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Julian - Romes Last Pagan Emperor by Philip Freeman
$44.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of ...Show more
Kusama : A Graphic Biography by Elisa Macellari
$35.00 NZD
$38.00 (7% off)
Category: Art & Design | Series: Graphic Lives Ser.
From rural Japan to international icon Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art. Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Frida Kahlo by Isabel Thomas
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Frida Kahlo was a colourful Mexican artist who endured great pain and hardship, but used her bright, vivid brushstrokes to express her emotions and reveal her true personality. She created over 50 self-portraits, and is considered to be one of the most influential and inspirational artists of the twenti ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Maya Angelou by Danielle Jawando
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and a long list of plays, films and television shows. Never taking 'No' for an answer, Maya used her voice and her art to overcome pre ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives - Stephen Hawking by Isabel Thomas; Marianna Madriz (Illustrator)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | 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
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
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
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
$44.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerl ...Show more
Railway Cat (The Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat) by Philip Ardagh
$15.99 NZD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: The\Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat Ser.
Meet Furry Purry Beancat - one extraordinary cat with nine extraordinary lives! Just like every other cat, Furry Purry Beancat loves a catnap. But unlike other cats, when Beancat wakes she finds herself about to embark on a whole new adventure! All aboard! There's a mystery on the railway! Join Beancat ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this much anticipated addition to the Eminent Lives series, Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and sc ...Show more