The definitive visual guide to the history of firearms & guns The Illustrated History of Firearms charts the evolution & history of the gun from the pistol flintlock musket & rifle to the shotgun machine gun & revolver This book features over 300 firearms & guns spanning centuries of development with the world's most iconic gun brands such as Colt Smith & Wesson Maxim & the Kalashnikov AK-47 covered with amazing photographic features You can appreciate the incredible engineering behind guns through stunning visuals with close-up details of key weapons from the intricate inlaid shotgun to the modern army sniper rifle tracing the history of the gun from army flintlocks to modern day military guns If you are interested in military history & the history of weapons The Illustrated History of Firearms is ideal for you ...

Welcome to Fireball Island! You may have heard stories You may have visited when you were younger Perhaps you even saw a fireball engulf a fellow traveler in a hellscape of horror that makes you afraid to close your eyes at night Whatever the case welcome back! Turns out that Vul-Kar didn&t like having his gem stolen way back when so there has been some volcanic upheaval an explosion in our snake population feral tigers new types of trees bent on ending human life & swarms of bees everywhere But don&t worry — we have top people working on it Start your day of adventure at the helipad Be sure to sign the waiver which legally obligates you to take snapshots across the island You&ll race down the many paths avoiding hazards all the while On the plus side you get to keep all the treasure you find Fireball Island The Curse of Vul-Kar is a restoration of the classic 1986 game Fireball Island that features a unique 3D island & a host of marble mayhem This new version boasts an island that is even bigger than the original (and yet fits in a smaller box) & more marbles It is a family-weight game for 2-4 players (5 with an expansion) that plays in 30-45 minutes Simple card play replaces the random roll-&-move of the original & the set collection for the treasures offers some interesting choices for players Remember you don&t have to outrun the fireball — just the other players ...

The last adventurer has been stranded on Fireball Island a long time He knows every cave every path every snake hole fire pit & bug He has a thing or two to teach the rookies The Last Adventurer figure to increase player count to 5! The Last Adventurer expansion pack
Includes: New souvenirs! Player powers so that all players can survive more easily on the island! Snakes (small marbles) that sleep on the rocks & attack the unaware!A giant boulder that will crash down the island knocking over all in its path!
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Blast off into the farthest reaches of space in Fireball XL5! In the future mankind has at last made it&s giant leap beyond the bonds of Earth Under the supervision of the World Space Patrol the galaxy & all it&s wonders are finally being explored by a fleet of spaceships unlike anything we have had before Under the command of the rugged Colonel Steve Zodiac the fleet&s flagship Fireball XL5 investigates the deepest corners of Galactic Sector 25 in search of faraway planets alien life & adventure Another distinctive creation from the mind of producer Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds Stingray Captain Scarlet) Fireball XL5 debuted in 1962 & soon became a favorite of young viewers with one eye aimed at the television & the other on the rapidly growing Space Race Anderson&s famous SUPERMARIONATION technique is of course on full display here offering it&s unique look & style to the adventures of Colonel Zodiac & his crew All thirty-nine fantastic tales from Fireball XL5
- in glorious black & white
- are presented here in an out of this world box set

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Powerful scions walk the streets of modern London oblivious to their true nature Unknowingly they carry within them the spirits of reincarnated dragons from an age of high fantasy As magic begins to emerge once more in the 21st century long-dormant memories begin to flood the minds of these scions reminding them of their mystical heritage Welcome to the world of Fireborn! Ethan Gallows knows things about his world He knows there is magic & he knows he wants nothing to do with it Yet when he is sent on the seemingly menial job of filming a museum curator&s antique art collection in London Ethan discovers that he has much more to learn After witnessing a violent display of sorcery ancient memories come rushing back to Ethan
- memories seen through the eyes of a dragon! With minions of the Taint now seeking him for their own twisted purposes Ethan must put his trust in Sojourner
- a woman claiming to be a draconic scion Could he really be a dragon of old or is this some sort of fanatic conspiracy? Embers of Atlantis is the first novel based on the acclaimed Fireborn roleplaying game setting Written by New York Times bestselling author Tracy Hickman (Dragonlance) Embers of Atlantis introduces readers to a modern world faced with the sudden emergence of magic

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When a popular politician survives what should have been a fatal assassination attempt MI5 agent Scott Baker begins to suspect a terrifying truth Something is taking control of London’s most influential leaders & that shocking discovery has thrust Baker into a fight for his life Now branded a fugitive & hunted by his one-time colleagues this ex-intelligence agent must seek help from unlikely allies as he attempts to learn how deep the conspiracy goes What mystical force is behind this apparent takeover? How does it relate to Baker’s increasingly disturbing visions? The answers could determine the fate of the world! ...

A volcano goddess named Keegan is loose in the world & the prophecies are unclear whether her coming will bring humanity’s destruction or salvation In the shadow of the sacred volcano from which Keegan derives her powers lies the ancient city of Azar Promising to hold the key the mysteries of her past Keegan & her rag-tag army of devotees must get to Azar before it is overrun by a horde of forest monsters Meanwhile The nefarious Cult of the Goddess has plans to summon forces as old as time to extinguish Keegan’s flame permanently From the 1 New York Times Best-Selling cartoonist JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS (Angel Catbird SHELTERED) & superstar colorist TAMRA BONVILLAIN (Doom Patrol Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur) comes a fiery tale you’re not soon to forget! Collecting the saga that was started in ISLAND Magazine with all-new material ...

Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight & Echopraxia February 13 2082 First Contact Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere
- a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn Not even ashes reach the ground Three hundred & sixty degrees of global surveillance something just took a snapshot & then nothing But from deep space whispers Something out there talks
- but not to us Two ships Theseus & the Crown of Thorns are launched to discover the origin of Earth's visitation one bound for the outer dark of the Kuiper Belt the other for the heart of the Solar System Their crews can barely be called human what they will face certainly can't 'A tour de force redefining the First Contact story for good' Charles Stross ' If you only read one science fiction novel this year make it this one! It puts the whole of the rest of the genre in the shade It deserves to walk away with the Clarke the Hugo the Nebula the BSFA & pretty much any other genre award for which it's eligible It's off the scale Fking awesome!' Richard Morgan ' State-of-the-art science fiction smart dark & it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Ascher

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They told David it was impossible
- that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic Yet Steelheart
- invincible immortal

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