Guns of the Old West

Guns of the Old WestFirearms played an important role on the American frontier. Used to hunt animals for food and clothing, they also safeguarded ones home against outlaws and other hostile elements. This definitive, scrupulously researched work describes and illustrates the many different weapons that opened up and secured the American West. Enhanced with colorful anecdotes, the vividly detailed narrative tells the dramatic story of shoulder arms, hand guns, percussion

Kinematics of Plane Motion

1882 edition

and Asian culture will appreciate this beautiful book and its tribute to the elegance and refinement of Japanese art

belgian town

from colonial India to Misselthwaite Manor

The Red and the Black

nature drawing

stained oak panel work and exposed beams for an English cottage design

one of Native American history's most extraordinary documents

books on morphologies

late 19th century

This newly updated edition presents the basic techniques for analyzing one-dimensional two-phase flow and shows how they can be applied to a wide variety of practical problems