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Featured Categories : Study Books : Undergraduate & Postgraduate : Arts & Humanities : Careers

• The Frigate Surprise: The Design, Construction and Careers of Jack Aubrey's Favourite Command

  Brian Lavery and Geoff Hunt

  
  
   

• Bowie in Berlin: A New Career In A New Town: A New Career in a New Town

  Thomas Jerome Seabrook

  
  
   

• So You Want to Tread the Boards: The Everything-you-need-to-know, Insider's Guide to a Career in the Performing Arts

  Jennifer Reischel

  
  
   

• Fallen Stars: Tragic Lives and Lost Careers

  Julian Upton

  
  
   

• Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius (Stackpole Military History Series): The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander ... Carius (Stackpole Military History Series)

  Otto Carius

  
  
   

• Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career Of British Democracy: The Strange Career of British Democracy

  David Marquand

  
  
   

• Acting A to Z (Revised Second Edition): The Young Person's Guide to a Stage or Screen Career

  Katherine Mayfield

  
  
   

• Schneider Trophy to Spitfire: The Design Career of R.J. Mitchell

  John Shelton

  
  
   

• The Golden Horseshoe: The Wartime Career of Otto Kretschmer, U-boat Ace

  Terence Robertson

  
  
   

• Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from "Godspell" to "Wicked"

  Carol De Giere

  
  
   

• Michael Schumacher: The Definitive Race-by-race Record of His Grand Prix Career

  Christopher Hilton

  
  
   

• The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook: 1 (Career Development Book)

  
  
   

• Becoming an Interior Designer: A Visual Career Guide (Becoming an Interior Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design)

  IIDA, Piotrowski, Christine M. FASID

  
  
   

• Fall Out Roman Catholics and Jews: A Personal Account of This Distinguished Officer's Royal Air Force Career 1956-1963 with a Bit Added On...

  Anthony Haig-Thomas

  
  
   

• Careers in Wildlife Film-making

  Piers Warren, Jeffery Boswall

  
  
   

• The Men Who Flew the Mosquito: Compelling Accounts of the Wooden Wonders Triumphant WW2 Career

  Martin Bowman

  
  
   

• On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren

  Lisa Jardine

  
  On A Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren is Lisa Jardine's (aptly titled) expansive and scholarly biography of the architect responsible for some of London's finest buildings. Wren was not only an extremely talented architect; he was also a gifted mathematician, inventor, anatomist and astronomer. The latter interest, Jardine reveals, shaped his designs for the Greenwich Observatory, St Paul's cathedral and the Monument to the Great Fire of London, which was constructed with a scientific laboratory in its basement.

  Illuminating Wren's perpetual commitment, and his contributions, to science forms the major part of this study. (Later in life, Wren himself complained that he "had been obliged to spend all his time in rubbish" instead of working on his true vocation, science.) One of the most compelling aspects of Jardine's book, however, proves to be her thorough examination of the influence of the regicide on Wren¹s life and career. Wren's father and uncle were distinguished Royalists who idolised the martyred Charles I during the Commonwealth era. At the Restoration, Charles II rewarded faithful old Royalists by giving them and their offspring senior positions in his deeply nepotistic court. Wren and many of his circle--including John Evelyn, Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle--were recipients of such patronage. As this impressive work shows, the ideals of the Royal restoration and the architect's own ambitious building schemes were always inextricably linked.--Travis Elborough

  
   

• IMPORTANCE OF BEING BARBRA: The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand

  Tom Santopietro

  
  
   

• There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: The Insider's Guide to a Career in Voice-overs

  Elaine A. Clark

  
  
   

• Careers in Fashion (Kogan Page Careers in)

  Noel Chapman, Carole Chester