A Confession | Penguin Great IdeasThroughout 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 works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Describing Tolstoy's

and it retains a role on ceremonial occasions

fighting in the jungle and keeping his men's spirits up - even as the struggle started to fail

curiously watching everything that’s going on

A Visible Distance is a testimony to learning new things and embracing fundamental changes in popular culture

This book calls into question received views on kingship in the Malay world and shows how an indigenous polity responded to European companies in the age of early East-West encounters during Southeast Asia's age of commerce

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thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage

The book concludes with a defense of the epistemic circularity inherent in meta-aptness and thereby in the full aptness of knowing full well

no less than social security

exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist looks to inspire all those engaged in the creation of culture

with no table or chair

and the definitive introduction to a writer whose genius for interpreting world-historical changes was matched by a keen sense of wonder and an abiding skepticism about the knowability of the self