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Biographic Marley - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Liz Flavell
Category: History | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that Bob Marley (1945-1981) was a singer-songwriter who popularized reggae music and whose Jamaican culture and Rastafarian beliefs have attained worldwide influence. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his music inspired 7,000 prisoners of war to escape; that after running out of mo ...Show more
Biographic Prince - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Liz Flavell
Category: Music | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that Prince (1958--2016) was an iconic singer-songwriter whose creative brilliance transformed music for more than four decades. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his real name actually was Prince; that he once simultaneously held the number one spots in the US for film, single, an ...Show more
Biographic Tesla: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an engineer and inventor, instrumental in developing the alternating-current (AC) electrical system and wireless radio communications we still use today. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was born during a lightning storm; that when he first arr ...Show more
Biographic The Beatles - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Viv Coot
Category: Music | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that The Beatles (1960-1970) were the most famous pop group of all time, who were at the heart of 1960s counterculture and whose songs transformed the music world. What, perhaps, they don't know is that they have spent more than 1,300 weeks, or 25 years, on the Billboard chart; that the ...Show more
Churchill: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Richard Wiles
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creative. 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 Sir Wi ...Show more
Claude's Confession by Émile Zola; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Mint Editions--In Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives Ser.
Claude's Confession (1865) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Written at night while Zola was employed at Hachette, Claude's Confession proved scandalous upon publication and resulted in the loss of his job. Undeterred by the response to his literary debut, Zola took advantage of his newfound infam ...Show more
Coco: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) was a prolific French fashion designer and founder of the House of Chanel, who ruled over Parisian haute couture for almost six decades. What, perhaps, they don't know is that, she was taught to sew by nuns and started Chanel by making hats; that ...Show more
Dior: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Liz Flavell
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Christian Dior (1905-1957) was a French fashion designer, the founder of the world famous fashion house that carries his name. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he once owned a small art gallery selling work by artists including Pablo Picasso; that he employed a young Yves Sai ...Show more
Hockney - A Graphic Life by Simon Elliott
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: BioGraphics Ser.
Follow the journey of David Hockney's exceptional life in a unique graphic novel format. From his childhood in Bradford and early years making it as an artist, to his sun-drenched Los Angeles period, his triumphal return to the UK and his recent iPad drawings that proudly exclaim that 'spring cannot ...Show more
Kahlo (Biographic) by Sophie Collins
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist, a feminist icon who lived in the famous Blue House and whose work includes The Two Fridas. What, perhaps, they don't know is that 55 of her 143 artworks are self-portraits; that her painting Roots holds the record for a Latin American a ...Show more
Klimt: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Viv Croot; Gustav Klimt
Category: Art and Design | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was an Austrian painter and founding member of the Vienna Secession art group, whose gold-tinged paintings of the female nude include The Kiss. What, perhaps, they don't know is that The Kiss was sold before its completion for 25,000 crowns--over 50 times t ...Show more
Leonardo (Biographic) by Andrew Kirk
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath, one of the great creative minds of the Italian Renaissance and the painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his original notebook Codex Leicester, was sold to Bill Gates for $30 milli ...Show more