Bevly (mechanical engineering, Auburn U.) and Cobb, who makes global positioning system (GPS) receivers and pseudolites (pseudo satellites--ground stations sending satellite-like signals), explore how
Flying is an extremely safe way to travel. Fewer than 14,000 individuals perished in U.S. airline disasters during the twentieth century. In contrast, nearly three times as many people lose their live
Quiet Beauty: Japanese Gardens of North America is an extraordinary look at the most beautiful and serene gardens of the United States and Canada. Most Japanese garden books look to the gardens of Jap
Japanese gardens are found throughout the world today—their unique forms now considered a universal art form. This stunning Japanese gardening book examines the work of five leading landscape architec
A specialist in the Middle Ages and the Orient, Mohring (history, U. of Bayreuth) points out that Saladin is the best known medieval Muslim ruler in Europe, and he paradoxically enjoyed a very favorab
Known in the West as a "noble heathen," the great Muslim sultan Saladin led Muslim forces in the reconquest of the Crusader kingdoms and captured Jerusalem in 1187. This concise history traces Saladin
