Watch Chris Blattman discuss his book Why We Fight

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

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A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

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

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Do You Teach Music?

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which cover applied music, music appreciation, music fundamentals, music history, and music theory.    Applied Music Music Appreciation Music Fundamentals Music History Music Theory  

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Books in Support of Trans People on Transgender Day of Visibility

Penguin Random House Education is pleased to share a curated collection of our titles by and about transgender people to mark the occasion of International Transgender Day of Visibility. By highlighting our trans authors and the lives of trans people, we hope to celebrate their contributions to society and raise awareness about the discrimination that

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Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, Penguin Random House Education is sharing a collection of titles by authors from the community. This list is comprised of memoirs, fiction, and history, and offers a range of topics from disability and trauma to immigration and family, and beyond. The

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A Conversation with Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, authors of Life Worth Living

The book is based on your popular class Life Worth Living at Yale. What do you want readers to take away from the book?   Five things stand out to us: We want readers to have a deep conviction that the question of what makes life most worth living matters and confidence that they have

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A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   From the new 65th-anniversary edition of a beloved New York novel, to the Islamic world’s landmark meditation on plagues, to a spotlight on our favorite classic women writers for Women’s History Month, there are plenty of Penguin Classics to put a spring

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Teaching Entrepreneurship: Using Ideaflow in STEAM

By: Lisa Yokana, STEAM Coordinator at Scarsdale High School   I am a high school teacher who teaches social entrepreneurship and runs a STEAM program at Scarsdale High School, a public school district just north of New York city. I began using Design Thinking in my classes over a decade ago, as a process for

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The Open Window: Representation Is for You, Too — A Message from Author Sara Nović

Contributed by Sara Nović, author of True Biz: A Novel. Following students at the River Valley School for the Deaf, True Biz is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable,

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FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Matthew Connelly’s The Declassification Engine

Using the latest techniques in data science, historian Matthew Connelly analyzes the millions of state documents both accessible to the public and still under review to unearth not only what the government does not want us to know, but what it says about the very authority we bequeath to our leaders. By culling this research

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