Steamboats on the Western Rivers

Steamboats on the Western RiversDefinitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development: its construction, equipment and operation; the organization and conduct of steamboat transportation as a business enterprise; the hazards and amenities of shipboard life; steamboat races on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; collisions, explosions and fires; the rise of competition; the ultimate decline, and much more.

and war for the sake of glory

feathered serpents from pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan sources

"The Signal" by Vsevolod M

the tone of the pre-1684 Stradivari violin

Richard Silverman has taken Shilov's course in linear algebra and has made it even more accessible and more useful for English language readers

books on latin languages

a key to many areas of art and religion that had hitherto been locked

suggests design features (single-perch

medieval warfare art

better known as Castor and Pollux

Replete with fascinating historical facts and lore

and it presents a primer on rotations and rotation matrices