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ANCIENT GREEKS THEIR LIVES AND THEIR WIORLD by Alexandra Villing
$18.17 AUD
Category: History | Series: Their Lives and Their World Ser.
The Ancient Greeks introduces children to the people of the ancient Greek world. This is a highly visual resource book, packed with authentic pictures of real Greek places, things and people. It shows at first hand how the people of the ancient Greek city-states lived and worked and the legacy they left ...Show more
Beethoven : The Universal Composer (Emminent Lives) by Edmund Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
In "Beethoven", Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of the great composer, brings him to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was ...Show more
Careers That Save Lives - Firefighte Careers Tht Save Lives: Firefighter by Louise Spilsbury
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Careers That Save Lives Ser.
Discover the heroic work of firefighting crews in this book. It explores how brave men and women begin a career in firefighting, the skills they need to carry out their job, the equipment they use to fight fires and save lives and the risks and rewards of their life-saving work. The book includes advice ...Show more
Cleopatra and Egypt by Sally-Ann Ashton
$64.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Blackwell Ancient Lives Ser.
This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws onliterary, archaeological, and art historical evidence to paint anintimate and compelling portrait of the most famous Queen of Egypt. Deconstructs the image of Cleopatra to uncover the complexhistorical figure behind the myth Examines Gre ...Show more
Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world's first scientific "superstar" The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understandin ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
$23.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's 'Brief Lives', Dr Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets' and Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians', this e ...Show more
LIVES OF THE MUSICIANS by Kathleen Krull; Kathryn Hewitt (Illustrator)
$47.00 AUD
Category: Music and Movement | Series: Lives Of ... Ser.
It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people--and other famous musicians--really like? What did they eat? What did they wear? How did they spend their time? And--possibly most interesting of al ...Show more
Lives: Virginia Woolf by Nicholson Nigel
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively brief book could hardly be bettered and achieves high status instantly as a significant work of reference in its own right' THE TIMES Virginia Woolf was undoubtedly one of the literary giants of the twentieth century. She was a central figure ...Show more
Nine Lives Collection: Books 1 to 3 by Lucy Daniels
$21.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Nine Lives Ser.
A collection of the first three Nine Lives adventures.
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$18.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this much anticipated addition to the Eminent Lives series, Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and sc ...Show more
We Belong To The Land by Chacour Elias
$41.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Erma Konya Kess Lives of the Just and Virtuous Ser.
Nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, world-renowned Palestinian priest, Elias Chacour, narrates the gripping story of his life spent working to achieve peace and reconciliation among Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims. From the destruction of his boyhood village and his work as a priest ...Show more
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