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Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power by Niall Ferguson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | 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
$0.00 NZD
Category: History
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have ...Show more
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
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Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
$31.00 NZD
Category: History
Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards fo ...Show more
Colossus: The rise and fall of the American empire by Niall Ferguson
$59.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Is America the new world Empire? The US government emphatically denies it. Despite the conquest of two sovereign states in as many years, despite the presence of more than 750 military installations across two-thirds of the globe and despite his stated intention 'to extend the benefits of freedom . . . ...Show more
Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | 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
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$32.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
'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
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
$9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
$31.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which t ...Show more
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
High Financier: the lives and time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
$62.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this groundbreaking new biography, based on more than 10,000 hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of Siegmund Warburg, an extraordinary man whose philosophy of finance was the antithesis of the debt-fuelled, alg ...Show more
Kissinger the Idealist 1923-1968 (Kissinger #1) by Niall Ferguson
$80.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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