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Biographic: Hendrix presents an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the music.

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'Biographic: Marilyn' presents an instant impression of Marilyn Monroe's life, work and legacy, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the actor behind the movies.

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Many people know that Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionism, a master of landscape painting whose works include Sunrise and Water Lilies. Biographic: Monet presents an instant impression of his life, work and fame, with an array of irresistible facts and figures convered into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures.

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A modern study of Picasso's life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures.

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A vivid snapshot of Nikola Teslas life illustrated through 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements, presented in 150 striking infographics.

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Birdwood was a very notable general at Gallipoli, commanding the Anzacs, and leading the successful final evacuations. He led the Australians continuously on the Western Front, laying the groundwork for their celebrated achievements in 1918. He had great diplomatic acumen and his later years were both militarily and imperially significant.

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This is the moving story of a woman who, throughout her life, has refused to be defined by what others think she can or cannot do. This book has the potential to change our views of what disability means.

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This biography tells the story of Bob Crowder, a leading horticulturist and early champion of regenerative agriculture in Aotearoa New Zealand. Crowder played a pivotal role in the birth of the organics movement in New Zealand, establishing the country's only university-based organics research unit and helping to build a sector now worth millions.

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A brand new, accessible biography of Henry James. Written by British academic and author, Hazel Hutchison, Brief Lives: Henry James examines James' travels through Europe, his settling in England and the close relationships that shaped his life and writings - in particular the women that were to become his most renowned female heroines.

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Over the past two decades, New Zealand health care has grown more culturally aware, slowly incorporating practices that better cater to the needs of Maori. Bradford Haami chronicles this health care evolution by telling the story of Amohaere Tangitu, a woman responsible for pioneering change.

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Named one of TIME magazine's 100 Greatest Men of the Century, Bruce Lee's impact and influence has only grown since his untimely death in 1973

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Words of the Dragon is an anthology of newspaper and magazine interviews from 1958 to 1973 revealing Bruce Lee's own fascinating words and explanations about Bruce himself, his art and philosophy

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Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan is the most influential book ever written on the Japanese Way of the Warrior. A classic study of Japanese culture, the book outlines the moral code of the Samurai way of living and the virtues every Samurai warrior holds dear. It is widely read today in Japan and around the world.

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This volume of Charles Brasch's journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48, and the first decade or so of his distinguished editorship of Landfall, a role that brought Brasch into contact with New Zealand's leading artists and intelligentsia.

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Bernard Brown taught law at the University of Auckland for over forty years, including to ex-Prime Ministers David Lange and Winston Peters. This book is an entertaining romp through Brown's wartime and post-war experiences before arriving in NZ. It includes his meetings with such formidable figures as Margaret Thatcher and author Anthony Burgess.

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Douglas MacDiarmid has achieved an international reputation as an expatriate NZ painter. He defies labelling, acclaimed particularly as a superb colourist and for the diversity, technique and intellectual rigour of his paintings. His life and insights have the distinction of straddling almost a century of cultural trends and influences.

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A book about the men and women who do not fit tidily into the sphere in which they find themselves; who dare to go against the norm, even if that imperils them physically, politically or intellectually.

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Comrade tells a riveting story of labour activism and social change. Historian Cybele Locke recovers the relationships between communism and working class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades.

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Sue Bradford is half American and sixth generation Kiwi on her fathers side -- her European missionary genes date from 1820s Northland.