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Cuba and Its Music

From the First Drums to the Mambo

By: Ned Sublette

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Cuba and Its Music

From the First Drums to the Mambo

By: Ned Sublette

This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making the case that Cuba was fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. The ways in which the music of black slaves transformed 16th-century Europe, how the "claves" appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues are revealed. Music lovers will follow this journey from Andalucia, the Congo, the Calabar, Dahomey, and Yorubaland via Cuba to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Saint-Domingue, New Orleans, New York, and Miami. The music is placed in a historical context that considers the complexities of the slave trade; Cuba's relationship to the United States; its revolutionary political traditions; the music of Santeria, Palo, Abakua, and Vodu; and much more.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569764204

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The Year Before the Flood

A Story of New Orleans

By: Ned Sublette

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The Year Before the Flood

A Story of New Orleans

By: Ned Sublette

With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004–2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and polemical, The Year Before the Flood juxtaposes the city's crowded calendar of parties, festivals, and parades with the murderousness of its poverty and its legacy of racism. Along the way, Sublette opens up windows of American history that illuminate the present: the trajectory of Mardi Gras from pre–Civil War days, the falsification of Southern history in movies, the city's importance to early rock and roll, the complicated story of its housing projects, the uniqueness of its hip-hop scene, and the celebratory magnificence of the participatory parades known as second lines. With a grand, unforgettable cast of musicians and barkeeps, scholars and thugs, vibrating with the sheer excitement of New Orleans, The Year Before the Flood is an affirmation of the power of the city's culture and a heartbreaking tale of loss that definitively establishes Ned Sublette as a great American writer for the 21st century.

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1569763232

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9781569763230

Place, Race, and Story

Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation

By: Ned Kaufman

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Place, Race, and Story

Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation

By: Ned Kaufman

In Place, Race, and Story, author Ned Kaufman has collected his own essays dedicated to the proposition of giving the next generation of preservationists not only a foundational knowledge of the field of study, but more ideas on where they can take it. Through both big-picture essays considering preservation across time, and descriptions of work on specific sites, the essays in this collection trace the themes of place, race, and story in ways that raise questions, stimulate discussion, and offer a different perspective on these common ideas. Including unpublished essays as well as established works by the author, Place, Race, and Story provides a new outline for a progressive preservation movement – the revitalized movement for social progress.

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Routledge

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1135889724

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9781135889722

Causation

A User's Guide

By: L. A. Paul,Ned Hall

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Causation

A User's Guide

By: L. A. Paul,Ned Hall

Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not directly observable, but that we nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world. Common sense seems to have a firm grip on causation, and much work in the natural and social sciences relies on the idea. Yet neither common sense nor extensive philosophical debate has led us to anything like agreement on the correct analysis of the concept of causation, or an account of the metaphysical nature of the causal relation. Contemporary debates are driven by opposing motivations, conflicting intuitions, and unarticulated methodological assumptions. Causation: A User's Guide cuts a clear path through this confusing but vital landscape. L. A. Paul and Ned Hall guide the reader through the most important philosophical treatments of causation, negotiating the terrain by taking a set of examples as landmarks. Special attention is given to counterfactual and related analyses of causation. Using a methodological principle based on the close examination of potential counterexamples, they clarify the central themes of the debate about causation, and cover questions about causation involving omissions or absences, preemption and other species of redundant causation, and the possibility that causation is not transitive. Along the way, Paul and Hall examine several contemporary proposals for analyzing the nature of causation and assess their merits and overall methodological cogency. The book is designed to be of value both to trained specialists and those coming to the problem of causation for the first time. It provides the reader with a broad and sophisticated view of the metaphysics of the causal relation.

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OUP Oxford

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0191654396

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Getting Started with DuckDB

A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows

By: Simon Aubury,Ned Letcher

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Getting Started with DuckDB

A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows

By: Simon Aubury,Ned Letcher

Analyze and transform data efficiently with DuckDB, a versatile, modern, in-process SQL database Key Features Use DuckDB to rapidly load, transform, and query data across a range of sources and formats Gain practical experience using SQL, Python, and R to effectively analyze data Learn how open source tools and cloud services in the broader data ecosystem complement DuckDB’s versatile capabilities Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionDuckDB is a fast in-process analytical database. Getting Started with DuckDB offers a practical overview of its usage. You'll learn to load, transform, and query various data formats, including CSV, JSON, and Parquet. The book covers DuckDB's optimizations, SQL enhancements, and extensions for specialized applications. Working with examples in SQL, Python, and R, you'll explore analyzing public datasets and discover tools enhancing DuckDB workflows. This guide suits both experienced and new data practitioners, quickly equipping you to apply DuckDB's capabilities in analytical projects. You'll gain proficiency in using DuckDB for diverse tasks, enabling effective integration into your data workflows.What you will learn Understand the properties and applications of a columnar in-process database Use SQL to load, transform, and query a range of data formats Discover DuckDB's rich extensions and learn how to apply them Use nested data types to model semi-structured data and extract and model JSON data Integrate DuckDB into your Python and R analytical workflows Effectively leverage DuckDB's convenient SQL enhancements Explore the wider ecosystem and pathways for building DuckDB-powered data applications Who this book is for If you’re interested in expanding your analytical toolkit, this book is for you. It will be particularly valuable for data analysts wanting to rapidly explore and query complex data, data and software engineers looking for a lean and versatile data processing tool, along with data scientists needing a scalable data manipulation library that integrates seamlessly with Python and R. You will get the most from this book if you have some familiarity with SQL and foundational database concepts, as well as exposure to a programming language such as Python or R.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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1803232536

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9781803232539

The 2nd Maine Cavalry in the Civil War

A History and Roster

By: Ned Smith

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The 2nd Maine Cavalry in the Civil War

A History and Roster

By: Ned Smith

This book follows the 2nd Maine Cavalry from their muster in the late winter of 1863 through their action against Confederate forces in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. While giving the details of the many scouting expeditions, raids and battles in which the regiment participated, it also includes the more personal stories of several of the young soldiers involved. In addition, a complete regimental roster gives details of enlistment, illness, death from various causes, promotions, demotions, etc.

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McFarland

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1476616566

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The World That Made New Orleans

From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

By: Ned Sublette

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The World That Made New Orleans

From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

By: Ned Sublette

STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.STRONG STRONGAwarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance. The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in 1812. By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put it, &“rock the city.&” This book is a logical continuation of Ned Sublette's previous volume, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, which was highly praised for its synthesis of musical, cultural, and political history. Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569765138

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9781569765135

The Wordsworth Ultimate Cocktail Book

By: Ned Halley

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The Wordsworth Ultimate Cocktail Book

By: Ned Halley

Over 1,500 recipes, with revealing anecdotes about many of the cocktails, and generous sprinklings of apposite quotations, risque jokes and little curiosities.

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1853267627

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9781853267628

Other Entertainment

Collected Pieces

By: Ned Rorem

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Collected Pieces

By: Ned Rorem

DIVDIVA collection of insightful essays, interviews, and commentaries on music, art, and those who make it, from acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ned Rorem/divDIV It is a rare artist who can deftly cross the boundaries separating one artistic endeavor from another. Contemporary American composer Ned Rorem is one of the able few, not only “the world’s best composer of art songs” (Time magazine) but a remarkable purveyor of prose works, as well. Rorem’s superb collection Other Entertainment features insightful and fascinating essays on music, musicians, and literature, as well as provocative interviews with well-known figures in the arts and elsewhere./divDIV /divDIVWhether he’s offering a cogent analysis of Benjamin Britten’s published diaries, confronting John Simon on the famously acerbic film and theater reviewer’s alleged homophobia, or providing in-depth commentary on the lives and accomplishments of major artists and musical colleagues—as well as moving obituaries for those we have lost—Rorem proves himself to be as entertaining and controversial a social and cultural critic as America has ever produced./div/div

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Open Road Media

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1480427780

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9781480427785

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

A World Without World War I

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

A World Without World War I

By: Richard Ned Lebow

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! presents an intellectually invigorating set of hypotheticals about the twentieth century--had we been smart enough to avoid World War I. The "Great War" claimed nearly 40 million lives and set the stage for World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. More than one hundred years later, historians are beginning to recognize how unnecessary it was. In Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!, acclaimed political psychologist Richard Ned Lebow examines the chain of events that led to war and what could reasonably have been done differently to avoid it. In this highly original and intellectually challenging book, he constructs plausible worlds, some better, some worse, that might have developed. He illustrates them with "what-if" biographies of politicians, scientists, religious leaders, artists, painters, and writers, sports figures, and celebrities, including scenarios where: there is no Israel; neither John Kennedy nor Barack Obama become president; Curt Flood, not Jackie Robinson, integrates baseball; Satchmo and many Black jazz musicians leave for Europe, where jazz blends with klezmer; nuclear research is internationalized and all major countries sign a treaty outlawing the development of atomic weapons; Britain and Germany are entrapped in a Cold War that threatens to go nuclear; and much more.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1137413506

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9781137413505

The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem, 1973–1985

By: Ned Rorem

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The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem, 1973–1985

By: Ned Rorem

DIVDIVThe acclaimed author of The Paris Diary, Pulitzer Prize–winning American composer Ned Rorem offers readers a mellow, thoughtful, and candid chronicle of his life, work, and contemporaries/divDIV One of our most revered contemporary musical artists—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and declared “the world’s best composer of art songs” by Time magazine—Ned Rorem writes that he is “a composer who writes, not a writer who composes.” Despite this claim, Rorem’s published diaries, memoirs, essay collections, and other nonfiction works have all received resounding acclaim for their lyricism, bold honesty, and insightful social commentary./divDIV /divDIVHis Nantucket Diary, covering the years 1973 through 1985, reveals a more mature and graceful Ned Rorem, a man who has experienced great loss and serious illness yet has lost none of his acute observational skills and keenly opinionated nature. His wit remains bracing and his candor refreshing as he offers sharp critiques on the state of modern classical music and its creators. His accounts of times shared with luminaries and legends, musical and otherwise (including Leonard Bernstein, Edward Albee, Virgil Thomson, and Stephen Sondheim) are consistently enthralling and delightful. The outspoken hedonist of The Paris Diary may be older and more subdued now, but his incisive observations and unique outlook on life, both personal and creative, remain an unforgettable reading experience./div/div

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1480427764

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9781480427761

The Border Between Seeing and Thinking

By: Ned Block

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The Border Between Seeing and Thinking

By: Ned Block

What is the difference between seeing and thinking? Is the border between seeing and thinking a joint in nature in the sense of a fundamental explanatory difference? Is it a difference of degree? Does thinking affect seeing, i.e. is seeing "cognitively penetrable"? Are we aware of faces, causation, numerosity and other "high-level" properties or only of the colors, shapes and textures that-according to the advocate of high level perception--are the basis on which we see them? Is perception conceptual and propositional? Is perception iconic or more akin to language in being discursive? Is seeing singular? Which is more fundamental, visual attribution or visual discrimination? Is all seeing seeing-as? What is the difference between the format and content of perception and do perception and cognition have different formats? Is perception probabilistic and if so, why are we not normally aware of this probabilistic nature of perception? Are the basic features of mind known as "core cognition" a third category in between perception and cognition? Are there perceptual categories that are not concepts? Where does consciousness fit in with regard to the difference between seeing and thinking? Do the lessons from seeing apply to other senses? These are the questions I will be exploring in this book. I will be exploring them not mainly by appeals to "intuitions" as is common in philosophy of perception but by appeal to empirical evidence, including experiments in neuroscience and psychology"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197622224

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The Rediscovery of America

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

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The Rediscovery of America

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that * European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; * Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire; * the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; * California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; * the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; * twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk's retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.

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Yale University Press

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0300244053

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9780300244052

Strange Wives: The Paradox of Biblical Intermarriage

By: Stanley Ned Rosenbaum, Ph.D,Rabbi Allen Secher

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Strange Wives: The Paradox of Biblical Intermarriage

By: Stanley Ned Rosenbaum, Ph.D,Rabbi Allen Secher

An unconventional look at a controversial topic: intermarriage in the biblical period.

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Lulu.com

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0986322601

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9780986322600

Modelling the Tiger I

By: Gary Edmundson,David Parker,Steve van Beveren,Dinesh Ned,Darren Thompson

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Modelling the Tiger I

By: Gary Edmundson,David Parker,Steve van Beveren,Dinesh Ned,Darren Thompson

Probably the most famous tank of the World War II, the Tiger I was originally conceived in 1941 in response to the German Army's experience in fighting British tanks and anti-tank guns in Western Europe and the North African desert. Following the invasion of Russia, the appearance of the Soviet T-34 and KW tanks lent a further impetus to the programme and 1,350 Tigers were produced between August 1942 and August 1944. The Tiger has proved to be one of the most popular modelling subjects of all time, with a vast and ever-increasing range of kits, aftermarket products and references available. This title features six different projects from some of the earliest Tigers in North Africa through to the late-production variants at the very end of the war.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780964943

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Modelling a Tiger I s.Pz.Abt.507, East Prussia, November 1944

In I/35 scale

By: Dinesh Ned

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Modelling a Tiger I s.Pz.Abt.507, East Prussia, November 1944

In I/35 scale

By: Dinesh Ned

Probably the most famous tank of World War II, the Tiger I was originally conceived in 1941 in response to the German Army's experience in fighting British tanks and anti-tank guns in Western Europe and the North African desert. Following the invasion of Russia, the appearance of the Soviet T-34 and KW tanks lent a further impetus to the programme and 1,350 Tigers were produced between August 1942 and August 1944. The Tiger has proved to be one of the most popular modelling subjects of all time, with a vast and ever-increasing range of kits, aftermarket products and references available. This title is a detailed modelling guide on the '322', s.Pz.Abt. 507, East Prussia, November 1944 in 1/35 scale. This guide forms part of Osprey Modelling 37 Modelling the Tiger I also available as an ebook.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780966970

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The Other Side of Loneliness: A Spiritual Journey

By: Ned O'Gorman

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The Other Side of Loneliness: A Spiritual Journey

By: Ned O'Gorman

Every once in a while, out of nowhere, a very special person appears with the courage and conviction to change the destiny of others. Such a person is Ned O'Gorman. Wandering in Harlem one day, Ned saw an abandoned storefront and there he met his calling and future: he would start a tuition-free school for the underprivileged.

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179

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Simon and Schuster

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1628723459

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9781628723458

Firearm Blueing and Browning

By: R. H. Angier,Ned Schwing

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Firearm Blueing and Browning

By: R. H. Angier,Ned Schwing

Timeless information in an easy-to-use format with a new foreword added. Popular and little-known methods explained. Includes useful weights and measures charts.

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Stackpole Books

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0811749169

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