Browse by category
The Invisible Hand by Adam Smith
11.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an 'invisible hand'. Throughout history, some books have changed the ...Show more
The Lamp of Memory by John Ruskin
11.99 NZD
12.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
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 essential - not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. Throughout history, some boo ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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 Revelation of St John the Divine and the Book of Job
9.95 NZD
12.99 (23% off)
Category: Classic Books | 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 Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
11.99 NZD
17.99 (33% off)
Category: Classic Books | 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 Spectacle of the Scaffold by Michel Foucault
11.99 NZD
12.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | 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
11.99 NZD
12.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | 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
Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan by Marco Polo
11.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
9.95 NZD
11.95 (16% off)
Category: Classic Books | 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
Utopia by MORE THOMAS
11.99 NZD
12.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
In "Utopia" Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means 'no place', and More's hugely influential work was ultimately an attack on his own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity. Throughout hi ...Show more
What Is Existentialism? (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Simone de Beauvoir
12.99 NZD
Category: 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
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry David Thoreau
11.99 NZD
12.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | 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