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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) by Lara Vetter
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A concise biography of the modernist poet and avant-garde woman. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), best known for her imagist poetry, was one of the first writers of free verse in English. For over forty years, H.D. wrote poetry about forgotten ancient goddesses and autobiographical prose about her own ...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
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Harvey Milk was a complex man. There were seemingly many Harveys as he drifted for years through various stages, fumbling to find the niche from which he could fulfill the high, vague aspirations of his childhood.... Each earlier "life" represented some genuine (if contradictory) aspect of Harvey Milk-a ...Show more
Hey Days - Memories and Glimpses of Melbourne's Bohemia 1937-1947 by Alister Kershaw
12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Imprint Lives Ser.
Memoirs of Melbourne's bohemia circles during the thirties and forties, including among others Albert Tucker, Sydney Nolan, Max Harris, James Gleeson and John and Sunday Reed. Illustrated with photographs of the artists and writers concerned. The author, who has written several books, was Paris correspo ...Show more
I'm Standing on a Million Lives 1 by Naoki Yamakawa; Akinari Nao (Illustrator)
17.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Graphic Novels | Series: I'm Standing on a Million Lives Ser.
A teenage loner boy gets transported into a fantasy world with his two scary female classmates. The girls find themselves as a wizard and a warrior, but he's woken up as... a farmer? How will be become a hero now? Ninth grader Yusuke Yotsuya is a loner and he likes it that way. But one day, he and t ...Show more
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Remarkable Lives by John McIlwain
12.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Remarkable Lives Ser.
An illustrated biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59), the foremost engineer in an age of great engineers, when the Industrial Revolution was at its height and Britain, its birthplace, was the vibrant hub of a world empire. It presents the story of this perfectionist, the setbacks and challenges ...Show more
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time.'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW'An excellent biography' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Shields on Austen offers up a delicious prospect. And we are not disappointed' SCOTSMANJane Austen was one of t ...Show more
Jerome Robbins - A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser
37.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who ...Show more
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Jeremy Adler
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe's major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egm ...Show more
John Donne - In the Shadow of Religion by Andrew Hadfield
39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne's life and work, but connects his writing and thinking to the ideas, institutions, and networks that influenced him. The book shows h ...Show more
Kusama : A Graphic Biography by Elisa Macellari
29.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | 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