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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power by Neal Gabler
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
An enthralling appreciation of the monumentally gifted popular artist and cultural icon who challenged Hollywood's standards of beauty and glamour Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "on ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$45.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself sceptical of the writing of ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$36.95 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Jewish Lives
Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
$26.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick
$80.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, ...Show more
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Harvey Milk was a complex man. There were seemingly many Harveys as he drifted for years through various stages, fumbling to find the niche from which he could fulfill the high, vague aspirations of his childhood.... Each earlier "life" represented some genuine (if contradictory) aspect of Harvey Milk-a ...Show more
Harvey Milk - His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
$36.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities Harvey Milk--eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck--was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even serve ...Show more
Houdini - The Elusive American by Adam Begley
$57.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, "The Marvelous Adventures ...Show more
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life by Joshua Rubenstein
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meagre foundation of a E ...Show more
Moses - A Human Life by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
$42.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Je ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art. One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim - The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$52.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown galle ...Show more