As any Internet surfer knows, a keyword search via Google or Yahoo doesn’t always yield the desired results. A new book co-authored by a University of Missouri-Rolla computer scientist outlines a method of dealing with Internet data that would improve and simplify web searches.

Traditional views of 17th century English planters in Barbados paint them as reckless fortune-seekers who failed to create a viable society in the tropics. But University of Missouri-Rolla historian Dr. Larry Gragg challenges that widely accepted view in his new book, Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados 1627-1660. The book will be published this […]

Striking similarities in the philosophical views of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson and French writer Victor Hugo are examined in a new book by a University of Missouri-Rolla lecturer. The book examines a connection that had previously gone unnoticed in literary criticism.