John Baxter is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and filmmaker. Since 2007 he has served as codirector of the annual Paris Writers’ Workshop. He is a prolific author and biographer of film personalities, including Robert De Niro, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Josef von Sternberg.
35 Ebooks by John Baxter
John Baxter: Von Sternberg
Belligerent and evasive, Josef von Sternberg chose to ignore his illegitimate birth in Austria, deprived New York childhood, abusive father, and lack of education. The director who strutted onto the …
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€38.99
John Baxter: De Niro
The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, …
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€8.99
John Baxter: George Lucas
The first major biography (since 1983) of the great movie mogul George Lucas, whose marketing techniques have transformed the film business. His fourth Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace, released in …
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€4.99
John Baxter: Steven Spielberg (Text Only)
First published in 1996 and now available as an ebook. Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.Steven Spielberg dominated the cinema of the nineties. He is one of the screen’s …
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€4.00
John Baxter: Immoveable Feast
A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white breadand didn’t speak a word of Frenchunexpectedly ended up …
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€8.99
John Baxter: We’ll Always Have Paris
For more than a century, pilgrims from all over the world seeking romance and passion have made their way to the City of Light. The seductive lure of Paris has long been irresistible to lovers, …
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€7.99
John Baxter: Carnal Knowledge
Averitable smorgasbord of sin, John Baxter’s Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully unabashed education in sex and erotic culture. Would you ever consent to a knee-trembler at a love hotel? Would you …
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€8.99
John Baxter: Perfect Meal
John Baxters The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the worlds great cultural achievements before …
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€7.99
John Baxter: Most Beautiful Walk in the World
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting …
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€3.89
John Baxter: Paris at the End of the World
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the citys history.From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I …
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€8.99
John Baxter: Five Nights in Paris
An irresistible nighttime tour of Paris, past and present, by the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World Every guidebook to Paris is crammed with sites to see during the day, but …
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€7.99
John Baxter: Saint-Germain-des-Pres
From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative biographies of Pariss great neighborhoods, beginning with …
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€8.99
John Baxter: Montmartre
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest …
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€7.99
John Baxter: Montparnasse
In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse.By the IACP Award-winning author of the …
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€7.99
John Baxter: Year in Paris
A NEW YORK TIMES "SUMMER READING" PICK!From the incomparable John Baxter, award-winning author of the bestselling The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait …
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€9.99
John Baxter: Inner Man
An explosive and perceptive biography of the British novelist J.G. Ballard To many people, J.G. Ballard will always be the schoolboy in Steven Spielberg’s movie Empire of the Sun, struggling to …
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€3.99
John Baxter: Von Sternberg
Belligerent and evasive, Josef von Sternberg chose to ignore his illegitimate birth in Austria, deprived New York childhood, abusive father, and lack of education. The director who strutted onto the …
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€153.93
John Baxter: Shakespeare’s Poetic Styles
First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare’s styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. John Baxter …
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€55.28
John Baxter: Shakespeare’s Poetic Styles
First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare’s styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. John Baxter …
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€55.28
John Baxter: Deluxe Encyclopedia of Mandolin Chords
This encyclopedia is designed to provide mandolin players with a wide variety of chords in different voicings. This book is intended as both a starting point of learning chord voicings and patterns, …
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€12.47
Aristotle & 0 Atherton: Aristotle’s Poetics
Aristotle’s Poetics combines a complete translation of the Poetics with a running commentary, printed on facing pages, that keeps the reader in continuous contact with the linguistic and critical …
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€91.44
John Baxter: Chronicles of Old Paris
Discover one of the world’s most fascinating and beautiful cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of Paris. John Baxter takes readers through 2, 000 years of French history …
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€18.76
John Baxter: Golden Moments of Paris
In The Golden Moments of Paris, John Baxter uncovers fascinating true stories about the characters that gave Paris its “character” in the years between World War I and World War II. …
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€25.11
John Baxter: French Riviera and Its Artists
Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Côte d’Azur …
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€19.87
John Baxter: Eating Eternity
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour, " wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon’s most gifted advisor should speak so highly of eating says much about the …
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€19.78
John Baxter: Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the often-tragic life of this often overlooked, yet pro …
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€38.99
Terence J. Kleven: Faith and Reason in the Reformations
The five-hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation reawakened a long-standing and spirited conversation between philosophic science and religious faith, a conversation which continues to …
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€43.62
John Baxter: Chronicles of Old Paris : Exploring the Historic City of Light
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€18.65
John Baxter: The Golden Moments of Paris : A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s
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€24.74
John Baxter: French Riviera and Its Artists
Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Côte d’Azur …
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€20.12
John Baxter: Eating Eternity
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour, " wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon’s most gifted advisor should speak so highly of eating says much about the …
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€20.03
John Baxter: Autoestima para Mujeres a Prueba de Fuego
¿Te cuesta reconocer tus múltiples fortalezas? ¿Tienes inseguridades referentes a tu cuerpo o forma de ser? ¿A veces te sientes menos ante tus amistades, familiares o pareja? Entonces sigue leyendo… …
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€2.99
John Baxter: Of Love and Paris
The French may not have invented love but they perfected it, and the laboratory in which they did so was Paris. James Joyce called the city "a lamp for lovers, hung in the wood of the …
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€21.16
Stuart Maxwell & John Baxter: Guía de la Mujer Exitosa
¿Piensas que las mujeres tienen desventajas injustas en el mundo laboral? ¿Te gustaría saber que hacer para destacar ante tus colegas? ¿A veces te sientes menos ante tus amistades, familiares o parej …
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€3.65
John Baxter: Untold Paris
Nobody knows the city of light like Paris resident and travel writer John Baxter – and nobody is able to write about its culture quite so intriguingly. Let him guide you around the Paris you’ve alway …
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€29.99
