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  | | Watling Street Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2018 by W&N ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-0348-5, ISBN: 1-4746-0348-3 "A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom HollandWinding its way from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of Anglesey, the ancient road of Watling Street has gone by many different names. It is a road of witches and ghosts, of queens and highwaymen, of history and myth, of Bletchley ..." |
 | | Stranger Than We Can Imagine Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2015 by Soft Skull Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-626-9, ISBN: 1-59376-626-2 "In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialism, Stalin, psychedelics, chaos mathematics, climate change and postmodernism. In order to understand such a disorienting barrage of unfamiliar and knotty ideas, H ..." |
 | | William Blake Now Why He Matters More Than Ever by John Higgs Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by W&N ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-1433-7, ISBN: 1-4746-1433-7 "The visionary poet and painter William Blake is a constant presence throughout contemporary culture - from videogames to novels, from sporting events to political rallies and from horror films to designer fashion. Although he died nearly 200 years ago, something about his work continues to haunt the twenty-first century. What is it about Blake that has so endured? In this illuminating essay, John Higgs takes us on a whirlwind tour to pr ..." |
 | | William Blake vs the World by John Higgs 400 Pages, Published 2022 by Pegasus Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63936-153-3, ISBN: 1-63936-153-7 "Thanks to the work of neuroscientists and psychologists, we are now in a better position to understand what was happening inside that remarkable mind and gain a deeper appreciation of his brilliance." |
 | | Stranger Than We Can Imagine An Alternative History of the 20th Century by John Higgs Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Signal International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-7710-3847-1, ISBN: 0-7710-3847-X "The extraordinary story of the 20th century, as told from the furthest fringes of science, art and culture. For readers of Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Before 1900, history was an account of great discoveries that actually made sense. People understand innovations like the steam engine, agriculture, or electricity. The twentieth century, by contrast, gave us quantum entanglement, cubism, relativity, psychedelics, p ..." |
 | | William Blake vs the World (Paperback) by John Higgs Paperback, Published 2022 by Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-1436-8, ISBN: 1-4746-1436-1 |
 | | Stranger Than We Can Imagine Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN-13: 978-0-297-87089-0, ISBN: 0-297-87089-0 "The twentieth century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geo-political narrative that runs through World War One, the great depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wall. But somehow that story doesn't quite lead into the world we find ourselves in now, this bewildering twenty-first century, adrift in a network of constant surveillance, unsustainable compe ..." |
 | | I Have America Surrounded(1st Edition) A Biography of Timothy Leary by John Higgs, Winona Ryder Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by Barricade Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56980-315-8, ISBN: 1-56980-315-3 "President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few People have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary, a brilliant behavioral psychologist, persuaded millions to tune in, turn on, and drop out. His influence was so wide-ranging that he had enormous impact on shaping the post-modern 21st century world." |
 | | I Have America Surrounded The Life of Timothy Leary (Paperback) by John Higgs Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by The Friday Project ISBN-13: 978-1-905548-25-5, ISBN: 1-905548-25-7 "The brilliant first biography of the man President Nixon called 'the most dangerous man in America'. Timothy Leary was one of the most controversial and divisive figures of the twentieth century. President Nixon called him 'the most dangerous man in America.' Hunter S. Thompson said that he was 'not just wrong, but a treacherous creep and a horrible goddamn person.' Yet the writer Terence McKenna claims that he 'probably made more peopl ..." |
 | | William Blake Now Why He Matters More Than Ever by John Higgs 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Hachette Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-1434-4, ISBN: 1-4746-1434-5 "In this illuminating essay, John Higgs takes us on a whirlwind tour to prove that far from being the mere New Age counterculture figure that many assume him to be, Blake is now more relevant than ever." |
 | | Watling Street Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2017 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-0347-8, ISBN: 1-4746-0347-5 "Watling Street is not just the story of a route across our island, but an acutely observed, unexpected exploration of Britain and who we are today, told with wit and flair, and an unerring eye for the curious and surprising." |
 | | Watling Street Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Hachette Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-0349-2, ISBN: 1-4746-0349-1 "It is a road of witches and ghosts, of queens and highwaymen, of history and myth, of Bletchley Park codebreakers, Chaucer, Boudicca, Dickens and James Bond. But Watling Street is not just the story of a route across our island." |
 | | Stranger Than We Can Imagine Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2016 by Signal International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-7710-3849-5, ISBN: 0-7710-3849-6 "The extraordinary story of the 20th century, as told from the furthest fringes of science, art and culture. For readers of Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Before 1900, history was an account of great discoveries that actually made sense. People understand innovations like the steam engine, agriculture, or electricity. The twentieth century, by contrast, gave us quantum entanglement, cubism, relativity, psychedelics, p ..." |
 | | Stranger Than We Can Imagine Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2016 by Wandn ISBN-13: 978-1-78022-657-6, ISBN: 1-78022-657-8 "The extraordinary story of the 20th century, as told from the furthest fringes of science, art and culture. For readers of Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Before 1900, history was an account of great discoveries that actually made sense. People understand innovations like the steam engine, agriculture, or electricity. The twentieth century, by contrast, gave us quantum entanglement, cubism, relativity, psychedelics, p ..." |
 | | Stranger Than We Can Imagine An Alternative History of the 20th Century by John Higgs 356 Pages, Published 2015 by Signal ISBN-13: 978-0-7710-3848-8, ISBN: 0-7710-3848-8 "This is the story of that confusing century as told through the ideas produced at the furthest fringes of our sciences, arts, and culture." |
 | | Our Pet Queen A New Perspective on Monarchy by John Higgs 57 Pages, Published 2014 by Signal ISBN-13: 978-0-7710-3845-7, ISBN: 0-7710-3845-3 "Amember of royaltyisallowed to quit,renounce their titleand disappearoff into somethingakin tonormal life. There has been something of a craze for this among European monarchsin the lastcouple ofyears, with Queen Beatrix ofthe Netherlands ..." |
 | | Dealing With Danger by John Higgs Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2012 by Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-0-557-37699-5, ISBN: 0-557-37699-8 "Learn how to simply and effectively train yourself and your family to become aware of danger in time to avoid it and to develop simple plans so that in an emergency such as a fire, hurricane or criminal act, you already know what to do. This book will teach you how to be Be prepared, aware and decisive. Learn how fear can actually save your life, why emotion is sometimes better than logic, and the type of human behavior that is most lik ..." |
 | | William Blake Vs the World by John. Higgs 384 Pages, Published 2021 ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-1435-1, ISBN: 1-4746-1435-3 |
 | | The KLF Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Orion Hardbacks ISBN-13: 978-1-78022-655-2, ISBN: 1-78022-655-1 "'By far the best book this year, brilliant, discursive and wise' BEN GOLDACRE. The strange tale of the death, life and legacy of the hugely successful band. They were the bestselling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial success and creative freedom. Then they deleted their records, erased themselves from musical history and burnt their last million pounds in a boathouse on the Isle of Jura. And they couldn ..." |
 | | The Chemist, or Reporter of Discoveries and Improvements in Analytical, Manufacturing, and Agricultural Chemistry, 1846, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) by John Higgs Newton Paperback, Published 2019 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-282-74434-2, ISBN: 0-282-74434-7 |
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