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Prince (small HB) by Jason Draper
Category: Film | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
His name was Prince, and he was funky. He was also inspiring, infuriating, visionary, secretive, seductive, contradictory. Especially contradictory. He channelled dualities as if doing so were the most natural thing in the world. When he changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph, he merged symbols of ...Show more
Prokofiev by David Gutman
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
A biography of Sergey Prokofiev, one of Russia'a most famous and enduring composers, whose music was not recognised in his own country until after his death.
Puccini by Peter Southwell-Sander
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.
Purcell by Simon Mundy
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This volume takes the reader on a journey through the life and works of Henry Purcell. It is published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of his death.
Rachmaninov by Robert Matthew-Walker
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.
Railway Cat (The Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat) by Philip Ardagh
Category: Early Reader | Series: The\Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat Ser.
Meet Furry Purry Beancat - one extraordinary cat with nine extraordinary lives! Just like every other cat, Furry Purry Beancat loves a catnap. But unlike other cats, when Beancat wakes she finds herself about to embark on a whole new adventure! All aboard! There's a mystery on the railway! Join Beancat ...Show more
Ramesses the Great - Egypt's King of Kings by Toby Wilkinson
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history ...Show more
Raphael and the Antique by Claudia La Malfa
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive designs for prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman art--the sculptures, the marble reliefs, the wall-paintings, and the stuccoes- ...Show more
Rav Kook - Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah Mirsky
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis of the twentieth century. A visionary writer and outstanding rabbinic leader, Kook was a philosopher, mystic, poet, jurist, com ...Show more
Rembrandt's Holland by Larry Silver
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands grew up together. The artist, born in Leiden in 1606, lived during the tumultuous period of the Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the independent Dutch Republic. He later moved to Amsterdam, a cosmopolitan center of world trade, and became the city's most fashi ...Show more
Rembrandt's Holland by Larry Silver
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Now in paperback, a beautifully illustrated introduction to the life and work of the exceptional Dutch painter. Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands grew up together. The artist, born in Leiden in 1606, lived during the tumultuous period of the Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the independent Du ...Show more
Richard Owen by Patrick Armstrong
Category: General Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A biography of the provocative nineteenth-century English naturalist. Brilliant, hard-working, and immensely productive, the naturalist Richard Owen was a great ambassador for science and played an outsized role in shaping London's Natural History Museum. Still, Owen was a provocative bully, accused o ...Show more