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Arthur Rimbaud by Seth Whidden
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Before he turned twenty-one, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) had upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. In this critical biography, Seth Whidden argues that what makes Rimbaud's poetry important is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity, and exploration. ...Show more
Bach by Tim Dowley
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times. Each book draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer's life.
Bartok: His Life and Times by Hamish Milne
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times. Each book draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer's life.
Beethoven : The Universal Composer (Emminent Lives) by Edmund Morris
Category: Music | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
In "Beethoven", Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of the great composer, brings him to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was ...Show more
Beginnings (The Secret Lives of Emma #1) by Natasha Walker
Category: Fiction | Series: The Secret Lives of Emma
Beginnings...Thirty-something Emma Benson is a free spirit. For her a good life means a life of sensuality. So it's a surprise to everyone when she marries David, a successful businessman, and settles down in the suburbs. One year on, and she's trying so hard to be loyal to her man. Not easy to do when ...Show more
Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies t ...Show more
Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 pe ...Show more
Berlioz by Robert Clarson-Leach
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against a social background of their times. Each book draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings - and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer's life.
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter by Rachel Shteir
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel ...Show more
Beyonce (small HB) by Tshepo Mokoena
Category: Film | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
Beyonc is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny and exploding gender politics. But who is Beyonc Knowles-Carter and how did a small girl from Houston become the strong confident woman whose albums sell ...Show more
Blaise Pascal - Miracles and Reason by Mary Ann Caws; Tom Conley (Preface by)
Category: History | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Few people have had as many influences on as many different fields as true Renaissance man Blaise Pascal. At once a mathematician, philosopher, theologian, physicist, and engineer, Pascal's discoveries, experiments, and theories helped usher in a modern world of scientific thought and methodology. In th ...Show more
Botticelli: Artist and Designer by Ana Debenedetti
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organisation of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable ...Show more