Produkty z tagiem 'GREAT IDEAS' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

The State as a Work of Art [Oprawa Miękka]
Jacob Burckhardt

Pioneering art historian Jacob Burckhardt saw the Italian Renaissance as no less than the beginning of the modern world. In this hugely influential work he argues that the Renaissance's creativity, c

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Meditations [Oprawa Miękka]
Rene Descartes

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt,

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Consolation in the Face of Death [Oprawa Miękka]
Samuel Johnson

In his moving essay, Samuel Johnson offers wise words on confronting grief at the loss of a loved one. The other pieces here, ranging from art to marriage to morality, demonstrate the brilliance, per

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The Painter of Modern Life [Oprawa Miękka]
Charles Baudelaire

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

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The Executioner [Oprawa Miękka]
Joseph Maistre

Since their first publication in 1821, de Maistre's dark writings have fascinated and appalled critics, with their relentless hatred of the Enlightenment and view of humans as murderous beasts who ca

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The Grand Inquisitor [Oprawa Miękka]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Vividly imagining the second coming and capture of Christ during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, this parable recounted in The Brothers Karamazov is a profound, nuanced exploration of faith, suf

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Silly Novels by Lady Novelists [Oprawa Miękka]
George Eliot

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 loveabl

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On Conspiracies [Oprawa Miękka]
Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in

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Concerning Violence [Oprawa Miękka]
Frantz Fanon

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 colo

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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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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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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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The 'Wolfman' [Oprawa Miękka]
Sigmund Freud

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

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Of the Dawn of Freedom [Oprawa Miękka]
Bois W. E. B. Du

It is the aim of this essay to study the period of history from 1861 to 1872 so far as it relates to the American Negro. In effect, this tale of the dawn of Freedom is an account of that government o

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Future of an Illusion [Oprawa Miękka]
Sigmund Freud

This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth - century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined to

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Revolution and War [Oprawa Miękka]
Karl Marx

Written during Karl Marx's brilliant career as a polemical journalist, these blazing pieces tackle subjects ranging from the strikes of angry British workers to insurrection in Europe, from the Ameri

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An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted .. [Oprawa Miękka]
Leon Trotsky

An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe

Whether calling for an end to the capitalist system, addressing the crowds after the Russian Revolution, or attacking Stalin during his years of exile, Trotsky's speeches give an extraordinary insigh

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Some Anatomies of Melancholy [Oprawa Miękka]
Robert Burton

Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet,

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Dialogue Between Fashion and Death [Oprawa Miękka]
Giacomo Leopardi

Leopardi, poet and philosopher, explores in humorous but savage dialogue the power of fashion and its strange irrationality. He also imagines conversations between Hercules and Atlas, Nature and an I

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On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings [Oprawa Miękka]
William James

William James's strong beliefs in a pragmatic theory of truth - that truth is only as relevant as its effect on us - lead to these absorbing essays on fact and belief. Within them is a fascinating th

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We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End [Oprawa Miękka]
Winston Churchill

This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous words on the declaration of war with Germany, as well as his rousing call to the British in June 1940 afte

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Confessions of an English Opium Eater [Oprawa Miękka]
Thomas Quincey

Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pain

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The Jewish State [Oprawa Miękka]
Theodor Herzl

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 woul

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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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Books v. Cigarettes [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

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 bo

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Civilization and its Discontents [Oprawa Miękka]
Sigmund Freud

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 First Ten Books [Oprawa Miękka]
Confucius

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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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For [Oprawa Miękka]
Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, material

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