A glossary of steamboat terms and a collection of contemporary accounts of accidents round out this history of the riverboat era.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. From the commencement of the christian era until the present time.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This classic of the mathematical literature forms a comprehensive study of the inequalities used throughout mathematics.

Stories of the Creation, saints, and sinners tell of Adam, Abraham, Noah, Moses, and other revered figures; anecdotes describe tribes, people, languages, and sites such as the Jaffa Gate at Jerusalem.

For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back-or give way under-thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper or a kangaroo, this ...

This book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides.

James Lovelock proposes that all living species are components of that organism, as cells are components of the human body.

Two fortifications specialists and a technical artist team up to present a unique portrait of military architecture during the Middle Ages.