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A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
39.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. This volume, "The British Wars", is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life, faith and thought from 1603 t ...Show more
Art by Simon Schama
7.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sen ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
27.99 AUD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sundayand Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
59.99 AUD
Category: History
The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere. These gripping pages teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism, music and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and politics. The second part of Sim ...Show more
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing. "Monumental...provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to i ...Show more
Cocktails with a Curator by Xavier F. Salomon; Aimee Ng (As told to); Giulio Dalvit (As told to); Simon Schama (Foreword by); Luis Serrano (Illustrator)
85.00 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
Join the curators of the Frick as they present engaging histories of works of art paired with creatively inspired cocktails - a crash course in art history and a delightful introduction to the treasures of the esteemed New York collection.Based on the critically acclaimed video series of the same name, ...Show more
Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations by Simon Schama
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on the Heights of Abraham. Schama examines this death, and how Wolfe was made to die again - through the spectacular painting by Benjamin West, and through the writings of ...Show more
Face of Britain by Simon Schama
39.99 AUD
Category: Art
"Simon Schama for teasing out extraordinary tales. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, he turns Britain's most remarkable portraits into mesmerizing stories of love, power, fame and fortitude - which are beautifully illustrated with the treasures of the ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
59.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries by Rebecca Abrams (Editor); Cesar Merchan-Hamann (Editor); Simon Schama (Foreword by)
69.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
*This book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. *Lavishly illustrated essays by experts in the field bring to life the outstanding works contained in the collections. *A fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social h ...Show more
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Second hand. good condition. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape and Mem ...Show more