Will Eisner—best known for his influential comic book series The Spirit and his groundbreaking graphic novel A Contract with God—believed in the teaching power of comics, and from 1951 to 1971 he produced PS magazine for the U.S. Army. This Preventive Maintenance Monthly (called PS because it was a postscript to the standard technical manuals) was aimed at teaching American soldiers everything about weapons safety for vehicles, aircraft, firearm...

“This book will save lives.” —Dick Conger. An all-encompassing manual that addresses safety, equipment, tactics, and the best practices for all shooters, here is an all-encompassing book of use to every gun owner.A result of twelve years of research, The Modern Day Gunslinger was written to meet the needs of the gun owner, the experienced shooter, those who own a weapon strictly for home and self-defense, and for the military member who wants to become a b...

How to receive the most creative and highest quality tailored service from your couturier, designer, dressmaker, or seamstress and ensure you get the dress you deserve when you want it.'Read the 'Buying Bespoke - Create Your Couture Collection' guide BEFORE placing an order for your wedding dress, bridesmaid dresses, red carpet ball gown or hand-made unique wardrobe collection with your preferred bespoke dressmaker or Couturier. If you have a weddi...

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Volume 2 in our foundation series aims to develop the skills for aspiring equestrians, building on improving efficiency, depth of knowledge and understanding of equine care and management. Volume 2 introduces lungeing a horse for exercise, with practical riding skills progressing to basic show jumping. This title develops our Complete Horsemanship foundation series to include the initial principles for teaching and coaching in the industry.

This form-by-form guide examines each civil form used in the District Courts of the State of Hawai'i. It provides a breakdown of the essential elements of each form and how to avoid the costly mistakes and omissions that both novice and experienced participants in the legal system often make.

This original and insightful study explores the points at which theater and propaganda meet. Defining propaganda as a form of "activated ideology," George H. Szanto discusses the distortion of information that occurs in dramatic literature in its stage, film, and television forms.Szanto analyzes the nature of "integration propaganda," which is designed to render the audience passive and to encourage the acceptance of the status quo, as opposed to "agitation propaganda," wh...

Antimodernism is a term used to describe the international reaction to the onslaught of the modern world that swept across industrialized Western Europe, North America, and Japan in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Scholars in art history, anthropology, political science, history, and feminist media studies explore antimodernism as an artistic response to a perceived sense of loss – in particular, the loss of 'authentic' experience.Embracing the 'authentic' as ...

Use this disaster preparedness guide to protect yourself and your household during and immediately after a catastrophe by making a disaster plan and a disaster kit. Plan to take care of yourself without outside help for at least 3 days.Special considerations include keeping food safe to eat, sheltering-in-place, and discussing a disaster with children.

The following is a chapter from Praveen Gupta's The Six Sigma Performance Handbook, which gives results-oriented help with Six Sigma initiatives. With this handbook, you will learn how to optimize performance and sustain breakthrough results. This book also gives a quick, straight forward tutorial on the use of the statistical tools which form the bases for Six Sigma project success. The handbook shows you how to simplify Six Sigma methods for cost-effective implementations that work b...

The Golden Plates #6: Premium Edition-Jacob, Enos, Mosiah, & Benjamin is the sixth issue of an adaptation of the fifth best selling book of all time, The Book of Mormon, which has sold over 120 million copies. This graphic novel/comic book adaptation was first illustrated in 2005 by award winning artist Michael Allred. Issue #6 includes: 34 full color pages as well as 4 pages of commentary from Michael Allred on what inspired him to step out of his successful career in th...

In a series of three eight page magazines of poetry and illustration, Christopher May teams up with Alicia Thompson to create an exploration of the Tyrant: the inner critic that holds us back from artistic and personal achievement.This triptych explores the Tyrant in a series of contexts. First, the stealth creation of works completed before the Tyrant has a chance to rear its ugly head. Second, the dread of preparing for the slaughtering of works and thoughts, and third, strengthe...