Unbowed : A memoir by Wangari Maathai
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of her studies with Catholic missionaries, earning bachelors and mast ...Show more
The Joke's Over : Bruised Memories : Gonz, Hunter Thompson and me by Ralph Steadman
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In spring 1970, the artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. He met an ex-Hell's Angel, called Hunter S. Thompson who had just shaved his head. Their working relationship resulted in Gonzo and a friendship that lasted for more than thirty years. ...Show more
How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The most successful chess player of our time - indeed of all time - shares his insights into life as a game of strategy, drawing on his own story as well as the worlds of business and politics.'In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one.?- Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion Ga ...Show more
Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles B. Handy
37.99 NZD
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's Thought for the Day. Long recognised as one of the world's leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been sold around the world), in Myself and Other Important Matters he l ...Show more
Things I've Been Silent About: Memories by Azar Nafisi
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran offered a vibrant portrait of womenÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs lives in Iran. In this s ...Show more
Just a Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language by David Crystal
60.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Kidnapping, attempted assassination, espionage! not the answers you'd expect to the question 'what happens when you become a linguist'? But now, reflecting on a long and hugely successful career at the forefront of the field of English Language and Linguistics, David Crystal answers this question and of ...Show more
Jane Campion by Deb Verhoeven
49.99 NZD
51.00 (1% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Dop January 2009, Uk 192pp softcover Jane Campion is one of the most celebrated auteurs of modern cinema and was the first female director to be awarded the prestigious Palme d'Or. Throughout her relatively short career, Campion has received extraordinary attention from the media and scholars alike and ...Show more
The Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Fuentes Norberto
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro's inner circle during some of the most challenging years of the revolution. But in the late 1990s, as the regime began sending its oldest comrades to the firing squad, he became ...Show more
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott & Her Father by John Matteson
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography "An amazing story told with clarity and intelligence ... colorful and insightful." --Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson--an eminent teacher a ...Show more
Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs by Deborah Willis
50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This stunning visual biography of Michelle Obama puts her fame into cultural and historical context. With nearly 200 compelling photographs, two noted scholars capture Obama's dramatic transformation from working mother to First Lady; from her first tentative steps on the campaign trail to her spontaneo ...Show more