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Handel by Wendy Thompson
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with ...Show more
Hans Holbein by Nuechterlein, Jeanne
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein molded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and culture: the emergence of humanism, the impact of the Reformation on religious life, and the effects of new scientific discoveries. Most people have encount ...Show more
Harvey Milk - His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities Harvey Milk--eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck--was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even serve ...Show more
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Harvey Milk was a complex man. There were seemingly many Harveys as he drifted for years through various stages, fumbling to find the niche from which he could fulfill the high, vague aspirations of his childhood.... Each earlier "life" represented some genuine (if contradictory) aspect of Harvey Milk-a ...Show more
Haydn by Neil Butterworth
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Herod the Great - Jewish King in a Roman World by Martin Goodman
Category: Popular History | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution "Herod the Great is typical of Yale's Jewish Lives series: short, clear, deeply knowledgeable, deeply illuminating."--Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal ...Show more
Hey Days - Memories and Glimpses of Melbourne's Bohemia 1937-1947 by Alister Kershaw
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Imprint Lives Ser.
Memoirs of Melbourne's bohemia circles during the thirties and forties, including among others Albert Tucker, Sydney Nolan, Max Harris, James Gleeson and John and Sunday Reed. Illustrated with photographs of the artists and writers concerned. The author, who has written several books, was Paris correspo ...Show more
Hippo the Singer by Anna Gkoutzouri (Illustrator)
Category: Board Books | Series: Who Lives Here? Ser.
Hokusai: A Graphic Biography by Giuseppe Lantaza
Category: Fiction | Series: Graphic Lives Ser.
A stunning visual biography of one of Japan's most famous historical artists, this book beautifully illustrates the story of Katsushika Hokusai. Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai - the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image. This vivid graphic biography tells the story of ...Show more
Holst by Paul Holmes
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This biography of Holst draws on letters and personal collections, engravings, paintings, and, where they exist, photographs, to present a picture of the composer and teacher.
I'm Standing on a Million Lives 1 by Naoki Yamakawa; Akinari Nao (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: I'm Standing on a Million Lives Ser.
A teenage loner boy gets transported into a fantasy world with his two scary female classmates. The girls find themselves as a wizard and a warrior, but he's woken up as... a farmer? How will be become a hero now? Ninth grader Yusuke Yotsuya is a loner and he likes it that way. But one day, he and t ...Show more