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The newest entry in our top-selling "Bad-Ass" series, "Big Bad-Ass
Bar Tricks" is an essential guide to the best and most amusing bar
tricks ever created! Great for bartenders and those who wish they
were, this book will inspire any light-hearted reader to perfect
their skills through easy instruction for dozens of tricks
involving dollar bills, matches, beer bottles, wine glasses,
cocktail napkins, olives, fruit, straws, toothpicks, and more.
Hordes of the Things is a fast-play heroic fantasy wargame rule set
for miniature figures. Using the successful DB rule system, but
based on classical fantasy fiction rather than strict history, the
rules have been used since 1991 and enjoy an international player
base.
Southern folk pottery from pug mills, ash glazes, and groundhog kilns to face jugs, churns and roosters; mule swapping, chicken fighting, and more are included in this eighth volume.
"De Bellis Renationis" is a set of wargames rules for Renaissance
battles covering the period from 1494 AD to 1700 AD. DBR version
2.0 offers a combination of realism and excitement for this warfare
using miniature figures in any scale from 2mm to 30mm. The creation
of the experienced wargame designers Phil Barker and Richard Bodley
Scott, DBR can be used to refight historical engagements or your
own scenarios from small scale skirmishes to the largest battles of
the period. With its command system using "player initiative
points", DBR emphasizes the player's generalship rather than their
ability to manipulate a set of rules. It allows players to fight
actions from the whole period and across the whole world, from
Japan to Europe and the Americas and from the Italian Wars to the
Nine Years' War. This edition combines the 2002 edition of the
rules with all three of the books of Army Lists and includes
everything the wargemer needs to refight these battles in one
single convenient volume.
There have been many books written about German forces fighting on
the Eastern Front. This is hardly surprising considering the
enormity of the campaign and the seemingly inexhaustible amount of
data and photographs available. Concord is pleased to release one
more title, authored by Gordon Rottman, focusing on this crucial
campaign in the East. This volume is all about the infantry at the
core of Germany's military exploits in the enormous expanse of
Russia. The opening text delves into the complexities of the
standard German infantry division. Though usually short on
motorized transport, these self-contained combined-arms units
fought extremely effectively, penetrating almost to the gates of
Moscow. The introduction includes a detailed table of organization
listing all major and minor subunits (usefully provided in both
English and German). It then proceeds with an annotated description
of key divisional components, which is very helpful in
understanding how a division is equipped. As is par for this series
of books, the collection of black and white photos forms the
centerpiece. These photos show infantrymen from the early days of
the conflict through to much later periods. Members of many
branches are on display, for example, artillery, assault pioneers,
military police, antitank, reconnaissance and infantry. The photos
reveal a host of interesting details and show weapon systems found
in the infanterie division. This book also features a set of four
color plates expertly illustrated by Stephen Andrew. These depict
infantrymen and panzer grenadiers in a wide range of uniforms
fighting in various seasons and regions. Photo and color plate
captions are well detailed and thorough, providing a wealth of
information. This is a very helpful book for those wishing to learn
more about those soldiers at the"coal face" of Germany's
extraordinarily grueling campaign in the East.
Von A wie Abketten bis Z wie Ziegelmuster Tauchen Sie mit leicht
verstandlichen Schritt-fur-Schritt-Anleitungen in die Kunst des
Hakelns ein. Sie lernen die verschiedenen Materialien wie feinstes
Garn oder feste Baumwolle kennen. Die Autorinnen erklaren von den
unterschiedlichen Maschenformen uber die Wahl des Musters bis hin
zur Fehlerbehebung alles, um praktische und dekorative Stucke zu
hakeln. Mutzen, Schals, Pullis, Taschen oder Deckchen alles kein
Problem dank der Abbildungen in Farbe. Ausserdem erfahren Sie, wie
Sie die gehakelten Teile zusammennahen und pflegen, damit Sie lange
Freude daran haben. Auch Fortge - schrittene finden hier zahlreiche
Tipps und Tricks.
The newest addition to Concord's Warrior series is this title from
Gordon Rottman. The accomplished author examines the typical German
soldier as he appeared as Blitzkrieg was unleashed upon an
under-prepared and overconfident Western Europe. The coverage
extends from the abrupt end of the British-labeled Phony War (or
Sitting War [Sitzkrieg] as the Germans called it) through to the
victory parades in France after the successful conclusion of the
campaign. The much-vaunted French Army had 78 divisions and 2,235
tanks, this latter figure being more than Germany itself possessed.
Hitler launched his attack, codenamed Case Yellow (Fall Gelb), in
the early hours of 10 May 1940. By the 17th, Brussels had fallen,
and by the 19th discussions were already beginning about the
possibility of withdrawing the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
from France. German troops entered Paris on 14 June, with an
armistice surrendering France finally being signed on 22 June. This
stunning and swift victory did not come cheaply, though, with
Germany suffering 27,000 dead, 18,000 missing, and 111,000 wounded.
This volume shows the triumphant German soldier as he is engaged in
this campaign in the West. The black and white photos reveal
interesting details about uniforms, weapons, equipment, and in some
cases, even vehicles. The photos each receive informative captions
that provide useful background details. Another feature is the four
color plates by Stephen Andrew. These portray various types of
soldiers with helpful notes about their uniforms and weapons. This
is a handy volume and will be especially useful to modelers or
military historians wanting to see German soldiers in action in the
early-war period. The combination of photos, illustrations and
photos provide a valuable introduction to this interesting but
often neglected period of WWII.
Illustrated instructions for making twelve simple wooden toys including a freight train, cargo ship, helicopter, and others.
Foxfire highlights the twentieth year of the Foxfire high school program with a new volume as fascinating as its predecessors. Included are general stores, the Jud Nelson wagon, a praying rock, a Catawban Indian potter, haint tales, quilting, home cures, and the log cabin revisited.
From the Introduction. Of the origin of Cribbage, we are not aware
that anything is known further than that it is essentially an
English game. The game of Cribbage is entirely distinct and
different from all other card-games, The method of playing it, and
the constant variety of combinations which present themselves,
render it one of the most interesting and fascinating games. To
those who have become familiar with, and have mastered the
characteristic peculiarities of the game, it offers an attractive
pastime, requiring only an occasional moment of transient mental
effort, and leaving the players ample opportunity for social
intercourse. The game is played with a full pack of fifty-two
cards: Sixty-one points constitutes the game.
Review from The Philidorian: ....To the spectacled dowager, or the
gouty old bachelor, -to miss near her teens, or master near his
pinafore. -How could there be devised a better game? It teaches the
child arithmetic, by a railroad process; and soothes the aches of
age by its gentle exercise of the brain. Pasquin's Treatise, long
out of print, was the best cribbage manual ever published; and in
the little volume before us Mr. Walker has appended a good deal of
interesting matter to a reproduction of the original. We may take
another opportunity to draw upon this work for extracts. At p. 41,
we turned up an error, which the publishers will thank us for
pointing out, in order to its being corrected in a second edition.
The author's words are, ""A sequence of a six, seven, and eight,
combined with a pair of aces, inclusive of a four card flush, yield
thirteen points,"" &c....
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