{"product_id":"secondhand-history-culture-bargain-book-box-sp2827","title":"Secondhand History  \u0026 Culture Bargain Book Box SP2827","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand History \u0026amp; Culture Bargain Book Box SP2827\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eNineteen titles from the golden age of serious Penguin publishing, spanning art history, sociology, architecture, politics, physics, music, mythology, and more. This is the Pelican library in miniature: books that educated a generation between the 1950s and the 1980s, written by world authorities and designed to treat readers as intelligent adults capable of following a serious argument. A box for the kind of reader who still believes non-fiction can be as compelling as any novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eVedanta for Modern Man — ed. Christopher Isherwood — Isherwood's landmark anthology gathering sixty-one essays on Vedanta philosophy from contributors ranging from Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts to Jawaharlal Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore, a remarkable cross-section of mid-century spiritual searching.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Meaning of Art — Herbert Read — Read's celebrated introduction to the appreciation of visual art, combining a survey of painting and sculpture across the centuries with a penetrating philosophical argument about what art is and why it matters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Profumo Affair: Aspects of Conservatism — Wayland Young — A Penguin Special published in the immediate aftermath of the scandal, examining not just the titillating details but the deeper political and cultural pathologies the Profumo affair exposed in British Conservatism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life — Erving Goffman — One of sociology's most influential and readable books, in which Goffman develops his dramaturgical theory of social interaction, arguing that everyday life is a performance governed by impression management and the constant negotiation of identity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eHow the Other Half Dies — Susan George — George's influential and meticulously documented indictment of the global food system, arguing that world hunger is not a natural phenomenon but a political one with identifiable causes and responsible parties.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFuture Positive — Edward de Bono — De Bono at his most wide-ranging and optimistic, arguing that the tools of lateral thinking and constructive intelligence can be applied to humanity's largest and most intractable social and political problems.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Greek Myths: 1 — Robert Graves — The first volume of Graves's comprehensive and characteristically idiosyncratic retelling, combining clear narration of the stories with his provocative theories about their origins, hidden meanings, and pre-Hellenic roots.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eEncounter Groups — Carl R. Rogers — Rogers's account of the human potential movement's most characteristic invention, examining the theory and practice of group experiences designed to facilitate authentic self-disclosure and genuine human connection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eRelativity for the Layman — James A. Coleman — A clear and admirably concise introduction to Einstein's special and general theories, written for the curious non-scientist who wants to understand one of the great intellectual revolutions of the modern age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAn Introduction to Modern Architecture — J.M. Richards — Richards's authoritative Pelican survey of the modern movement, from its nineteenth-century origins through the major works of the twentieth century, written with the clarity of a practitioner turned educator.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA History of the U.S.S.R. — Andrew Rothstein — A survey of Soviet history from the revolution to the mid-twentieth century, offering a committed insider's perspective on the development of the world's first socialist state.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Vocabulary of Politics — T.D. Weldon — Weldon's influential work in analytic philosophy, examining the language of political argument and demonstrating how much confusion in public debate stems from concepts that have never been properly clarified.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eInventing the Future — Dennis Gabor — The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography turns his analytical intelligence to the large questions of technological society, asking how humanity can take purposeful control of the future it is creating.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eVictorian Cities — Asa Briggs — Briggs's landmark work of social and cultural history, examining the great Victorian cities as physical and cultural achievements and documents of the industrial age at its most energetic and self-confident.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Nude — Kenneth Clark — Clark's magisterial study of the unclothed human figure as a central form in Western art, tracing how its representation has expressed the deepest values, ideals, and anxieties of European culture across five centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eRealism — Linda Nochlin — Part of the Penguin Style and Civilization series, Nochlin's authoritative examination of Realism situates the movement within its historical and social context with the freshness and rigour that made her one of the defining art historians of her generation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMental Maps — Peter Gould and Rodney White — A pioneering study of how people conceptualise geographic space, examining the mental maps that shape our preferences, movements, and assumptions about places we know and places we only imagine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eGoing to a Concert — Lionel Salter — A warm and practical guide to classical music concert-going for the uninitiated, covering everything from what to expect in the hall to how to listen intelligently to what is being performed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMind the Stop: A Brief Guide to Punctuation — G.V. Carey — Carey's compact and enduringly useful guide to English punctuation, beloved of writers and editors for its clarity, precision, and the gentle wit with which it makes the full stop and the semicolon feel like matters of genuine consequence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48857114771675,"sku":"SP2827","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2827.jpg?v=1781058568","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-history-culture-bargain-book-box-sp2827","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}