This vivid and authoritative history of the machine gun is enhanced by the first-person battlefield accounts of veterans of many armies in combat.
The machine gun will never replace the…

From the stone axes of the earliest warfare to the heavy artillery of today'smodern armies, this awe-inspiring book portrays for the first time the entirespectrum of weaponry.

Speed tuning theory and practice, costs, horsepower and torque for all 1932 and later Ford & Mercury Flathead V8s. The performance fundamentals–power, cam, carburetion, compression exhaust and ignition–are all covered…

The emergence of high levels of unsustainable home ownership has consequences for many areas of social and public policy. Using a wide range of methodological strategies, including in-depth qualitative interviews…

The authors consider the intersection of Daoism and ecology, looking at the theoretical and historical implications associated with a Daoist approach to the environment. They also analyze perspectives found in…