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John Donne - In the Shadow of Religion by Andrew Hadfield
Category: Biography | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne's life and work, but connects his writing and thinking to the ideas, institutions, and networks that influenced him. The book shows h ...Show more
John Logie Baird by Nicola Baxter
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. This book tells how the television, now a feature of almost every household ...Show more
Johnson On Savage: An Account of The Life Of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers by Samual Johnson; Holmes Richard (ed)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Lives That Never Grow Old Ser.
Lives that Never Grow Old Part of a radical new series -edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnson's book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive. When he first came to London, young Samuel Johnson was befriended ...Show more
Julian - Romes Last Pagan Emperor by Philip Freeman
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of ...Show more
Karl Marx - Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)-philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor-was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresented. He ...Show more
Keith Haring by Simon Doonan
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story. Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for t ...Show more
Kusama : A Graphic Biography by Elisa Macellari
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Graphic Lives Ser.
From rural Japan to international icon Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art. Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual ...Show more
Langston Hughes by W. Jason Miller
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
As the first black author in America to make his living exclusively by writing, Langston Hughes inspired a generation of writers and activists. One of the pioneers of jazz poetry, Hughes led the Harlem Renaissance, while Martin Luther King, Jr., invoked Hughes's signature metaphor of dreaming in his spe ...Show more
Lasher : Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Lives of Mayfair Witches Ser.
From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers--readers by the hundreds of thousands--have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the mul ...Show more
Lasher (Mayfair Witches #2) by Anne Rice
Category: Horror | Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches Ser.
The beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. This work tells a hypnotic story of spiritual aspirations and passion.
Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents and tortuous ...Show more
Leon Battista Alberti - The Chameleon's Eye by Caspar Pearson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A new account of the sui generis Renaissance writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti. One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti had an output encompassing engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humor, political commentary, ...Show more