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 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.
3. Penguin Random House Der Nahost-Komplex
No one embodies fearless reporting from the Middle East quite like Natalie Amiri. For her new book, the award-winning author has traveled throughout the entire region. She gives a voice to the suffering children of Gaza, speaks with Israeli relatives of murdered hostages, meets Kurdish women holding the line against ISIS in Kobane, and interviews Marwan Barghuthi in an Israeli prison, whose significance for the Palestinians is compared to that of Nelson Mandela for South Africa. Conversations with Carla del Ponte and Margot Friedländer also feature in her book, through which she achieves something that seems almost impossible today: she bridges the worlds and evokes empathy for all sides. She firmly stands by the Jewish people while sharply criticizing German politics and media. A book that helps us understand the direction in which the Middle East is heading with a massively weakened Iran, and ultimately takes an uncompromising stance – that of the people.
4. Penguin Random House Strong Ground
"Strong Ground" is an upcoming non-fiction book by Brené Brown that addresses the challenges and opportunities of leading in a complex world. The book highlights the principles of courageous leadership, the necessity of embracing paradoxes, and the deeper wisdom that emerges from human experience. Brown, known for her empathetic and investigative approach, offers valuable insights in this work that are relevant for both leaders and anyone interested in the topics of leadership and personal development. The combination of theoretical foundations and practical examples makes "Strong Ground" an essential read for anyone looking to enhance their leadership skills and navigate the challenges of the modern business landscape.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Penguin Random House Indignity
"Indignity" by Lea Ypi is a captivating non-fiction book that explores historical injustices and the quest for personal and collective dignity. The author, known for her award-winning works, begins her narrative with an unexpected discovery: a photo of her grandmother Leman taken during her honeymoon in the Italian Alps in 1941. This revelation raises a multitude of questions, particularly regarding the destruction of records about her grandmother's life in the early days of communism in Albania. Ypi takes readers on an exciting journey through history, ranging from the Ottoman aristocracy in Thessaloniki to the challenges of modern Greece and Albania. Through the lens of her family history and the archives of the secret police, the complex relationship between the past and identity is illuminated as Ypi seeks to unravel the truth about her roots and the circumstances that shaped her family. This book is not only a personal narrative but also a profound reflection on the themes of memory, identity, and the impact of political upheavals on individual lives.
8. Penguin Random House Invisible Women
The Sunday Times number one bestseller with over half a million copies sold, "Invisible Women" uncovers the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives. Caitlin Moran describes it as "hell yes. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research."
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, or in a car accident, you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman.
From government policy and medical research to technology, workplaces, and the media, "Invisible Women" reveals how a world built for and by men systematically ignores half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. Caroline Criado Perez brings together an impressive range of case studies, stories, and new research from across the globe that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten and the profound impact this has on us all.
Discover more in Caroline's new podcast, "Visible Women." The Sunday Times calls it "a book that changes the way you see the world," while Jeanette Winterson describes it as "revelatory, frightening, hopeful.".
9. Penguin Random House The Black Swan: Second Edition
The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called 'On Robustness and Fragility'.
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable, it carries a massive impact, and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan, so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.
Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don't know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the 'impossible'.
For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb will change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, 'On Robustness and Fragility,' which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.
Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a landmark book-itself a black swan.
10. Penguin Random House Breakneck
"Breakneck" is a captivating account of China's impressive progress, offering a new perspective on the country's rise. Technology analyst Dan Wang, who has lived in China for the past six years, describes the complex relationship between China and the West. In this book, China is portrayed as an engineering state boldly undertaking megaprojects, while the USA is depicted as a law firm that often blocks everything. Wang analyzes the economic and political dynamics that have shaped China's ascent and highlights the social costs associated with this development, such as the impacts of the zero-Covid policy and the one-child policy. Through his explorations of China's vibrant cities and factories, Wang combines political and economic analyses with journalistic reporting to illuminate the ambitions of the Communist Party and their effects on the population. In a time when the USA and China are preparing for a new Cold War, "Breakneck" provides valuable insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the engineering state and urges readers to take China's global ambitions seriously.
