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Young Bucks - Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues by Matt Jackson; Nick Jackson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The Young Bucks are two guys who not only beat the odds to become one of the greatest, most popular tag teams ever, but also two industry changing visionaries. Matt and Nick are two of the smartest, hard-working, passionate individuals I've met during my 28 year career. With the creation of AEW, The Buc ...Show more
Son of the Brush by Tim Olsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
Can You Make This Thing Go Faster? by Clarkson, Jeremy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
These days, you might know him better as a tractor-driving Gentleman Farmer, but Jeremy Clarkson wasn't always a horny-handed son of the soil. Not at all . . . Back in the day Jeremy was far more likely to be found gunning around the world in a haze of burnt rubber and petrol fumes. But life as a glob ...Show more
Beyond by Stephen Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to go into space. This book, published on the sixtieth anniversary of that epic flight, tells the astonishing story of how it happened, why it happened – and what happened next. “Whoever controls space controls the world.” Lyndon B. Johnson 19 ...Show more
Parisian Lives - Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir by Deirdre Bair
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, in ...Show more
Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury by Paul-Gerard Pasols
$160.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The first in depth portrait of one of the world's best known luxury brands, this elegant volume traces the remarkable history of the House of Vuitton, which has been making practical but stylish luggage, handbags and accessories for more than 150 years. Written with full access to the company's archives ...Show more
Shanghai Acrobat by Jingjing Xue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For readers of Mao's Last Dancer comes the inspiring true story of a world-famous acrobat who escaped communist China to begin a new life in Australia. Jingjing Xue was born in China in the 1950s, during one of the worst times in the reign of communist leader Mao Zedong, or Chairman Mao. Mao's extreme f ...Show more
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture--at a steep personal cost "A biography that reads like a thriller or a whodunit . . . scrupulously honest, deeply damning, and sometimes even heartbreaking."--Neil Gaiman Stan ...Show more
SWEAT THE TECHNIQUE by RAKIM
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and The greatest MC of all time, Rakim.The musician and Hip Hop legend--hailed as "the greatest MC of all time" and compared to Thelonious Monk--reimagine ...Show more
Aussie Stem Stars: Fiona Wood: Inventor of Spray-On Skin by Cristy Burne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Aussie Stem Star Ser.
Age range 9 to 14Fiona Wood is a plastic surgeon whose expertise in burns treatment came to the world's attention in 2002 in the wake of the Bali bombings. From defending the weak and fixing the broken to fighting for her chance to study medicine, the story of plastic surgeon and spray-on skin inventor ...Show more
One Last Dance by Holmes, Emma Jane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Emma Jane Holmes had her dream job, working in the funeral industry, caring for those who could no longer care for themselves. But when the bills mounted after her marriage breakdown, she turned to her other dream - dancing on stage as a showgirl - and her glittering alter ego Madison was born. Emma Jan ...Show more
Call the Vet by Bruce Fogle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Arriving in 1970s' London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would understand the English. As a graduate of the world's best veterinary school, he also thought his profession would come naturally to him. He quickly learned not to make assumptions... Bru ...Show more
