Gandhi before India

A first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa.

This is Warhol

Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings, and there I am. There's nothing behind it." This book penetrates the surface and explores Warhol's art from his beginnings as a commercial artist to his apotheosis as a society portrait painter. Vivid illustrations…

This is Pollock

"In 1956, Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of America's Western landscape where the artist grew up. Pollock said that he painted 'out of his conscious': the cathartic dribbled paint reflected his troubled mind. This book traces Pollock's career and discusses how his loose, individual style was used as a polit…

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

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ISBN/ISSN

9780448448862

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104p; ill; bw; pbk

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Call Number

920 PAS W

Long Walk To Freedom : The Autobiography Of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspirin…

The Man Without a Face the Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Within a few brief years, Putin had dismantled the country's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was remo…

Dreams from My Father : Pergulatan Hidup Obama

Siapa tak mengenal Barack Obama? Namanya telah tercatat dalam sejarah sebagai presiden Amerika pertama dari kalangan kulit berwarna. Ia menjadi tumpuan kekaguman dan harapan bagi banyak orang yang mendambakan perubahan, toleransi, kesetaraan hak, dan perdamaian. Namun, tak banyak yang tahu proses yang dilalui seorang Obama hingga ia menjadi seorang tokoh besar dan berpengaruh. Inilah satu-satun…

Einstein : Kehidupan dan Pengaruhnya bagi Dunia

Bocah berusia lima tahun itu terus menggigil di ranjang tidurnya. Tapi bukan karena demam. Ia melihat jarum magnet, yang gerakannya seolah-olah dipengaruhi oleh kekuatan tersembunyi. Jarum itu membangkitkan rasa ingin tahu yang memotivasinya kelak, seumur hidupnya. Ayahnya memberi tahu bahwa benda menakjubkan itu bernama kompas. Belasan bahkan puluhan tahun kemudian, Albert Einstein—lelaki k…

Roberto Mancini : a Footballing Life (the Full Story)

When Manchester City’s owners appointed Roberto Mancini in late 2009, the message was clear: this was the man who would overtake the Blues’ illustrious neighbours and restore the club to the pinnacle of English football. The former Italy playmaker swiftly repaid their faith, following up an FA Cup triumph in his first full season with the Premier League title – won in the most heartsto…

William Shakespeare

from the back cover: William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time . . . or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet . . . or when his on…