Biographic Degas by Katie Greenwood
$10.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Great Lives in Graphic Form | Reading Level: very good
The Biographic senes presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Edgar ...Show more
Maori Carving - The Art of Recording Maori History by Malcolm Mulholland; Robyn Bargh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
This photograph-rich book shows and describes the process of carving, covering the types of materials and tools used, the carving strokes and surface patterns and different regional styles. It shows the range of items carved from meeting houses to musical instruments, waka or canoes, storehouses, weapon ...Show more
Inside Vogue - A Diary of My 100th Year by Alexandra Shulman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fashion | Reading Level: good-very good
"Coinciding with its 100th anniversary, Inside Vogue is Alexandra Shulman's record of her life at the magazine during its centenary year. These diaries are a fascinating glimpse into the realities of her day to day as the longest serving Editor-in-chief in Vogue's history: the emotional and personal str ...Show more
This Is a Call - The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitt ...Show more
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics Volumes One & Two by Alan Aldridge (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
A must-have for every Fab Four fan, this classic visual tribute to their music is now available in a handsomely repackaged and affordable paperback edition. The music and lyrics of the Beatles have proven them to be artists of the page as well as the stage and have here provided inspiration to dozens of ...Show more
The Orchard Book of Opera Stories by Adele Geras
$12.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
This striking collection of stories, retold with children in mind, were specially selected for easy accessibility. They include The Magic Flute, Aida, Carmen, The Cunning Little Vixen, Turandot, and Hansel and Gretel.
Oriental Art - The complete plates from "Arte arabe and the Oriental Album by Emile Prisse D'Avennes; James Augustus St John; Shelia Blair; Jonathan Bloom
$35.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: near fine
Monuments and marvels: A defining record of Islamic art and architectureEmile Prisse d Avennes (1807 1879), a French Orientalist, author, and artist, was one of the greatest pre-20th-century Egyptologists. As a youth he dreamed of exploring the Orient, and at 19 began traveling to Greece, India, and Pal ...Show more
Urban Claims and the Right to the City - Grassroots Perspectives from Salvador Da Bahia and London by Julian Walker (Editor); Marcos Bau Carvalho (Editor); Ilinca Diaconescu (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: near fine
Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how the rights of city dwellers are understood and interpreted in Brazil and the UK.
The Great Book Of French Impressionism by Diane Kelder
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Maori Carving by A W Reed
$10.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Series: Pageant of the Pacific | Reading Level: good-very good