A Terrible Beauty: A History of the People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind by Watson, Peter - 2000

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Orion Books Ltd. , . Other. New.

Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2000-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A little shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. Index. xiv, 847 pp..

Weidenfeld & Nicolson London, 2000-01-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiv, 847 p. ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 773-827) and index. Summary; All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born Easter 1916, W B Yeats Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso's first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our… Read More