The destruction of Atlantis was accomplished by a series of catastrophes varying in character from great cataclysms in which whole territories and populations perished, to comparatively unimportant landslips such as occur on our own coasts ...

In this groundbreaking edition, Gavin Alexander presents a text of The Model of Poesy framed by a detailed introduction and an extensive commentary, which together demonstrate the range and value of Scott's thought.

This is the expanded notes of a course intended to introduce students specializing in mathematics to some of the central ideas of traditional economics.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Contains 150 concise biographies of men and women whose achievements made a permanent impression on the nation's history.