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Agatha Christie - Inspiring Lives by Cathy Cook
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Inspiring Lives Ser.
'If anyone writes about my life in the future, I'd rather they got the facts right.'Agatha Christie No one has had the same impact on the literary world as Agatha Christie: she is the world's bestselling fiction author, her books have been translated over 7,000 times and her play The Mousetrap is the wo ...Show more
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair by Maurice Samuels
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting “Death to Judas!” In this book, Maurice Samuels gives readers ...Show more
Anne Frank (Little Guide to Great Lives) by Isabel Thomas; Paola Escobar (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Anne Frank was an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times. Forced to go into hiding to escape the Nazis' persecution of Jews in World War II, Anne kept a diary that would become one of the most famous books in the world. Meet one of history's most inspiring figures in this beautifully-illustrate ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi - Lives of the Artists series by Jonathan Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio. As a young woman she was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she ...Show more
Beethoven : The Universal Composer (Emminent Lives) by Edmund Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
In "Beethoven", Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of the great composer, brings him to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Lives S.
A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker, by a bestselling author.
Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives Ser.
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfar ...Show more
Edmund Burke by O'Brien, Conor Cruise
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Statesman, political thinker, orator and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century. His ideas and principles were expressed in the great debates over liberty, the rights of man and the American and French Revolutions, and are among the most important in mode ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's 'Brief Lives', Dr Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets' and Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians', this e ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Albert Einstein by BUTTON BOOKS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
The Great Lives in Graphics series is a new way of looking at the lives of famous and influential people. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person's life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that is genuinely engagin ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Greta Thunberg by Button Books
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Greta Thunberg is a graphic retelling of Greta's story which gives children a visual snapshot of her life and environmental activism, while educating them on everything from the science of climate change to living with Asperger's Syndrome.You may already know that Greta Thunberg ...Show more