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50 Years of Silence by Jan Ruff O'Herne
Category: No Category | Series: Imprint Lives Ser.
The long idyllic summer of Jan Ruff-O'Herne's childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended in 1942 with the Japanese invasion of Java. She was interned in Ambarawa Prison Camp, along with her mother and two younger sisters. In February 1944, when Jan was 21, her life was torn apart. Along with nine other ...Show more
Adam Lindsay Gordon - Man and Myth by Geoffrey Hutton
Category: Biography | Series: Australian Lives Ser.
"Scottish aristocrat, rebellious youth, expert horseman, club-man, MP and poet beneath the image of rake and hell-raiser, Adam Lindsay Gordon remained a conservative, frustrated with his failure to achieve the success he had expected from life. He finished his passionate life as dramatically as he had l ...Show more
Agatha Christie - Inspiring Lives by Cathy Cook
Category: Biography | Series: Inspiring Lives Ser.
'If anyone writes about my life in the future, I'd rather they got the facts right.'Agatha Christie No one has had the same impact on the literary world as Agatha Christie: she is the world's bestselling fiction author, her books have been translated over 7,000 times and her play The Mousetrap is the wo ...Show more
Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature by Irven M. Resnick; Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.
Category: History | Series: Medieval Lives Ser.
The first comprehensive English-language biography of Albert the Great in a century. As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made significant contributions to the study of astronomy, geography, and natural philosophy, and his studies of the natural wo ...Show more
Aldous Huxley by Jake Poller
Category: Biography | 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
Alfred Stieglitz - Taking Pictures, Making Painters by Phyllis Rose
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O'Keef ...Show more
Amos Oz - Writer, Activist, Icon by Robert Alter
Category: Reference | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay col ...Show more
Amy Winehouse by Kate Solomon
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
In her intense, brief life, Amy Winehouse's music spoke directly to millions. And since her death, her fans have only increased. Amy Winehouse is one of those pop stars that comes along so rarely we're not sure we knew what we had when we had her. Her story speaks to us not because the relentless tabloi ...Show more
Animal Lives: Food and Feeding by Kimberley Jane Pryor
Category: Education | Series: Animal Lives Ser.
The fascinating examples of how a range of animals behave when finding food and eating will entertain middle-upper primary students.It presents contrasting examples of animal food gathering and the approach encourages young readers to develop an understanding about the similarities and differences in th ...Show more
Anne Frank (Little Guide to Great Lives) by Isabel Thomas; Paola Escobar (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Anne Frank was an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times. Forced to go into hiding to escape the Nazis' persecution of Jews in World War II, Anne kept a diary that would become one of the most famous books in the world. Meet one of history's most inspiring figures in this beautifully-illustrate ...Show more
Antoni Gaudí by Michael Eaude
Category: Architecture | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
An accessible account of the contradictory life and work of the modernist Catalan architect. The celebrated art nouveau architect Antoni Gaudí was a contradictory figure: a deeply religious, politically right-wing man who nevertheless built revolutionary buildings. This book explores Gaudí's life, wor ...Show more
Aristotle in 90 Minutes by Constable; Paul Strathern
Category: No Category | Series: Philosophers in 90 Minutes: Their Lives and Work Ser.
In Aristotle in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Aristotle's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Aristotle's work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wis ...Show more