The rapier has been immortalized over the centuries and no more-so than today on stage and in film. Princess Bride, the Three Musketeers, and other films have brought this sword to life. Today, stage combatants, fencers, and re-enactors study the world of the rapier. William E. Wilson the founder of the Tattershall School of Defence brings the history and use of the rapier to life in this manual. He dispels many misconceptions about the weapon, discusses its history, and also its purpose and use. The theory and practice of many of the historical masters such as Capoferro, Fabris, Marozzo and others are distilled into a set of lessons, drills and theory simple enough for the beginner to follow.

"The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship andliterary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and theOwenites." -- Henry Steele Commager, The New York Times BookReview

Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists andRobert Owen's Idealists -- the two vastly different communities that shaped thehistory of New Harmony, Indiana Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to NewHarmony to conduct communal living experiments -- Rapp expecting the millennium;Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him.

The Global Collapse hit everyone hard throughout the world. Eight in ten people died during the collapse that left civilization in ruins. Out of the ashes rose new pockets of civilization and trade. Resources were scarce, petroleum products non-existent, and steam power took over again for farming, light industry, and the movement of goods and people. Out of this a young woman intent on finding her brother, travels to Arizona. Follow her journey to find family in this neo-steampunk western.

Accepting the job from the man in the turban was risky, but the small fortune he offered couldn't be passed up. The only hitch was that it was a mission from London to Katmandu, through the lands controlled by the East India Company. Could the Captain and crew of the Airship Skylark be up to the task? From the outset problems plagued their journey and then disaster struck in an intense storm in the Indian Ocean. Would they be able to complete their mission? Would the Captain and Navigator's growing relationship survive the journey? Follow the adventures of the crew of the Skylark in this Steampunk novella.

The decade of the 1870s was a time of extensive exploration and surveying in the American West. The nation needed knowledge of the cultural features, topography, natural resources, and geology of this land to promote and aid the 'rapid development of an empire.' The need was particularly acute in the region that still was known in the early 1870s as Colorado Territory. There, cities and towns were springing up along the base of the Front Range, railroads were expanding, and in the mountains prospectors and miners were exploring the countryside seeking and extracting the region's abundant mineral resources. Also, recurring conflicts between the newcomers and Native Americans made it desirable to have accurate maps for military purposes. Four major government-sponsored scientific surveys formed the principal organized effort to provide critical knowledge of the land. Civilian scientists led three of these: John Wesley Powell ('Geographical and Topographical Survey of the Colorado River of the West'); Ferdinand V. Hayden ('Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories'); and Clarence King ('Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel'). Lt. George Montague Wheeler, a young graduate of West Point (Class of 1866) and a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, led the fourth and most ambitious project ('United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian').