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Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
" An elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-The Wall Street Journal"A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago."-Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsONE OF ...Show more
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to Asia. With oil reserves of several billion barrels, an estimated nine hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and several centuries' worth of competing territorial claims, the South China Sea in particular is a ...Show more
Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem by Robert Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A squared plus "b "squared equals "c "squared. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet this familiar expression opens a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in the company of two inspired guides, Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With wit, verve, and clarity, they tr ...Show more
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country - a coun ...Show more
Mediterranean Winter : A journey through history by Robert D. Kaplan
$44.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Mediterranean Winter is a lyrical account of Robert Kaplan's journey in the off season around the Mediterranean, retracing the footsteps of his youth. A beautifully written meditation on the golden age of travel and the pleasures of history, it takes us from Tunisia, once proud Carthage, rival to Rome, ...Show more
Mediterranean Winter : A journey through history by Robert D. Kaplan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
"Mediterranean Winter" is a lyrical account of Robert Kaplan's journey in the off season around the Mediterranean, retracing the footsteps of his youth. A beautifully written meditation on the golden age of travel and the pleasures of history, it takes us from Tunisia, once proud Carthage, rival to Rome ...Show more
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Battle for Supremacy in the 21st Century by Robert D. Kaplan
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
IN WHAT REGION OF THE WORLD CAN WE BEST GLIMPSE THE FUTURE? For much of the twentieth century, Europe dominated global attention. Two world wars were won and lost on its battlefields, and the great ideological struggles of the Cold War were played out in its cities. The Atlantic Ocean was the locus of i ...Show more
The Art of the Infinite : Our lost language of numbers by Robert Kaplan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
'Glorious ... This is mathematics for the soul - just the way it should be' New Scientist It is a thing of infinite beauty, wonder and elegance. It holds the key to the mysteries of the universe and is as harmonious as the most powerful music or poetry. So why are so many of us scared of mathematics ...Show more
The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics by Robert Kaplan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Art of the Infinite takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Robert and Ellen Kaplan guide us through the "Republic of Numbers," where we meet both its upstanding citizens and its more shadowy dwellers; and transport us across the plane of geo ...Show more
The Exceptional Brain and How it Changed the World by Robert M. Kaplan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Dr Robert Kaplan, a forensic-psychiatrist and researcher, set out to explore the various brain diseases or conditions that have made some people very famous (or infamous), and often changed the course of history. The Exceptional Brain and How It Changed the World delves into the lives of famous figures ...Show more
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century "Continuing Robert D. Kaplan's work as the premier American scholar of geopolitics . . . a book that everyone who wa ...Show more
The Return of Marco Polo's World - War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century by Robert D. Kaplan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay-from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy. "Elegant and humane . . . a prophecy from an ob ...Show more