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A Jazz Odyssey by Oscar Peterson
$32.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Bayou Jazz Lives S.
The legendary jazz pianist's autobiography has been a work in progress for nearly fifteen years and proves to be well worth the wait. As monumental as the man himself and his six-decade career in jazz, A Jazz Odyssey begins with Peterson's early years in Canada as part of a large family for whom times w ...Show more
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme - Time and Medieval Life by Gillian Adler; Paul Strohm
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Medieval Lives Ser.
An insightful account of how medieval people experienced time. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people's experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical--from creation through judgment and into eternity. Medieval people measured time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and ...Show more
Andy Warhol (Great Lives) by Wayne Koestenbaum
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can challenge the status quo' L A TIMESPainter, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, all-round celebrity, Andy Warho ...Show more
Anne Frank (Little Guide to Great Lives) by Isabel Thomas; Paola Escobar (Illustrator)
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Category: Children & Young Adult | 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 and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
$47.99 NZD
Category: Feminism | 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
Arthur Rimbaud by Seth Whidden
$34.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Before he turned twenty-one, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) had upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. In this critical biography, Seth Whidden argues that what makes Rimbaud's poetry important is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity, and exploration. ...Show more
Beethoven : The Universal Composer (Emminent Lives) by Edmund Morris
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Beginnings (The Secret Lives of Emma #1) by Natasha Walker
$19.99 NZD
Category: Erotica | Series: The Secret Lives of Emma
Beginnings...Thirty-something Emma Benson is a free spirit. For her a good life means a life of sensuality. So it's a surprise to everyone when she marries David, a successful businessman, and settles down in the suburbs. One year on, and she's trying so hard to be loyal to her man. Not easy to do when ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
$27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Charles Dickens (Great Lives) by Jane Smiley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES'Engaging and stimulating' Simon Callow'Jane Smiley, in her admirable contribution to Weidenfeld's series of short biographies, deals briskly with Dickens's career and w ...Show more
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language. From his ...Show more