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A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy
$33.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: North Texas Lives of Musicians Series
This is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas' - and America's - greatest song-writers. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. "A Deeper Blue" traces ...Show more
A Jazz Odyssey by Oscar Peterson
$26.95 AUD
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
Aldous Huxley by Jake Poller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
"An outstanding book."--James Sexton "A welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals."--Dana Sawyer A rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. T ...Show more
Andy Warhol (Great Lives) by Wayne Koestenbaum
$22.99 AUD
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
Beethoven : The Universal Composer (Emminent Lives) by Edmund Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music | 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
Benjamin Franklin by Kevin J. Hayes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
An action-packed retelling of the life and work of the polymath and so-called First American, Benjamin Franklin. All Benjamin Franklin biographers face a major challenge: they must compete with their subject. In one of the greatest autobiographies in world literature, Franklin has already told his own s ...Show more
Botticelli: Artist and Designer by Ana Debenedetti
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organisation of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
$22.95 AUD
Category: Mythology, 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
$27.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
Chaucer ( Brief Lives - Volume 1 ) by Peter Ackroyd
$24.95 AUD
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
Christine de Pizan - Life, Work, Legacy by Charlotte Cooper-Davis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Medieval Lives Ser.
The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the book trade, writing more than fo ...Show more