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A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the heart of the civil rights movement show Martin Luth ...Show more
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really ...Show more
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Georges Perec
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'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order' One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these vi ...Show more
Bushido: the Soul of Japan (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Inazo Nitobe
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'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding 'the soul of Japan'. O ...Show more
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. and We Have Killed Him (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in wh ...Show more
Great Ideas: Fear And Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus Writing under the pseudonym of "Johannes de silentio," Kierkegaard expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in ...Show more
Great Ideas: On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Off ...Show more
On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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 th ...Show more
On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
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 yo ...Show more
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
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'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out' Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' ...Show more
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
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'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes u ...Show more
The Decay of Lying (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Oscar Wilde
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'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling o ...Show more