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By: Gabel Strickland   “More than a little like Robin Hood, the mythic outlaw but friend of the people who has endured like no other figure in the English language, the pirates—to simplify an exceedingly complex category—have been a natural for popularization and romanticization. They exist beyond the margins of law and order. They boast

For Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, we spoke with Barcelona-based software engineer and author Angel Sola Orbaiceta, who is author of the book, Hardcore Programming for Mechanical Engineers (No Starch Press). Angel earned his degree in industrial engineering, but taught himself to code in between classes, and has worked in the software industry since graduating over

By: Chris Blattman   I’m an economist by training, but I’ve spent much of my career in political science departments and public policy schools. I even married a psychologist, and we collaborate on a lot of our research. Nowadays, my work looks a lot like sociology. In this book, I wanted to bring together decades

Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   Spring has sprung at Penguin Classics HQ, and we are celebrating with a fresh bouquet of brand-new classics. Read on to see what we’re picking up this month, and let us know on social media what your favorite springtime reads are (we’re

Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022, has dedicated her writing to the preservation of specific moments in time—some long, some brief— which at one point were all that mattered. She illuminates the impermanence of even our most intense experiences. She transparently and eloquently recounts these moments in her life, as

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