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Critical Autoethnography - Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life by Robin M. Boylorn (Editor); Mark P. Orbe (Editor); Carolyn Ellis (Foreword by); Arthur P. Bochner (Foreword by)
$83.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives Ser.
This volume uses autoethnography¿cultural analysis through personal narrative¿to explore the tangled relationships between culture and communication. Using an intersectional approach to the many aspects of identity at play in everyday life, a diverse group of authors reveals the complex nature of lived ...Show more
David Bowie by Robert Dimery
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
A relentless innovator, scoring chart hits while simultaneously incorporating radical and ground-breaking elements into his work. As with all great pop stars, Bowie's image changed with almost every new album release. This appetite for reinvention, both musically and visually, saw him dubbed the 'chamel ...Show more
Dorothea Lange: Enlarging the World with Her Eye by Carole Quirke
$0.00 NZD
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
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
Enid Blyton - A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder
$46.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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
Flush by Virginia Woolf
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Virginia Woolf's humorous biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel is charming yet also radical. A work of sensuous imagination, it opens up a range of questions about class, society, and cultural attitudes which are woven throughout the whole of Woolf's writing. We are delighted to publish th ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's 'Brief Lives', Dr Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets' and Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians', this e ...Show more
Frida Kahlo - Lives of the Artists series by Hettie Judah
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone cover, and the inspiration for everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brillia ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Coco Chanel by BUTTON BOOKS
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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: Mandela by BUTTON BOOKS
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Mandela is a graphic retelling of Mandela's story which giveschildren a visual snapshot of his life and long fight for freedom, whileeducating them on everything from the history of racial segregation to theimportance of equality. You may already know that Nelson Mandela endedap ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Marie Curie by BUTTON BOOKS
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
Great Lives in Graphics: Marie Curie is a graphic retelling of Curie's story which gives children a visual snapshot of her life and the world she grew up in, while educating them on everything from how radioactivity works to the importance of self-belief. You may already know that Marie Curie was a scie ...Show more
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
$29.99 NZD
$39.00 (23% off)
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with ...Show more