Picador imprint: 544 books
The Father of Spin
Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The Father of Spin is the first full-length biography of the legendary Edward L. Bernays, who, beginning in the 1920s, was one of the first and most successful practioners of the art of public relations. In this engrossing biography, Larry Tye uses Bernays's life as a prism to understand the evolution...
No More Champagne
Churchill and His Money
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Meticulously researched by a senior private banker now turned historian, No More Champagne reveals for the first time the full extent of the iconic British war leader's private struggle to maintain a way of life instilled by his upbringing and expected of his public position.
Lough uses Churchill's...
Black Man in a White Coat
A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION • A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE BOOK SELECTION
One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems...
Waking the Spirit
A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
An Oliver Sacks Foundation Best Book of the Year Selection, Finalist for the Books for a Better Life "Best First Book” Award, and a People Magazine Pick in nonfiction.
The astounding story of a critically ill musician who is saved by music and returns to the same hospital to help heal...
Close to the Machine
Technophilia and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier
A Salon Best Book of the Year
In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. With intimate and unflinching detail, software engineer Ellen Ullman examines the strange...
God's Perfect Child
Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
From a former Christian Scientist, the first unvarnished account of one of America's most controversial and little-understood religious movements.
Millions of americans-from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman-have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist....
The Woman Before Wallis
Prince Edward, the Parisian Courtesan, and the Perfect Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
From the glittering dance halls of Paris during World War I to the maisons de rendezvous, luxurious châteaus in the French countryside, The Woman Before Wallis recounts the untold story of Prince Edward's tempestuous affair with a Parisian courtesan and the scandalous aftermath that has remained...
The Domino Diaries
My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba
Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match (against the favorite), becoming romantically...
A Cuban Boxer's Journey
Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro’s Traitor to American Champion
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
THE STORY OF CUBAN BOXER AND POLITICAL PARIAH GUILLERMO RIGONDEAUX'S HARROWING DECISION TO DEFECT IN HOPES OF REAPING THE REWARDS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
"What is one million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?"
This was the question posed by legendary boxer...
The Value of Nothing
How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
"A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing,"...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent...
What Would the Great Economists Do?
How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A Newsweek "Best 50 Books of the Year (So Far)" Pick
"What Would the Great Economists Do? comes at the right time: a highly accessible and acute guide to thinking and learning from the men and woman whose work can inform and ultimately aid us in understanding the great national...
by Roman Krznaric
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED...
by Stephen Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The job of the skin is to keep it all in...
On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven-and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk...