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Dorothea Lange: Enlarging the World with Her Eye by Carole Quirke
Category: Photography | Series: Lives of American Women Ser.
Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Twentieth-Century America charts the life of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), whose life was radically altered by the Depression, and whose photography helped transform the nation. The book begins with her childhood in immigrant, metropolitan New York, shifting t ...Show more
Dvorak by Neil Butterworth
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.
Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world's first scientific "superstar" The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understandin ...Show more
Elie Wiesel - Confronting the Silence by Joseph Berger
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spo ...Show more
Elijah - A Man of Heroism and Humility by Charles R. Swindoll
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Great Lives Ser.
Where are great leaders like Elijah today? Uncompromisingly strong, yet self-controlled. Disciplined, yet forgiving. Audaciously courageous, yet kind. Heroic in the heat of battle, yet humble in the aftermath. We see a few such men and women, but the list is tragically short. Rarely does someone model ...Show more
Enid Blyton - A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder
Category: Biography | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
This book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton's business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of Britain's most successful and powerful authors. It ...Show more
Evelyn Waugh - A Literary Life by David Wykes
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
Waugh's life and his literary life exist in fascinating, dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were 'objects', unrelated to the life of their author. This study traces the shifting relationship of ascertainable fact and imaginative fic ...Show more
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Ruth Prigozy
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Penguin Illustrated Lives S.
The life of F. Scott Fitzgerald reads like one of his own novels: his life seems golden but beneath the surface lies alcoholism, debt, insecurity and the mental instability of his faithless wife Zelda. This is a short biography of the author, integrated with images relating to his life and work.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT A LIFE by HUXTABLE ADA LOUISE
Category: Architecture | Series: Penguin Lives Ser.
Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography of America's greatest architect Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she i ...Show more
Famous Lives: John Lennon by Liz Gogerly
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous Lives S.
From his childhood in Liverpool's Penny Lane and his school days at Dovedale Primary, this book describes the love of music and the success of the Beatles that catapulted John Lennon into superstardom. It charts John's life, his beliefs and struggles for peace and love. It also contains quotation panels ...Show more
Filippino Lippi: An Abundance of Invention by Jonathan K. Nelson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
The first monograph in a generation, and the first study in English in over 70 years of Renaissance master-artist Filippino Lippi. Offering particular insight into Filippino Lippi’s artistic problem-solving, an innovative look at the Renaissance master. The first monograph in a generation, and the first ...Show more