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Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Do the private practices of intellectuals match the standard of their public principles? How great is their respect for truth? What is their attitude to money? How do they treat their spouses and children - legitimate and illegitimate? How loyal are they to their friends? Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, ...Show more
Jesus : A 21st Century biography by Paul Johnson
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
From the bestselling author and acclaimed historian, a powerful portrayal of the life of Jesus Is Jesus relevant to us today? Few figures have had such an influA-ence on history as Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings have inspired discussion, arguments, even war, and yet few have ever held forth as moving ...Show more
Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion
The definitive life of Jesus from the bestselling author of "A History of Christianity." Few figures have had such an influence on the world as Jesus of Nazareth. Paul Johnson's brilliant and powerful reading of Jesus' life at once captures his transfiguring message and his historical complexity. With ...Show more
Making the Market Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism by Johnson Paul
$160.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
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
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
The Renaissance by Paul Johnson
$21.95 AUD
Category: History
A fresh appreciation of the intellectual liberation and artistic triumphs of the Italian Renaissance. Paul Johnson tells the story, in turn, of Renaissance literature, sculpture, building and painting.
The Renaissance: A Short History by Paul Johnson
$27.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles
The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern and producing the most astonishing outpouri ...Show more
Time Come - Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson; Paul Gilroy (Introduction by)
$44.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times 'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith 'A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces' - Kit de Waal 'As necessary as ever' - The Observer ________ Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential ...Show more