Making the provocative purposeful, this analysis spotlights the most exciting--or potentially embarrassing--story element: the obligatory sex scene...

Bringing to light an entertaining array of anecdotes, this collection of police stories recalls some of the strangest, funniest, and most poignant ...

Released just in time for Oscar season, 1939 commemorates the most amazing year in American movie history, a year that saw the release of some of t...

This is the first book on 3D printing exclusively for woodworking hobbyists, with practical advice on how to fabricate one’s own tools and parts fo...

Originally published by "Popular Mechanics" in 1941, this classic manual is a testament to the ingenuity and dedication of American craftsmen. The ...

How to set up table saws, manage blades, and build simple jigs.

A unique literary and artistic guidebook to one of the world's most amazing drives--California State Highway 1, a narrow strip of roadway etched be...

A bookish police detective and his roller-derby-star partner investigate a quirky mystery involving superintelligent animals, government conspiracy...

Written for a generation of young men in crisis, Be the Awesome Man preaches a return to traditional male values of discipline, honour and accompli...

California Gold Country historian George Hoeper reveals what promises to be the final piece to the 100-year-old puzzle of the infamous stagecoach r...

Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong. The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying h...

Containing over 30,000 wood names with their corresponding commercial, common, and vernacular names, this book was originally published in Germany ...

Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today's writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concep...

Master carpenter and award-winning author Spike Carlsen presents 24 easy, affordable and durable children’s furniture projects in this book. Kids w...

BUSHCRAFT WHITTLING presents an easy and fun introduction to an essential self-sufficiency skill for hunters, hikers, and outdoor enthusiasts of al...

Cabinetmaking at the highest level is an art, a discipline, a philosophy-even a way of life-in addition to being a useful craft. In this book one o...

This is a exploration of little-known Western frontier gunfighters. Billy Mulligan, Sam Temple, Peter Olsen, Joe Dye, Bob McFarlane and those respo...

Historic desperadoes tell their tales of holdups, shootouts and desperate flights from the law in this chronicle illustrated with many rare photogr...

It was another time. Deadly earthquakes, steamboat explosions, floods, train wrecks, and other tragedies were a part of everyday life in nineteenth...

Chronicling the ignominious yet fascinating side of this state, this account shares tales of personal vendettas in a time when men made their own l...

A freewheeling catalog of misfits, eccentrics, creeps, criminals, and failed dreamers, this compendium profiles 45 bizarre personalities who exempl...

Introducing the victims and perpetrators responsible for California's most notorious shootouts, lynchings, and assassinations, this account shows h...

Bringing a dark and forgotten era into vivid life, this fascinating history explores a booming criminal enterprise that was spawned in California i...

Prominent California historian William B Secrest, Sr. (California Desperadoes, When the Great Spirit Died) tells the fascinating story of the most ...