Download or read book The Weapon Makers written by Alfred Elton Van Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Weapon Shops of Isher written by Alfred Elton Van Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gun Makers of Birmingham 1660 1960 written by Joseph McKenna and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history and development of gun-making in Birmingham, England--for many years a center of the world's firearms industry--this book covers innovations in design and manufacture of both military and sporting arms from 1660 through 1960. The city is perhaps best known for mass-producing some of the most battle-tested weapons in history, including the Brown Bess musket, the Webley revolver and the Lee-Enfield rifle. Yet Birmingham's gun-makers have carried on a centuries-long tradition of crafting high quality hand-made sporting guns.
Download or read book German Swords And Sword Makers written by Richard H. Bezdek and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German swordsmiths have always been famous for their production of high-quality swords, making the swords themselves highly sought by collectors. Equally important to the knowledgeable collector are the histories of the men who designed, manufactured and sold these prized weapons. German Swords and Sword Makers presents the most information ever published on German sword and edged weapon makers from the Middle Ages to the present. It includes photos and illustrations of swords from Prussia, Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Saxony and Austria; more than 300 illustrations of German sword maker blade marks spanning five centuries; rare sketches and photos of German sword makers and their factories; a listing of German sword makers who exported swords to Union and Confederate dealers during the American Civil War; identification of sword and edged-weapon suppliers to Nazi Germany; and much more.
Download or read book Use of Weapons written by Iain M. Banks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata
Download or read book The World of written by Alfred Elton Van Vogt and published by New York, Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1948 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contact has been made between other planets and Gilbert Gosseyn finds himself trying to stop a galactic war between Earth and Venus.
Download or read book The Art of the English Trade Gun in North America written by Nathan E. Bender and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition. The author explores the designs of 18th century English gunsmiths who engraved classical ornamental patterns on firearms gifted or traded to American Indians. A system of allegory is found that symbolized the Americas of the New World in general, and that enshrined the American Indian peoples as "noble savages." The same allegorical context was drawn upon for symbols of national liberty in the early American republic. Inadvertently, many of the symbolic designs used on the trade guns strongly resonated with several Native American spiritual traditions.
Download or read book The Brain Makers written by Harvey P. Newquist and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1994 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the individuals and companies that have sought to develop and market the technology known as Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Brain Makers traces the development of AI by looking at specific events throughout the history of the technology and covers all the recent advances in AI.
Download or read book Weapons of Math Destruction written by Cathy O'Neil and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 2016 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList.
Download or read book The Empire of Isher written by A. E. van Vogt and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2000-07-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maine Made Guns and Their Makers written by Dwight B. Demeritt and published by Tilbury House Distr. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long and rich history of Maine's firearm industry is a story of highly skilled Yankee gunsmiths, inventors, colorful characters, and entrepreneurs.
Download or read book The Weapon Makers written by Alfred Elton Van Vogt and published by New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks, 1979. c1952.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Earth was divided between two powers - the Empress Innelda's Imperial Isher Dynasty and the technologically superior Weapon Shops. But the precarious balance of power was upset when the Dynasty discovered interstellar travel - and interplanetary war seemed inevitable. Now the fate of the entire galaxy was in the hands of Captain Robert Hedrock, the Weapon Shops' peacemaker to the Imperial Court. But Hedrock had dangerous secrets of his own. He was a spy for the Weapon Shops - and an informant for the Dynasty - and he was hunted as a traitor by both sides!"--Back cover
Download or read book Empire of Guns written by Priya Satia and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
Download or read book Fine European Gunmakers written by Marco E. Nobili and published by Swan Hill Press. This book was released on 2001-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to life in words and pictures the finest sporting guns from continental Europe.
Download or read book The Voyage of the Space Beagle written by A. E. van Vogt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An episodic novel filled with surprises and provocative ideas, this is the story of a great exploration ship sent out into the unknown reaches of space on a long mission of discovery. They encounter several terrifying alien species, including the Ix, who lay their eggs in human bodies, which then devour the humans from within when they hatch. Reissue of a classic.
Download or read book Come and Take It written by Cody Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cody Wilson, a self-described crypto-anarchist and rogue thinker, combines the story of the production of the first ever 3D printable gun with a philosophical manifesto that gets to the heart of the twenty-first century debate over the freedom of information and ideas. Reminiscent of Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman, Cody Wilson has written a philosophical guide through the digital revolution. Deflecting interference from the State Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the story of Defense Distributed -- where Wilson's employees work against all odds to defend liberty and the right to access arms through the production of 3D printed firearms -- takes us across continents, into dusty warehouses and high rise condominiums, through television studios, to the Texas desert, and beyond.
Download or read book America s Premier Gunmakers written by K. D. Kirkland and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the guns of Remington -- from the first successful breech-loading rifle, the Double Derringer, the Remington 22, Civil War muzzleloaders, the 1905 Model 11 -- and many more.
