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David Bowie by Robert Dimery
Category: Performing Arts | 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
David Hockney by James Cahill
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made ...Show more
Deeper Blue The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt by Hardy Robert Earl
Category: No Category | Series: North Texas Lives of Musician Ser.
Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. "A Deeper Blue" traces Van Zandt background as the scion of a prominent Texas family; his troubled early years and his transformation from p ...Show more
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities by James Romm
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 again
Demetrius - Sacker of Cities by James Romm
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
Descartes in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
Category: No Category | Series: Philosophers in 90 Minutes: Their Lives and Work Ser.
"Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization."--Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. "Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them. ...Show more
Desert Animals by Deborah Hodge; Pat Stephens (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: Who Lives Here? Ser.
Deserts are home to amazing animals whose bodies are built for living in hot places, where there is very little water to drink. Scorpions, sand cats and camels all have special ways of staying cool, finding food and raising their young in a hot, dry habitat.The Who Lives Here? series looks at animals in ...Show more
Dictionary of World Biography by Barry Jones
Category: No Category | Series: ANU Lives Series in Biography Ser.
Jones, Barry Owen (1932- ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972-77 and the A ...Show more
Dictionary of World Biography, 7th edition by Barry JONES
Category: Biography | Series: ANU Lives Series in Biography Ser.
Weaves historical facts with perspective on the subjects and the influence they had on theirs and on modern times. Gain a unique insight into the life and times of important identities, cultural icons and controversial characters, including Shakespeare, Freud, Mari I, Nero, Matisse and Pol Pot.
Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
Category: Science | 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
Elie Wiesel - Confronting the Silence by Joseph Berger
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spo ...Show more
Elijah - A Man of Heroism and Humility by Charles R. Swindoll
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Great Lives Ser.
Where are great leaders like Elijah today? Uncompromisingly strong, yet self-controlled. Disciplined, yet forgiving. Audaciously courageous, yet kind. Heroic in the heat of battle, yet humble in the aftermath. We see a few such men and women, but the list is tragically short. Rarely does someone model ...Show more