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The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'. Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into the populations in which they lived. Herzl concluded that the only solution ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics/Literature | 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 Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses most fully the drama of modern life. "Great Ideas": throug ...Show more
The Significance of the Frontier in American History (Penguin "Great Ideas" Series) by Frederick Jackson Turner
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation's expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization and wilderness, which - for better or worse - lies at the he ...Show more
The Spectacle of the Scaffold by Michel Foucault
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Foucault's writings on power and control in social institutions have made him one of the modern era's most influential thinkers. Here he argues that punishment has gone from being mere spectacle to becoming an instrument of systematic domination over individuals in society - not just of our bodies, but ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
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Category: Classics/Literature | 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 'Wolfman' by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patient's dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his real problem - that of infantile neurosis brought about by a sexual complex and an Oedipal fixation. "Great Id ...Show more
Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan by Marco Polo
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Category: Classics/Literature | 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
Urne-Burial by Thomas Browne
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Category: Classics/Literature | 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
Why Look at Animals? by John Berger
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
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 be at the centre of our existence now marginalized an ...Show more