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Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
$32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sundayand Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the ...Show more
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
$65.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
In this New York Timesbestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France.One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revol ...Show more
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
$45.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing. "Monumental...provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to i ...Show more
Face of Britain by Simon Schama
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics
"Simon Schama for teasing out extraordinary tales. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, he turns Britain's most remarkable portraits into mesmerizing stories of love, power, fame and fortitude - which are beautifully illustrated with the treasures of the ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
$59.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Second hand. good condition. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape and Mem ...Show more
Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics
A masterful portrait of one of the most celebrated painters of all time This dazzling, unconventional biography shows us why, more than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt continues to exert such a hold on our imagination. Interweaving the few known facts of the Dutch master's life with fully ill ...Show more
The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A social and cultural investigation of how a modest collection of farming, fishing and shipping communities without shared language, religion or government transformed itself in the 17th century into the formidable empire of the Dutch Republic.
The Face of Britain: The Nation Through its Portraits by Simon Schama
$69.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibition Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a black Ot ...Show more
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 Ad by Simon Schama
$79.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Story of the Jews
In this magnificently illustrated cultural history--the tie-in to the pbs and bbc series The Story of the Jews--simon schama details the story of the jewish people, tracing their experience across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the new world in 1492I ...Show more
The Story of the Jews : Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more