Great Ideas... - Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141043692 | ISBN 10: 0141043695
In Utopia Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means 'no place', and More's hugely influential work was ultimately an attack on his own corrupt, dangerous t ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141191591 | ISBN 10: 0141191597
A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Bud ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141043685 | ISBN 10: 0141043687
Fundamental to Chinese philosophy and religion, the Tao Te Ching is a simple guidebook for virtue, encouraging peace, understanding and humility. Ranging from political advice to common wisdom, it has also served as an inspiration to artists across t ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141191263 | ISBN 10: 0141191260
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenc ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141043845 | ISBN 10: 0141043849
These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Masters challenge every perception - and seek to bring all readers close ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141043968 | ISBN 10: 0141043962
An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his writings ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141043975 | ISBN 10: 0141043970
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141036823 | ISBN 10: 0141036826
Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson's writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the id ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141036618 | ISBN 10: 0141036613
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141036731 | ISBN 10: 0141036737
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriche ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141036670 | ISBN 10: 0141036672
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriche ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141036700 | ISBN 10: 0141036702
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriche ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023939 | ISBN 10: 0141023937
The Father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023922 | ISBN 10: 0141023929
Voltaire's short, radical and iconoclastic essays on philosophical ideas from angels to idolatry, miracles to wickedness, make wry observations about human beliefs, and mock hypocrisy and extravagant piety - his call to his fellow men to act with rea ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023984 | ISBN 10: 0141023988
With its wry portrayal of a shallow, materialistic 'leisure class' obsessed by clothes, cars, consumer goods and climbing the social ladder, this withering satire on modern capitalism is as pertinent today as when it was written over a century ago. ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023991 | ISBN 10: 0141023996
Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141024004 | ISBN 10: 0141024003
Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all guilt because he was ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023847 | ISBN 10: 0141023848
Plato's retelling of the discourses between Socrates and his friends on such subjects as love and desire, truth and illusion, spiritual transcendence and the qualities of a good ruler, profoundly affected the ways in which we view human relationships ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023977 | ISBN 10: 014102397x
Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simpl ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141019000 | ISBN 10: 014101900x
"Anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century will still have to read Orwell."(Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books)
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable trut ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141018980 | ISBN 10: 0141018984
Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom. ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141018904 | ISBN 10: 0141018909
The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society. ... more
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