Everything you need to know to buy and wield a tactical knife. Tactical knives are the fast-growing field of American bladesmithing. Now, in one groundbreaking volume, tactical knife expert James M. Ayres shares more than four decades of real-world experience with purpose-designed knives.
Bringing together simple text and bright illustrations, this text teaches first concepts about the God who created the world and loved the people he made.
Murphy's Law states that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, and has claimed almost all of us as a victim at one point or another. However, there are several other laws that can cause havoc. Chapman and his family fell prey to the lesser-known `law of the journey', which states that the longer a trip is, the more likely things are to go wrong...
Provides the first comprehensive history of the politics of film finance in Britain from the end of the Second World War to 1985
The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically 'British' in content and outlook. This book analyses eight of these dramas - Spooks, Foyle's War, Hustle, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Downton Abbey, Sherlock and Broadchurch - which have all proved popular with audiences and in their different ways represent the thematic and formal paradigms of post-millennial drama. James Chapman locates new British drama in its institutional and economic contexts, considers their critical and popular reception, and analyses their social politics in relation to their representations of class, gender and nationhood. He demonstrates how contemporary drama has mobilised both new and residual elements in re-configuring genres such as the spy series, cop show and costume drama for the cultural tastes of modern audiences. And it concludes that television drama has played an integral role in both the economic and the cultural export of 'Britishness'.
In Telling Tales the Confessions of a Handyman, there is a compilation of seven stories that encompass many of the not-so-everyday events that the author has come across as a property manager-cum-butler within the expat community on southern Spain's Costa del Sol.
Disasters strike every day, but despite the best laid plans you may find yourself in one with only the clothes on your back and without a well packed first-aid kit. In Essential Survival Gear, J. Morgan Ayres explains in detail what you need to have when a dire emergency occurs, wherever you are, whoever you are. Ayres--a former Green Beret, martial arts master, and wilderness and urban survivalist--explains his four-layer concept (clothing, day bag, backpack, basic equipment and luxuries) and profiles and provides photos of a broad range of gear, with recommendations on what works best in what scenario--from cityscapes to wilderness and everywhere in between--and how to use it.
Looking closely at the issues that they present, from gender, class and ethnicity to militarism and imperialism, he also discusses controversies over historical accuracy, and the ways in which devices such as voice overs, title captions, and visual references to photographs and paintings assert a sense of historical.