TERRA INCOGNITA is the telling of history from another point of view, connecting the dots between voyages, ships, cargoes & paymasters.

If you like to know the who, why, when & how of historical things & events, then TERRA INCOGNITA will thrill you. Into this little book is packed a ton of trivia that is both fascinating & extra-ordinary, about the exploration of the world from the "Twelve Wooden Plates" upon which a new map was secured for printing & what Amerigo Vespucci had to do with them, to "The Commercial Revolution" in which the Black Plague had people sailing away in fleets to the farthest reaches of the globe, to "A Young Genoan Arrives in Bristol" being excerpts from journals of the icon of exploration to "Bristol Ships in Lisbon and Huelva" where Christopher Columbus had been dwelling, to "Shipshape and Bristol Fashion" wherein a medieval proverb comes to life & so on into the stuff of legends, all the facts & the fictions.

Very well done...a superb history of mapmakers & voyagers...certainly for every history buff, & anyone interested in writing about merchant seamen, explorers & maps.

Understanding Artificial Intelligence is a collection of articles about artificial intelligence that have appeared in Scientific American over the past decade. Together they show AI as a fascinating and integrated field, rather than just a series of isolated projects. The authors, without exception, are using the human mind as an inspiration for creating superior technology. They are impatient with the idea that they are trying in any way to create 'articial humans'.

All the authors are well-known AI experts who have put in their time at the lab bench - or computer keyboard - and are talking from hands-on experience. Every piece meets Scientific American's standard of good, clear English without 'talking down' to readers. The enthusiasm and pragmatism of these scientists comes through clearly.

At around 150 pages, this e-book was easy to read in one sitting, a perfect length for a domestic flight.

Mr. Frank Borzellieri is a man with beliefs, beliefs that he is more than willing to back up with hard facts. I first read about Mr. Borzellieri in the July 2001 edition of American Renaissance, and was intrigued by his words, and his willingness to express them - seemingly without fear of repercussions. This is an excellent book, with a foreward by Mr. Jared Taylor... Well worth the wait for shipment.

my wife need to now about Alpine violet. How it looks and information about care that it needs.Thank you.

I was satisfied reading this book. Being a Trinidadian, I was glad that someone else shared the same pride for the beautiful nation. I would recommend this book to anyone! A must have for any Trini!

William Rodney Allen's Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer is one of the finest studies of novelist Walker Percy. While most Percy criticism emphasizes Percy's theological interests--sometimes to the detriment of the works--Allen offers a complex reading that blends biographical research, psychoanalysis, and intertextuality. His readings are mostly unassailable, and he makes a fine case for Percy as not just an important Southern or Catholic author, but an important American author as well, working with and subverting some of the ideas of Twain and Hemingway. Highly recommended.

This is the best of the mechanical/whirligig books I've run across. Beautiful color photographs and detailed illustrations of Frost's very strange toys including dancing lumberjacks, boxing angels and demons, machine-gunning whirligigs, and the wonderfully painted 'houses' that hold the hand-cranks that give life to these creatures. An excellent resource for toy and wood-working ideas.

This workbook takes you step by step through all the areas of basic chemistry. Everything is explained simply and if you've had trouble with chemistry I think this book can help. All though thing are explained simply it does not leave out important details and you get a good understanding of the subject matter.

I love this chunky little book. While it is true that this hardcover fits in the palm of your hand, it contains 664 pages. I've lost track of the number of times that I've reached for my copy to not just check on a specific date or event, but to read through to get the feeling of a period. It is well organised sequentially by year (starting in 38,000 B.C.) The significant events of an entire year are covered in a paragraph of less then a page, with significant milestones in architecture, art, literature, and music set off with icons immediately afterwards. Moreover, there are very complete lists of rulers, discoveries and explorations, major wars, and inventors listed in convenient tables in the back. While the print is small , it is not ridiculously so- and there is ample room in the margins for your own notes.

The collaboration of Linda C. Mayes (Arnold Gesell Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center) and Donald J. Cohen (Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center), The Yale Child Study Center Guide To Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development From Birth To Adolescence is a superbly practical and "reader friendly" guide for parents which compiles the findings and discoveries of the Yale Child Study Center (an organization first founded in 1911) in order to assisting men and women in finding their own parenting style, achieve balance between family and work duties, and acquire ways to strengthen the ties the bind their family relationships and deal with difficult issues arising from new siblings, to school bullies, to divorce and death. The Yale Child Study Center Guide To Understanding Your Child is confidently recommended as being a wide-ranging, eminently readable reference packed with solid information for parents and caretakers of children everywhere.