The Decay of Lying | 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 The two works brought

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Psychiatrist

by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose — now published in English for the first time

Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory

His fluent and hugely wide-ranging account of the nature of history and the role of the historian argues that all history is to some degree subjective

Satoshi Yagisawa illuminates the everyday relationships between people that are forged and grown through a shared love of books

it should quietly boost our intuition as we move through the world

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to the era of independence

and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption

who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma

While insisting that liberal attitudes to empire were multiple and varied