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  • Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant

    Lyall Watson

    Paperback

    A scientific safari and personal memoir celebrating the enigmatic dignity of the world's largest land animal.

  • Grant

    William S. McFeely

    Paperback

    "Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best."—Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

  • José Clemente Orozco in the United States

    Renato González Mello, Diane Miliotes

    Hardback

    The complete North American work of one of Mexico's greatest muralists.

  • Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation

    Jeffrey Meyers

    Paperback

    "Admirable...consistent with its subject's unassuming intelligence.... Meyers relates [Orwell's] life crisply and judiciously."—The New York Times

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

    Christoph Wolff

    Paperback

    Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.