelling, readable - and incredibly chilling... remarkably persuasive." - Telegraph
"Urgent and essential." - Guardian
"One of the most terrifying books I have read... some of the statistics Haidt quotes are truly shocking." - Evening Standard
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the early 2010s. Why have rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide risen so sharply, more than doubling in many cases? In this book, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the decline of free play in childhood and the rise of smartphone usage among adolescents are the twin sources of increased mental distress among teenagers.
Haidt delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired. As teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, time online soared while time engaging face-to-face with friends and family plummeted, and so did mental health. This profound shift took place against a backdrop of diminishing childhood freedom, as parents over-supervised every aspect of their children's lives offline, depriving them of the experiences they most need to become strong and self-governing adults.
The Anxious Generation reveals the fundamental ways in which this shift from free play to smartphones disrupts development - from sleep deprivation to addiction - with separate in-depth analyses of the impact on girls and boys. Grounded in ancient wisdom and packed full of cutting-edge science, this eye-opening book is a life raft and a powerful call to arms, offering practical advice for parents, schools, governments, and teens themselves.
4. Penguin Random House Thinking, Fast and Slow
Explores how our mind works and how we make decisions. This book demonstrates how our thinking is affected by errors and biases, even when we believe we are being logical, and provides practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking. It enables you to make better decisions at work, at home, and in everything you do.
5. Penguin Random House Games People Play
Eric Berne was a prominent psychiatrist and bestselling author. After inventing his groundbreaking transactional analysis, he continued to develop and apply this new methodology, leading him to publish "Games People Play." This became a runaway success, and Berne leaves a remarkable legacy of over 30 other books and articles, as well as the founding of the International Transactional Analysis Association.
Dr. Berne's other works include "Principles of Group Treatment," "A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis," and "What Do You Say After You Say Hello?" He died in 1970.
6. Penguin Random House The Body Keeps the Score
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his own work and those of specialists around the globe, The Body Keeps the Score sheds new light on the routes away from trauma, which lie in the regulation and syncing of body and mind, using sport, drama, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and other routes to equilibrium.
7. Penguin Random House Start with Why
Why do we do what we do? Why do we exist? Learning to ask these questions can unlock the secret to inspirational business. This title explains what it truly takes to lead and inspire and how you can learn to do it.
8. Penguin Random House Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition
A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics. Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete, while others cover a vast amount of material but lack rigor. "Introduction to Algorithms" uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers, with self-contained chapters and algorithms in pseudocode. Since the publication of the first edition, "Introduction to Algorithms" has become the leading algorithms text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals. This fourth edition has been updated throughout.
New for the fourth edition:
- New chapters on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, and machine learning
- New material on topics including solving recurrence equations, hash tables, potential functions, and suffix arrays
- 140 new exercises and 22 new problems
- Reader feedback-informed improvements to old problems
- Clearer, more personal, and gender-neutral writing style
- Color added to improve visual presentation
- Notes, bibliography, and index updated to reflect developments in the field
- Website with new supplementary material.
Reference books
CHF218.53
Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition
English, Clifford Stein, Ronald L. Rivest, Charles E. Leiserson, 2022
9. Penguin Random House Everything Is Tuberculosis
"Everything Is Tuberculosis" by John Green is an insightful non-fiction book that explores the complex relationship between humanity and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, a disease that has been intertwined with humanity for millennia, is examined in this work not only as a medical issue but also as a reflection of social injustices and inequalities. Green tells the poignant story of Henry, a young tuberculosis patient from Sierra Leone, and highlights the challenges associated with combating this preventable disease. Through personal experiences and well-researched scientific analyses, the reader is encouraged to reflect on the global health disparities that make tuberculosis one of the deadliest diseases in the world. This book is significant for both healthcare professionals and interested laypeople, as it emphasizes the need for better access to treatments and greater awareness of this neglected disease.
10. Penguin Random House Technofeudalism
What an amazing work this is. Groundbreaking, thought-provoking, and extremely accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, frightening, exhilarating song of our time. 100 out of 100.
Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most far-reaching book, visionary economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of major tech companies have become the feudal lords of the world, replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our thoughts, challenges democracy, and rewrites the rules of global power.
Yet as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overthrow it, bringing the revolution we need to escape our digital prison into sharper focus than ever.
An epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift. This is not just new technology. This is a world grappling with a completely new economic system and, consequently, political power.
An urgent call to seize the means of calculation. A book of the year according to the Financial Times.
