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A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History by Peter Watson
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning wi ...Show more
Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science by Peter Watson
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings, and disparate areas of interest have been coming together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing, to identify one extraordinary master n ...Show more
Fallout: How the World Stumbled into the Nuclear Shadow by Peter Watson
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
Between December 1943 and August 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ignited the Cold War, a superpower rivalry that would dominate the world over half a century, by building an atomic bomb and excluding their Russian allies. Peter Watson tells the pulse-pounding story of how two atomi ...Show more
Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million y ...Show more
The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God by Peter Watson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks, fiscal fraud and snowballing unemployment, THE AGE OF NOTHING offers a compelling insight into the demise of capitalism and the beginning of a new era.Peter ...Show more
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force, more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland and the United States. In the early decad ...Show more
The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New by Peter Watson
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets, several miles thick, the levels of the world's oceans were m ...Show more
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