Letter From The Author: Matthew Desmond on Researching and Writing EVICTED

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City I began this project because I wanted to write a different kind of book about poverty in America. Instead of focusing exclusively on poor people or poor places, I began searching for a process that involved poor and well-off people alike. Eviction—the forced removal of families from

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Welcome to Penguin Random House Higher Education (Beta Version)

A more recent version of this story can be found here. Welcome to the new Penguin Random House Higher Education website! We are excited to feature a curated list of the most frequently adopted titles in higher education across our creatively independent adult publishing imprints, making content discoverability easier than ever. This site is designed

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Connecting through Literature: A Story of a Teacher and Her Student

Reading With Patrick explores questions that idealistic students who seek to tackle social injustice might be moved to ask: can you change a life? Is it arrogant to think you can? Perhaps even more deeply, students can ask: What is a human connection made of? Who do we choose to connect with? If two people are from unequal circumstances, is the connection compromised from the start?

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Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

Hardwiring Happiness teaches lessons such as the central importance of psychological resources for effectiveness and well-being; coping with challenges; and managing vulnerabilities and also how inner resources are acquired through processes of learning.

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