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A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
$19.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. Although A Confession led to his ex-communication ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Great Ideas) by Virginia Woolf
$9.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: good
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King Jr.
$13.00 NZD
Category: Spirituality | 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
Ain't I a Woman? (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Sojourner Truth
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. ...Show more
An Apology for Idlers by STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
$12.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
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 on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleas ...Show more
An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
$12.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, "An Image of Africa" asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also included is "The Trouble with Nigeria", Achebe' ...Show more
Anarchist Communism (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Peter Kropotkin
$12.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor' Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have influenced radicals the world over, from nineteenth ...Show more
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
$9.95 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | 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
$13.00 NZD
$24.00 (45% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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
$13.00 NZD
$16.00 (18% off)
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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'. ...Show more
Civilization and Its Discontents 19 by Sigmund Freud
$18.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | 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 the w ...Show more
Concerning Violence by Frantz Fanon
$11.95 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: good
Angered by the racism he witnessed on Martinique during the Second World War, Fanon here examines the roles of class, culture and violence, and expresses his profound alienation from the idea of colonialism and its bloodshed. More than four decades on, Fanon's work still inspires liberation movements to ...Show more