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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
Intrepide - Australian Women Artists in Early Twentieth-Century France by Clem Gorman; Therese Gorman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories | 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
$30.00 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: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories | 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
Seven Big Australians - Adventures with Comic Actors by Anne Pender
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Biography Ser.
Comic actors have made a particularly strong contribution to cultural life in Australia over the past sixty years. They have brought a range of memorable characters to the stage, television and film; they have transformed our image of ourselves, helped to overturn the crippling cultural cringe, and brou ...Show more
The Power Broker - Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life by Michael Gawenda
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories | 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
Yakuza Moon by Shoko Tendo
$39.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Biography and Memoir Ser.
Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because of her father's activities, and terrorized at home by her father, wh ...Show more
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