Penguin Random House Open License Online Story Time and Classroom Read-Aloud Videos and Live Events

As of July 1st, 2023, Penguin Random House’s Open License program ended, but we have a new program to better serve students, educators, and librarians, keeping many of the elements and ease of requesting permission to record and share read-aloud and story time events. Shaped by educator and librarian feedback from over the past two

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A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics: Gift Guide Edition

Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here. Greetings and welcome to the publisher’s office for a brief visit into the world of Penguin Classics where our editorial team shares some insight into our daily lives through classics. Meet us over Instagram where we post our newest titles and highlights from our 2,000+ title catalog, perhaps

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A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics: On Arthur Miller

Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   Greetings and welcome to the publisher’s office for a brief visit into the world of Penguin Classics where our editorial team shares some insight into our daily lives through classics. Meet us over socials where we post our newest titles and highlights from our 2,000+ title

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NOW AVAILABLE An Educator’s Guide to Arthur Miller: Exploring Plays as Authors, Activists, and Artists

In the history of postwar American art and politics, Arthur Miller casts a long shadow as a playwright of stunning range and power whose works held up a mirror to America and its shifting values. His characters wrestle with power conflicts, personal and social responsibility, and the repercussions of past actions. Bringing new life to

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Rockford University students use Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques in Introduction to International Studies

By: Dr. Ron Lee, Associate Professor, Political Science; Chair, Department of Political Science, Sociology, and Criminal Justice; Director, First Year Seminar Program at Rockford University   In an age defined by its great enthusiasm for diversity, a serious concern with the differences between us requires that we advance our understanding of those differences beyond a

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Brown University students use Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques in Principles of Cultural Anthropology

By: Matthew Gutmann, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Brown University My students are hard put to recall another writer, let alone an intellectual giant like Claude Lévi-Strauss, who inveighs against the dangers of literacy, as he does in Tristes Tropiques. It is a great discussion starter. By turns travelogue and scholarly treatise on disappearing cultures

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