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Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives | Reading Level: near fine
The riveting life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated than Alexander ...Show more
Alexander the Great in His World by Carol G. Thomas
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Blackwell Ancient Lives | Reading Level: very good
In Alexander the Great in his World, Carol G. Thomas places this powerful figure within the context of his time, place, culture, and pedigree in order to discover what influences and elements from the world around him aided in the rise of his incredible life and career.
As We Were - A Victorian Peep-Show by E. F. Benson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Lives & Letters | Reading Level: good-very good
Baudelaire by Claude Pichois; Jean Ziegler
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Vintage Lives | Reading Level: good
Baudelaire was always the subject of myth, anecdote and scandal. In his short life, a rebel, political agitator, dandy, post-Romantic debauchee and priestlike visionary, he was also plagued by disease, poverty and censorship. Yet he remains one of the most innovative figures in poetic history.
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
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
$10.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Lives | Reading Level: very good
With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered penetrating, readable, and prescient (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In Buddha she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating t ...Show more
Caesar by Michael Grant
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Great Lives | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens by Elizabeth James
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: The British Library Writers' Lives | Reading Level: very good
Few literature enthusiasts can be entirely unaware of the colourful and turbulent life of Charles Dickens, and the role it had to play in helping to shape some of his most famous and vibrant scenes and characters. Elizabeth James takes the reader through the triumphs and disasters, the highs and lows of ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the genetic code by Matt Ridley
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Eminent Lives | Reading Level: good
Discoverer of the Genetic Code Francis Crick, who died at the age of eighty-eight in 2004, will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the great scientists of all time. Between 1953 and 1966 he made and led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life ...Show more
Frantz Fanon - A Spiritual Biography by Patrick Ehlen
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Lives and Legacies Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Fanon's remarkable life is resurrected at the turn of the century in Martinique. The author recounts the trial of an ordinary family in extraordinary times, fusing social,economic and psychological elements which fed Frantz Fanon's intellect. The book reveals how a single man matures into a decorated wa ...Show more
In Rooms of Memory - Essays by Hilary Masters
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: American Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This mature, exquisite collection of personal essays by Hilary Masters offers a rare pleasure. Here are meditations and reflections distilled in fine prose from a long and varied life—musings that, in the distinguished tradition of essays carried on since the days of Montaigne, articulate the piquant in ...Show more
Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Joan of Arc was born in 1412 and grew up during a time of invasion and civil war. At thirteen, she began to hear the voices of saints and followed their directives, believing they were sent to her by God. At seventeen, she rode into battle to rescue France from English domination in the Hundred Years Wa ...Show more