Traces the development of the firearm from the close of the Civil War to the beginning of its modern era. This volume discusses various important military & civilian firearms used in the settling of the West, as well as the guns favoured by Indians. It

Includes:: photographs that illustrate the weapons & the famous men & women who used them.

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Thai action feature set in the violent world of illegal underground basketball. Tai (Preeti Barameeanat) has recently been released from prison after his twin brother Tan (also Barameeanat) managed to secure his release in a deal that has left Tan fighting for his life & in a coma. When Tan's girlfriend Pang (Khanutra Chuchuaysuwan) tells Tai that his brother got involved in illegal basketball gambling in order to raise the funds to get Tai out of jail, Tai sets out to track down those who hospitalised Tan, joining the deadly Fireball championships himself & risking his life to avenge his twin. ...

It's the end of an intensely hot summer in Vancouver, & Razor's complex & misunderstood best friend Chris has just driven a stolen police car through a road block & over a cliff to his death. Fireball takes us back to the start of that relentless summer, & unravels the events leading to Chris's death. ...

Box set containing all 39 episodes of the black & white 1960s TV series following the interplanetary adventures of a spacecraft commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac & his crew: the eccentric maths genius Professor Matthew Matic, the beautiful space doctor Venus, & Robert the Robot. Episodes are: ' Planet 46', ' Hypnotic Sphere', ' Planet of Platonia', ' Space Magnet', ' The Doomed Planet', ' Plant Man From Space', ' The Sun Temple', ' Space Immigrants', ' Space Monster', ' Flying Zodiac', ' Spy in Space', 'XL5 to H20', ' Space Pirates', ' The Last of the Zanadus', ' Space Pen', ' Convict in Space', ' Wings of Danger', ' The Triads', ' Sabotage', ' Prisoner on the Lost Planet', ' Flight to Danger', ' Space Vacation', ' Mystery of the TA2', ' Robert to the Rescue', ' The Forbidden Planet', ' The Granatoid Tanks', ' Dangerous Cargo', '1875', ' The Robot Freighter Mystery', ' Drama at Space City', ' Whistle for Danger', ' Faster Than Light', ' The Day the Earth Froze', ' Invasion Earth', ' Ghosts of Space', ' Trial by Robot', 'A Day in the Life of a Space General', ' Space City Special' & ' The Fire Fighters'. ...

This book guarantees a grand tour of the 'fireball' mystery & covers all aspects of science to help the reader understand the wide range of natural objects & unexplained phenomena that can be seen so often in our skies. No scientific theory or hunch is left unexplored. ...

Llinos Savage becomes presumed owner of the Tawe Pottery at the age of 14. As she attempts to keep the business afloat on a shoe-string, her world becomes complicated by the two men in her life who, between them, come to represent everything she holds dear. ...

Double bill of Igor Stravinsky's early twentieth century ballets. In ' The Firebird' Kaschei is a terrible ogre who captures women & turns rescuing males into stone with just a look. Young Prince Ivan espies a beautiful firebird & follows it into Kaschei's garden. The bird flies away but he meets some 13 young maidens & promptly falls in love with one fo them, named Tsarevna. On returning to meet his lover he is captured by the ogre & his evil servants but waving a feather of the firebird calls her to rescue him before he is turned to stone. She tells him of a secret that might kill the seemingly immortal ogre & release the prisoners. Ivan sets to work forthwith, to end the evil creature's hold upon the l&. In ' Les Noces' (the Wedding) Stravinsky brings to life traditional Russian peasant life in a complex musical piece involving separated percussion groups coupled with distinct vocal groups. ...