No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series. Since her untimely death in 1998...

Building Construction Handbook is an authoritative reference for all students and professionals. It is full of detailed drawings that clearly illustrate the construction of building elements. The principles and processes of construction are explained...

Be an eyewitness to awesome and bloody weapons such as swords, knuckledusters, and pistols -- and the equipment used to deflect deadly slashes, blows, and bullets. See a ceremonial knife from Sudan. Find out how far a crossbow could fire an arrow. Di...

"I am always finding myself a stranger in other people's worlds," Hammond Innes once said. Living and working with a survey team in the Rockies, with whalers on a catcher, with railway construction gangs in the bleak heart of Labrador; riding with Ar...

What is the proper relationship between religion and prosperity? Rachelle M. Scott looks at this issue in a Thai Buddhist context, asking when the relationship between Buddhist piety and wealth is viewed in favorable terms and when it is viewed in te...

1. B.W. Aldiss: Człowiek ze swoim czasem (Man in His Time) 2. Poul Anderson: Eutopia (Eutopia) 3. Barrington Bayley: Rejs po promieniu (The Radius Rider) 4. John Brunner: Faktograf nr 6 (Factsheet 6) 5. Alan Dean Foster: Polacy to ludzie łagodni (Pol...