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Because what you read matters. Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here. This month, we’re channeling the Stoics and practicing mindfulness in our daily lives, particularly through the books we read. We’ve gathered up some of our favorite books to keep us company during times of uncertainty, to provide a much-needed dose of calm and tranquility,

Contributed by Celeste Headlee, author of Do Nothing I recently asked a group of college professors on social media if they’d noticed a rise in the number of students who are burning out in school. I received a resounding chorus of replies that can be summed up in one word: YES. One prof at Southern

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To further encourage book reading, especially among students, and to support school and public libraries that are closed with the escalating CV-19 outbreak, Penguin Random House will discount the prices of the e-book and audio book titles sold through wholesalers to these institutions. This discounting begins immediately and will be in effect for a 90-day

As part of our mission to better serve the education community and provide specialized support throughout, we would like to introduce our new PRH Education landing page!    From this central hub which can now be accessed through prheducation.com, you will be able to quickly navigate to and browse curated content on:   PRH Higher

UPDATE: Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History, has been declared the winner of the 2019 Cundill Prize. Alan Taylor, Chair of the Jury, praised Lovell: “Her book will dazzle readers with lucid and vivid insights into the power of a protean, and often deadly, ideology – and its enduring impact on our world

On Monday, September 23, Oprah Winfrey announced that The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates is the inaugural selection for the new iteration of Oprah’s Book Club, a partnership between Winfrey and Apple. Coates appeared alongside Winfrey on CBS This Morning as the selection was made public. In a YouTube video shared on the Oprah Winfrey

Seaweed is a sustainable, easy-to-produce ocean vegetable that has a positive impact on climate change and our environment. Why then is it not a staple ingredient used in American kitchens? In his recently published memoir, fisherman-turned-ocean farmer Bren Smith aims to change that through his tales of ocean-bound adventure and culinary re-imagination. In the following

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and bestselling author Tony Horwitz died suddenly on May 27 in Washington, D.C. of an apparent cardiac arrest. He was 60 years old. Tony was a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As a newspaper reporter he spent a decade overseas,

According to an analysis by the Williams Institute in June 2022, over 1.6 million adults (ages 18 and older) and youth (ages 13 to 17) identify as transgender in the United States. Sociologist Arlene Stein spent a year following the lives of four transgender young adults, capturing their experiences as they transitioned from their assigned gender.

Professors of English, rhetoric, and composition share their thoughts on The Writer’s Practice. “Think you can’t write? John Warner disagrees. In his carefully plotted guide to better writing, Warner argues that with focused practice, you CAN improve. So can your students. The Writer’s Practice offers an easy-to-follow series of lessons that, while prompting you to write,

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