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Great Lives in Graphics: Jane Austen by BUTTON BOOKS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Jane Austen is a graphic retelling of Austen's story which gives children a colourful snapshot of her life and the world in which she grew up, whilst educating them on everything from Regency culture to the wonders of storytelling. You may already know that Jane Austen was a wri ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Leonardo Da Vinci 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: Mozart by BUTTON BOOKS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Mozart is a graphic retelling of Mozart's story which gives children a colourful snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while educating them on everything from the history of music to the Age of Enlightenment. You may already know that Mozart was a child prodigy, but ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Nikola Tesla by BUTTON BOOKS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Nikola Tesla is a graphic retelling of Tesla's story which gives children a colourful snapshot of his life and the world in which he grew up, whilst educating them on everything from alternating current to the power of the imagination. You may already know that Nikola Tesla was ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Shakespeare 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
John Curtin: A Biography by Lloyd Ross
$27.45 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Melbourne University Press Australian Lives S.
Lloyd Ross sums up the character of the wartime Labor Prime Minister who fought Churchill to bring back Australian troops from Europe to defend his nation: "Curtin was a complex character. Warm and sympathetic, but cold and aloof; a comrade but a loner; a rebel and anti-conscriptionist but Prime Ministe ...Show more
Lesson in Red by Maria Hummel
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Still Lives Ser.
A companion to Still Lives-a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection-this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art world and reveals the fatal mistakes that can befall those who threaten its status quo.Brenae Brasil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigi ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives - Stephen Hawking by Isabel Thomas; Marianna Madriz (Illustrator)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Stephen Hawking was one of the world's most famous scientists. His ground-breaking research into black holes and the Big Bang has helped to explain the beginnings of our universe and his book A Brief History of Timehas sold over 10 million copies. Diagnosed with a form of motor neuron disease when he wa ...Show more
Lives Of The Artists (Volume I) by Giorgio Vasari
$9.95 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first dra ...Show more
Lives of Veronese by GIORGIO VASARI
$56.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Never was a painter more nobly joyous, never did an artist take a greater delight in life, seeing it all as a kind of breezy festival and feeling it through the medium of perpetual success He was the happiest of painters - Henry James on Veronese, 1909. Collected here for the first time, these fascinati ...Show more
Mel Brooks - Disobedient Jew by Jeremy Dauber
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy
Napoleon by Paul Johnson
$20.86 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule. Written with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon#65533;s dictatorship. Johnson tells the whole story: his astonish ...Show more