Written by a technical expert who has fired many of the guns featured, this book includes wide and varied assemblage of weapons from each of the world's major manufacturing countries. The Illustrated Directory series provide readers with a fully illustrated, comprehensive reference book packed with timelines, historical facts, and images designed to inform and excite. At 512 pages packed with information and photographs, this book is a necessary addition...

Explains what fighter pilots have to undergo, in training, on a daring mission, at sea, or escaping from a burning airplane.

Compares people to animals in a lighthearted way.

First published in 1962, David E. Miller's award-winning work on the Hole-in-the-Rock episode was arguably his greatest achievement as a historian. One of the great set-pieces of Mormon history, the San Juan Mission had become clouded by myth and hagiography when Miller first became attracted to its study in the 1950s, and few reliable sources were at that time available. Not content with exhausting archival material, Miller contacted all locatable...

"Tastes in beer have changed as Americans have come to know and love the robust flavors of international beers. And connoisseurs agree that quality beers can be brewed right at home-a hobby that can quickly become a passion. With THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF HOME BREWING the beginner or veteran can learn to brew a range of fine lager beers and ales-from the Trappist ales of Belguim and the stouts and portes of Ireland and Great Britain, to the pilsners...

In 1935, David Miller began to gather the stories of 72 elderly Native American participants in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This work is the result of his exhaustive, 22-year research--a superb oral history told from the perspective of the the warriors who won the battle, but lost the war.

A child relates a long list of things he would do before he'd say boo to a goose.