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Expert advice for living an informed and prepared concealed carry lifestyle
Concealed carry is about a lot more than gear, handgun and ammo choices. It's a lifestyle requiring confidence in your abilities, from the fighting mindset and verbal commands needed to de-escalate and control a situation, to threat-avoidance tactics and hand-to-hand combat alternatives. This title covers training and drills that are practical and achievable no matter what...
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Nowhere is the gun control debate more heated than in the United States. Gun control advocates argue for tighter restrictions on purchasing and licensing in the hopes of reducing incidents of shootings. Gun owners fear that their guns will be taken away, eliminating their ability to protect their families. Carrying a concealed handgun is legal in every state, and polls shows that the majority of Americans support conceal and carry. The viewpoints...
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Cornwall Secret and Hidden by Cornwall Writers is an eclectic collection of short stories written by authors in Cornwall.
Be bold, be moved, be curious, venture through and around, under and into the secret and hidden, veiled and buried, concealed and mysterious tales that lie within... What captivating yarns will these glorious Cornish landscapes reveal...
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Masks. Everybody wears them. Perhaps they are tangible, worn for a job or as part of a costume. More likely, they are metaphorical, shaped by the stories we tell each other and the lies we tell ourselves. This collection of twenty tales by members of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers explores what happens when we conceal ourselves behind carefully constructed identities. Why do we hide? What are we afraid to confront? And what happens when at last the...
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Unspeakable contains nineteen Gothic tales with uncanny twists and characters that creep under your skin. Its stories feature sapphic ghosts, terrifying creatures of the sea, and haunted houses concealing their own secrets. Whether you're looking for your non-binary knight in shining armour or a poly family to murder with, Unspeakable showcases the best contemporary Gothic queer short fiction.
Even dark tales deserve their time in the sun.
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Science can reveal or conceal the breathtaking wonders of creation. On one hand, knowledge of the natural world can open us up to greater love for the Creator, give us the means of more neighborly care, and fill us with ever-deepening astonishment. On the other hand, knowledge feeding an insatiable hunger for epistemic mastery can become a means of idolatry, hubris, and damage. Crucial to world-respecting science is the role of wonder: curiosity,...
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In today's post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed but ever-growing industry of organized misinformation that exists to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas. Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America present a revelatory history of this industry-which they've dubbed Lies, Incorporated-and show how it has crippled legislative progress on issues including tobacco regulation, public health care, climate...
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From undercover robots to shape shifting soldiers, the twenty-one stories in this wide-ranging anthology explore what happens when the mask comes off.
We all wear masks, whether they are the literal costumes of superheroes and bank robbers or the metaphorical shrouds that obscure our real selves. Unmaksed explores these attempts to conceal, the mysteries beneath, and the price we pay when they're stripped away. Authors ask what happens when your...
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As the premier source of up-to-date information on tactical firearms and gear, Tactical Gun Digest combines authoritative reporting by industry experts and coverage of the latest products, trends and techniques with an extensive illustrated catalog featuring state-of-the-art handguns, rifles, shotguns, optics and gear. This book is the ultimate reference for the tactical professional or serious shooter.
Tactical Gun Digest is the only resource of...
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The National Book Award—winning author compiles a "thought-provoking volume" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others (Publishers Weekly).
As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 "was whether an author had taken a risk." The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of...
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Tar sands "development" comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. In the tar sands of Alberta, the oil industry is using vast quantities of water and natural gas to produce synthetic crude oil, creating drastically high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and air and water pollution. But, tar sands opponents-fighting a powerful international industry-are likened to terrorists, government environmental scientists are muzzled, and public hearings...
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British Library Crime Classics volume 93
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With Martin Edwards as librarian and guide, delve into an irresistible stack of bibliomysteries, where "golden age–inspired puzzle masters [are] doing what they do best: bringing together readers, books, and felonies [in] perhaps the single best collection yet in this blue-chip series (Kirkus, Starred Review)."
There is no better hiding place for clues-or red herrings-than inside the pages of a book. But in this world of resentful ghost writers,...
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Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting explores some of the ways in which reproductive experiences are taken up in the rich arena of cultural production. The chapters in this collection pose questions, unsettle assumptions, and generate broad imaginative spaces for thinking about representation of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. They demonstrate the ways in which practices of consuming and using representations carry...
14) Suppressors
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Everything you need to know about shooting with a silencer!
Think owning a suppressor is out of reach? Not so fast. Acquiring, understanding and shooting with a suppressor isn't difficult at all. SUPPRESSORS, brought to you by the editors at RECOIL Magazine, shows you a cross-section of modern suppressor (aka silencer) types, demonstrating that the market is full of options to fit countless firearms platforms.
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Readers of Asian & Pacific Short Stories will have the exciting experience of encountering for the first time the recent work of some of Asia's most talented writers. Collected in this anthology are short stories by authors in nine Asian and Pacific countries: Australia, the Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, and the Republic of Vietnam. These writers speak in many different languages,...
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Rhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity. Editor Lawrence J. Prelli notes in his introduction that twenty-first century citizens continually confront displays of information and images, from the verbal images of speeches and literature to visual images of film and photography to exhibits in museums to the arrangement of our homes...
17) Time Out Venice
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Think 'Venice', and images of gondolas drifting along misty canals and pigeon-feeding visitors dwarfed by the splendor of St. Mark's and its square come unavoidably to mind. If it's Venetian icons of the sort you're looking for, this magical city will never disappoint. But for a more rounded experience, the longtime residents and experts who have contributed to the sixth edition of the Time Out Venice guide will lead you down back streets and into...
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This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to combat contemporary slavery are too often sensationalist,...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, which tells the story of a charismatic, unconventional schoolteacher and the students who are in thrall to her. Miss Brodie captivates the girls who make up her "set", but her charm conceals a worrying penchant for fascism and a manipulate...
20) Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Portnoy's Complaint with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, whose title refers to the insatiable sexual compulsions experienced by its protagonist. From the outside, Alexander Portnoy appears to live a charmed life: at the age of just 33 he is a brilliant thinker, a successful lawyer and the Assistant Commissioner...
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