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Many people know that Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist, a feminist icon who lived in the famous Blue House and whose work includes The ...

The first compilation of Bruce Lee photographs published in association with the Bruce Lee estate. This book reveals the full range of Lee's talent...

Words of the Dragon is an anthology of newspaper and magazine interviews from 1958 to 1973 revealing Bruce Lee's own fascinating words and explanat...

I Know I Am Rude: Prince Philip on Himself, the Queen and Others

These private recollections of longtime Japan resident and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie capture the personalities of the Japanese people w...

One of the first writers to speak with an authentic New Zealand voice, Blanche Edith Baughan (1870-1958) was known as a poet and local travel write...

In February 1945, with no veterinary training available in New Zealand, Graham Wallace braved a German raider in the Tasman Sea to begin his studie...

Born in 1919, Prince made Djelantik witnessed pivotal moments of history: the twilight of the feudal age, the Second World War in Nazi-occupied Hol...

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...

Born in Hamilton in 1950 with a penchant for drama, Anne Manchester was perplexed by her remote mother and frustrated by the strictures of a post-w...

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...

Bernard Brown lived through WW2 in Suffolk, England, where he was strafed by bullets from a German Dornier aeroplane; dived to fetch sculpturing cl...

Many people know that Tesla was a scientific genius, instrumental in developing modern electricity and communications. What, perhaps, they don't kn...

Biographic: Picasso: Great Lives in Graphic Form

Most people know that Bob Marley (1945-1981) was a singer-songwriter who popularised reggae music and whose Jamaican culture and Rastafarian belief...

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...

Many people know that Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) was a pioneering guitarist and songwriter whose electric playing and performances were at the heart ...

Many people know that Albert Einstein was a brilliant theoretical physicist who revolutionised modern science. What they may not know is that he on...

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...

It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid sn...