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A History of the Jews by JOHNSON PAUL
39.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A brilliant and comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history and the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. "An absorbing, provocative, well-written, often moving book."-- "Christian Science Monitor" "An extraordinary amount of useful information." "--New York Re ...Show more
Eisenhower: A Life by Paul Johnson
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he's famous for, celebrated biographer Paul Johnson offers a fascinating portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, focusing particularly on his years as a five-star ge ...Show more
History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
37.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
A national bestseller, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish history but he impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. By the author of Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Eighties.
Humorists: From Hogarth to Noel Coward by Paul Johnson
22.99 AUD
Category: Humour
A collection of biographical portraits of some of the greatest humorists and wits in history, including Benjamin Franklin and the Marx Brothers, Charles Dickens and Damon Runyon, W C Fields and Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth and James Thurber.
Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Professor Paul M Johnson
27.95 AUD
32.99 (15% off)
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: P.S.
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyn ...Show more
Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
29.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality
The definitive life of Jesus from the bestselling author of "A History of Christianity." Few figures have had such an influence on the world as Jesus of Nazareth. Paul Johnson's brilliant and powerful reading of Jesus' life at once captures his transfiguring message and his historical complexity. With ...Show more
Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson
19.99 AUD
Category: Music
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular classical musicians, Mozart had a profound influence on Western music and on his contemporaries such as Beethoven and Haydn. Johnson focuses on the importance of Mo ...Show more
Mozart: a Life by Paul Johnson
29.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular musicians, Mozart had a profound influence on Western music and on his contemporaries such as Beethoven and Haydn. Johnson focuses on the importance of Mozart's mus ...Show more
Napoleon : Brief Lives by JOHNSON PAUL
65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From "New York Times "bestselling author Paul Johnson, a very readable and entertaining biography ("The Washington Post") about one of the most important figures in modern European history: Napoleon Bonaparte In an ideal pairing of author and subject, the magisterial historian Paul Johnson offers a vivi ...Show more
Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his highly acclaimed style, historian Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of a homely but charismatic middle-class man living in Athens in the Fifth Century B.C., and how what this man thought still shapes the way people decide how to act, and how ...Show more
Socrates - A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
19.99 AUD
26.99 (25% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This brilliant biography of Socrates by historian Paul Johnson situates the father of philosophy in the fifth century BC Athens that he loved, delving into the geopolitics of the time, his service as a soldier, his wide range of acquaintances and the civic unrest that led to Socrates' trial and death. T ...Show more
The Renaissance: A Short History by Paul Johnson
22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles
The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern and producing the most astonishing outpouri ...Show more
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