Riverhead Books imprint: 592 books
Everything Bad is Good for You
How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted
Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven...
How to Not Write Bad
The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Ben Yagoda's How to Not Write Bad illustrates how we can all write better, more clearly, and for a wider readership.
He offers advice on what he calls "not-writing-badly," which consists of the ability, first, to craft sentences that are correct in terms of spelling, diction (word choice),...
by Howard C Cutler, Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
The essence of the iconic book The Art of Happiness distilled into a beautiful new format. Don't miss the Dalai Lama's newest, The Book of Joy, named one of Oprah's Favorite Things.
The Dalai Lama inspired millions around the world with his wisdom and compassion in The Art of Happiness. Now,...
India Becoming
A Portrait of Life in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012
**A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012
A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives**
The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur...
Are You Happy?
A Childhood Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
An elegant dissection of how youthful happiness is lost, by a memoirist of great style and insight.
"The happiness of childhood is existential, not psychological," writes Emily Fox Gordon.
Gordon's early life was, as she puts it, "a succession of moments of radiant apprehension." In...
Wonderland
How Play Made the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
**“A house of wonders itself. . . . *Wonderland *inspires grins and well-what-d'ya-knows” —The New York Times Book Review
From the *New York Times–*bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Farsighted, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves...
The Knowledge Illusion
Why We Never Think Alone
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
**“The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom.” —Steven Pinker
We all think we know more than we actually do.**
Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even...
by Elizabeth Swire Falker
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
An engaging guide to navigating the challenges of infertility.
After seven years of tests and more tests, treatments and more treatments, Elizabeth Swire-Falker understands what it means to struggle with infertility. In this frank, reassuring, and thoroughly researched handbook, she shares...
Verses from the Center
A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
The understanding of the nature of reality is the insight upon which the Buddha was able to achieve his own enlightenment. This vision of the sublime is the source of all that is enigmatic and paradoxical about Buddhism. In Verses from the Center, Stephen Batchelor explores the history of this concept...
All Gone
A Memoir of My Mother's Dementia. With Refreshments
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
A daughter’s longing love letter to a mother who has slipped beyond reach.
Just past seventy, Alex Witchel’s smart, adoring, ultracapable mother began to exhibit undeniable signs of dementia. Her smart, adoring, ultracapable daughter reacted as she’d been raised: If something was...
Fragrant
The Secret Life of Scent
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
**Winner of the 2016 Perfumed Plume Award
The “Alice Waters of American natural perfume” (indieperfume.com) celebrates our most potent sense, through five rock stars of the fragrant world.
Look out for Mandy Aftel's new book, The Art of Flavor, on sale in August!**
Mandy Aftel...
Spineless
The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
**"A book full of wonders" —Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk
"Witty, insightful. . . .The story of jellyfish. . . is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future."...
Think Smart
A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
A leading neuroscientist and New York Times-bestselling author of Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot distills the research on the brain and serves up practical, surprising, and illuminating recommendations for warding off neurological decline, cognitive function, and encouraging smarter thinking...
Infinite Home
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
**"[E]xpect to find insights that make you stop, go back and read again.... Take it from us: You don't know what's coming in the last third of this book, and you will be astounded." —O, the Oprah Magazine
A beautifully wrought story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together.**
Edith...