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The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God by Peter Watson
40.00 NZD
Category: History
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 French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
35.00 NZD
Category: History
‘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 German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
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: 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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