Penguin Random House Higher Education
Elementary Secondary Higher Ed

Higher Education


Catalogs

News

Desk/Exam
(0)
Wish List
(0)
Wish List
  • Higher Education

    • Business & Economics
        • Business & Economics
        • Accounting
        • Business
        • Economics
        • Finance
        • Management
        • Management Information Services
        • Marketing

        • Browse All Disciplines & Courses in Business & Economics
    • Humanities & Social Sciences
        • Humanities & Social Sciences
        • Anthropology
        • Art
        • Communication
        • Education
        • English
        • Film Studies
        • History
        • Interdisciplinary Studies
        • Music
        •  
        • Performing Arts
        • Philosophy
        • Political Science
        • Psychology
        • Religion
        • Social Work
        • Sociology
        • Student Success and Career Development
        • World Languages

        • Browse All Disciplines & Courses in Humanities & Social Sciences
    • Professional Studies
        • Professional Studies
        • Architecture
        • Criminal Justice
        • Culinary, Hospitality, Travel , and Tourism
        • Healthcare Professions
        • Legal and Paralegal Studies
        • Military Science

        • Browse All Disciplines & Courses in Professional Studies
    • Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
        • Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
        • Biology
        • Chemistry
        • Computer Science
        • Computers & Information Systems
        • Engineering
        • Environmental Science
        •  
        • Geography
        • Geology
        • Health and Kinesiology
        • Mathematics
        • Nutrition
        • Physics and Astronomy

        • Browse All Disciplines & Courses in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
    • Catalogs
    • News
    • Desk/Exam
    • Other Penguin Random House Education Sites
    • Elementary Education
    • Secondary Education
Are you still there?
If not, we’ll close this session in:

51 Articles Tagged Knopf Doubleday

General Humanities & Social Sciences
October 28 2019

Julia Lovell wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

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

Read more

Julia Lovell wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

General Humanities & Social Sciences
October 28 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
September 26 2019

Interviews, Reviews, and News: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, has been called the most anticipated novel of the year. Gilead and the world of the handmaids have inspired a successful TV adaptation, as well as protests against U.S. healthcare restrictions and the controversial confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Awarded the 2019 Booker Prize, The Testaments has

Read more

Interviews, Reviews, and News: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
September 26 2019
Business & Economics Humanities & Social Sciences
September 2 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Beaten Down, Worked Up

In recent years, corporate profits have skyrocketed in the United States. Workers often haven’t seen the same good fortune as their employers, with wages on average remaining stagnate or seeing only slight increases after inflation. In this excerpt from Beaten Down, Worked Up, reporter Steven Greenhouse shares the struggles faced by many Americans, their stories

Read more

FROM THE PAGE: Beaten Down, Worked Up

Business & Economics Humanities & Social Sciences
September 2 2019
Humanities & Social Sciences
August 1 2019

Interviews, Reviews, and News: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad received glowing critical reception upon its publication, earning him the National Book Award and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His highly anticipated follow-up novel The Nickel Boys faced the threat of being overshadowed by its predecessor, but has quickly earned a spotlight of its own. We’ve put together a

Read more

Interviews, Reviews, and News: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

Humanities & Social Sciences
August 1 2019
Humanities & Social Sciences
July 17 2019

Celebrating Gabriel García Márquez (Celebrando Gabriel García Márquez)

Journalist, novelist, and short story writer—no matter the medium, master storyteller Gabriel García Márquez knew how to transport readers from around the world to Latin America. With his signature mix of realism and the fantastic, García Márquez’s words brought to life the history and culture of an entire continent. As a way to celebrate the

Read more

Celebrating Gabriel García Márquez (Celebrando Gabriel García Márquez)

Humanities & Social Sciences
July 17 2019
General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
July 15 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Eat Like A Fish

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

Read more

FROM THE PAGE: Eat Like A Fish

General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
July 15 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 21 2019

Documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am arrives in theaters

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am profiles the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of international acclaim, featuring interviews with Morrison herself, Robert Gottlieb, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Walter Mosley, and more. The documentary portrays Morrison in an intimate, human light: examining her life, works, and the philosophies woven throughout the stories she tells. In the video

Read more

Documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am arrives in theaters

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 21 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 19 2019

Immigration and the American Idea: Abdi Nor Iftin shares his journey from Somalia to America

Immigration Heritage Month serves as a reminder to  celebrate individual stories of immigration, and the shared diversity that makes up the United States. This year at the 38th annual conference on The First-Year Experience, author Abdi Nor Iftin shared his journey from war-torn Somalia to the United States—first by way of American movies, and years later

Read more

Immigration and the American Idea: Abdi Nor Iftin shares his journey from Somalia to America

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 19 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 5 2019

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale retold through illustrations

Season 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale kicks off on Wednesday, June 05, with Hulu releasing new episodes each week. Hulu has described the new season as being “driven by June’s resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead and her struggle to strike back against overwhelming odds.” Just in time for the season premiere, Nan A. Talese

Read more

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale retold through illustrations

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 5 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 22 2019

FROM THE PAGE: There There

There There is a multivoiced novel that features twelve Native American characters of different backgrounds and generations all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American, grappling with a complex and painful history. In an interview with The New Yorker, Tommy Orange explained

Read more

FROM THE PAGE: There There

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 22 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 17 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Washington Black

Washington Black follows “Wash” Black, an eleven-year-old field slave on a sugar plantation in Barbados. When Wash’s old master dies, the plantation’s already dire living conditions immediately worsen. Wash is then selected to become a manservant to his new master’s brother, a man who, as it turns out, is not only an abolitionist, but an inventor,

Read more

FROM THE PAGE: Washington Black

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 17 2019
General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 10 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

According to an analysis by the Williams Institute in 2016, 1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender, with young adults (ages 18 to 24) most likely to say they are transgender. Sociologist Arlene Stein spent a year following the lives of four transgender young adults, capturing their experiences as they transitioned from

Read more

FROM THE PAGE: Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 10 2019
  • « Older
Categories
  • General
  • Common Reads
  • Business & Economics
  • Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Professional Studies
  • Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • Conferences
  • Environmental Science
  • Literature
  • Disability Studies
  • Political Science
  • Labor Studies
  • History
  • Legal Studies
  • Management
  • Music
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Writing
  • Human Rights
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Criminal Justice
  • Art
  • Human Geography
  • Native American
Top Tags
A Horse Walks Into a Bar, Alice Wong, American history, American politics, David Grossman, Diversity and Inclusion, Domestic Politics, Doubleday, Falling out of Time, Israel, Israel Prize for Literature, journalism, Matthew Desmond, MIT, MIT Press, Penguin Random House Publisher Services, Poverty, PRHPS, Seven Stories Press, To the End of the Land
Archives
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022

Our mission is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to help create stories and communicate ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire.

Privacy Policy   |   Terms of Use

© 2023 Penguin Random House

About Higher Education

  • About Us
  • Digital Solutions
  • FAQs
  • Conferences
  • Submit a desk/exam request
  • Contact your Higher Education Account Manager
  • Browse & subscribe to our newsletters

Penguin Random House Education

  • Elementary
  • Secondary
  • Higher Ed
  • Common Reads

Penguin Random House

  • penguinrandomhouse.com
  • global.penguinrandomhouse.com
  • Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau

About Higher Education

  • About Us
  • Digital Solutions
  • FAQs
  • Conferences

Penguin Random House Education

  • Elementary
  • Secondary
  • Higher Ed
  • Common Reads
  • Submit a desk/exam request
  • Contact your Higher Education Account Manager
  • Browse & subscribe to our newsletters

Penguin Random House

  • penguinrandomhouse.com
  • global.penguinrandomhouse.com
  • Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau

Privacy Policy   |   Terms of Use

© 2023 Penguin Random House
Back to Top