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A History of Twentieth-Century Russia by Robert Service
$25.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world.How are we to make sense of this history? "A History of Twentieth-Century Russia" treats the years from 1917 to 1 ...Show more
Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis by Joseph Schwartz
$20.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: good
This work presents a complete history of psychoanalysis from its origins in 19th-century medical science to the end of the 20th century. The origins of psychoanalysis as well as the more immediate influences on Freud are explored, as is the way the discipline he founded has developed and changed.Joseph ...Show more
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and grounded in the body. He demonstrates how the explosion ...Show more
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present by J.M. Roberts
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: good
This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been transform ...Show more
Twentieth Century - The History of the World 1901 to the present (2000) by J. M. Roberts
$25.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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