New Science Titles from Penguin Random House

By Spenser Stevens | January 10 2024 | Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your Literature courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

Rough Sleepers
Rough Sleepers
Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people
Tracy Kidder
9781984801456
The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains
$22.00 US
Jan 16, 2024
Paperback
320 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
The Hunger Habit
The Hunger Habit
Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop
Judson Brewer, MD, PhD
9780593543252

The Hunger Habit is based on Judson Brewer’s deeply researched plan proven to help us understand what is going on in our brains so that we can heal the guilt and frustration we experience around eating.

$30.00 US
Jan 30, 2024
Hardcover
304 Pages
Avery
Categories We Live By
Categories We Live By
How We Classify Everyone and Everything
Gregory L. Murphy
9780262547031
An in-depth analysis of how humanity’s compulsion to categorize affects every aspect of our lived experience.
$40.00 US
Jan 09, 2024
Paperback
192 Pages
The MIT Press
A Place for Science and Technology Studies
A Place for Science and Technology Studies
Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration
Jane Calvert
9780262546942
An exploration of science and technology studies in eight different places, and the possibilities that arise for observation, intervention, and collaboration.
$40.00 US
Jan 09, 2024
Paperback
232 Pages
The MIT Press
Our Moon
Our Moon
How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
Rebecca Boyle
9780593129722
Longlisted for The National Book Award •USA Today Bestseller •ABA Indiebound Bestseller •New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice •A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • An "absorbing" (WSJ) invitation to reexamine our relationship with our closest cosmic companion."Boyle, whose graceful writing is as lulling as a bedtime story...makes the moon feel closer than ever"—The New York Times Book Review
$28.99 US
Jan 16, 2024
Hardcover
336 Pages
Random House
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