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Ill Fares the Land - A Treatise on Our Present Discontents by Tony Judt
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever re ...Show more
Postwar by Tony Judt
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far ...Show more
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
A magisterial and acclaimed history of Europe in our time, by one of our leading historians. Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another ...Show more
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
$47.50 AUD
Category: Essays
"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 shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to ha ...Show more
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
$19.95 AUD
Category: Essays
"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 shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to ha ...Show more
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
$59.95 AUD
Category: European
The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" unites the conflicted intellectual history of an epoch into a soaring narrative. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas - a time when, for good and for ill, the thoughts of ...Show more
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions. Th ...Show more
When the Facts Change by Tony Judt
$65.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans. Tony Judt's first collection of essays, Re ...Show more
When the Facts Change: Essays 1995 - 2010 by Tony Judt
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
This is a great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans. Tony Judt's first collection of es ...Show more
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