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A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent ...Show more
Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding by Roel Sterckx
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Category: World History/Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
How did the ancient Chinese think about the world? What does environmental consciousness stand for in the Chinese tradition? Where does China's obsession with education come from? We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so ...Show more
Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding by Roel Sterckx
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday life in the Western world. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs, especially co ...Show more
National Populism by Roger;Goodwin Eatwell
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Category: World History/Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. Many of ...Show more
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Pelican Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalized, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statis ...Show more
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene by Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Pelican Bks.
'Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read' - Ellie Mae O'Hagan A remarkable exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts Meteorites, methane, mega-vo ...Show more
This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Pelican Bks.
'I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page. The book does something very important - it makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other ...Show more
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