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Man Ray - The Artist and His Shadows by Arthur Lubow
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Lee Miller traveled to Paris in 1929 in search of Man Ray. But when she called at his studio at 31 bis rue Campagne-Première, the concierge informed her that hélas, the man she sought had just departed for his summer holiday. What to do? She retreated to a nearby bar, the Bateau Ivre, that was known to ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor by Donald J. Robertson
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy This novel biography brings Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE) to life for a new generation of readers by exploring the emperor’s fascinating psychological journey. Don ...Show more
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith & Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentieth‑century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Th ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
25.95 AUD
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
Piero Della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
39.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca brought space, luminosity, and unparalleled subtlety to painting. In addition, Piero invented the role of the modern artist by becoming a traveler, a courtier, a geometrician, a patron, and muc ...Show more
Prince (small HB) by Jason Draper
24.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
His name was Prince, and he was funky. He was also inspiring, infuriating, visionary, secretive, seductive, contradictory. Especially contradictory. He channelled dualities as if doing so were the most natural thing in the world. When he changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph, he merged symbols of ...Show more
Ramesses the Great - Egypt's King of Kings by Toby Wilkinson
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history ...Show more
Sergei Rachmaninoff by Rebecca Mitchell
29.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Drawing extensively on Russian-language sources, a concise yet comprehensive survey of the life and work of one of classical music's great composers. Unquestionably one of the most popular composers of classical music, Sergei Rachmaninoff has not always been so admired by critics. Detractors have long p ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Sigmund Freud by Matthew ffytche
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Drawing on the latest research, an engaging and nuanced biography of Freud that argues for his continuing relevance. However much his work has been reviled or contested, Sigmund Freud remains one of the most significant thinkers of the last one hundred and fifty years. He founded psychoanalysis, and hi ...Show more
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker by David Mikics
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
When he made a movie Kubrick was obsessively focused because he had to find a solution to every problem. ... His movies are about mastery that fails. Perfectly controlled schemes get botched through human error or freak accidents, or hijacked by masculine rage. ... Stanley Kubrick asserted total control ...Show more
The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Great Lives Ser.
The extraordinary story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the son of former slaves who fled America to build a life in Tsarist Russia. 'A fascinating tale' Anne Applebaum'Thoroughly enjoyable' Spectator'Extraordinary and gripping' Adam HochschildAfter the brutal death of his father when he was a teenager, Fred ...Show more