The Sherlock Holmes School of Self-Defence: The Manly Art of Bartitsu as used against Professor Moriarty
10 best books like The Sherlock Holmes School of Self-Defence: The Manly Art of Bartitsu as used against Professor Moriarty (E.W. Barton-Wright): The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Kingdom of Heroes, The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America, Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America, Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things, Hammett, The Infernal Device, A Sand County Almanac, Woodcraft and Camping, Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques
| Author | Izaak Walton |
| ISBN | 1930585209 |
The Compleat Angler is a book that has been continuously in print for more than 350 years. Indeed, about five years ago I saw a nearly 300-year-old copy of it in the glass case at Half Price Books being sold for a steep figure. It's now freely and easily obtainable online, via Project Gutenberg and in other...
Years ago, a gene virus ran rampant across the planet, leaving a small percentage of people gifted/ cursed with extraordinary abilities and humanity itself forever changed. Suddenly, there were people with super strength and speed, people who could read minds, people who could teleport themselves...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 1555915663 |
Of all the misconceptions and misunderstandings perpetuated about Native peoples, the role of women in traditional cultures is perhaps the most falsely portrayed. The image of the overworked 'squaw'...women as property to be bought, sold, or traded. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Native...
I did not read every word. It is very readable, but there was too much history (compared to the Guide as promised in the title) in it for me. The illustrations were great, esp. of the actually tools and gear. Now, I wouldn't necessarily object to all that text of Westward Ho, but too much of it was written in...
| Author | Cy Tymony |
| ISBN | 0740768743 |
: How to make a Boomerang with a Business Card,Convert a Pencil into a Microphone, Make Animated Origami,Turn a TV Tray ... Create Alternative Energy Science Projects
Science-savvy author Tymony shows readers how to transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary, and how to create more...
| Author | Joe Gores |
| ISBN | 0752851829 |
From Chinatown's dark alleys to the fog-shrouded Golden Gate, crooked politicians ran San Francisco. To Hammet, retired Pinkerton detective and struggling writer, it was all just grist to his fictional mill. Until the night his pal walked into a baseball bat. Then Hammett hung up his typewriter,...
| Author | Michael Kurland |
| ISBN | 0450045609 |
From the twisting alleyways of Constantinople to the teeming streets of London's East End...
A spectre is haunting Europe. A man who is both fiend and genius. His name is Trepoff. His creed is anarchy.
Abduction, assassination, atrocity mark his path across Europe.
The...
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195146174 |
Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world. Hailed for prose that is "full of beauty and vigor and bite" (The New York Times), it is perhaps the finest...
| Author | George Washington Sears |
Sears was a writer for FIELD AND STREAM magazine back in the late 1800s. "Nessmuk" is the name he called himself after a Iroquois Indian friend from his childhood, and also the name attached to the knife he himself designed after many Hudson Bay-area Indian styles.
Sears was a pioneer and advocate...
Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques
| Author | John Clements |
| ISBN | 1581600046 |
From the author of Renaissance Swordsmanship comes the most comprehensive and historically accurate view ever of the lost fighting arts of Medieval knights, warriors and men-at-arms. Based on years of extensive training and research in the use of European swords, it contains highly effective fighting...
| Author | Alexander Rose |
| ISBN | 0553805177 |
George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized.
Now, in this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful,...
Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers
| Author | John L. Plaster |
| ISBN | 0873647041 |
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| Author | Hans Halberstadt |
| ISBN | 0312354568 |
Combat veteran and author Hans Halberstadt takes readers deeper inside the elusive world of snipers than ever before, from recruitment and training to the brutality of the killing fields.
Shadow Team is probably the most productive sniper team in American military history, accounting for 276...
| Author | Chris Townsend |
| ISBN | 0071423206 |
Chris Townsend is a wild mountain man. For decades he has spent much of the year in the wilderness, shunning crowds and seeking communion with awesome Nature. He has also written for magazines, reviewing the latest innovations in backpacking gear. Townsend has compiled his abundant knowledge into...
Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
| Author | Philip Caputo |
| ISBN | 0792263626 |
1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire employs native workers to build a railroad. Construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour 140 workers in an extended feeding frenzy that would make headlines and history all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a new quest for truth...
More Awkward Situations for Men
In 2010's brilliant AWKWARD SITUATIONS FOR MEN, Danny Wallace entertained us with wonderful bite-sized stories from his often embarrassing and bewildering everyday life as a man. Well, now it's 2011 and Danny is back - and he's even more confused than ever! A lot has happened to Danny Wallace in the...
| Author | Robert A. Gross |
| ISBN | 0809001209 |
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in...
Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices
| Author | William Gurstelle |
| ISBN | 1556523750 |
Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple—a match-powered...
More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right
| Author | Laura Penny |
| ISBN | 0771070489 |
One of Canada's funniest and most incisive social critics reveals why in North America, where governments spend so much on schools and colleges, training is valued far more than education and loud-mouth ignoramuses are widely and publicly celebrated.
Public education in the United States...
| Author | Jimmy Dore |
| ISBN | 0762453516 |
Why is your brother-in-law concerned about the Estate Tax? Why do millionaire news reporters get everything wrong? Why are blood-sucking teachers bankrupting America?
Jimmy Dore, the comedy darling of America's Progressive Left, answers all these questions and more! In this laugh-out-loud...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0862415349 |
This selection of short stories is Arthur Conan Doyle at his best. I loved these as a teenager, then read the book years later and, as I look at this book now (thanks to another Goodreads author asking a question about Sherlock Holmes), I never cease to be amazed at the wonderful authors we have had and now...
| Author | Catherine Shaw |
| ISBN | 0749080108 |
March, 1896. Motherhood and work as a private detective don't easily go hand-in-hand, but Vanessa is determined to give it a try. Being a wife and mother has meant that she's had to give up her beloved teaching job, but Vanessa has been kept busy by a string of requests asking for her help in solving troubling...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0671559990 |
Een aantal min of meer korte verhalen, in los verband, met als gemeenschappelijke achtergond een sterrenstelsel (de Sterrenhoop). In deze verhalen probeert Aldiss meerdere schrijfstijlen uit, niet altijd ter bevordering van de leesbaarheid.
Nogal psychedelisch of, in de enkele gevallen...
| Author | Paul Karasik |
| ISBN | 1606993615 |
Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language...
Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of American History in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen
Thomas Jefferson complains about haggling over the Declaration of Independence ... Jack London guides us through the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ... Langston Hughes visits the Scottsboro Boys on death row ... Andy Warhol paints the scene at Studio 54 ... John Seabrook receives e-mail...
