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Of Ivory and the Survival of Elephants

At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife

by Raymond Bonner

Battle for the Elephants

by Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Oria Douglas-Hamilton, edited by Brian Jackman

The Fate of the Elephant

by Douglas H. Chadwick

The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion

by Jonathan S. Adams and Thomas O. McShane

Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory in African Culture

edited by Doran H. Ross


The True Believer

Goebbels

by Ralf Georg Reuth, translated by Krishna Winston

Goebbels and 'Der Angriff'

by Russel Lemmons

Joseph Goebbels: ein nationaler Sozialist

by Ulrich Höver


The Great Perhaps

Life Work

by Donald Hall

The Museum of Clear Ideas

by Donald Hall

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

by Sherwin B. Nuland


Degas Out of Doors

Degas Landscapes 21–April 3, 1994, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 24–July 3, 1994

an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January

Degas Landscapes

catalog of the exhibition by Richard Kendall


Eye on the Prize

A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè

by Emilio Segrè


Worth a Detour

A Ghost in Trieste

by Joseph Cary, drawings by Nicholas Read


The Computer Wars

Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America

by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews

Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing

by Randall E. Stross

Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children

by David Sheff

Computer Wars: How the West Can Win in a Post-IBM World

by Charles H. Ferguson and Charles R. Morris

Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM

by Paul Carroll


The Discreet Charms of Mrs. G.

Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories

by Jenny Uglow


The Welfare Blues

Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

by Susan Sheehan


The Old New Age

The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution

by Christopher Hill

The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies: Miracles and the Pulp Press During the English Revolution

by Jerome Friedman


‘I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness’

Serial murder has emerged as the “crime of the 1990s” and our collective fascination is matched by a flood of luridly packaged paperback books on a vertiginous assortment of killers.

Serial Killers

by Joel Norris

Probing the Mind of a Serial Killer

by Jack A. Apsche

Death Benefit: A Lawyer Uncovers a Twenty-year Pattern of Seduction, Arson, and Murder

by David Heilbroner

The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy

by Ann Rule

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

directed by Nick Broomfield

Killing for Company: The Story of a Man Addicted to Murder

by Brian Masters

The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough: The Secret Murders of Milwaukee's Jeffrey Dahmer

by Anne E. Schwartz

A Father's Story

by Lionel Dahmer

Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

by Michael Newton

True Crime, Vol. 2: Serial Killers & Mass Murderers

by Valarie Jones and Peggy Collier

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