A Confession | Penguin Great Ideas

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

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her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines

it comes as a welcome resource in response to the rapidly expanded appetite for understanding

and insists that the way governments treat their citizens should depend on the color of their skin

self-discovery

exploring and questioning one's relationship to divinity in absurd circumstances while confronting the sacred cows of his own society

Only when we understand how the brain works will we solve the mystery of consciousness

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a Thai student studying in Japan

where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation

truth and the nature of existence itself

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