The Roman Catholics by Patrick W. Carey Greenwood Press, 400 pages, $ 55 A serviceable short history of Catholicism in America, enhanced by more than two hundred pages of biographical sketches of the main players. (firstthings.com)
Maritime historian John Maxtone - Graham begins Titanic Tragedy with biographical sketches of Guglielmo Marconi and Samuel Morse, whose inventions enabled wireless communication between ships. (bookpage.com)
The screen could include information about local history, a public discussion board connecting all the Fon access points in the neighborhood, or perhaps just a brief biographical sketch of the Linus who owns the network in the first place. (discovermagazine.com)