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  • The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti

    IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World'sFirst Desktop Computer

    par Meryle Secrest ...
    The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150.The human, business, design, engineering, cold war, and tech story of how the Olivetti company came to be, how it survived two ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • Stephen Sondheim

    A Life

    par Meryle Secrest ...
    In the first full-scale life of the mostimportant composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, Meryle Secrest, the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein, draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and lovers to bring us not only the artist--as a master ofmodernist compositional style--but ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Modigliani

    par Meryle Secrest ...
    “People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards.” —ModiglianiAmedeo (“Beloved of God”) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh’s. In Modigliani’s time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubists ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Princess Margaret and the Curse

    An Inquiry into a Royal Life

    par Meryle Secrest ...
    A Groundbreaking New Perspective of Princess Margaret by Renowned Biographer Meryle SecrestMeryle Secrest, distinguished biographer in the arts and humanities, and recipient of a White House Medal, has turned her focus to royalty. In Princess Margaret and the Curse, she has put the conventional view of a much-reviled Princess on its head. Her latest study, which she considers more of an ... En savoir plus

    $24.64 CAD

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    par Meryle Secrest ...
    The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson (“A triumph”—Washington Post; “A perfect riot”—Michael Holroyd; “Astonishing”—London Sunday Times) and of Kenneth Clark (“Splendid, enthralling”—The Wall Street Journal) gives us now a complete and complex portrait of an American titan, Frank Lloyd Wright.Meryle Secrest shows us Frank Lloyd Wright in full scale—the brilliant, outrageous, ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Elsa Schiaparelli

    A Biography

    par Meryle Secrest ...
    The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time.Her style was a social revolution through clothing-luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy; synonymous with fashion innovation and chicesse. She was audacious; her fashions were inspired from the whimsical to the most practical-from a Venetian cape ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Shoot the Widow

    Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject

    par Meryle Secrest ...
    The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.”In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The New York Times), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for a “life” is like working one’s way through a maze, full of fall starts, dead ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

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    The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti

    IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World'sFirst Desktop Computer

    par Meryle Secrest ...
    Lu par Susan Denaker ...

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    11 heure 27 min

    The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150.The human, business, design, engineering, cold war, and tech story of how the Olivetti company came to be, how it survived two ... En savoir plus

    $29.50 CAD

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    The Room Where It Happened

    A White House Memoir

    par John Bolton ...
    Lu par Robert Petkoff ...

    Version Longue

    21 heure 36 min

    JOHN BOLTON READS THE EPILOGUE!As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves.The result is a “scathing and revelatory” (The New Yorker) White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Far to Go

    par Alison Pick ...
    Collections series Anansi Book Club Editions
    Winner of the Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award and finalist for the Man Booker Prize In Far to Go, one of our most accomplished young writers takes us inside the world of an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.In 1939, Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are secular Jews whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of Hitler. They are unable ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Circus: A Story from Circus

    The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD

  • Flappers

    Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

    par Judith Mackrell ...
    "A juicy, energetic exploration of six dazzling iconoclasts who all flared to fame in the Roaring '20s." — Los Angeles Times"Mackrell's book bubbles with the giddy energy of the era, filled with parties, affairs, cocktails, and cocaine—and captures its inevitable dissolution as well." — The Boston GlobeBy the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrow-raising ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD