Harvard University Press

WHAT HAPPENED AT VATICAN II: JOHN W. O’MALLEY; During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, while its debates generated front-page news on a near-weekly basis. This book captures the drama of the council, depicting the colorful characters involved and their clashes with one another.; read an excerpt

AUDUBON: EARLY DRAWINGS: INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD RHODES
SCIENTIFIC COMMENTARY BY SCOTT V. EDWARDS
FOREWORD BY LESLIE A. MORRIS; (Actual Size: 14 x 11 inches); “[Audubon] single-handedly introduced an entire continent’s birds to the world...This is the first book to collect and reproduce the pastel, ink, and watercolor studies from early in his career...His genius was to convey their liveliness...Even though Audubon’s letters reveal frustrations in this regard...these ‘difficulties and disappointments...never for a moment destroyed the desire of obtaining perfect representations of nature.’”; —Boston Globe; read more about Audubon's indelible mark on reference illustration in the Boston Globe

SAMUEL JOHNSON: A Biography; PETER MARTIN; “Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) remains one of the most-quoted and carefully observed authors who ever lived. On the occasion of Johnson's tercentenary, Martin searches out the psychological elements covered up by Boswell and others: the immense insecurities, bouts of deep depression, corrosive self-doubt and, in his last days, despair for his very soul...Martin admirably succeeds in giving a new generation Dr. Johnson, warts and all, from the inside.”; —Publishers Weekly; read an excerpt