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Magritte - Masters of Art by Alexander Adams
Category: Art | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
This revelatory examination of the Surrealist master updates prevailing theories about Magritte's life and beliefs, and offers a surprising new assessment of an artist who strived for anonymity rather than fame. Throughout his career, Magritte subverted expectations about artists in the world by dis ...Show more
Martin Scorsese: Masters of Cinema Series by Thomas Sotinel
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Martin Scorsese (USA, b. 1942) is among the most prolific of American directors, having made more than 25 features in a 40-year career that has seen him garner all the highest honours the film world can bestow. Since the success of "Taxi Driver" in 1976, which also marked the start of his long collabora ...Show more
Masters of Drone Photography by Fergus KENNEDY
Category: Art | Series: Masters Of Ser.
With over 1.5 million posts on Instagram tagged with #drone, a revolution in photography is taking place over our heads. At the forefront of this revolution are the innovators who have instantly elevated drone photography to the level of art, pioneering their own distinctive bird's-eye view on genres ra ...Show more
Masters of Scent by Michael B. Fletcher
Category: Fantasy | Series: Masters of Scent Ser.
The Sutanites, the rulers of Ean, control the people, how they think and what they do, using scent magic. They remove threats to their power by crushing or retraining scent-talented young Eanites before their skills are fully developed. Targus, a scent master with unusual skills, newly arrived in Ean, i ...Show more
Matisse: Masters of Art by ECKHARD HOLLMANN
Category: Colouring Books | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Learn about Henri Matisse, one of 20th century's most beloved artists, and his artistic legacy. From his earliest pointillist-influenced paintings to this mature and playful paper cut-outs; from enormous, ebullient murals to reverent stained glass - Henri Matisse was renowned for his dramatic use of col ...Show more
Medici : Ascendancy by Richard Matteo: McKenna Strukul
Category: Fiction | Series: Masters of Florence Ser.
Florence, 1429. With shrewd investment, strategic alliance and sly manipulation, the Medici family have climbed to the top of Florentine society. But their success has left a slew of bitter enemies in their wake, enemies who will stop at nothing to usurp their power. When family patriarch Giovanni de ...Show more
Medici ~ Legacy by Matteo Strukul; Richard McKenna (Translator)
Category: History | Series: Masters of Florence Ser.
The third instalment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance. Fontainebleau, 1536. Francis II, Dauphin and heir to the French throne, is dead. Poisoned. And the royal court believe Catherine de' Medici to b ...Show more
Medici : Supremacy by Richard Matteo: McKenna Strukul
Category: Fiction | Series: Masters of Florence Ser.
Winner of the Premio Bancarella, 2017 The second instalment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance. Florence, 1469. The Medici family is preparing for the marriage of its son and heir Lorenzo. His heart ...Show more
Medici Supremacy (#2 Masters of Florence) by Matteo Strukul
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Masters of Florence Ser.
Michael Mann by Scott Foundas
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Michael Man (born 1943) is one of the most interesting directors of our time, whose work lies at the intersection of the mainstream cinema and the avant-garde, of public entertainment and private obsession. Throughout his career, Mann has moved freely between television and cinema: he produced 'Miami Vi ...Show more
Monet: Masters of Art by Simona Bartolena
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Monet's dazzling depictions of flowers, sunsets, fields, and oceans, in which line and shape are suggested through pure colour, changed the way we perceive our natural surroundings. His numerous series, in which he depicts the same object at varying times of the day and in different seasons, pushed the ...Show more
Osho - Living Dangerously by Osho
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Masters of Wisdom Ser.
Osho is one of the best-known spiritual teachers of our time. The Sunday Times named him one of the '1,000 makers of the twentieth century'; the novelist Tom Robbins has called him 'the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ'. Nearly two decades after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings con ...Show more