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On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science | 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
$9.95 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
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Aristotle
$13.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | 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
$13.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate | 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
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot
$12.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their lovably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture ...Show more
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
$13.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design | 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
$14.00 NZD
$16.00 (12% off)
Category: Essays & Anthologies | 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 Christians & the Fall of Rome by Edward Gibbon
$11.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Gibbon's subversive and iconoclastic description of the rise of Christianity inspired outrage upon publication and remains one of the most eloquent and damning indictments of the delusory nature of faith.
The City of Ladies by Christine, de Pizan
$11.95 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
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
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
$18.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | 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
The Decay of Lying (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Oscar Wilde
$13.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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 ...Show more
The Fastidious Assassins (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Albert Camus
$12.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas, AC
A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution. Throughout history, s ...Show more