Author: James D. FormanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Blunderbuss
Author: James D. FormanThe Illustrated Encyclopedia of Small Arms
Author: Rupert MatthewsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626862729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
This comprehensive, fully illustrated reference volume covers the evolution of small arms from primitive spears to portable rocket launchers. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Small Arms details more than 1,000 weapons, complete with full-color photographs. Featuring arms from around the world and across history, this stunning guide highlights the intricacies that make each variety unique, tying in historical anecdotes as well as the history of certain brands. Revealing fascinating insights and historical episodes—such as the inspiration for Samuel L. Colt’s revolvers, or the lozenge-case gun used by Italian spies during World War II—this is an ideal resource for historians as well as fire arms enthusiasts. The volume is lushly illustrated with detailed photographs, many of which are published here for the first time.
Blunderbusses
Author: D. R. BaxterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780853680475
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Blunderbuss Wanderlust
Author: David R. ShapiroPublisher: Craigmore Creations
ISBN: 9780984442201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Through seventeen sonnets, relates Colonel Victor Von Vector's observations as he journeys from his own Edwardian time throughout Earth's history, using a blunderbuss gun which sends him 600 million years with each shot.
A. E. Brooks's Collection of Antique Guns, Pistols, Etc..
Author: A. E. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
Author: Bryan A. GarnerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195142365
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.
The Rudolph J. Nunnemacher Collection of Projectile Arms
Author: Rudolph J. Nunnemacher Collection of Projectile ArmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A War of Words in the Discourse of Trade
Author: Philip EubanksPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323340
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Trade as War is the case study of a conceptual metaphor--one that underlies specific and expressed metaphors--that Eubanks (English, Northern Illinois U.) uses to argue that the conceptual metaphor view, combined with an understanding of metaphor as rhetorically constituted, makes obsolete almost all the assumptions that have previously guided metaphor study, from handbooks of advice to cognitive science. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry
Author: Chuck WillsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1607109840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 845
Book Description
A complete look at weapons—from the Stone Age and Bronze Age to present day—from spears and swords to handguns and automatic weapons. When did hunting weapons begin to be used against humans instead of animals? What is the difference between the Plains Indian War Club and the Fijian War Club? What weapon is common to peoples in every part of the world? The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry is a comprehensive guide to arms and armaments throughout history. Beginning in the Stone Age, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry travels through the Bronze Age to our present day, showing the tools humans have used to defend themselves all around the globe. There’s the Japanese tanto, or dagger, which have become identified with gangs known as yakuza. There’s the flaming arrow used when Swiss and Austrian forces clashed in the 14th century. And there’s the revolver that Samuel Colt made practical for both military and civilian use in Hartford, Connecticut. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry will help readers better understand how—and why—the battles of history were fought.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law
Author: John Cole LowberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description