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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progr ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Business
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history. From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that caused the French Revol ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Business
The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a ...Show more
The End of the Liberal Order? by Niall Ferguson
$18.99 NZD
Category: Politics
`No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.' -Niall Ferguson `We do not need to invent the world anew. The international order established by the United States after World War II is in need of expansion and repair, but not reconception.' -Fareed Zakaria Fears of a ...Show more
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Business
Niall Ferguson's bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West. The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? T ...Show more
The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling." --The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again written a ...Show more
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and The Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Reading Level: very good
The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling." --The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again written a ...Show more
The War of the World - History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson
$65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the m ...Show more
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson (ed.)
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What would the world be like if Communism had never collapsed? And what if John F. Kennedy had lived? In this acclaimed book, leading historians from Andr ...Show more