Peter Watson, Author HarperCollins Publishers $29.95 (822p) ISBN 978-0-06-621064-3
Watson's (The Modern Mind) hefty tome distills history's greatest ideas and inventions into an impressive discourse on history's driving forces, enlivened by anecdotes and made approachable by Watson's casual, nearly conspiratorial, tone. Watson...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Peter Watson, Author Richard Cohen Books $17.95 (437p) ISBN 978-1-86066-011-5
Watson, well-known for both nonfiction (From Manhattan to Manet) and fiction (Landscape of Lies), gives Puzo a run for his money with this stunning tale of the Sicilian Mafia's roots and burgeoning power in New Orleans. Set in the late 19th century,
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Just as the 20th century dawned with an unparalleled optimism regarding the moral, social and scientific progress of humanity, it ended with an unshakeable confidence in the promises of technology and the power of free-market economics to deliver a
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Peter Watson, Author Random House (NY) $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40472-9
Watson's colorful, anecdotal history of the development of the modern art market opens with his behind-the-scenes account of the 1990 Christie's auction that saw the sale of a van Gogh portrait for a record $82.5 million. His theme--that auctioneers
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Peter Watson, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (395p) ISBN 978-0-385-18449-6
Watson has chosen a single Renaissance painting, Paolo Veronese's Wisdom and Strength , on which to base a freewheeling group portrait of some 20 of the richest, most powerful art patrons of the last 400 years, from ``mad Hapsburg Emperor Rudolph II,
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Peter Watson, Author Random House (NY) $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-41403-2
In 1995, the art world was electrified by a British TV documentary and its sequel that detailed rigged sales at the prestigious international auction house of Sotheby and its complicity in smuggling and selling old-master paintings and ancient...
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Peter Watson, Author, Ronald Ed. Watson, Author Scribner Book Company $18.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-689-12083-1
When someone tries to steal a medieval painting long owned by her family, Isobel Sadler turns for help to London art gallery owner Michael Whiting. She is amazed to learn that the picture, titled Landscape of Lies , is a ``puzzle map'' whose nine...
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Peter Watson, Author, Cecilia Todeschini, Author . Public Affairs $26.95 (379p) ISBN 978-1-58648-402-6
In light of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent decision to return a rare—and by the Italian government's contention, stolen—vase painted by the Greek master Euphronios, Watson and Todeschini's colorful account of Giacomo
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Peter Watson. Harper, $31.99 (640p) ISBN 978-0-06-167245-3
Watson, a former senior editor at the London Sunday Times, explores the radically different cultures and fates of the Eastern and Western hemispheres in this sweeping comparative history from the last Ice Age to the Columbian contact. His analysis...
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Peter Watson. Simon & Schuster, $35 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5431-4
In his 14th book, British journalist and historian Watson (The Great Divide) turns his estimable intellectual skills on the history of non-belief - which he calls "a major plank of modernity" –beginning with Friedrich Nietzsche's 1882 declaration...
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Peter Watson. Simon & Schuster, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5434-5
In this massive tour de force, British intellectual historian Watson (The Age of Atheists) traces the rise of modern science from 1850 to the 21st century. He aims to demonstrate that what began as disparate studies started to converge on “one...
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Peter Watson. PublicAffairs, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-61039-961-6
Unprecedented scientific breakthroughs, World War geopolitics, and the birth of the Cold War serve as the backdrop to this thorough history of the atomic bomb from journalist and historian Watson (The Modern Mind). Watson posits that “by not acting...
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