🍂 Autumn reading time! Let our AI Librarian find your perfect cozy read 🫖
Explore the literary world of this author
From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." — New York Times Book Review A fascinating portrait of...
...
A Life
From New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most impo...
From the “most celebrated and best-loved British historian in America” (Wall Street Journal), an elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of Winst...
With masterly eloquence, a bestselling historian offers a searching portrait of a man who shaped history and cast his shadow over two centuries....
A Biography from a Believer.
From the bestselling author and acclaimed historian, a powerful portrayal of the life of Jesus Is Jesus relevant to us today? Few figures have had suc...
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and ...
A Topical Compilation of His Wit, Wisdom and Satire
The Quotable Paul Johnson contains 2,000 pithy and hard-hitting Johnson excerpts, edited and arranged alphabetically by topic, and with a cross-refere...
A Man for Our Times
A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy. Socrates was undeniably one of the greatest thinkers of all time, yet he wro...
World Society 1815-1830
A classic study of fifteen crucial years in the formation of the modern world The Birth of the Modern has established itself as a new kind of historic...
From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers We...
A fresh and vigorous appreciation of the intellectual liberation and artistic triumphs of the Italian Renaissance. The development of the first univer...
A leading historian and bestselling author re-creates the growth, decline, and legacy of 3,000 Years of Egyptian civilization with an authoritative te...
In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, ...
Portrait of a Genius
Eminent historian Paul Johnson provides a rich, succinct portrait of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all t...
World from the Twenties to the Nineties, The
The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century....
Ill. on lining papers....
National Bestseller "A tour de force. . . . A remarkable achievement." —New York Times Book Review "A marvelous book. . . . This is history: richly ...
The Founding Father
By far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of th...
The Kremlin Mountaineer (ICONS Series)
From the esteemed British historian Paul Johnson, a biography of Joseph Stalin, one of the "outstanding monsters of history." The second book in the I...
'Gripping and Horrifying... Witty and Brilliant. Buy It' the Times
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it'The Times 'A treasure trove of killer facts' Guardian 'Rea...
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he�...
An Integrated Multi-Level Approach
This volume is designed as a basic text for upper level and graduate courses in contemporary sociological theory. Most sociology programs require thei...
A leading historian examines his faith in God, in the light of the historical evidence and his own personal experiences....
A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries
Paul Johnson recalls, with warmth and affection, his childhood in the Potteries - and a unique industrial landscape that has now gone for ever Paul Jo...
A rich and varied collection of essays. Pugnacious and savage, eloquent and unpredictable, Paul Johnson sets out to entertain and to inform and to sha...
The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street
Learn the overlooked skill that is essential to Wall Street success Pitch the Perfect Investment combines investment analysis with persuasion and sale...
Learn how to use the popular MVVM Light development framework with a focus on reliable, maintainable code that can be deployed across any of the .NET-...
Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his music As he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin...
Why did the Suez War ever come to pass? Why did Eden, against public opinion and without sufficient military capability, decide to invade Egypt? When ...
Step-by-step paper engineering for all ages
New Pop-Up Paper Projects is an inspirational book for everyone who wants to learn and share the magic of pop-up paper engineering. Illustrated throug...
The techniques of creating pop-up forms are demonstrated in a series of practical lessons. The book also suggests ways in which pop-up forms can be us...
A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
Written by distinguished historians with the force of a novel, this book reconstructs the web of religious ecstacy, greed, and seduction within the cu...
From Chaucer to Walt Disney
In his book 'Intellectuals' Paul Johnson asked whether intellectuals were morally fit to give advice to humanity (no, was the usual answer). In contra...