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Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah by Ian Buruma
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an al ...Show more
Stan Lee - A Life in Comics by Liel Leibovitz
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Category: No Category | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created--Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic F ...Show more
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker by David Mikics
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
When he made a movie Kubrick was obsessively focused because he had to find a solution to every problem. ... His movies are about mastery that fails. Perfectly controlled schemes get botched through human error or freak accidents, or hijacked by masculine rage. ... Stanley Kubrick asserted total control ...Show more
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films by Molly Haskell
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Category: Music | Series: Jewish Lives
A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented "Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores t ...Show more
Theodor Herzl - the Charismatic Leader by Derek Jonathan Penslar
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Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl by an eminent historian of Zionism The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he ...Show more
Warner Bros - The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson
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Category: Music | Series: Jewish Lives | Reading Level: very good
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the ...Show more
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired moder ...Show more
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich
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Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired moder ...Show more