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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
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$32.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'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
Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics | 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
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
$12.95 NZD
$13.99 (7% off)
Category: History | 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
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson
$48.00 NZD
Category: History
'Riveting ...will be his masterpiece' Andrew Roberts, The New York Times No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the "indispensable man", whose advice has been sought by every president from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, Kissinger has also attr ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history. From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that caused the French Revol ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a ...Show more
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
Niall Ferguson's bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West. The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? T ...Show more
The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling." --The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again written a ...Show more
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson (ed.)
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What would the world be like if Communism had never collapsed? And what if John F. Kennedy had lived? In this acclaimed book, leading historians from Andr ...Show more
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