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With a world still recovering from a global war, the Samaya have prevailed and hunt the last remnants of magically adept Enlightened to extinction. Petty kingdoms, dictators, and bandit lords rise from the ashes and huge dead-zones are the new frontier for the rekindled and expanding populace. This is the Gun Kingdoms, a time of six-shooters, forbidden magic, and relics that remain from a forgotten age of war.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
The first of a three-volume series, this book is aimed at young readers interested in guns and shooting but who have no background in firearms and don’t know where to begin. Thoroughly illustrated with drawings and photos, it defines firearms terms, provides hands-on advice about using and maintaining guns, and explains aspects of shooting ranging from historic target matches to military sniping. Through example and anecdote, the book emphasizes safety and proper usage, and everything is presented in easily managed portions that can be read in series or singly—backed up with an index and suggestions for further reading.
The author, a New York Times reporter, traces the invention and mass distribution of the AK-47 assault rifle, and its effects on war. He traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through World War I and Vietnam, to present-day Afghanistan, where Kalashnikovs and their knockoffs number as many as 100 million, one for every seventy persons on earth. It is the weapon of state repression, as well as revolution, civil war, genocide, drug wars, and religious wars; and it is the arms of terrorists, guerrillas, boy soldiers, and thugs. From its inception to its use by more than fifty national armies around the world, to its role in modern-day Afghanistan, he discusses how the deadly weapon has helped alter world history.
This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is “reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird . . . Absorbing” (The New York Times). In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town’s new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage—and is subsequently murdered—suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town’s accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done. “Set in northern Vermont in 1952, Mosher’s tale of racism and murder is powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance . . . [A] big, old-fashioned novel.” —Publishers Weekly “A real mystery in the best and truest sense.”—Lee Smith, The New York Times Book Review A Winner of the New England Book Award
Join Silvanus Scathe, Abel Vykter, Willen Hartt, and Redina Tuserve on a journey that will take you beyond belief. With the persecution of Christians coming down hard and heavy, God's people are forced to take refuge in an underground church known as the City On A Hill. From this place hidden in plain sight, a minister is sent to locate and guide three children back to its safety. In the adventures that follow, they are met with many trials and learn that they are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ. www.kingdomcometheseries.com
GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT THE MARSHAL OF KINGDOM A Gunsmith Giant Edition ALL THE MARSHAL'S MEN As the marshal of a town called Kingdom, Sam Lance had a good life. Until he and his new bride found themselves suddenly caught between two gunmen. A few shots fired and Lance was the only one standing. Now, five years later, Clint Adams finds the ex-marshal in Denver. He's still blaming himself for his wife's death and still nursing his wounds—by nursing a bottle. It's time to get Lance back on his feet—with a helping hand from a pretty little lass named Daphne and the Gunsmith, of course. First they get him clean; then, sober. But the best wake-up call is on its way . . . The brothers of the men Lance killed want revenge. Looks like Sam Lance is finally going to face his past—and place blame where it really belongs . . .