English Hell to Aussie Heaven by Ronnie Sabin
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Out of print, advised 15/8/2007. In 1944 at the age of four, Ronnie Sabin and his two brothers were part of a kids' gang in Newcastle upon Tyne. With their father away at the war and their mother working 12-hour shifts as a bus conductor they were totally out of control. They were known as the worst kid ...Show more
Five Easy Decades by Dennis McDougal
36.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A Hollywood insider unspins the life of Jack Nicholson, one of Tinseltown's most successful and intriguing actors. Unconventional, uninhibited, and unrestrained, Jack Nicholson is a famous and infamous pop culture icon known for his romantic escapades, his hair trigger temper, and his love affair with t ...Show more
An Actor and a Gentleman by Louis Gossett
42.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Award-winning African American actor Lou Gossett Jr. takes an unvarnished look at the daunting challenges and incredible triumphs of his fifty-five year career Louis Gossett Jr. is one of the most respected African American stage and screen actors, who rose to fame with his Emmy-winning role in the tele ...Show more
All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett by David Evanier
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The first complete biography of singing legend Tony Bennett Among America's greatest entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ray Charles, and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. For the first time, All the Things You Are tells the incredible story of B ...Show more
Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream by Steven Watts
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This book presents the real Hugh Hefner - the extraordinary inside story of an American icon. 'Riveting...Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages' - "Newark Star Ledger". 'Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography' - "Chi ...Show more
Madoff with the Money by Jerry Oppenheimer
44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This book offers an intriguing look at Bernie Madoff the man, and his scam. "Madoff with the Money" is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was taught growing up in the working class town of Laurelton, Queens to his hi ...Show more
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered : The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder by Mark Ribowsky
42.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the first definitive biography of Stevie Wonder; it covers his incredible fifty-year career and sets it against the history of Motown and the last half century of popular music, showing his influence in shaping music throughout his career and still today, particularly in laying the groundwork fo ...Show more
Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times by Dennis McDougal
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Praise for "Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times": 'Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, and nobody's fool. This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American cultu ...Show more
Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Praise for "Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War": 'Stanley Meisler, an old and steady hand at the U.N., has written a readable, wise, balanced, and most thoughtful biography of Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The focus is on his victories and defeats as secretary-general and on his problems and c ...Show more
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
60.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest t ...Show more
In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide by Nancy Rappaport
64.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1963, Nancy Rappaports mother committed suicide after a bitter divorce and custody battle. Nancy was four years old. As one of eleven children in a prominent Boston family, Nancy struggled to come to terms with the reasons why her mother took her own life. After years spent interviewing family and ...Show more
Rebel without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez
27.99 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
No one has landed on the cinematic map with more explosive force than Robert Rodriguez, director of "El Mariachi." Just how did this amateur filmmaker from Texas - with only one camera, no crew, and a budget largely raised by subjecting himself to medical experimentation - manage to complete a feature f ...Show more