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Churchill by Sir John Keegan
$21.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
The greatest politician and statesmen of the 20th century - by Britain's leading military historian.Was Churchill as a great a wartime leader as he has hitherto been made out? John Keegan discusses the view of the soldiers such as Alanbrooke, his wartime Chief of Staff, and considers Churchill the polit ...Show more
Curtin's Gift : Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister by John Edwards
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Brief Lives Ser.
A fresh and thoughtful look at one of Australia's greatest prime ministers, John Curtin.
Deeper Blue The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt by Hardy Robert Earl
$29.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: North Texas Lives of Musician Ser.
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 Van Zandt background as the scion of a prominent Texas family; his troubled early years and his transformation from p ...Show more
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT A LIFE by HUXTABLE ADA LOUISE
$32.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Penguin Lives Ser.
Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography of America's greatest architect Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she i ...Show more
Flush by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | 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
Frantz Fanon by James S. Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A biography of the revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist. Doctor, militant, essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan-Africanist, Frantz Fanon sought to decolonize mid-twentieth-century culture as he embodied a new kind of intellectual. Born in colonial Martinique, he fought for France durin ...Show more
George Higinbotham by Bennett J.M
$49.50 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Lives of Australian Chief Justices Ser.
This biography of George Higinbotham, third Chief Justice of Victoria, is the 11th volume in the acclaimed series by eminent legal historian Dr Bennett.
Gershom Scholem - Master of the Kabbalah by David Biale
$37.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as ...Show more
Günter Grass by Julian Preece
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
G nter Grass was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain best-sellers across the world. The Tin Drum was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979, and the memoir Peeling the Onion astounded readers by revealing Grass had been drafted into the military wing of ...Show more
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with ...Show more
Hokusai: A Graphic Biography by Giuseppe Lantaza
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Graphic Lives Ser.
A stunning visual biography of one of Japan's most famous historical artists, this book beautifully illustrates the story of Katsushika Hokusai. Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai - the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image. This vivid graphic biography tells the story of ...Show more