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Nijinsky
Profile 2013; US$ 40.00He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre. And his life is the stuff of legends:... more...
Liberty
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous, freethinking women of the era?women who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Liberty , Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary Frenchwomen from vastly different social and economic backgrounds... more...
Maharanis
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 18.00Through the sumptuous, adventurous lives of three generations of Indian queens?from the period following the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to the present, Lucy Moore traces the cultural and political changes that transformed their world. This is the fantastic nonfiction version of THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN .Until the 1920s, to be a Maharani, wife to the Maharajah,... more...
Anything Goes
Overlook 2011; US$ 15.95The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events?the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, the huge Ku Klux Klan march down Washington, D.C.šs Pennsylvania... more...
Con Men and Cutpurses
Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not AvailableAn enthralling anthology of 18th-century writings that gives a fascinating insight into the dreadful misdeeds of - and the horrible punishments meeted out to - an array of rogues and criminals, from murderers and swindlers to prostitutes and pirates. Captured in memoirs, letters, ballads and court transcripts are some of the most colourful villains... more...
Maharanis
Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not AvailableIn Maharnis Lucy Moore brilliantly recreates the lives of four princesses - two grandmothers, a mother and a daughter - of the Royal courts of India. Their extraordinary story takes in tiger hunts, exotic palaces and lavish ceremonies in India, as well as the glamorous international scene of the Edwardian and interwar era. It is also an intimate portrait... more...
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
HarperCollins Publishers 2009; Not AvailableThe bestselling author of ?Maharanis? recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen, and make their mark on history. more...
Well-Being
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners, public health professionals, and principals in the child development community convened to address a science-based framework for elements of well-being and how the elements might... more...
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