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Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science by Peter Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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
$42.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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
Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House by Anne Watson; Anne Savage (Editor); Clive Jones (Designed by); Fiona Sim (Index by); Peter Webber (Foreword by)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
Since the announcement of Jorn Utzon's winning Sydney Opera House competition entry in early 1957 the project has excited controversy. Testing the very boundaries of technology, the gestation of this sublime building was long and fraught with problems, none more so than the departure of its architect in ...Show more
The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God by Peter Watson
$60.00 AUD
Category: Religion
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. Pete ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
$34.00 AUD
Category: European
‘Majestic, ambitious’ Literary Review ____________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and w ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
'Majestic, ambitious . . . [Peter Watson] deserves admiration for the grace and agility with which he interlinks the development of a vigorous cultural identity and the seismic shifts of French national history, continually lurching between triumph and disaster' Literary Review__________________________ ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and what really sets it apart? Journalist and historian Peter Wa ...Show more
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
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 German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
Peter Watson's virtuoso sweep through modern German thought and culture, from 1750 to the present day, will challenge and confound both the stereotypes the world has of Germany and those that Germany has of itself. From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Ger ...Show more
The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New by Peter Watson
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
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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