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Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
$26.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world's first scientific "superstar" The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understandin ...Show more
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Harvey Milk was a complex man. There were seemingly many Harveys as he drifted for years through various stages, fumbling to find the niche from which he could fulfill the high, vague aspirations of his childhood.... Each earlier "life" represented some genuine (if contradictory) aspect of Harvey Milk-a ...Show more
Harvey Milk - His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
$36.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities Harvey Milk--eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck--was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even serve ...Show more
Houdini - The Elusive American by Adam Begley
$57.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, "The Marvelous Adventures ...Show more
Moses - A Human Life by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
$42.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Je ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art. One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters ...Show more
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