
Best Penguin Random House products in the Non-fiction 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. 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. 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 and over nine million copies have been sold worldwide. --------------------- 'It didn't take any willpower. I didn't miss it at all and I was free' Ruby Wax THE unique method: No scare tactics No weight-gain The psychological need to smoke disappears as you read Feel great to be 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 'Achieved for me a thing that.

3. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
English, Harari Yuval Noah, 2024
4. Ralph Lauren A Way of Living
A stunning celebration of Ralph Lauren's signature home collections-including the designer's own homes-which have inspired the world of interior design for nearly half a century.The cinematic vision of Ralph Lauren is brought to life with a stunning and intimately written book that spans decades of innovation and influence by the iconic American designer. Ralph Lauren: A Way of Living, published by Rizzoli New York, commemorates the 40th anniversary of the home collection with the first comprehensive volume dedicated to the signature style of Ralph Lauren and his pioneering lifestyle approach to design. From trailblazing innovations that revolutionised the home industry to conceptualizing residential retailing and perfecting the art of hospitality, Lauren has created a multifaceted world that evokes emotion and inspires a more beautiful way of life.This special volume presents a visual timeline of Ralph Lauren's remarkable history as a lifestyle innovator. Lauren's unparalleled ability to seamlessly blend fashion and the home is illustrated with the groundbreaking designs and innovative use of materials that have distinguished the home collection since its inception in 1983: menswear-inspired Oxford Cloth bedding that required the creation of special looms and took two years to refine; the sleek RL-CF1 chair, crafted of carbon fibre and inspired by Lauren's McLaren F1 racecar; and an appreciation for a timeworn, weathered aesthetic, as exemplified in the iconic Writer's Chair with its hand-burnished leather and rich patina. Historic achievements such as the opening of his first New York City flagship on Madison Avenue - which invited guests to experience the complete World of Ralph Lauren in a residential environment - and his renowned restaurants that offer the epitome of gracious hospitality, demonstrate the magnitude of Ralph Lauren's influence on the worlds of lifestyle design and hospitality. The timeline is complete with quotes from distinguished members of.

5. The Coming Wave (Export Edition)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance-from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI "A fascinating, well-written, and important book."-Yuval Noah Harari "Essential reading."-Daniel Kahneman "An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times."-Bill GatesA Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor - Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award - Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia? Is it possible to contain the threat of AI? This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes "the containment problem"-the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies-as the essential.

6. 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 distils 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 to think like a professional designer. Frida has created this BIBLE to interior design ... such useful info that has taken me years to learn, all in one place' Rebecca Wakefield, Studio Fortnum 'Beautifully illustrated with handy line drawings ... The Interior Design Handbook gets down to the nitty gritty of successfully putting a room together' Fabric Magazine 'Take it to bed and you'll be utterly engrossed and elightened' Stylist.

7. The World for Sale
Anecdotally rich . . . A highly readable study in world economics and a valuable primer for would-be oil barons.

8. SAPIENS - A brief history of mankind
The million-seller now in an affordable and expanded paperback edition100,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens lived as an insignificant species in a remote corner of the African continent. Today, man is the master and terror of the planet. How did it come to this? In his brilliant journey from the apes to the cyborg, Yuval Noah Harari's internationally acclaimed bestseller "Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind" sketches the grand panorama of our own history - and poses the question of where we want to go from here. "Sapiens" is one of the biggest non-fiction successes of all time and has sold over 2 million copies in Germany alone, so far under the title "A Brief History of Mankind". This immense success is no coincidence: the book has fundamentally changed the responsibility we as humans feel towards our fellow creatures and the planet - and how we act. "Yuval Noah Harari writes precisely, intelligently - and above all in such a way that you don't want to stop reading. This book makes brains grow." ZEIT WISSENDThe book was first published in 2013 under the title "A Brief History of Humanity" by DVA. This paperback edition has been updated and supplemented with a new epilogue and numerous illustrations.

SAPIENS - A brief history of mankind
German, Yuval Noah Harari, Juergen Neubauer, 2024
9. The Anxious Generation
An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling authorJonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking wisdom and truth in some of the most the most difficult spaces - communities polarised by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the perfect storm contributing to a public health emergency for teenagers today.In The Anxious Generation, Haidt argues that for the cohort that hit puberty around 2009, their sense of self developed as the threads of three dramatic technological and social changes emerged: smartphones and life with the constant companionship of a screen, front-facing cameras and apps that thrive on selfie-culture, and social networks that reduce engagement and affirmation to likes and hearts alone.This book shows how the ground for the current crisis in teen mental health was seeded by a decades-long shift from play-based childhoods to ones defined by over-supervision, structure, and fear: how adults began to overprotect children in the real world while unwittingly offering scant protection in the brutal online world. Haidt delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show the four fundamental ways in which a phone-based childhood disrupts development - sleep deprivation, social deprivation, cognitive fragmentation, and addiction - while offering concrete and scientifically based advice to parents, schools, universities, governments, and to teens themselves. Drawing on ancient wisdom and cutting-edge research, this eye-opening book is a life-raft and a powerful call-to-arms.

10. Unreasonable Hospitality
B>b>Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner of legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park./b>/b>br>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.br>;br>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. And 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.br>;br>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.br>br>;.
