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Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 5
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 w ...Show more
On Art and Life by John Ruskin
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 15
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 w ...Show more
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 6
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 t ...Show more
On The Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin 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 w ...Show more
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Timeless advice on the art of living well, from the celebrated Penguin Great Ideas series The writings of the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity ...Show more
On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin 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 w ...Show more
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Aristotle
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectu ...Show more
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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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Category: Art | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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
Suffragette Manifestos (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Penguin Great Ideas Series
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'We women are roused. Now that we are roused, we will never be quiet again' Bringing together the voices of women who fought for equal rights and representation - from aristocrats and actresses to mill workers and trade unionists - these speeches, pamphlets, letters and articles form an inspiring test ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin 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 w ...Show more