Daunt Books

Your Basket

Shops

News Flash

The 2013 Winners are In!



Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

• 

  Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power by Niall Ferguson

  Price: £9.99    Add to Basket

  This provocative history of the Western world, from the "miserable", plague-ravaged 15th century to the present day, considers what it was about the civilisation of the West that enabled it to trump the opulent empires of the Orient. According to Ferguson, the West developed a number of "killer applications" that the rest of the world lacked: democracy, medicine, science, competition and a protestant work ethic. Whether or not you dispute his daring claims, Ferguson's zeal is compelling and his whistle-stop tour of civilisation is extraordinary.

• 

  The War of the World by Niall Ferguson

  Price: £14.99    Add to Basket

  Passionate journalist Niall Ferguson explores why the 20th century was the most violent and bloody hundred years in human history. A gripping, sweeping history.

• 

  Colossus by Niall Ferguson

  Price: £9.99    Add to Basket

  Niall Ferguson's incisive and challenging history of America as an Empire and its potential inability to cope with the weight of its own imperialism.