Follows the progression of knives from traditional pocketknives to custom bowies, autos, dirks, daggers & fast-opening, one-hand folders. This book documents the transition from carbon steel blades to damascus & from bone or stag handles to ancient ivory, pearl, titanium, & such exotics as giraffe bone & walrus tusk. ...

Knives were vital to medieval man for a whole range of uses, from the domestic to the wider social context. This book catalogues, discusses & illustrates over five hundred knives, scabbards, shears & scissors dating from the mid-12th to the mid-15th centuries & found in the City of London, particularly along the waterfront sites. ...

In 1879, local people reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary & other supernatural personages at Knock, a poor rural village in western Irel&. This title shows how the apparition was related to the local social context including economic, cultural, religious, political & historical

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Action thriller from ' Pulp Fiction' producer Lawrence Bender. When you're in the mob, there's no room for mistakes or feelings. Matty (Barry Pepper) finds this out the hard way when his crew loses a bag of cash in a remote town in the midwest while trying to live up to his mob boss father's (Dennis Hopper) aspirations. When Matty's friend Marbles (Seth Green) fails to retrieve the money, his best friend Taylor (Vin Diesel) hatches a plan to get it back. ...

It's the classic law of the invader. Get to the strongest guy & smash him, & then watch the weaker ones fall like ninepins. Which is exactly what a vicious gang of horse dealers decides to do when their little kickback scam is being threatened with a spot of old-fashioned honesty. But they haven't reckoned with bloodstock agent Jonah Dereham. ...