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Come Together: Lennon McCartney in the Seventies by Richard White
Category: Music
Come Together is a compelling account of a crucial period of post-Sixties Beatle history, providing a new look at the Lennon-McCartney relationship during the Seventies. It also offers fresh insight on the musical ambitions and personal motivations for renewing a creative alliance that so nearly happene ...Show more
Degas and the Laundress - Women, Work, and Impressionism by Michelle Foa (Contribution by); Gretchen Schultz (Contribution by); Charles Sowerwine (Contribution by); Richard Thomson (Contribution by); Claire White (Contribution by); Britany Salsbury; Aleksandra Bursac (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
An exploration of Edgar Degas's laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women's work in the nineteenth century Edgar Degas's depictions of Parisian laundresses are some of the famed Impressionist's most revolutionary works. In paintings, drawings, and prints th ...Show more
Inventing Australia by Richard White
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Experience Ser.
'To be Australian': what can that mean? Inventing Australia sets out to find the answers by tracing the images we have used to describe our land and our people - the convict hell, the workingman's paradise, the Bush legend, the 'typical' Australian from the shearer to the Bondi lifesaver, the land of op ...Show more
On Holidays: a History of Getting Away in Australia by Richard White
Category: Fiction
In this lively history of the Australian experience of 'the holiday', historian Richard White traces just what has happened to holidays in Australia. Is the Australian holiday we have known for more than a century in danger of slipping away without anyone noticing? Once Australia boasted one of the high ...Show more
Railroaded - the Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White
Category: Popular History
This original, deeply researched history shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike, robber barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly ...Show more
Stephen King's the Dark Tower: the Gunslinger - The Complete Graphic Novel Series by Stephen King; Dean White (Illustrator); Robin Furth; Peter David; Richard Isanove (Illustrator); Sean Phillips (Illustrator); Luke Ross (Illustrator); Michael Lark (Illustrator); Laurence Campbell (Illustrator); Alex Maleev (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Stephen King's the Dark Tower: the Gunslinger Ser.
Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain--and the world of the Dark Tower...now presented in a stunning graphic novel form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephe ...Show more
Symbols of Australia: Uncovering the stories behind the myths by Richard White (Editor); Melissa Harper (Editor)
Category: Australian History
Australia is a land of symbols. The Southern Cross. The Sydney Opera House. The kangaroo. Vegemite. But what do they actually mean? Where do national symbols come from and what makes them popular? Why are some symbols so hotly contested? Does Australia have more than its fair share?Symbols of Australia ...Show more
The Organic Machine - The Remaking of the Columbia River by Richard White
Category: Science | Series: Hill and Wang Critical Issues Ser.
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and ...Show more