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|  | The Supreme Court by William H. Rehnquist
Description not available.The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court describes the history, evolution, and operations of the Court; examines the relationship of the Court to Congress and the President; and explains how the cases heard by the court each year are selected, how decisions are reached, and how opinions are circulated. 20,000 first printing. AUTHOR: William H. Rehnquist
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Mona Hatoum by Guy Brett
Born in the Lebanon, Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum was exiled to London, where she has lived and worked since the mid 1970s and where, in 1995, she was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize. Through performance, video, sculpture and installation she creates architectonic spaces which relate to the body, language and the condition of exile. One of her most spellbinding and best known works is a video installation titled Corps etranger, where the spectator enters a small pavilion and takes a visual journey through all the orifices of the artist's body. Such works combine states of emotion and longing with the formal simplicity of Minimalism, creating powerful evocations of displacement, denial and otherness. Hatoum's many international exhibitions include the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris (1994); her work tours extensively to museums throughout the United States in 1997. The distinguished British critic Guy Brett, explores key themes around a sense of place, the body and communication which emerge from Hatoum's range of work. The artist describes a chronology of practice in conversation with Michael Archer, writer, curator and co-founder of London's Audio Arts sound archive. Catherine de Zegher makes a complex and provocative analysis of Recollection, a work she commissioned for a sixteenth-century beguinage. Hatoum has chosen a text by the influential Palestinian author Edward Said as well as a statement from the noted Italian post-war sculptor and performance artist, Piero Manzoni. The book also includes Hatoum's own notes, statements and previous interviews. AUTHOR: Guy Brett
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Martin Luther King by Rosemary L. Bray
The life of Martin Luther King, told with a brief text and rich, folk-art style paintings. AUTHOR: Rosemary L. Bray
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Hero of the Heartland
Description not available.A revealing biography of the flamboyant baseball player turned evangelist charts Billy Sunday's rise from humble orphan beginnings to stardom on the preaching circuit. (Biography)
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | James Earl Carter, Jr. by Andrew Santella
Description not available.Reviews the life of thirty-ninth president Jimmy Carter, detailing such events as his prior occupations, presidential campaign, and his election into office in 1977. AUTHOR: Andrew Santella
PUBLISHER: Compass Point Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian
The memoir of an American boy of the 1950s and 1960s discovering his Armenian past. Balakian is a highly regarded poet whose family fled the Turkish massacres in Armenia during World War I and settled in the United States. Winner of the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. AUTHOR: Peter Balakian
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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