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
Essential Montessori,the by Elizabeth G. Hainstock
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Provides an overview of the Montessori Method, examining basic philosophies, its educational adaptability, and Montessori's own views of her work.
Rocketman by Nancy Conrad
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and BeyondHe was the third man on the moon, but he was the first to dance on it. This is a personal story almost too amazing to be true, as seen through the eyes of the original Space Cowboy. For Pete Conrad, it was all about the ride. Whether he wa ...Show more
Morning Has Broken by Phillip Aronson
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Beset by chronic pain, Phillip Aronson found himself battling the crippling effects of clinical depression. For his wife Emme, it was one of the toughest challenges she would ever face. Told in their own voices, this is the true story of a couple who endured the ravages of clinical depression together, ...Show more
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
17.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A white writer recounts his experiences in the American South following treatments that darkened his skin and shares his thoughts on the problems of prejudice and racial injustice.