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|  | Across a Dark and Wild Sea by Don Brown
Columcille, son of an Irish king, was born in the Dark Ages, a time in Ireland when reading and writing were like magic, and the people who knew their secrets as rare as wizards. This lyric mixture of history and legend chronicles the life of this scholarly monk, traveller, and outcast who mastered the skills of reading and writing in order to educate as many people as he could. AUTHOR: Don Brown
PUBLISHER: Millbrook
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | The Burden of Bad Ideas by Heather Mac Donald
In this collection of essays on social issues, a neoconservative, think-tank intellectual argues that social programs based on what she sees as a legacy of liberalism have made worse the ills they have attempted to address. She argues in favor of clear thinking and individual responsibility. AUTHOR: Heather Mac Donald
PUBLISHER: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Sir Elton by Philip Norman
Description not available.An updated, fully revised biography of the popular singer/songwriter discusses Elton John's childhood dreams of soccer fame, the marriage he avoided in his youth and the one that failed in the 1980s, his bisexuality, and his musical success. Reprint. AUTHOR: Philip Norman
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Franz West by Franz West
In 1995 the Austrian Franz West transformed the terraces of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles into a glorious salon, with ranks of metal sofas draped with bright African fabrics: a new kind of public art for weary museum visitors. Drawing respiration from the history of art (reclining icons such as Manet`s Olympia), psychoanalysis (Freud`s sofa in West`s native Vienna) and a socially interactive type of art, his work is at once both personal and public. As one of Europe`s best-known sculptors, West is regularly invited to such major surveys as Skulptur. Projekte in Munster and Documenta. He has gained particular recognition for incorporating the bodies of his spectators into his sculpture, producing oddly-hued forms called Passstucke (`adaptives`) -- plaster sculptures designed to be worn, and which contort the wearer into bizarre positions. AUTHOR: Franz West
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Downcanyon by Ann Zwinger
This captivating book is for armchair travelers who may never see the grandiose Colorado River in the Grand Canyon and for those who have run it wisely and well. Like the author, readers will find themselves bewitched by the color and flow of the river, and enticed by what's around the next bend. AUTHOR: Ann Zwinger
PUBLISHER: University of Arizona Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Coldest March by Susan Solomon
This recreation of Robert Scott`s 1911 polar expedition--his last--attempts to rehabilitate that explorer`s reputation. Author Solomon uses the best available scientific knowledge to test her thesis that the unusually inclement weather was the fatal factor in Scott`s demise, not, as some have surmised, his ineptitude and bumbling. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. AUTHOR: Susan Solomon
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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