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Stephen Hawking - Remarkable Lives by Kitty Ferguson
Category: Science | Series: Remarkable Lives Ser.
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and was expected to live for only another two years. He went on to write books and deliver public lectures right up until his death at the age of 76 in 2018. Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular scienc ...Show more
Stravinsky by Neil Wenborn
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.
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik
Category: Biography | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two Ser.
Sam Pivnik's life story is a classic testimony of Holocaust survival. In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, Sam Pivnik's life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners ...Show more
SØREN KIERKEGAARD by Alastair Hannay (Contribution by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
THEODORE GEISEL A PORTRAIT OF THE MAN WHO BECAME DR SEUSS by PEASE DONALD E
Category: Biography | Series: Lives and Legacies Ser.
Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics have sold hundreds of millions of copies andentertained ...Show more
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Grove Great Lives Ser.
Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand's gi ...Show more
Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Rice, Anne
Category: Horror | Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches Ser.
The third volume in the series featuring the Mayfair witches, following "The Witching Hour" and "Lasher". The Taltos are the spirits - immortal, dangerous and damned - from whom the Mayfairs derive their occult powers, and at whose mercy they are.
Tchaikovsky by Simon Mundy
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.
The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe by Taylor McCall
Category: Homosapiens | Series: Medieval Lives Ser.
A new history of the medieval illustrations that birthed modern anatomy. This book is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks, and artists understood and depicted ...Show more
The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Great Lives Ser.
The extraordinary story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the son of former slaves who fled America to build a life in Tsarist Russia. 'A fascinating tale' Anne Applebaum'Thoroughly enjoyable' Spectator'Extraordinary and gripping' Adam HochschildAfter the brutal death of his father when he was a teenager, Fred ...Show more
The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story by Tessa Dunlop
Category: History | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories Ser.
'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman 'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy.' Daily Mail ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life of Steve Jobs by PUFFIN
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Extraordinary Lives Ser.
The story of a modern creative genius. Ever heard of the iPhone? STEVE JOBS, raised in California, was the co-founder of Apple, creator of the iPhone. He also played a major role in making Pixar what it is today. His technology transformed the way we live, and gave us objects we now cannot imagine livi ...Show more