Produkty z tagiem 'GREAT IDEAS' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

Conspicuous Consumption [Oprawa Miękka]
Thorstein Veblen

With its wry portrayal of a shallow, materialistic 'leisure class' obsessed by clothes, cars, consumer goods and climbing the social ladder, this withering satire on modern capitalism is as pertinent

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Eichmann and the Holocaust [Oprawa Miękka]
Hannah Arendt

Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insi

€11,27

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduct.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Walter Benjamin

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedl

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Fear and Trembling [Oprawa Miękka]
Soren Kierkegaard

The Father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understandi

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The Fastidious Assassins [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

Adaring 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 t

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Of Human Freedom [Oprawa Miękka]
Epictetus

In this personal and practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life, the second-century philosopher Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, stubbornness and fear, f

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Man Alone with Himself [Oprawa Miękka]
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom

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A Confession [Oprawa Miękka]
Leo Tolstoy

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

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On Art and Life [Oprawa Miękka]
John Ruskin

John Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art. of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design and

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A Room of One"s Own [Oprawa Miękka]
Virginia Woolf

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,

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The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise [Oprawa Miękka]
Jorge Luis Borges

In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and th

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Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and co

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Days of Reading [Oprawa Miękka]
Marcel Proust

In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing your

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The Sickness Unto Death [Oprawa Miękka]
Soren Kierkegaard

Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of t

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The Lamp of Memory [Oprawa Miękka]
John Ruskin

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is

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The Tao of Nature [Oprawa Miękka]
Chuang Tzu

Chuang Tzu examines the nature of existence in these dialogues and essays, from the battle to grasp the purpose of life to the search for knowledge. A collection of some of the most absorbing and cha

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On Power [Oprawa Miękka]
William Shakespeare

These are Shakespeare's greatest writings on power in all its forms - in love, in war, in politics and in the family. From Macbeth's vaulting ambition to Richard II's fragile grip on authority, from

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Suffragette Manifestos [Oprawa Miękka]

'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

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The Significance of the Frontier in American Histo.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Frederick Jackson Turner

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

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

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The Gettysburg Address [Oprawa Miękka]
Abraham Lincoln

The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a

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The Freedom to Be Free [Oprawa Miękka]
Hannah Arendt

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

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Hosts of Living Forms [Oprawa Miękka]
Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Specie

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The Decay of Lying [Oprawa Miękka]
Oscar Wilde

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 ae

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Vindication of the Rights of Woman [Oprawa Miękka]
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of m

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An Image of Africa [Oprawa Miękka]
Chinua Achebe

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

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In Consolation to His Wife [Oprawa Miękka]
Plutarch

From an intimate and moving letter to his grieving wife on the death of their daughter, to elegant writings on morality, happiness and the avoidance of anger, Plutarch's powerful words of consolation

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Useful Work versus Useless Toil [Oprawa Miękka]
William Morris

Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to beau

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The Evils of Revolution [Oprawa Miękka]

Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke’s prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the modern con

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Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions [Oprawa Miękka]
Charles Mackay

Describing bizarrely popular Victorian street slang, the madness of crowds, stock market mania (from the South Sea Bubble to Tulip fever), popular fashions, fads, crazes, schemes and scams, this bril

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Christians and the Fall of Rome [Oprawa Miękka]
Edward Gibbon

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

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