A close-up look at the battle of Midway Island analyzes this crucial naval victory, which marked the turning point for the American fleet in the Pacific theater of World War II.
The first book on entomophagy written in this manner, Edible Insects of the World is an enumeration of 2,141 species of edible insects. For the reader’s convenience, insect names are arranged much like a dictionary, first by taxonomic group and then by country. In addition to taxonomic and location information, entries contain applicable details about the history of entomophagy, collecting, cooking, and medicinal uses.
As the events of DARK NIGHTS: METAL rock the DC Universe, the creatures of the Dark Multiverse stand ready to invade our world! How can the World’s Greatest Heroes stop a horde of deadly beings that appear to be powerful nightmare versions of familiar figures?
Bust out the cut-off shorts and Adventure to the 80s as a camper in Wet Hot American Summer: Fantasy Camp, a new RPG from Devastator Press! Wet Hot American Summer: Fantasy Camp is a game that lets you play as a camper or counselor at Camp Firewood. Create your own camper or counselor and spend one last magical day at camp becoming a local legend, fighting spaced-out baddies or totally getting some action! Fans can also conquer Fantasy Camp as Coop, Gene, Beth or any of their favorite Camp Firewood legends. Psycho fans will rejoice in never-before-seen original content from cast members of the film Wet Hot American Summer.
These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories, such as the Berlin shooting of an instigator of the Armenian genocide or the attack on an American 'robber baron'. Taking in Malcolm X and Queen Victoria, Adolf Hitler and Andy Warhol, Charles Manson and Emma Goldman, Tsars, Presidents, and pop stars, Age of Assassins traces the process that turned thought into action and murder into an icon. In tackling the history of political violence, the book is unique in its range and attention to detail, summoning up an age of assassination that is far from over.