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Little Guides to Great Lives - Stephen Hawking by Isabel Thomas; Marianna Madriz (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Stephen Hawking was one of the world's most famous scientists. His ground-breaking research into black holes and the Big Bang has helped to explain the beginnings of our universe and his book A Brief History of Timehas sold over 10 million copies. Diagnosed with a form of motor neuron disease when he wa ...Show more
Lives Of The Artists (Volume I) by Giorgio Vasari
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first dra ...Show more
Lives of Caravaggio by GIULIO MANCINI
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
The first biographies of Caravaggio: key documents of one of the greatest revolutions in the history of art. In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionized painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe. The ...Show more
Lives of Leonardo Da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari; Matteo Bandello; Paolo Giovio; Leonardo da Vinci; Sabba di Castiglione; Francesco Melzi; Isabella d'Este; Fra Pietro da Novellara; Antonio de Beatis
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
A new title in the successful Lives of the Artists series, which offers illuminating, and often intimate, accounts of iconic artists as viewed by their contemporaries.Coinciding with the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo (1452-1519), Lives of Leonardo da Vinci brings together important ...Show more
Lives of Rembrandt by JOACHIM VON SANDRART
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Never before available complete in English, the three major contemporary sources for the life of Rembrandt. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (c.1606-1669) was the most talked-about painter of the seventeenth century and quite possibly of the following centuries too. His prodigious talent, extraordinary emot ...Show more
Lives of Veronese by GIORGIO VASARI
Category: Art Literature | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Never was a painter more nobly joyous, never did an artist take a greater delight in life, seeing it all as a kind of breezy festival and feeling it through the medium of perpetual success He was the happiest of painters - Henry James on Veronese, 1909. Collected here for the first time, these fascinati ...Show more
Louis Pasteur by Karen Wallace
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
The book describes how Louis Pasteur was born into a Europe still plagued by horrendous diseases, such as cholera and typhoid, and how he discovered that it was germs living in the air and in food that caused illnesses. The reader learns that his pioneering of a method of heating food just enough to kil ...Show more
Machiavelli - From Radical to Reactionary by Robert Black
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian. "Machiavellian" can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself was far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine g ...Show more
Mahler by Edward Seckerson
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.
Maimonides - Faith in Reason by Alberto Manguel
Category: History | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles
Man Ray - The Artist and His Shadows by Arthur Lubow
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Lee Miller traveled to Paris in 1929 in search of Man Ray. But when she called at his studio at 31 bis rue Campagne-Première, the concierge informed her that hélas, the man she sought had just departed for his summer holiday. What to do? She retreated to a nearby bar, the Bateau Ivre, that was known to ...Show more
Marcel Proust - A Life by Edmund White
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Lives Ser.
If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award- winning writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession. White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive ...Show more