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  • The Great Divide

    History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

    by Peter Watson ...
    How the division of the Americas from the rest of the world affected human history.In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets, several miles thick, the levels of the world's oceans were much lower ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Nazi's Wife

    A Thriller

    by Peter Watson ...
    Stolen gold and forbidden love intertwine in this riveting novel set during the last days of the Third Reich by "a superb writer and a masterful storyteller" ( Houston Chronicle).Walter Wolff, an officer in the US Army's art recovery unit, has been assigned to track down a priceless collection of gold coins stolen from a monastery in Austria. General Eisenhower believes the treasure could be ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Queen's Witness

    A Mystery Where Three Worlds Collide in Violence

    by Peter Watson ...
    Queen’s Witness is a tense political thriller set on the edges of London’s criminal underworld that overlaps with Fleet Street and Westminster. After it appears that the government’s Witness Protection Programme has been broken, investigative journalist, Matthew Kent, is lured into making a dangerous error of judgment, when the ensuing spiral of violence and mystery threatens not only his life but ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Atheists

    How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

    by Peter Watson ...
    **A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.**In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” and ever since tens of thousands of brilliant, courageous, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Landscape of Lies

    An Art-World Mystery

    by Peter Watson ...
    A mysterious painting holds the clues to a cache of priceless relics in this treasure hunt of "deepening suspense" à la The Da Vinci Code ( Library Journal).In financial trouble, Isobel Sadler considers selling a painting that's been in her family for generations. She can't imagine it's worth much . . . until someone tries to steal it.Mystified, Isobel turns to art dealer Michael Whiting for ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Fallout

    Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb

    by Peter Watson ...
    The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives. The reality was different.Fallout dismantles the conventional story of why the atom bomb was built. Peter Watson has found new documents showing that long before the Allied bomb was operational, it was clear that Germany had no atomic weapons of its own and was not likely to. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Capo

    A Novel of New Orleans' Most Notorious Gangster

    by Peter Watson ...
    A young Sicilian immigrant rises through the ranks of the Mafia in this "mesmerizing" novel that "gives Puzo a run for his money" ( Publishers Weekly).Sicily, 1879: After successfully smuggling a severed human ear past the police, Silvio Randazzo completes his dangerous first rite of passage—from peasant boy to Mafia soldier. The ear is a chilling ransom demand from Antonino Greco, Italy's most ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Vatican Vendetta

    An Art-World Mystery

    by Peter Watson ...
    An ambitious American pope makes powerful enemies—from the Italian Mafia to the US President—in this fascinating thriller that "could be next week's news" ( Daily Mail).What if the unused riches of the Catholic Church were called upon to combat global poverty?Following a tragic earthquake in Italy, Pope Thomas—the first American pontiff and a transformative leader—auctions off one of the Vatican's ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Stones of Treason

    An Art-World Mystery

    by Peter Watson ...
    An art historian gets caught up in a deadly international standoff in this "inventive" political thriller ( The Guardian).What would happen if Greek extremists blackmailed Britain into returning ancient sculptures? And what if that blackmail involved not only Queen Elizabeth II, but also dark secrets about her uncle, the Duke of Windsor?When Edward Andover, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Convergence

    The Idea at the Heart of Science

    by Peter Watson ...
    “Those seeking a grand overview of science’s greatest hits over the past century will find it here.” —The Washington PostFrom the bestselling author of Ideas and The Modern Mind comes a bold history of science offering a groundbreaking and powerful argument: the many disparate scientific disciplines are converging on the same truths.Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Modern Mind

    An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

    by Peter Watson ...
    "Splendidly readable and hugely informative. . . . Episode after episode from the cultural life of the twentieth century springs to vivid life." — Boston GlobeFrom Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ideas

    A history from fire to Freud

    by Peter Watson ...
    A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.'A masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN'An extraordinary new book ... This is the history of "ideas" as it has never presented before' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHIn this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD