The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy, The German Genius is a lively and accessible review of over 250 years of German intellectual history. In the process, it explains the devastating effects of World War II, which transformed a vibrant and brilliantly artistic culture into a vehicle of warfare and destruction, and it shows how the German culture advanced in the war’s aftermath.

the-german-genius

Business & Money

PETER WATSON

Industries

Harper-perennial

Double dealer: the John Blake conspiracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hutchinson

An inherited painting is the key to a cache of priceless relics in this novel of romantic suspense by the author of "Conspiracy" and "Crusade". An art dealer and the woman he loves find themselves involved in a dangerous race against time to discover the whereabouts of the treasure. Peter Watson is also the author of "The Carravagio" and "The Nazi's Wife". His true account of an expose of a smuggling gang, "Double Dealer", won him a Gold Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association.

Landscape of Lies

Literature & Fiction

In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, seeking a new way to tell the history of the world. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought – tool-making, territoriality, counting, language (or at least sounds), pairbonding – Peter Watson moves on to the apeman and the development of simple ideas such as cooking, the earliest language, the emergence of family life. All the obvious areas will be tackled – the Ancient Greeks, Christian theology, the ideas of Jesus, astrological thought, the soul, the self, beliefs about the heavens, the ideas of Islam, the Crusades, humanism, the Renaissance, Gutenberg and the book, the scientific revolution, the age of discovery, Shakespeare, the idea of Revolution, the Romantic imagination, Darwin, imperialism, modernism, Freud right up to the present day and the internet. 
IDEAS: A HISTORY will concentrate on the activities and achievements of philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, inventors, religious thinkers, poets, historians, jurists and dramatists, investigating how their ideas have shaped our lives and thinking.

Ideas : A History from Fire to Freud

Reference

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Physical description; xiv, 847 p. ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 773-827) and index. Summary; All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born Easter 1916, W B Yeats 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 with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso's first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time in an immensely readable narrative. From the creation of plastic to Norman Mailer, from the discovery of the 'Big Bang' to the Counterculture, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Salman Rushdie, and Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book's range is encyclopedic. We meet in these pages the other twentieth century, the writers, the artists, the scientists and philosophers who were not cowed by the political and military disasters raging around them, and produced some of the most amazing and rewarding ideas by which we live. Terrible Beauty, endlessly stimulating and provocative, affirms that there was much more to the twentieth century than war and genocide. Subjects; History, Modern - 20th century. Intellectual life - History - 20th century. Biography - 20th century. Thought and thinking - History - 20th century. Civilization, Modern - 20th century. Philosophy, Modern - 20th century. History, Modern - 20th century. History of ideas, intellectual history. World history: from (c 1900 -). History / Social History. History / World. History, Modern ; 20th century ; Biography.

A Terrible Beauty: A History of the People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern World

History

World

Book DescriptionThe rise and fall of the great civilisations and what this meant for mankind.Product DescriptionIn 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 much lower than they are today, and early humans were able to walk across the Bering Strait, then a land bridge, without getting their feet wet, and enter the Americas. Then, the Ice Age came to an end, the Bering Strait re-filled with water, and humans in the Americas were cut off from humans elsewhere in the world. This division - with two great populations on Earth, each oblivious of the other - continued until Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America just before 1500 A.D. This is the fascinating subject of THE GREAT DIVIDE, which compares and contrasts the development of humankind in the 'Old World' and the 'New' between 15,000 B.C. and 1500 A.D. This unprecedented comparison of early peoples means that, when these factors are taken together, they offer a uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human. THE GREAT DIVIDE offers a masterly and totally original synthesis of archaeology, anthropology, geology, meteorology, cosmology and mythology, to give a new shape - and a new understanding - to human history.

Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

Americas

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Nureyev, hardcover, Fine, clean, tight, unmarked. Not ex/library. Tanning on fore edge and strong discoloration on DJ spine, otherwise in FINE conditions.

Nureyev: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

When the sixteenth-century painting in her home becomes the object of a burglar's nocturnal, albeit unsuccessful, visit, Claire Sadler has the work appraised and discovers that it is a secret map to a treasure hidden since the time of Henry VIII.

Scribner

Moving from London to New York and Athens, this is an international thriller set in the world of fine art.

Stones of Treason

Genre Fiction

Headline

Sotheby's: The Inside Story

A provocative expose+a7 of the great American auction house of  Sotheby's explores the underhanded dealings, questionable practices,  and shadowy figures that underly the glitter and glamour of the art  world. 75,000 first printing. Tour."

Sotheby's: the Inside Story

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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the-german-genius

Double dealer: the John Blake conspiracy

Landscape of Lies

Ideas : A History from Fire to Freud

A Terrible Beauty: A History of the People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern World

Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

Nureyev: A Biography

Landscape of Lies

Stones of Treason

Sotheby's: the Inside Story