Peter Watson: 46 books
Convergence
The Idea at the Heart of Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
“Those seeking a grand overview of science’s greatest hits over the past century will find it here” (The Washington Post). Peter Watson’s bold history of science offers a powerful argument—that the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truths.
Convergence is...
by Peter Watson Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
"Doubts and misgivings about life after death can be set aside with the gift of this special book." (Dr. Austin Ritterspach, Religious Studies, Indiana University)
In How I Died (and what I did next), an woman office worker dies in the North Tower on 9/11. A little girl is drowned...
The Great Divide
Nature and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In The Great Divide, acclaimed author and historian Peter Watson explores the development of humankind between the Old World and the New, and offers a groundbreaking new understanding of human history.
By 15,000 BC, humans had migrated from northeastern Asia across the frozen Bering land bridge...
Vatican Vendetta
An Art-World Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
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...
The German Genius
Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy,...
The Medici Conspiracy
The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museum
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's...
The Modern Mind
An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
From 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 produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a...
Landscape of Lies
An Art-World Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
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...
Ideas
A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul—offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.
Fallout
Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
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...
by Peter Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Using a fabulous collection of landscape photography, Peter Watson's latest book gives you both the inspiration and knowledge you need to take stunning digital photographs. The core of the book deals with light, composition, close-ups and locations by showcasing striking images and then offering comprehensive...
The Age of Atheists
How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
From 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...
Madeleine's War
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-Day in 1944
Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that...
by Peter Watson-Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
The title of this book reflects, what Peter describes as the happenchance of his life. One opportunity leads to another, and yet another, a series of chance happenings, many of them described in the book, that have shaped the varied and interesting journey that is, a life. His life!