Frank Carlson Library

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and Richard Clague's tonalist Louisiana bayou scenes. This comprehensive volume shows how, through the decades and centuries, the art of the South expanded...

Addresses the challenges, heartbreaks and achievements of the many groups who settled the West, and explores the consequences suffered by the Native Americans and the land itself as a result of this migration.

Le Dictionnaire de la Philosophie d'Encyclopaedia Universalis dresse un vaste panorama des thèmes et questions propres à la philosophie, de la lointaine Antiquité aux questionnements actuels. Les grands courants de la philosophie, les débats qui la traversent, les concepts qu'elle élabore sont la matière vivante de quelque 280 articles écrits par les meilleurs spécialistes. Au fil des textes, c'est le laboratoire des philosophes qui se découvre....

Extrait : "Nous renonçons, malgré nos incursions nombreuses à travers les textes tauromachiques, à fixer d'une façon absolue l'origine précise des courses de taureaux en Espagne. Parmi les nombreux auteurs qui ont traité cet intéressant sujet, en est-il deux, d'ailleurs, qui aient assigné la même date initiale à ces fêtes héroïques? L'un affirme très sérieusement que les cavaliers d'Asdrubal montés sur leurs chevaux numides couraient...

Professor Hans Holzer, an expert in paranormal activity and parapsychology, explains the distinction between true ghosts and spirit visits, with examples from some of the most famous cases of ghosts that aren't" According to Hans Holzer, only perhaps ten percent of all ghostly manifestations are true ghosts. The rest maybe impressions left behind by an emotional event in the past, which can be felt or seen by a sensitive person in the living world....

How much do we know about the things in life we often take for granted? Why is there a Best Man at a Wedding? What is the oldest Creature on earth that predates the dinosaurs? What is the origin of the Handshake? Everywhere we go there are so many things we give our passing attention to but if we allow ourselves to be more inquisitive, like opening an oyster, sometimes, we can find a hidden pearl of knowledge or insight that absolutely lifts and fascinates...

The Encyclopedia of Aerodynamics was written for pilots at all levels from private pilot to airline pilot, military pilots and students of aerodynamics as a complete reference manual to aerodynamic terminology. General aerodynamic text books for pilots are relatively limited in their scope while aerodynamic text books for engineering students involve complex calculus. The references in this book, The Encyclopedia of Aerodynamics, are clearly described...

Fédéralisme, monarchie constitutionnelle et parlementarisme de type britannique, tels sont les caractères essentiels du régime politique canadien. Bien que les traditions anglaises, les coutumes françaises et le mode de vie américain aient profondément marqué le pays, des facteurs géographiques, économiques et sociaux ont néanmoins conféré un style...

3500 photographs. Over 380 genera. More than 3700 species and cultivars. Dirr's Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs is the most comprehensive visual reference to more than 3700 species and cultivars. From majestic evergreens to delicate vines and flowering shrubs, Dirr features thousands of plants and all the essential details for identification, planting, and care. Color photographs show each tree's habit in winter, distinctive bark patterns, fall...

Le Dictionnaire des Musiques réunit plus de six cents articles empruntés au fonds de l'Encyclopaedia Universalis et aborde tous les aspects de la musique: les formes et les genres (sonate, rhapsodie, valse, madrigal...), l'écriture et la théorie (gamme, arrangement, tempérament, rubato...), les voix et l'art lyrique (baryton, contre-ténor, bel canto, Covent Garden, Scala de Milan...), les traditions musicales (Afrique noire, Moyen-Orient, Asie...