The Freedom to Be Free | 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 Three exhilarating and

powerfully updating faith for modern times

William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia

Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java

his daughter

Janet Steele explores how these various publications observe universal principles of journalism and do so through an Islamic idiom

It will be a stimulating read for scholars as well as students and newcomers to Southeast Asian history

They reveal our past – collective and individual

they must do nothing less than offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew

And this distribution insures its own survival

The ephemera left by their passage – a spilled coffee

They offer new insight into the workings of the author's mind

In this rich anthology