books about: gunpowder     books:       Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot24 reviews Antonia Fraser Anchor, 1997 Explosive look at Traditional English Attitude toward Catholics Guy Fawkes Day is still celebrated in England with fireworks and mock burnings of him in effigy. I wondered about this celebration and this book was recommended. I find Tudor and Stuart England absolutely fascinating and this book shed light on an incident that is little known and not taught in the States. English recalcitrant Catholics hoped James I's reign would usher in more tolerance. ...             Gunpowder Plot (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, No. 15)7 reviews Carola Dunn Kensington, 2007 The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple does it again This 15th installment in adventures of the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple continues the light breezy style of this delightful series. Daisy is a houseguest at a country manor, invited to observe a traditional Guy Fawkes celebration. Her intent is to write an article about the festivities, but when the host and an unexpected guest are shot dead, Daisy is once again inadvertently involved in a murder ...             Do-It-Yourself Gunpowder Cookbook6 reviews Don McLean Paladin Press, 1992 Simply Informative and Useful Iv'e read some drivel that the processes in this book are too hard to follow, or that they take too long to bear fruit. Look, if you don't want to leach out potassium nitrate, go buy it. I won't tell you where I get it, but if your'e making gunpowder you should be resourceful enough to find your own. Charcoal shouldn't be a problem, and you can order large quantities of sulfur for a good price. ...             Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics : The History of the Explosive That Changed the World3 reviews Jack Kelly Basic Books, 2005 A GOOD FLAWED NARRATIVE Reading the other reviews here one would get the impression that Kelly is guilty of some serious flaws in his work. I would think that people like Noman OOOO (reviewer below) is actually guilty of some seriously flawed expectations. (I shall not deal with his expectations of history being amoral -- anyone who writes some rubbish like that has clearly not read any history -- as a quick glance of ...             Gunpowder Green (A Tea Shop Mystery)23 reviews Laura Childs Berkley, 2002 Great to read with a cup of tea. I loved this book because the author took time to flesh out the main character. The main character is not simply someone who accidently stumbled across a mystery, but someone who cares to know why someone was murdered. The mystery was okay. Not quite an Agatha Christie, but certainly reminiscent of one. This is the second Tea Shop Mystery. I look forward to reading the next one in the ...             Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, And Pyrotechnics: The History Of The Explosive That Changed The World15 reviews Jack Kelly Basic Books, 2004 Great intro to history, science and technology Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, & Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World, by Jack Kelly, Basic Books, NY, 2004. Kelly had done a very nice job with this crisp, well written history of gunpowder. He covers the subject nicely, in survey fashion, but with some detailed stories. There's history, technology, and science-all in fine factual detail but for the general ...             Amateur Rocket Motor Construction: A Complete Guide To The Construction Of Homemade Solid Fuel Rocket Motors7 reviews David G. Sleeter Teleflite Corp, 2004 A must have. This is one of the most complete books written on the subject of rocket motor construction. It is easy to read and follow. Everyone from the beginner to the experienced Model Rocket Motor enthusiast will find this book indispensable. Mr. Sleeter will guide you through every step required to get you off the ground. This is a must have for any library. Thanks David great work.             Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the ...6 reviews Bert S. Hall The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 Original thinking and excellent scholarship. It didn't take long for me to be pleasantly surprised at the high level of scholarship and clearly presented facts, the sort of writing all too often lacking from this area of history. As the author notes, many technology historians, military historians, and arms and armor writers propagate continuing myths and assumptions that can't be supported when the facts are examined closely. Here, Hall ...             The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times (Venture of Islam Vol. 3)3 reviews Marshall G. S. Hodgson University Of Chicago Press, 1977 deep, rich, well considered and comprehensive This review really applies to all three volumes. Hodgson's work is not for those new to Islamic studies, and his writing style is complex. Few are the sentences that lack at least one subjunctive clause. But his adoption of key Arabic terms in his narrative; his broad geographic sweep, from Andalusia and the Sahel through Nile and Oxus to India and Indonesia; and his comprehensive ...             Black Powder Staton Rabin Margaret K. McElderry, 2005 South Central Los Angeles, 2010 Fourteen-year-old Langston Davis's best friend, Neely, has been shot and killed in a gang fight. Langston wishes that he could turn back the clock. But he knows you can't change history. Or can you? When his science teacher invents a century-hopping time machine, Langston knows exactly what he must do: go back in time to stop the invention of gunpowder...which will prevent the invention of guns...which will ...             Gunpowder Empire (Crosstime Traffic)35 reviews Harry Turtledove Tor Science Fiction, 2004 A bit disappointing If you've read and loved Turtledove's other series as I have, you will probably be disappointed with this take on alternate reality. There is none of the gritty tooth and nail conflicts that made his other works, The Worldwar Saga and The Great War books just to name a few, totally immerse you in their plots. I got the distinct feeling that I was being talked down to and perhaps this is the crux ...             Sir William Waad, Lieutenant of the Tower, and the Gunpowder Plot Fiona Bengtsen Trafford Publishing, 2006 A new twist to an old and explosive story: the Gunpowder Plot, and the man who knew exactly what happened - the Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir William Waad.             Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day (Profiles in History)1 review James Sharpe Harvard University Press, 2005 Remember is worth Remembering Remember Remember by James Sharpe is a engaging read about the celebrations of the November 5th Plot through the ages. The events of 1605 are studied as they happened, and as they were celebrated in the decades and centuries following. English anti-Catholicism, or anti-popery are judged in terms of who was being burnt in effigy, so the role of holiday symbolism in controlling the masses is ...             God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot11 reviews Alice Hogge HarperCollins, 2005 Like watching a movie about the "Titanic" You know the ship is going to sink, yet the story is still riveting. You know the Catholic mission in England is doomed to failure, yet this was an equally riveting book. I must confess I was expecting a wholly different book. As a Catholic who is regularly irked by how frequently the Catholic Church is slandered in the mainstream media, I was actually hoping for a book that would turn the ...             Gunpowder & Lead (Piano/Vocal/Chords, SHEET MUSIC) Miranda Lambert Hal Leonard, 2008 GUNPOWDER & LEAD Series: Piano Vocal Artist: Miranda Lambert Sheet music.             The Gunpowder Plot1 review Hugh Ross Williamson Neumann Press, 1996 Guy Fawkes is a Jolly Good Hero In 1605, a landed gentry comprising less than 2% of England's population ruled over the other 98% by denying them the vote. Thus Parliament consisted of elite representatives who were elites themselves. In addition to the despotic rule of an elitist Parliament, King James I dovetailed Parliament to create a tyrannical government that outlawed the Catholic faith along with many Protestant ...             The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits: 24 Murder Mysteries from the Age of Gunpowder, Treason and Plot ...1 review Running Press, 2006 Another Great Collection of Murder Mysteries! Here's a Reader's Advisory tip you can take to the bank: Whenever you come across a new 'Whodunnits' book edited by Mike Ashley, BUY IT! Ashley has the Midas touch when it comes to assembling crackerjack collections of murder mysteries; He is simply the best at what he does! Ashley's latest 'Mammoth Book of' features two dozen stories set in England and America in the 17th Century. This ...             The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb (New Approaches to Asian History)1 review Peter A. Lorge Cambridge University Press, 2008 Tried to achieve a lot in a little space Peter Lorge has tried to achieve a lot in a little space. He has attempted to cover the development of warfare in North East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia over about 800 years of development, all in 200 pages. He has made a good effort. It is not a history book that sets out history in a time-line but attempts to put forward a theory that Asians had gunpowder and used it before the arrival ...             Never for Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia C. L. Bragg, Gordon A. Blaker, ... University of South Carolina Press, 2007 Lavishly illustrated with seventy-four color plates and fifty black-and-white photographs and drawings, "Never for Want of Powder" tells the story of a world-class munitions factory constructed by the Confederacy in 1861, the only large-scale permanent building project undertaken by a government often characterized as lacking modern industrial values. In this comprehensive examination of the powder works, five scholars - a historian, physicist, ...              search for books approaches, bombards, complete, confederate, construction, cookbook, crosstime, cultural, dalrymple, do-it-yourself, elizabeth, explosive, forbidden, gunpowder, hatching, homemade, jacobean, lieutenant, military, mysteries, profiles, pyrotechnics, remember, renaissance, revolution, studies, technology, whodunnits, william, yourself books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Catulli Veronensis Liber: Ad Optimos Codices Denvo Collatos (1886) we recommend Great intro to history, science and technology leave a comment home  impressum - about us