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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER by ZANNOS SUSAN
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Children's Information Books | Series: Real-Life Reader Biography Ser.
Banksia Lady: Celia Rosser - Botanical Artist by Carolyn Landon
$39.95 AUD
Category: Don't use | Series: Biography Ser.
Banksia Lady is the story of Celia Rosser, internationally acclaimed botanical illustrator, who dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done so. Her dedication to the task put her at the centre of the Monash Banksia Project for twenty-five years, and culminate ...Show more
Bligh in Australia: A New Appraisal of William Bligh and the Rum Rebellion by Russell Earls Davis
$24.95 AUD
Category: New History | Series: HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY Ser.
This fascinating account of early Australia focuses on Governor William Bligh (famous as the captain of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' fame). The Rum Rebellion has, for generations, been told to school children as one of the better stories of Australian history - how Bligh was a tyrant deposed by the New South ...Show more
Cathy Goes to Canberra - Doing Politics Differently by Cathy McGowan
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of Indi in 2013 and again in 2016 and passed Indi on to ...Show more
Dictionary of World Biography, 7th edition by Barry JONES
$90.00 AUD
Category: New Reference | Series: ANU Lives Series in Biography Ser.
Weaves historical facts with perspective on the subjects and the influence they had on theirs and on modern times. Gain a unique insight into the life and times of important identities, cultural icons and controversial characters, including Shakespeare, Freud, Mari I, Nero, Matisse and Pol Pot.
Fred Paterson the Peoples Ch by Fitzgerald Ross
$29.55 AUD
Category: Don't use | Series: UQP Biography Ser.
In Australian history, F. W. Paterson remains the only Communist Party representative to be elected to any state or federal parliament. At the time it was said of Paterson that only one man was less likely ever to become Premier of Queensland, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. A Rhodes Scholar and divinity stud ...Show more
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra (1955 - 1964) by Paul Genoni, Tanya Dalziell
$39.95 AUD
Category: New History | Series: Biography Ser.
WINNER OF 2019 NONFICTION PM'S PRIZE Half the Perfect World is a social and literary account of the expatriate artist community on the Greek island of Hydra from 1955 to 1964, and is richly illustrated by LIFE Magazine eye-witness photographer James Burke. Fostered by celebrated Australian literary cou ...Show more
Intrepide - Australian Women Artists in Early Twentieth-Century France by Clem Gorman; Therese Gorman
$34.95 AUD
Category: New Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
It is hard for us to imagine the oppressed lives of single women in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet a few Australian women took a leap into the unknown and carved careers for themselves in Paris. They studied, painted, and haunted galleries and salons. They had a little fun too, at social g ...Show more
Maestro John Monash : Australia's Greatest Citizen General: Our Greatest Citizen General by Tim Fischer
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
"A perfected modern battle plan is like nothing so much as a score for an orchestral composition, where the various arms and units are the instruments, and the tasks they perform are their respective musical phrases. Every individual unit must make its entry precisely at the proper moment and play its p ...Show more
Princess Diana by Joanne Mattern
$0.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: DK Biography Ser.
Perfect for book reports or summer reading, DK's acclaimed Biography series tackles one of history's most inspiring and colorful women: Princess Diana. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
The Power Broker - Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life by Michael Gawenda
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel. Mark Leibler grew up in this community, and in time became a leader of it. This book shows how Leibler rose to a ...Show more
Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist by Dennis Altman
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: Biography Ser.
Dennis Altman's long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnson's Presidency. His early writing stemmed from the counter-culture that developed in the States in the mid-1960s. Altman was involved in early Gay Liberation, and his 1971 study Homos ...Show more