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Book A Muramasa Blade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louis Wertheimber
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1887
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book A Muramasa Blade written by Louis Wertheimber and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Muramasa

    Book Details:
  • Author : BradyGames
  • Publisher : Bradygames
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780744011593
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Muramasa written by BradyGames and published by Bradygames. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BradyGames’ Muramasa: The Demon BladeOfficial Strategy Guideincludes the following: A complete walkthrough of each beautiful environment. AREA MAPS: In-depth area maps detail key locations throughout each different landscape BESTIARY: Complete bestiary of every creature encountered – from dragons to demons, this guide has it all! BOSS STRATEGIES: Expert boss tactics to conquer even the toughest foe Game secrets uncovered! Platform: Wii Genre: Action/Adventure

Book X Of Swords

Download or read book X Of Swords written by Benjamin Percy and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects X of Swords: Creation (2020) #1, X of Swords: Stasis (2020) #1, X of Swords: Destruction (2020) #1, X-Men (2019) #12-15, Excalibur (2019) #13-15, Marauders (2019) #13-15, X-Force (2019) #13-14, New Mutants (2019) #13, Wolverine (2020) #6-7, Cable (2020) #5-6, Hellions (2020) #5-6, X-Factor (2020) #4. A tower. A mission. A gathering of armies. Swords will be drawn in the first epic crossover of the astonishing Dawn of X! Wolverine, the X-Men, Cable, X-Force, Excalibur, X-Factor, the New Mutants, the Marauders, the Hellions and the rest of Krakoa’s residents will all feel the effects — but which ten mutants will wield the blades? Weapons both new and familiar are drawn from their scabbards as the X-Men prepare to do mythic battle against a truly daunting foe! Jonathan Hickman and his fellow visionary creators — who have painstakingly put all the pieces into place during Dawn of X — join forces to smash the board!

Book Wolverine

Download or read book Wolverine written by Chris Claremont and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely considered to be one of the best comic book story arcs ever created, Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's 'Wolverine' defined the character for the modern age of comics. As the inspiration for the adamantium-enhanced heroes latest blockbuster movie, this classic volume is an essential companion-piece for 'Wolverine' fans old and new.

Book A Glossary of the Construction  Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor

Download or read book A Glossary of the Construction Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor written by George Cameron Stone and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIndispensable resource employs alphabetized, easy-to-use format. Arquebuses, flintlocks, and other antique guns appear here, along with German armor, Roman short swords, Turkish crossbows, much more. Over 4,500 individual photos and drawings, 875 detailed figures. /div

Book Legends and Stories around the Japanese Sword 2

Download or read book Legends and Stories around the Japanese Sword 2 written by Markus Sesko and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is now the second volume of my book ,,Legends and Stories around the Japanese Sword". Once more I try to bring the reader closer to the Japanese sword and dig deeper into the matter by the means of legends, stories and anecdotes about famous swords and their swordsmiths. Like in the first volume, I introduce several famous meito or meibutsu, for example the Kogarasu-maru, Yoshimoto-Samonji, Takemata-Kanemitsu, Kuronbogiri-Kagehide, Tsurumaru-Kuninaga and many more. And the stories deal among other things with the greatest swordsmiths in Japanese history like Masamune, Muramasa, Samonji, Kiyomaro and Kotetsu, to name only a few.

Book Secrets of the Samurai

Download or read book Secrets of the Samurai written by Oscar Ratti and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of the Samurai is the definitive study of the martial arts of feudal Japan, explaining in detail the weapons, techniques, strategies, and principles of combat that made the Japanese warrior a formidable foe. The work begins with a panoramic survey of the tumultuous early struggles of warlords contending for political ascendancy and then outlines the relentless progression of the military class toward absolute power. In addition to illustrating actual methods of combat, the authors discuss in detail the crucial training necessary to develop a warrior's inner power and to concentrate all his energies into a single force. Secrets of the Samurai is an essential text for anyone with an interest in Japanese combat techniques, weaponry, or military history. This edition also contains a new foreword by Adele Westbrook and numerous previously unpublished illustrations by Oscar Ratti. Chapters include: The Bushi The Heimin The Centers of Martial Instruction Armed Bujutsu Unarmed Bujutsu Control and Power Strategic Principles Morality of Bujutsu

Book All New Wolverine Vol  1

Download or read book All New Wolverine Vol 1 written by Tom Taylor and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now SHE'S the best there is! X-23 was created to be a weapon and, for a time, that's all she was. But with the help of her mentor, Logan - the original Wolverine -she escaped that dark past. Now the man she knew has fallen, but Laura will honor his memory as the All-New Wolverine. But with the famous cowl comes a world of misery and mystery...like the devastating secret of the Four Sisters. Uncovering it will involve new friends Dr. Strange and the Wasp, and lethal new enemies like the Taskmaster! But after recent events, Laura is growing used to doing everything in her power to save those around her from forces hell-bent on destruction. If anyone can stop them, it's Laura. After all, it's what Wolverine does. COLLECTING: ALL-NEW WOLVERINE 1-6.

Book Muramasa

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Van Dyke Stewart
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-06-17
  • ISBN : 9781973896180
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Muramasa written by David Van Dyke Stewart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cursed blade; a legendary tale... At the bidding of his lord, master swordsman Taoka Yoshio follows the bloody trail of a murderer who is seemingly empowered by sorcery. As samurai, Yoshio acts as retainer to the beautiful and enigmatic Amaya, the daughter of his sworn liege, on their quest. Amaya, however, has ambitions and plans that are quite different from the tasks appointed by her father. Along their way, they meet and befriend a legendary swordsmith, with whose help they begin to uncover the terrifying truth of the mysterious killer and his demonic blade. As they all become entangled in the webs of the Ashikaga shogunate's schemes, they must each face the hard truths of their pasts to survive their trials and defeat evil. Danger, intrigue, bloody revenge, and demons await Yoshio, is he strong enough to survive?

Book The 47th Samurai

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Hunter
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0743238095
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The 47th Samurai written by Stephen Hunter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thriller.

Book The Connoisseur s Book of Japanese Swords

Download or read book The Connoisseur s Book of Japanese Swords written by Kōkan Nagayama and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connoisseur's Book Japanese Swords is a Kodansha International publication.

Book The 47th Samurai

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Hunter
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-09-11
  • ISBN : 1416571922
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The 47th Samurai written by Stephen Hunter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The 47th Samurai, Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter's bestselling novels Point of Impact and Time to Hunt, returns in this intense and exotic thriller. Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived. More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano's quest. Bob Lee finds the sword and delivers it to Yano in Tokyo. On inspection, they discover that it is not a standard WWII blade, but a legendary shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the nation. It is priceless but worth killing for. Suddenly Bob is at the center of a series of terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge. And to do so, he throws himself into the world of the samurai, Tokyo's dark, criminal yakuza underworld, and the unwritten rules of Japanese culture. Swagger's allies, hard-as-nails, American-born Susan Okada and the brave, cocaine-dealing tabloid journalist Nick Yamamoto, help him move through this strange, glittering, and ominous world from the shady bosses of the seamy Kabukicho district to officials in the highest echelons of the Japanese government, but in the end, he is on his own and will succeed only if he can learn that to survive samurai, you must become samurai. As the plot races and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that a ruthless conspiracy is in place, and the only thing that can be taken for granted is that money, power, and sex can drive men of all nationalities to gruesome extremes. If Swagger hopes to stop them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill.

Book The Book of Bushido

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antony Cummins
  • Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
  • Release : 2022-02-08
  • ISBN : 1786786192
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book The Book of Bushido written by Antony Cummins and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed exploration of medieval Japan and the samurai is a must-have for anyone with a love of martial arts or Japanese history This is the go-to volume on bushido ("the way of the warrior"), drawing on a wide range of historical sources to paint a vivid picture of the samurai in action and separating the truth from the myth of samurai chivalry. It offers a long-overdue update to the attractive but inaccurate portrait of the samurai painted in Bushido: The Soul of Japan, which has been a bestseller ever since its publication in 1905, and the equally idealistic Hagakure (c.1716). In The Book of Bushido, Antony explores the reality of warrior behavior versus the idealistic depiction created for an Edwardian audience by the author of Bushido: The Soul of Japan. He reveals the truth of how the samurai really behaved and of what they considered to be a warrior ethos. He replaces the image of the perfect eastern warrior with the much more interesting reality of hardened, bloodstained military leaders with human failings and a complex set of ideas about the world, who engage in ritual, magic and ceremony, who lead their followers in war and peace and who, above all, are fighting a battle between addiction to power and morality. This is the story of bushido – the way of the samurai.

Book The Way of the Samurai

Download or read book The Way of the Samurai written by Inazo Nitobe and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge impact both in the West and in Japan itself. Drawing on Japanese traditions such as Shinto and Buddhism, and citing parallels with Western philosophy and literature, Nitobe's text is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the culture and morals of Japan.

Book Wolverine Goes to Hell Omnibus

Download or read book Wolverine Goes to Hell Omnibus written by and published by Marvel. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Aaron puts Wolverine through Hell -literally! A mysterious organization conspires to possess Wolverine's body with demons, and send his soul to the underworld! Waiting for Logan are the souls of unexpected family and friends - and the Devil himself! Naturally, Wolverine plans to claw his way back out and have his revenge...but that might be exactly what the shadowy group wants! Will the final twist in their plan shatter Wolverine completely? Plus: Wolverine and Spider-Man must survive a trip through time without killing one another, Wolverine faces down Cyclops in a schism over the future of the X-Men, and Logan returns to Japan to prevent an underworld takeover by his oldest foe! COLLECTING: ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN & WOLVERINE 1-6; WOLVERINE (2010) 1-20, 5.1, 300-304; X-MEN: SCHISM 1-5; MATERIAL FROM WOLVERINE: ROAD TO HELL

Book The Book of Skulls

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Silverberg
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2018-05-08
  • ISBN : 1504051351
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book The Book of Skulls written by Robert Silverberg and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far will four friends go for immortality? This novel is Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author “Robert Silverberg at his very best” (George R. R. Martin). After Eli, a scholarly college student, finds and translates an ancient manuscript called The Book of Skulls, he and his friends embark on a cross-country trip to Arizona in search of a legendary monastery where they hope to find the secret of immortality. On the journey with Eli, there’s Timothy, an upper-class WASP with a trust fund and a solid sense of entitlement; Ned, a cynical poet and alienated gay man; and Oliver, a Kansas farm boy who escaped his rural origins and now wants to escape death. If they can find the House of Skulls where immortal monks allegedly reside, they’ll undergo a rigorous initiation. But do those eight grinning skulls mean the joke will be on them? For a sacrifice will be required. Two must die so that two may live forever . . . Stretching the boundary between science fiction and horror, Robert Silverberg masterfully probes deeper existential questions of morality, brotherhood, and self-determined destiny in what Harlan Ellison refers to as “one of my favorite nightmare novels.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Book Secret Invasion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Cornell
  • Publisher : Marvel Comics Group
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780785133445
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Secret Invasion written by Paul Cornell and published by Marvel Comics Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The shape-shifting aliens' mysterious goal in England could turn the tide of battle worldwide, but the emergence of the fabled sword Excalibur - once again locked in stone - may lead to salvation. But who can claim the mythic weapon? Pete Wisdom? Spitfire? John the Skrull? The Black Knight? It's science fiction vs. fantasy as the war machines of the unstoppable Skrull army invade the magical realm of Avalon. Can Pete Wisdom and the rest of MI13 keep the Skrulls from taking control of the world's magic?"--Publisher description.