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The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must... -
The Glory of the Rails by Tony Judt
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475834Author Tony JudtPage Count 26Imprint -
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER AWARD A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books... -
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt 9780434020966 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.83"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must... -
When the Facts Change: Essays 1995 - 2010 by Tony Judt
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century that feels all the more potent and... -
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt 9780099532330
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it. We... -
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
Booksplease Price: $33.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226414195Author Tony JudtFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint -
Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents Professor Tony Judt 9780718191412
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.33'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a... -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and... -
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of... -
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Timothy Snyder 9781784701482
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million... -
Masters of Battle: Monty, Patton and Rommel at War by Terry Brighton 9780141029856 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $4.23'They should put Montgomery and Patton and Rommel in the same ring and take off the gloves and let 'em go at it' Bill Mauldin, American GIIn the Second World War, Great Britain, the United States and... -
I You We Them: Journeys Beyond Evil: The Desk Killer in History and Today by Dan Gretton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF NON-FICTION A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulous, clinical and sobering, a shockingly important and incisive book' David OlusogaVast and revelatory, Dan... -
Capital: Volume I by Karl Marx
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.40'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, GuardianOne of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique... -
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's Black Mass challenges our belief in human progress. Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth... -
Is God Happy?: Selected Essays by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth... -
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand 9781781680834
Booksplease Price: $32.28What is a homeland? When does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised... -
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.75A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first... -
The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations by Paul Kennedy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Paul Kennedy's The Parliament of Man: The United Nations and the Quest for World Government is the extraordinary story of the UN - its creation, the threats it has faced, and the possibilities it... -
The Question of Palestine Edward Said 9781804271353
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A major work by one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, The Question of Palestine was the first book to narrate the modern Palestinian experience in English. Edward Said's... -
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: A Reader's Companion by Geoff Mann 9781804295922
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70John Maynard Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money revolutionized economics. But it can be dense and cryptic, an intimidating work for the uninitiated. This companion volume... -
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966-2006 by Edward Said
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.38A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and...