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Austen Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
$19.98 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Biographic
It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quick-fire journey through truths and trivia that is the most entertaining way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose ...Show more
Beatrix Potter: The Pitkin Guide to by Annie Bullen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Pitkin Biographical S.
This fascinating biography introduces readers and visitors to the world of this remarkable author.
Biographic - Einstein - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
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Category: Gift Books | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the creator of the theory of relativity that revolutionized modern science. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he did not learn to speak until he was 4 years old; that he was asked to become the President of Israel in 1952, but refused; that he w ...Show more
Biographic Tesla: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an engineer and inventor, instrumental in developing the alternating-current (AC) electrical system and wireless radio communications we still use today. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was born during a lightning storm; that when he first arr ...Show more
Hockney - A Graphic Life by Simon Elliott
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory | Series: BioGraphics Ser.
Follow the journey of David Hockney's exceptional life in a unique graphic novel format. From his childhood in Bradford and early years making it as an artist, to his sun-drenched Los Angeles period, his triumphal return to the UK and his recent iPad drawings that proudly exclaim that 'spring cannot ...Show more
Kahlo (Biographic) by Sophie Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist, a feminist icon who lived in the famous Blue House and whose work includes The Two Fridas. What, perhaps, they don't know is that 55 of her 143 artworks are self-portraits; that her painting Roots holds the record for a Latin American a ...Show more
Leonardo (Biographic) by Andrew Kirk
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Category: Gift Books | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath, one of the great creative minds of the Italian Renaissance and the painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his original notebook Codex Leicester, was sold to Bill Gates for $30 milli ...Show more
Monet (Biographic) by Richard Wiles
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Category: Art | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of French Impressionism, a master of landscapes who painted Impression, Sunrise, and Water Lilies. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he created the ponds featuring those water lilies and painted 250 oils of them; that his work Water Lily ...Show more
Shakespeare Biographic Great Lives in Graphic Form by Viv Croot
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books | Series: Biographic
The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quickfir ...Show more
Sherlock - Great Lives in Graphic Form by V. I. V. CROOT
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Category: Gift Books | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Sherlock Holmes was an enigmatic detective who, with his companion Dr. Watson, pursued criminals through Victorian and Edwardian England. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he investigated 60 fully documented cases, including 37 murders; that 46 of those cases began in his offi ...Show more
Van Gogh (Biographic) by Sophie Collins
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Category: Art | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a 19th-century Dutch artist, a leading light of the Post-Impressionist movement who painted 'Sunflowers' and cut off his own ear. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he sold, in his lifetime, only one of the 2,100 artworks he painted; that, in 1998 ...Show more
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