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Geoffrey Chaucer - Unveiling the Merry Bard by Mary Flannery
Category: Biography | Series: Medieval Lives Ser.
A new critical biography of medieval England's most famous poet. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though more recent treatments of The Canterbury Tales' lively and often risqué style have made his name more synonymous with bawdy humor. But beyond his poetic achievements ...Show more
George Johnston - A Biography by Garry Kinnane
Category: Biography | Series: Australian Lives Ser.
"The life of George Johnston, author of the best-selling My Brother Jack,was in many ways symbolic of Australian post-war cultural life. He was a complex character, dogged by feelings of mediocrity, betrayal and failure that he ultimately transformed though the writing of his brilliant trilogy My Brothe ...Show more
George Stephenson by Emma Fischel
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. This title explores the life of locomotive pioneer George Stephenson.
Gershom Scholem - Master of the Kabbalah by David Biale
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as ...Show more
Giorgione's Ambiguity by Tom Nichols
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or "big George" died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than twenty-five works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as The Three Philosophers and The Tempest r ...Show more
Giraffe the Chef by Anna Gkoutzouri (Illustrator)
Category: Board Books | Series: Who Lives Here? Ser.
Golda Meir: Israel's Matriarch by Deborah E. Lipstadt (Contribution by)
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
In the eyes of millions of American Jews, she could do no wrong. For close to five decades, for better and for worse, she shaped how American Jews saw and understood Israel and its place in the world. If the laudatory works depict a woman who built a nation, sent men into battle, negotiated treaties, sp ...Show more
Great Lives from History, Volume 4: The 20th Century, 1901-2000: Indira Gandhi-David Hockney by Robert F Gorman
Category: History | Series: Great Lives from History (Salem Press)
The 20th Century is the eighth installment in the revised and expanded Great Lives series, which provides in-depth critical, biographical essays from around the world. This brand new, ten-volume set offers more than 1,300 extensive biographies of major personages in world history from 1901-2000. Each es ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Albert Einstein by BUTTON BOOKS
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
The Great Lives in Graphics series is a new way of looking at the lives of famous and influential people. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person's life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that is genuinely engagin ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Coco Chanel by BUTTON BOOKS
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Coco Chanel is a graphic retelling of Chanel's story which gives children a visual snapshot of her life and career, while educating them on everything from the history of early twentieth century fashion and society to life in wartime France. You may already know that Coco C ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: David Attenborough by Books Button
Category: Learning | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
You may already know that David Attenborough is a broadcaster, writer and naturalist who revolutionised the way that wildlife documentaries are made. But did you know that his fascination with the natural world began in childhood, when he would collect fossils and catch newts? Or that he started his ca ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Greta Thunberg by Button Books
Category: Education | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Greta Thunberg is a graphic retelling of Greta's story which gives children a visual snapshot of her life and environmental activism, while educating them on everything from the science of climate change to living with Asperger's Syndrome.You may already know that Greta Thunberg ...Show more