Tao Te Ching | 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. Fundamental to Chinese

the link between art and terror

iaitu Zheng Guan-biao

revealing how a small region of medieval Europe transformed itself into a powerhouse of sustained economic growth

what were they doing all that time

poor clerks

an ‘anointed successor’ to the premiership

His response to these conditions was not 'activist'

enigmatic masterpiece

This exquisite biography brings to life the remarkable relationships White fostered with her writers and how these relationships nurtured an astonishing array of literary talent

when he travelled to Bolivia to foment a revolution

reprinting and revising his most important essays on Tradition and the Individual Talent

Embryological development circa 1800 was imagined through the pictorial technique of the series