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A History of the Jews by JOHNSON PAUL
$39.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A brilliant and comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history and the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. "An absorbing, provocative, well-written, often moving book."-- "Christian Science Monitor" "An extraordinary amount of useful information." "--New York Re ...Show more
Churchill by Paul Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Johnson offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. Winston Churchill's hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and this exploration of his life casts new light on one of history's most intriguing figures.
Eisenhower: A Life by Paul Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he's famous for, celebrated biographer Paul Johnson offers a fascinating portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, focusing particularly on his years as a five-star ge ...Show more
Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular classical musicians, Mozart had a profound influence on Western music and on his contemporaries such as Beethoven and Haydn. Johnson focuses on the importance of Mo ...Show more
Mozart: a Life by Paul Johnson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular musicians, Mozart had a profound influence on Western music and on his contemporaries such as Beethoven and Haydn. Johnson focuses on the importance of Mozart's mus ...Show more
Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In his highly acclaimed style, historian Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of a homely but charismatic middle-class man living in Athens in the Fifth Century B.C., and how what this man thought still shapes the way people decide how to act, and how ...Show more
Socrates - A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
This brilliant biography of Socrates by historian Paul Johnson situates the father of philosophy in the fifth century BC Athens that he loved, delving into the geopolitics of the time, his service as a soldier, his wide range of acquaintances and the civic unrest that led to Socrates' trial and death. T ...Show more
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