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Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power by Niall Ferguson
30.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: very good
This title was selected for the "Daily Telegraph" Books Of The Year. If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe and compare the dazzling civilizations of the Orient with Europe and North America, the idea that the West would dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium w ...Show more
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
32.00 NZD
Category: History
'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesA compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)Disasters are inherent ...Show more
Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
40.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: very good
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were whe ...Show more
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
16.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Niall Ferguson's Empire is one of the most successful and controversial history books of recent years. Brilliantly re-telling the story of Britain's imperial past, it shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all h ...Show more
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "Prodigiously researched but also splendidly written-clear and vivid and precise." --The Wall Street Journal Drawing on more than ten thousand hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Niall Fergus ...Show more
Kissinger the Idealist 1923-1968 (Kissinger #1) by Niall Ferguson
80.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Spectator, New Statesman, Telegraph, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, The times, The Economist, BBC History, Magazine, and Financila Times Books of the Year 2015. No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the "indispensable man", whose advice has been so ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history. From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that caused the French Revol ...Show more
The End of the Liberal Order? by Niall Ferguson
19.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller
`No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.' -Niall Ferguson `We do not need to invent the world anew. The international order established by the United States after World War II is in need of expansion and repair, but not reconception.' -Fareed Zakaria Fears of a ...Show more
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
26.00 NZD
Category: History
Niall Ferguson's bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West. The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? T ...Show more
The Pity Of War 1914-1918 by Niall Ferguson
31.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did ...Show more
The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson
30.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: good-very good
The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling." --The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again written a ...Show more