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Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science by Peter Watson
$19.98 AUD
Category: Science
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings, and disparate areas of interest have been coming together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing, to identify one extraordinary master n ...Show more
Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House by Anne Watson; Anne Savage (Editor); Clive Jones (Designed by); Fiona Sim (Index by); Peter Webber (Foreword by)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture and Design
Since the announcement of Jorn Utzon's winning Sydney Opera House competition entry in early 1957 the project has excited controversy. Testing the very boundaries of technology, the gestation of this sublime building was long and fraught with problems, none more so than the departure of its architect in ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'Majestic, ambitious . . . [Peter Watson] deserves admiration for the grace and agility with which he interlinks the development of a vigorous cultural identity and the seismic shifts of French national history, continually lurching between triumph and disaster' Literary Review__________________________ ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and what really sets it apart? Journalist and historian Peter Wa ...Show more
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force, more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland and the United States. In the early decad ...Show more
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