1,867円 Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the ...

1,088円 Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages at the losses that are eradicating his life as an artist, his sources of pleasure, his com...

827円 Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian by Helen Epstein (19,700 words) This is the only profile available of art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996). A polymath, revered for his extraordinary scholarship and teaching, he championed medieval studies, modern masters like Matisse and Picasso ...

353円 THE BEST POSSIBLE PLACE THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME On August 27, 2005, a Carnival cruise ship docked at the harbor of New Orleans. Amongst the arrivals were Canadian writer Marcy Italiano and her husband, G, wrapping a wild 10-year anniversary celebration in a city they dearly loved. But this was le...

3,267円 Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission ...

1,399円 The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America. In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce ri...

1,178円 A charming memoir from one of America’s best-loved novelists, William Wharton, author of war-time classic ‘Birdy’. Before even penning his first novel, William Wharton had left his home in Los Angeles to live with his family in Paris. On a romantic whim, he makes an offer for houseboat that is, i...

496円 Everyone says Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest artist whoever lived…but why? What makes him so great? At a single glance, the Mona Lisa just looks like a normal painting of a woman. Why is his artwork celebrated around the globe, and for hundreds of years? This book introduces you to the...

2,453円 Arthur Boyd's legacy is a collection of masterpieces that define the history of Australian art in the last century. But the man himself - enigmatic, inarticulate, modest - has remained in the shadows until now. Based on over six years of meticulous research and hundreds of interviews, Darleen Bun...

402円 Life with a filmmaker, artist and musician. Cliff Guest won Madonna's highly touted video contest"Make My Video Contest" in the 1980's. Cliff Guest and Angel Gracia won the contest and were whisked off to New York and then landed a job at Geffen Records in Los Angeles.Cliff had then went on to ma...

2,022円 From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer. McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father’s violent nature and the ear...

241円 Marilyn Monroe : Sex Symbol and Pop Icon Marilyn Monroe - A Short Biography for KidsMarilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and one of the most famous Hollywood icons of the twentieth century. Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids by thinking about what a chil...