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Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power by Niall Ferguson
27.99 AUD
Category: History
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
24.99 AUD
Category: History
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Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
24.99 AUD
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
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
26.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'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
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
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
24.99 AUD
Category: History
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
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
14.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson
42.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'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
22.99 AUD
Category: History
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 Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
24.99 AUD
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