Browse by category
Wagner by Howard Gray
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.
Warner Bros - The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson
Category: Australian | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early 20th century through its ascent to the pin ...Show more
Wb Yeats Literary Lives by Maclianmoir
Category: Biography | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
An account of the long and eventful career of Ireland's greatest poet, covering his directorship of the Abbey Theatre and period in the Irish Senate, as well as his poetic activities. The authors also analyze the contradictory qualities of Yeats's character.
We Belong To The Land by Chacour Elias
Category: No Category | Series: The\Erma Konya Kess Lives of the Just and Virtuous Ser.
Nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, world-renowned Palestinian priest, Elias Chacour, narrates the gripping story of his life spent working to achieve peace and reconciliation among Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims. From the destruction of his boyhood village and his work as a priest ...Show more
Wetland Animals by Deborah Hodge; Pat Stephens (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: Who Lives Here? Ser.
Wetlands are home to amazing animals whose bodies are built for living in or near the water. Hippos, crocodiles and anacondas all have special ways of finding food, staying safe and raising their young in a watery habitat.The Who Lives Here? series looks at animals in their natural habitats - rain fores ...Show more
Women in Business by Alexis Burling
Category: Education | Series: Women's Lives in History Ser.
Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women's Lives in History introduces readers to dozens of these remarkable people. Women in Businessfeatures groundbreaking figures in beauty, food, banking, technology, and many other areas. Compelling text and viv ...Show more
Yayoi Kusama - Lives of the Artists by Robert Shore
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultura ...Show more
Zen Effects - The Life of Alan Watts by Monica Furlong
Category: Biography | Series: SkyLight Lives Ser.
The first and only full-length biography of one ofthe most charismatic spiritual innovators of the twentieth century.Through his widely popular books and lectures, Alan Watts (1915-1973) did more to introduce Eastern philosophy and religion to Western minds than any figure before or since. Watts touched ...Show more