Young Logan Campbell by R C J Stone
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Sir John Logan Campbell is known as the Father of Auckland; he is synonymous with that city. As this first volume of his biography shows, however, he was not particularly enamoured of a pioneering life or of the settlement in which he led it. His purpose in coming to New Zealand and remaining here was t ...Show more
Sometimes Brilliant - The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History by Larry Brilliant
32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics in human ...Show more
The Heroic Heart: Awakening Unbound Compassion by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
37.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A guidebook to making life meaningful by cultivating compassion, embracing adversity, and training the mind-from one of the foremost living Buddhist nuns.Freeing ourselves from our habitual emotional patterns starts with taming the mind. Why is this so important? Because a wild mind tends to hurt rather ...Show more
The Life of Ramakrishna by Romain Rolland
15.00 NZD
Category: Hinduism
A biography of anyone is hard to write. But a biography of a saint is the most difficult of all, because most of the drama of a saint's life is lived within - far from the gaze, and even farther from the understanding, of the rest of the world. What then would compel a distinguished, world renowned Fren ...Show more
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after ...Show more
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie - A Tale Of Love And Fallout by Lauren Redniss
39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A National Book Award finalist, the mesmerizing, landmark illustrated biography Radioactive is finally available in a stunning paperback edition. Through words and her own gorgeously crafted illustrations, artist and journalist Lauren Redniss tells the story of Marie Curie, nee Marya Sklodowska, and her ...Show more
A Challenging Life - A Memoir
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
With seventy-five years behind him, Shin Hanok's life has been a tapestry woven with both triumphs and tribulations. Now, he stands at a crossroads, compelled to contemplate the path he has traversed on his own. Despite his height inadequacy, he is confident that he has faced every adversity in his life ...Show more
Kenneth Clark - A Biography by Meryle Secrest
20.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Lord Clark was one of the most charismatic figures of his generation. This first biography assess his many achievement and reveals the triumphs and tensions of his private life
Wrestling with the Angel: a Life of Janet Frame by Michael KIng
55.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Janet Frame is of course New Zealand's most celebrated but also least public writer. She is the author of a series of brilliant novels and the award-winning An Angel At My Table autobiographical series, but she is also a personal mystery - a recluse and a person who has known the abyss of mental illness ...Show more
Out of the Mist and Steam: A Memoir by Alan Duff
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Alan Duff is the author of the bestselling Once Were Warriors, One Night Out Stealing, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? and Both Sides of the Moon, and here for the first time is the true story of this controversial writer's life. This memoir is the story of a talented but tormented child surrounded ...Show more
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clie ...Show more
Ali the Superman
100.00 NZD
Category: Islam
In this book, besides making an attempt to narrate the life story of Hadrat Ali elucidating his true place in history, the author has narrated the achievements of Ali, his various efforts to keep intact the solidarity of the Muslims and the establishment of a constructive faith to study the human mind a ...Show more