Summary
The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems. Almost everyone thinks they have one, but nobody knows what it is.
For thousands of years the soul was an ‘organ’, an entity, something that was part of all of us, that survived the death of the body and ventured to the underworld, or to heaven or hell. The soul could be saved, condemned, tortured, bought.
And then,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143781349 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143781340 |
| Author: | Paul Ham |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | William Heinemann Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 800 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.17kg |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 164mm x 60mm |
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Paul Ham
Paul Ham is the author of 12 books, including Passchendaele- Requiem for Doomed Youth (2016), 1914- The Year the World Ended (2013), Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011), Vietnam- The Australian War (2007) and Kokoda (2004). Passchendaele won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. Hiroshima Nagasaki was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for History and is being made into a 6-part TV series by an American-British-Australian production team. Vietnam won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Australian History and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award (2008). Kokoda was shortlisted for the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction and the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Sandakan- The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches, was published in 2012 and was also shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for History. A former Sunday Times correspondent, with a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, Paul lives in Paris and devotes his time to writing history and (when possible) to teaching Narrative History at Sciences Po, France’s preeminent tertiary school for the humanities.
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