The Fighting Staff

In the latest addition to his Fighting Weapons series, Dwight McLemore does for the staff what he did earlier for the Bowie, tomahawk, and sword. The Fighting Staff is a modern illustrated guide to using one of man's oldest weapons. In keeping with his philosophy on fighting weapons, in this

This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.

Relates the development of the U.S. command and staff in World War I.

The Indonesian talent for harmoniously blending indigenous styles with the arts of the Asian mainland has given rise to fighting arts that are among the most fascinating in the world. Preserved in music, dance, and art as—well as in ritual, tribal law, and mythology—the fighting arts of Indonesian archipelago play

After the underworld battle at Voidline Station Anti-Corruption Commission investigator Ellie Reece continues to track the two Faceless Men across the Scorpii Void. Ellie follows them from world-to-world while trying to evade their ever-increasing army of corrupt officials, hired killers and bounty hunters. Eventually her search leads to the frontier