The hydraulic forging press is becoming increasingly important to the any blacksmith shop. This relatively small machine, which is often hand made, allows smiths to do many of the same operations as a power hammer while adding more control and expanding what one can do with hot metal. Over forty years ago a spark ignited Randy McDaniel's passion ......
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the ability and pluck to face fear and move on.
Great American Wartime Survival Stories is an extraordinary collection of stories presenting indefatigable human beings caught in circumstances that summoned extraordinary resilience and strength: a plane crash in the jungles of ......
153 Amazing & Inexpensive Tips For Extremely Lightweight Camping
Short, to the point, and humorously illustrated by famed outdoor illustrator Mike Clelland, this book presents everything hikers and backpackers need to be safe, comfortable, and well-fed while carrying a very small and lightweight pack.
As William Faulkner has so eloquently written, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." In this collection, hunting stories by distinguished writers bring to printed pages the days afield they enjoyed in world-wide locations in days long past. Prose vivid and timeless captures the drama and emotions experienced in hunts for deer, as well as ......
Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level--a world of tiny dimensions where nothing is absolutely predictable, where we rethink causality, and information seemingly travels faster than light. The author, a ......
A Hollywood Editor's Behind-the-Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies
Cut to the Monkey is the story of a filmmaker's journey through Hollywood-revealing all the secrets behind how the experts find the funny in any project-by a filmmaker who has worked with some of the funniest people in the business and has edited Emmy-nominated episodes from series such as VEEP, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Who Is America?
25 Buddhist Practices to Transform Your Connections with Your Partner, Family, and Friends
Happy relationships are possible-for everyone. Even if you've been married for twenty years and your routine is boring and stressful; although your mom has always been a help-resistant complainer; and despite the fact that your dearest friend moved across the country - all of us can create lasting and joyful connections with the people we care ......
A Frontline Story of the Miraculous Evacuation of France in World War II
In the spring of 1940, the Germans invaded France, and the British army crossed the English Channel to fight alongside its ally. But the blitzkrieg quickly punched through French defenses and threatened to cut off and trap the British in France--until the British managed to escape at Dunkirk. The dashing Henry de la Falaise, a French marquis, ......
