Best selling Non-fiction from Penguin Random House
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 The Creative ACT: A Way of Being
From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be.'-Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin, on the other hand, is most famous for something else: for creating a strong safe space where artists of wildly different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. To surprise themselves, and thus the world. Rubin's true art is for helping people get out of their own way and commune with the powerful creative signal that is their birthright. Over the years, Rubin has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, about what it takes to strike a deep nerve within ourselves. Perhaps above all, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output, it's a relationship to the world. Creativity has a space in everyone's life, and everyone has the opportunity to make that space stronger. Indeed, it may be our most important responsibility. More than five years in the making, The Creative Act is a series of meditations that illuminate the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It is a beautifully generous offering of the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work spent in the service of exhilaration and transcendence, distilled into a timeless classic that puts those feelings within closer reach for all of us'--.
2. Penguin Random House The Anxious Generation
"The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt is a profound examination of the troubling development of adolescent mental health in the digital age. In this non-fiction book, Haidt analyzes the alarming increases in depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide among teenagers that have been observed since the early 2010s. He highlights the role of smartphones, social media, and large technology companies in this crisis and provides a well-founded analysis of the impacts on childhood. Haidt argues that the shift from a playful childhood to a virtual world has catastrophic consequences, particularly for girls. The book is not only a critical engagement with the challenges facing today's youth but also a call for healthier and freer growing up. It is aimed at parents, educators, and anyone interested in the future of the next generation.
3. Penguin Random House The World for Sale
"The World for Sale" is an insightful non-fiction book that sheds light on the complex and often unknown mechanisms of global commodity trading. The authors, Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, take readers on a journey through the world of commodity traders who operate behind the scenes and control the supply of energy, food, and metals. In a time when energy crises and food shortages are on the rise, it becomes clear how these traders earn billions through strategic deals and risky decisions. The book not only offers fascinating insights into the world of commodities but also highlights the far-reaching impacts of these trades on the global economy and politics. The gripping narrative and in-depth analyses make it an essential work for anyone looking to understand the dynamics of the international economy.
4. Penguin Random House The Interior Design Handbook
The bestselling Swedish phenomenon. What looks good and why? Design consultant Frida Ramstedt runs Scandinavia's leading interior design blog. In this book, she distills the secrets of successful interior design and styling to help you create a home that works best for your space, taste, and lifestyle. Filled with practical tips, rules of thumb, and tricks of the trade, The Interior Design Handbook will help you think like a professional designer. Frida has created this guide to interior design, featuring useful information that has taken years to learn, all in one place. Beautifully illustrated with handy line drawings, The Interior Design Handbook gets down to the nitty-gritty of successfully putting a room together. Take it to bed, and you'll be utterly engrossed and enlightened.
5. Penguin Random House Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Read this book and you'll never smoke another cigarette again. Allen Carr has discovered a method of quitting that will enable any smoker to stop easily, immediately, and permanently. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking is the one that really works. It is the world's bestselling book on how to stop smoking, with over nine million copies sold worldwide.
The unique method includes no scare tactics and no weight gain. The psychological need to smoke disappears as you read, allowing you to feel great as a non-smoker. Join the 25 million men and women that Allen Carr has helped stop smoking.
Testimonials: "Giving up smoking was one of the biggest achievements of my life. I read Allen Carr's book and would recommend it to anybody trying to kick the habit." - Michael McIntyre.
6. Penguin Random House The Body Keeps the Score
"Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society." -Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times Science bestseller Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-co.
7. Penguin Random House SAPIENS - Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit
The million-seller is now available in an affordable and expanded paperback edition. 100,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens lived as an insignificant species in a remote corner of the African continent. Today, humans are the masters and terrors of the planet. How did this happen? In his stunning journey from apes to cyborgs, Yuval Noah Harari, with his internationally acclaimed bestseller "Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind," paints a grand panorama of our own history and poses the question of where we want to go from here. "Sapiens" is one of the greatest nonfiction successes of all time, having sold over 2 million copies in Germany alone, previously under the title "A Brief History of Humankind." This immense success is no coincidence: the book has fundamentally changed how we perceive our responsibility as humans towards our fellow creatures and the planet—and how we act. "Yuval Noah Harari writes precisely, intelligently—and above all, in a way that makes you not want to stop reading. This book makes brains grow." ZEIT WISSEN. The book was first published in 2013 under the title "A Brief History of Humankind" by DVA. This paperback edition has been updated and includes a new afterword, along with numerous illustrations.
8. Penguin Random House Meditations
Meditations
A new translation, with an introduction, by Gregory Hays
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (A.D. 121–180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in A.D. 161—and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. With a profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus provides insights, wisdom, and practical guidance on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity to interacting with others. Consequently, the Meditations have become required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style. In Gregory Hays’s new translation—the first in a generation—Marcus’s thoughts speak with a new immediacy: never before have they been so directly and powerfully presented.
About the author(s)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (A.D. 121 – 180) was Roman Emperor and wrote his Meditations during his campaigns against the barbarians.
9. Penguin Random House Unreasonable Hospitality
Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner of the legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park.
In 2006, Will Guidara and Swiss chef Daniel Humm were placed at the helm of Eleven Madison Park. The establishment, a brasserie with an identity crisis, was in desperate need of magic. In 2017, Eleven Madison Park was named the best restaurant in the world, legendary for its memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality as much as its food.
How did Eleven Madison Park pull off this radical transformation? The answer is simple - its world-class hospitality. Guidara's team would send a family who had never seen snow to Central Park with a sled on a snowy night or track down the cab that a guest had left their iPhone in to retrieve the device. His hospitality extended beyond the dining room and into the kitchen, where he encouraged his entire restaurant team to learn continuously, tap into their own passions, and think like owners no matter their roles.
We can all transform ordinary business transactions into an extraordinary hospitality experience. Through sparkling stories of Guidara's journey through the restaurant industry, featuring the industry's most famous players like Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, Guidara urges us all to find the magic in what we do—for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve.
10. Penguin Random House Antifragile
Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, and why is what we call efficient not efficient at all? Why should you write your resignation letter before starting a new job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? This title shows us that improbable and unpredictable events underlie everything about our world.
