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Alive in the Killing Fields : Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide by Martha E. Nawuth; Kendall Keat
$31.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Nat Geo - Biography Ser.
Alive in the Killing Fields is the real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia. He has now broken a longtime silence in the hope that telling the truth about what happened to his people and his country will spare future generations from similar tragedy. In this c ...Show more
Banksia Lady: Celia Rosser - Botanical Artist by Carolyn Landon
$39.95 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
Cathy Goes to Canberra - Doing Politics Differently by Cathy McGowan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics | 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
Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the Making of Australian Politics by Sean Scalmer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Biography Ser.
Graham Berry (1822-1904) was colonial Australia's most gifted, creative and controversial politician. A riveting speaker, a newspaper proprietor and editor, and the founder of Australia's first mass political party, he wielded these tools to launch an age of reform: spearheading the adoption of a 'prote ...Show more
Dictionary of World Biography, 7th edition by Barry JONES
$90.00 AUD
Category: 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.
Dresden and the Heavy Bombers - An RAF Navigator's Perspective by Frank Musgrove
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Biography Ser.
This is the first hand account of a young man's entry into World War II in 1941, culminating in his role in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 by RAF Bomber Command. This is not a gung-ho account of flying with Bomber Command, instead Musgrove takes the form of a basic narrative in his memoir, payi ...Show more
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra (1955 - 1964) by Paul Genoni, Tanya Dalziell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | 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: Art | 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
Laura Ingalls Wilder - A Writer's Life by Pamela Smith Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: South Dakota Biography Ser.
In Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life, Pamela Smith Hill delves into the complex and often fascinating relationships Wilder formed throughout her life that led to the writing of her classic Little House series. Using Wilder's stories, personal correspondence, an unpublished autobiography, and experie ...Show more
Maestro John Monash : Australia's Greatest Citizen General: Our Greatest Citizen General by Tim Fischer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military | 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
Margaret Thatcher - The Authorised Biography Volume Two by Charles Moore
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Margaret Thatcher Biography Ser.
The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of h ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Margaret Thatcher Biography Ser.
Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar era. Volume One of Moore's authorized biography gives unparalleled insight into her early life, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, and re ...Show more