Whitaker’s Little Book of Knowledge [PDF ebook] 

Taken in conjunction the author’s earlier Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century, this classic volume provides a thoroughly workmanlike study of the rise …

The Reader”s Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography …

This book is for programmers, graphic artists, writers, video producers, audio engineers, network managers, hardware technicians, and telecommunications professionals who embrace the complex world of …

This text brings together topical contributions from figures in the field of games and simulations, representing the current international thinking and best practice. …

This collection of classic works, originally published under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society, includes an introduction by Professor Edmund Bosworth, and a preface by Professor Anthony Stock …

The philosophy of Buddhism, originating in India, has undergone considerable changes in its adoption in the Far East. It has, in Japan, assumed a more practical aspect, and has come to play an import …

The only available historical dictionary devoted exclusively to the 1940s, this book offers readers a ready-reference portrait of one of the twentieth century”s most tumultuous decades. In nearly 60 …

This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947. It also provides background information to Tibet”s claims to independence, an issue of current importan …

First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical intro …

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays.  It deals with the history of techn …