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Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor by Donald J. Robertson
Category: Biography | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy This novel biography brings Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE) to life for a new generation of readers by exploring the emperor’s fascinating psychological journey. Don ...Show more
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement by Elizabeth Butel
Category: Art and Design | Series: Imprint Lives Ser.
Margaret Preston, Australia's foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney's art circles with her vital art, her spirited journalism and her belligerent enthusiasm for living, during a career that spanned over seventy years. 'A red-headed little firebrand of a wom ...Show more
Margery Kempe - A Mixed Life by Anthony Bale
Category: Biography | Series: Medieval Lives Ser.
A fresh account of the medieval mystic, traveling pilgrim, and pioneering memoirist Margery Kempe. This is a new account of the medieval mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had fourteen children, traveled all over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious visions in her w ...Show more
Mark Twain by Kevin J. Hayes
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born November 30, 1835, in Monroe County, Missouri, was never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story. An indefatigable inventor of tall tales, Mark Twain was a natural-born storyteller who freely adapted the incidents of his life and the tales he heard as a youth t ...Show more
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith & Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentieth‑century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Th ...Show more
Martin Monath - A Jewish Resistance Fighter Amongst Nazi Soldiers by Nathaniel Flakin
Category: Biography | Series: Revolutionary Lives Ser.
Europe, 1943: the continent is on a knife edge. The Soviets are destroying the Germans at Stalingrad. The tide is finally beginning to turn against Hitler. Enter Martin Monath, whose short life needs little embellishment. His identity shrouded in mystery, the events of his life read like a detective nov ...Show more
Menasseh Ben Israel - Rabbi of Amsterdam by Steven Nadler
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the "Portuguese Nation" in Amsterdam, a community that quickly earned renown worldwide for its mercanti ...Show more
Mendelssohn by Mozelle Moshansky
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.
Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time by Bernadine Barnes
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Today most of us enjoy the work of famed Renaissance artist Michelangelo by perusing art books or strolling along the galleries of a museum--and the luckier of us have had a chance to see his extraordinary frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But as Bernadine Barnes shows in this book, even a ...Show more
Millionaires 21st Century Lives by Clive Gifford
Category: Children's History | Series: 21st Century Lives S.
"21st Century Lives: Millionaires" is a fresh and lively approach to the achievements of today's successful businessmen and women. Find out how today's highest achievers began their careers - read about their education, their career highs and future ambitions. This is an original and exciting guide to a ...Show more
Mistress to an Age - A Life of Madame de Stael by J. Christopher Herold
Category: History | Series: Grove Great Lives Ser.
J. Christopher Herold vigorously tells the story of the fierce Madame de Stael, revealing her courageous opposition to Napoleon, her whirlwind affairs with the great intellectuals of her day, and her idealistic rebellion against all that was cynical, tyrannical, and passionless. Germaine de Stael's fath ...Show more
Moses - A Man of Selfless Dedication by Charles R. Swindoll
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Great Lives Ser.
Encouraging lessons from both the strengths and weaknesses, the great moments and the bad moments of the greatest leader God's people ever had.