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How the World Was Won - The Americanization of Everywhere by Peter Conrad
39.99 AUD
Category: History
In this dazzling new book, cultural critic and historian Peter Conrad tells the story of the spectacular rise and subsequent waning of American influence across the world since 1945. Politics, war and commerce form the inevitable backdrop to his tale, but Conrad also treats us to a kaleidoscopic present ...Show more
Mythomania by Peter Conrad
17.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Despite a proclaimed respect for scientific reason, humans are still as intrigued by myth as their remote ancestors. Laptops and smartphones are sold under a logo that invokes the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden; skimpily clad classical nymphs cavort in TV reality shows; Narcissus makes a comeback ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
35.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled and published one of the most influential books ever published in the English language: Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies- better known to posterity as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most ...Show more
Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
49.95 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a comfo ...Show more
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