Mazes have been a part of civilization for at least 4,000 years, and there are more being built now than ever before. What is it about these magical life-size puzzles that continues to intrigue us? The idea of the maze taps into so many subconscious notions: the game, the quest, the spiritual journe[...]

They say you can't judge a book by its cover--but its title can tell you more than you ever needed to know Amazing, illuminating, and gut-bustingly funny, Bizarre Books is the wonderfully twisted product of more than two decades of determined searching in forgotten corners of out-of-the-way librarie[...]

Join the fun as Bart meets his double-crossing doppelganger, Homer proves there is cause to be alarmed at the nuclear power plant, Moe and the barflies invent a popular beer-flavored donut, the whole family makes itself busy as bees while trying to make money in the honey business, and Bartman faces[...]

The Simpsons bring big laughs in a colossal compendium that's too big to fail Discover the reason why Homer Simpson seems to have a new job every week. Then, power mad powerbroker Mr. Burns makes a power grab with his newest power-propelled product. And Marge is back on "the beat" when she teams up [...]

From one of the most respected marine how-to authors on either side of the Atlantic, Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook is an indispensable resource for experienced and beginning cruisers alike. With the help of more than 750 drawings and photographs, Nigel Calder addresses the concerns of both coasta[...]

A compendium of the representative papers from a group of Elsevier's structural engineering journals, including: "Journal of Constructional Steel Research"; "Thin Walled Structures"; "Engineering Structures"; "Computers and Structures"; "Construction and Building Materials"; and, "Journal of Wind En[...]

For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes a kind of Schott s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age
An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist from th[...]

Towards the end of his life, St. Thomas Aquinas produced a brief, non-technical work summarizing some of the main points of his massive Summa Theologiae. This 'compendium' was intended as an introductory handbook for students and scholars who might not have access to the larger work. It remains the [...]

Visual illusions cut across academic divides and popular interests: on the one hand, illusions provide entertainment as curious tricks of the eye; on the other hand, scientific research related to illusory phenomena has given generations of scientists and artists deep insights into the brain and pri[...]