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• Discusses the union between early astrology and astronomy, in contrast to the modern dichotomy between science and superstition.
• Explains the ancient understanding of the zodiac and its twelve signs, the seven planets, and the fixed circle of 'places' against which the signs and planets revolve.
• Demonstrates how to construct and interpret a horoscope in the ancient manner, using...

• Discusses the union between early astrology and astronomy, in contrast to the modern dichotomy between science and superstition.
• Explains the ancient understanding of the zodiac and its twelve signs, the seven planets, and the fixed circle of 'places' against which the signs and planets revolve.
• Demonstrates how to construct and interpret a horoscope in the ancient manner, using...

A newly revised and thoroughly updated version of a popular Greenwood publication, "The History of South Africa: Second Edition" provides readers with readable, accessible information on the nation's prehistory, early history and colonial past, its unfortunate apartheid era, as well as new coverage of South Africa's more recent events in the 20th and 21st centuries. This work presents unique, extended coverage of South Africa's prehistory, beginning 3.5 million years ago and incorporating information gleaned from the most recent archaeological finds. The text reflects the most current...

Aircraft Control Allocation

Wayne Durham, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Kenneth A. Bordignon, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, USA

Roger Beck, Dynamic Concepts, Inc., USA

An authoritative work on aircraft control allocation by its pioneers

Aircraft Control Allocation addresses the problem of allocating supposed redundant flight controls. It provides introductory material on flight dynamics and control to provide the context, and then describes in detail the...

Representation of myth in the novel, as a poetic, narrative and aesthetic device, is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient religion, for such narratives investigate in various ways fundamental problems that concern all human beings. This volume brings together twenty contributions (six of them to a Roundtable organized by Anton Bierl on myth), originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient novel (ICAN IV) held in Lisbon in July 2008. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and putting together different methodological tools (intertextual,...