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The Lives of Seaweeds: A Natural History of Our Planet's Seaweeds and Other Algae by Julie A. Phillips
$69.98 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: The\Lives of the Natural World Ser.
An engaging and richly illustrated exploration of the natural history of seaweeds and other algae As photosynthetic organisms, seaweeds and other algae transfer billions of tons of carbon globally from the atmosphere to the deep ocean each year. Coming in all manner of colors, shapes, and sizes, from ...Show more
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey & Rob Broomby
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two Ser.
THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality me ...Show more
Theodor Seuss Geisel by Donald E. Pease
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives and Legacies Series
Dr. Seuss' infectious rhymes, his blue-tufted, strong-willed creatures, and his knack for pithy, roundabout plots have been entertaining children and adults for decades. And as Donald Pease shows in this marvelous biography, the seemingly haphazard trajectory of Theodor Geisel's life bears a close resem ...Show more
Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing by Andrew Hadfield (Contribution by)
$44.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A critical biography of one of the most celebrated prose stylists in early modern English. This book provides an overview of the life and work of the scandalous Renaissance writer Thomas Nashe (1567-c.1600), whose writings led to the closure of theaters and widespread book bans. Famous for his scurril ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia WoolfAn intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - 'All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon' TIME OUT'A gem' SUNDAY TIMES'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively b ...Show more
Yayoi Kusama - Lives of the Artists by Robert Shore
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultura ...Show more