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A Bridge Between - Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia by Katharine Massam
65.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: ANU Lives Series in Biography Ser.
This sensitive account of Spanish Benedictine women at an Aboriginal mission in Western Australia is poignant and disturbing. Notable for its ecumenical spirit, depth of research and deep engagement with the subject, A Bridge Between is a model of how religious history, in its broader bearings, can be w ...Show more
Agatha Christie - Inspiring Lives by Cathy Cook
24.99 AUD
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
Amy Winehouse by Kate Solomon
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
Andy Warhol (Great Lives) by Wayne Koestenbaum
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she ...Show more
Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
27.99 AUD
Category: History | 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 | 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
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
Cleopatra - Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacyThe siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyon ...Show more
David Bowie by Robert Dimery
24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
A relentless innovator, scoring chart hits while simultaneously incorporating radical and ground-breaking elements into his work. As with all great pop stars, Bowie's image changed with almost every new album release. This appetite for reinvention, both musically and visually, saw him dubbed the 'chamel ...Show more
Demetrius - Sacker of Cities by James Romm
39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back againThe life of Demetrius (337-283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323-282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ...Show more
Inspirational Lives Nelson Mandela by Kay Barnham
19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Inspirational Lives Ser.
The series focuses on the people who inspire children today. Each book looks at the background, life and achievements of a personality, their impact on popular culture as well as detailing the everyday facets of their job and how they have gained such success. This title explores how Nelson Mandela ...Show more