Close

History of ideas

{
}
Book Cover: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
By Jacob Burckhardt
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world – a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society...
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world – a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition...
Read more
Published: 19/06/1990
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140445343
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Ideas Book
The Ideas Book
By City Council Brisbane
Read more
Published: 31/01/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702234996
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: Pragmatism and Other Writings
Pragmatism and Other Writings
By William James
Written with cordiality and candour, James's essays seek to bring his readers into the processes and play of his own reflections. Ranging across the intellectual terrain from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging and enduring articulation of that distinctly American contribution to world thought, pragmatism. This collection presents in its entirety, Pragmatism...
Written with cordiality and candour, James's essays seek to bring his readers into the processes and play of his own reflections. Ranging across the intellectual terrain from philosophy and psychology...
Read more
Published: 03/07/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140437355
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By Friedrich Engels

'The modern individual family is founded upon the open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife'

'The modern individual family is founded upon the open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife'

Read more
Published: 11/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141191119
RRP: $9.95

Medium

Subject

News

{ view all }
21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

Read more

Social Feed

{ }

Penguin TV

{ }

Pictures

{ }