Zips, Pipes, And Pens

Zips, Pipes, And Pens
Author: J. David Truby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN:

In this book, J. David Truby demonstrates why gun control simply doesn't work. Features rare photos of remarkably ingenious and very deadly improvised weapons made by guerrillas, secret agents, criminals and freedom fighters, all collected from prisons, police departments and Third World countries. For information purposes only.

Zips, Pipes, and Pens

Zips, Pipes, and Pens
Author: David L. Truby
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages:
Release: 1993-12-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780613920155

Through rare photos of ingenious and deadly improvised weapons collected from prisons, police departments and Third World countries, J. David Truby categorizes a wide variety of improvised/modified firearms, describes their anatomy and technology, then documents their distribution and use. He also presents some remarkably sophisticated examples created by guerrillas, secret agents, criminals, prisoners, freedom fighters and hobbyists around the world. The undeniable conclusion? If you take away the firearms of free people, they will make others. Both ancient and modern times are replete with frightening examples of this.

Improvise for Real

Improvise for Real
Author: David Reed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013-02-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780984686360

Improvise for Real is a step-by-step method that teaches you to improvise your own music through progressive exercises that anyone can do. You'll learn to understand the sounds in the music all around you. And you'll learn to express your own musical ideas exactly as you hear them in your mind. The method starts with very simple creative exercises that you can begin right away. As you progress, the method leads you on a guided tour through the entire world of modern harmony. You will be improvising your own original melodies from the very first day, and your knowledge will expand with each practice session as you explore and discover our musical system for yourself. Improvise for Real brings together creativity, ear training, music theory and physical technique into a single creative daily practice that will show you the entire path to improvisation mastery. You will learn to understand the sounds in the music all around you and to improvise with confidence over jazz standards, blues songs, pop music or any other style you would like to play. And you'll be jamming, enjoying yourself and creating your own music every step of the way. The method is open to all instruments and ability levels. The exercises are easy to understand and fun to practice. There is no sight reading required, and you don't need to know anything about music theory to begin. Already being used by both students and teachers in more than 20 countries, Improvise for Real is now considered by many people to be the definitive system for learning to improvise. If you have always dreamed of truly understanding music and being able to improvise with complete freedom on your instrument, this is the book for you

The PVC Pipe Book

The PVC Pipe Book
Author: Chris Peterson
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2018-12-18
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0760360898

Put that spare PVC pipe to work with more than 50 inventive, step-by-step projects that yield tough and durable storage, furniture, gardening, toys, and much more, with The PVC Pipe Book. With a few simple fittings, common home-improvement-store PVC pipe can be treated much like building blocks. Learn to engineer it in new ways for DIY projects that prove useful indoors and outside. Whether you're a homeowner, gardener, homesteader, prepper, or just a parent looking for some new toy ideas, the projects in The PVC Pipe Book give you plenty of options. Step-by-step instructions, parts lists, and photographs of completed projects make sure you will have fun and love the results of your work. Projects range from simple creations like chicken feeders and waterers, to much more complex builds like a rolling workshop table. Other projects include: Practical creations include a step-stool, toy bin, safety gate, and gardening caddy Fun, fanciful ideas include a rocket launcher, water table, even soccer goals Homestead projects include a pet washer, chicken feeder, birdhouse, and hanging herb garden For anyone who needs some insight and a few tips on working with PVC, Peterson covers all the basics, as well as finishing techniques.

Improvised Modified Firearms

Improvised Modified Firearms
Author: J. David Truby
Publisher: Paladin Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780873646611

Take away free people's firearms, and they will make others. Through vivid descriptions and rare photos, this book documents the extremes to which people - including armies, gangs, guerrillas and prisoners - will go when normal supplies of firearms are denied.

While He Was Away

While He Was Away
Author: Karen Schreck
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1402264038

One year—he'll be gone for one year and then we'll be together again and everything will be back to the way it should be. The day David left, I felt like my heart was breaking. Sure, any long–distance relationship is tough, but David was going to war—to fight, to protect, to put his life in danger. We can get through this, though. We'll talk, we'll email, we won't let anything come between us. I can be on army girlfriend for one year. But will my sweet, soulful, funny David be the same person when he comes home? Will I? And what if he doesn't come home at all...? "A tender and honest examination of love, longing, and loyalty in the face of modern war."—Laura Ruby, author of Bad Apple "While He Was Away is a wonderful love story with writing that is skillful and true."—Amy Timberlake, author of That Girl Lucy Moon

Expedient Homemade Firearms

Expedient Homemade Firearms
Author: P.A. Luty
Publisher: Paladin Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780873649834

The author provides clear, step-by-step instructions for and expedient 9mm submachine gun. It is easily constructed from readily available materials, primarily steel tubing; it does not require a lathe and milling machine and it can be built by just about anyone in about a week. For Academic Study Only

Mantrapping

Mantrapping
Author: Ragnar Benson
Publisher: Paladin Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1981-02-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780873642156

This is the first book ever published to explain how to capture that most dangerous animal: man. Based on Ragnar's own mantrapping experiences while on special assignments in Asia, Africa, North and South America and Cuba, this gut-wrenching book covers such mantraps as the Malaysian Hawk, the Andes Mountain Trail Trap, the Sheepeater's Rock Fall and the Cuban Water Trap. To know how to trap your enemy is to know how to avoid being trapped yourself. For academic study only.

Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce

Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce
Author: Jimmy Lin
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031021363

Our world is being revolutionized by data-driven methods: access to large amounts of data has generated new insights and opened exciting new opportunities in commerce, science, and computing applications. Processing the enormous quantities of data necessary for these advances requires large clusters, making distributed computing paradigms more crucial than ever. MapReduce is a programming model for expressing distributed computations on massive datasets and an execution framework for large-scale data processing on clusters of commodity servers. The programming model provides an easy-to-understand abstraction for designing scalable algorithms, while the execution framework transparently handles many system-level details, ranging from scheduling to synchronization to fault tolerance. This book focuses on MapReduce algorithm design, with an emphasis on text processing algorithms common in natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning. We introduce the notion of MapReduce design patterns, which represent general reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems across a variety of problem domains. This book not only intends to help the reader "think in MapReduce", but also discusses limitations of the programming model as well. Table of Contents: Introduction / MapReduce Basics / MapReduce Algorithm Design / Inverted Indexing for Text Retrieval / Graph Algorithms / EM Algorithms for Text Processing / Closing Remarks

Draw the Marvel Comics Super Heroes

Draw the Marvel Comics Super Heroes
Author: Klutz Press
Publisher: Klutz
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781570540004

This working toolbook is meant to be drawn in, colored over, and read. Included are tips and pointers on every page--written by the Marvel pros themselves--as well as a pencil and four double-nibbed color markers, stored in a bound-on zippered vinyl pouch.