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Bushido: the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

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Category: History | 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'. O ...Show more

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The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino

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Category: History | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished' Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column - tell us about the gre ...Show more

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When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde

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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'Women so empowered are dangerous' Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as 'other'. One ...Show more

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Three Japanese Buddhist Monks by Saigyo; Kamo no Chomei; Yoshida Kenko

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Category: History | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky' These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and wisdom amid the world's uncertainties, and are an invitation to relinquish earthly desires and instead ta ...Show more

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Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth

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Category: Gender Studies | 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. Th ...Show more

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A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Category: Theory & Essays | 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

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Suffragette Manifestos

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Category: Cultural Studies | 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 testam ...Show more

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The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt

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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas s ...Show more

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What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir

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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own des ...Show more

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Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger

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Category: Theory & Essays | 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

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The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde

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Category: Theory & Essays | 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 o ...Show more

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The Power of Words by Simone Weil

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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipul ...Show more

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Bushido: the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

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The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino

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When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde

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Three Japanese Buddhist Monks by Saigyo; Kamo no Chomei; Yoshida Kenko