Ralph Taylor: Palms and Palmettos

Contains photographs of buildings designed by Louis Sullivan in his early professional years taken by late nineteenth century photographers J.W. Taylor, R. Cleveland, H. Fuermann and others. ...more

Imagine that it is the year 2033 and Las Vegas has long been buried beneath the sands of the Nevada desert. How did this happen? The secret, you find, is locked within an electronic scrapbook. This scrapbook, a hand-cranked slot machine, has been built piece by piece over the course ...more

The British Victory in Egypt, 1801 recounts and analyzes the story of the British expeditionary force which ejected Napoleon's crack troops from Egypt. Piers Mackesy demonstrates how critically the future of the British Empire depended on the dislodging of the Napoleonic force in the Middle East. The author's military background ...more