A thorough text for logistics professionals, "Bulk Material Handling" has the answers they’re seeking. Michael Rivkin’s encyclopedic "Bulk Material Handling" will serve mechanical engineers who are puzzling through how to best move... Read More

The first sentence of Silliman’s forty-years-in-the-making opus, “If the function of writing is to ‘express the world,’” is unfinished to a strict grammarian. But Silliman goes on to do just that, and the world he expresses... Read More

“My spiritual life impacts my life as an artist,” writes James C. Christensen, “from the subjects I choose to paint, to the message of the work, to the responsibility I feel to the viewers. My art isn’t exploitative,... Read More

In this first in a series, Smith and Jacobowitz present forty-four of the most common ASL handshapes in an engaging mix of text and full-color graphics, including a DVD. The authors are co-founders of ASL Rose, creator, publisher, and... Read More

One of history’s greatest military catastrophes, Napoleon’s Russian campaign of 1812, has spawned an immense literature. Now, almost 190 years later, American readers have easy access to a pictorial record. Faber du Faur, aged... Read More

The Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave. Actually, freedom was a result of the Union victory and of the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, a piece of legislation that wasn’t ratified until eight months after the end... Read More

On the front cover is the work of a Canadian icon, Lawren S. Harris. His 1920 oil on canvas, Algama Hill, is matched on the reverse cover by “one of the most famous images in Inuit art,” Kenojuak Ashevak’s The Enchanted Owl.... Read More

In his concise account of the fifty-year crisis (AD 235-285) that threatened the Roman Empire’s survival, Grant concentrates on three factors: weak, short-lived emperors imposed, deposed, and murdered by the military; invasions by... Read More