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Chaucer ( Brief Lives - Volume 1 ) by Peter Ackroyd
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Brief Lives S.
Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him. He was a royal servant, who was indicted for rap ...Show more
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
$25.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tataihono - Stories of Maori Healing & Psychiatry by Wiremu NiaNia; Allister Bush; David Epston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives Ser.
This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and ...Show more
Crassus - The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic a ...Show more
Critical Autoethnography - Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life by Robin M. Boylorn (Editor); Mark P. Orbe (Editor); Carolyn Ellis (Foreword by); Arthur P. Bochner (Foreword by)
$83.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives Ser.
This volume uses autoethnography¿cultural analysis through personal narrative¿to explore the tangled relationships between culture and communication. Using an intersectional approach to the many aspects of identity at play in everyday life, a diverse group of authors reveals the complex nature of lived ...Show more
David Bowie by Robert Dimery
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
A relentless innovator, scoring chart hits while simultaneously incorporating radical and ground-breaking elements into his work. As with all great pop stars, Bowie's image changed with almost every new album release. This appetite for reinvention, both musically and visually, saw him dubbed the 'chamel ...Show more
Distractions (The Secret Lives of Emma #2) by Natasha Walker
$19.99 NZD
Category: Erotica | Series: The Secret Lives of Emma
The continuing adventures of Emma! A series of erotic novels that tap into our deepest romantic fantasies...After a steamy affair with her young neighbour, Emma Benson flees to her friend Sally's beach house to recharge her emotional batteries. Her marriage to David has been going through a testing time ...Show more
Dorothea Lange: Enlarging the World with Her Eye by Carole Quirke
$0.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Series: Lives of American Women Ser.
Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Twentieth-Century America charts the life of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), whose life was radically altered by the Depression, and whose photography helped transform the nation. The book begins with her childhood in immigrant, metropolitan New York, shifting t ...Show more
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
Enid Blyton - A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder
$46.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
This book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton's business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of Britain's most successful and powerful authors. It ...Show more
Flush by Virginia Woolf
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Virginia Woolf's humorous biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel is charming yet also radical. A work of sensuous imagination, it opens up a range of questions about class, society, and cultural attitudes which are woven throughout the whole of Woolf's writing. We are delighted to publish th ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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