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Author :David W. Morgan Publisher :Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers ISBN 13 :9780870335570 Total Pages :219 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (355 download)
Book Synopsis Whips and Whipmaking by : David W. Morgan
Download or read book Whips and Whipmaking written by David W. Morgan and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whipmaking is the highest refinement of the art of leather braiding. This revised edition introduces another major category of whipsthose made in the Mongol tradition. Braiding details are shown in an extensive selection of photographs that also serve to document the geographic distribution of the whips; their historic use and characteristics are explained in detailed captions. A new chapter describes the evolution of a whip design that became world famous through its association with Hollywood. The whips used by Indiana Jones were all made by the author, David W. Morgan, and the films prompted an immediate revival of interest in whips for performance and sport use.
Book Synopsis Whips of the West by : David W. Morgan
Download or read book Whips of the West written by David W. Morgan and published by Cornell Maritime Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to bring together and record the development of whips in the United States. It covers the production of buggy whips in Westfield MA, a center for the growth of the Industrial Revolution in New England and carries on to the Diamond Whip Company in Chicago and the handcrafted whips of the far West. The book is liberally illustrated and records essential historical documentation in the appendices.
Download or read book The Whip written by Karen Kondazian and published by Hansen Fiction Series. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man. As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love and had a child. Her husband was lynched and her baby killed. The destruction of her family drove her west to California, dressed as a man, to track down the murder. Charley became a renowned stagecoach driver. She killed a famous outlaw, had a secret love affair, and lived with a housekeeper who, unaware of her true sex, fell in love with her. Charley was the first woman to vote in America (as a man). Her grave lies in Watsonville, California.
Book Synopsis Whips and Kisses by : Mistress Jacqueline
Download or read book Whips and Kisses written by Mistress Jacqueline and published by . This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the evolution of Alice - middle class girl from the Bronx, classic overachiever, and lifelong submissive - into Mistress Jacqueline, benevolent bitch-goddess, whose beauty and sensitivity have made her the most sought after dominatrix on the West Coast.
Book Synopsis The Bullwhip Book by : Andrew Conway
Download or read book The Bullwhip Book written by Andrew Conway and published by Greenery Press (CA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lash LaRue to Indiana Jones, the glamour of the bullwhip has excited and fascinated audiences for centuries. Now, Andrew John Conway, an accomplished bullwhip performer and educator, explains exactly how to accomplish those thrilling throws, cracks and patterns. Extensively illustrated with easy-to-follow diagrams, "The Bullwhip Book" is an essential resource for the performer, the hobbyist, and anybody else who's ever been fascinated by the sinuous beauty of the bullwhip.
Book Synopsis White Slave, Black Whip by : AMALFI. WEST
Download or read book White Slave, Black Whip written by AMALFI. WEST and published by Fetish World Books. This book was released on 2018-06-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelly is the beautiful, but sheltered daughter of religious parents. Sweet, helpful and obedient, she is experiencing her first taste of freedom in the summer between high school and college, when her mother and father go abroad as medical missionaries. But after being assaulted by another girl, Kelly becomes withdrawn. And when the wrong man knocks on her door, Kelly quickly discovers, to her own shock and dismay, that the good, wholesome girl she thought she was has a very bad, very needy girl living deep inside her.
Book Synopsis Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family by : Richard P. Saller
Download or read book Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family written by Richard P. Saller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.
Book Synopsis Braiding Fine Leather by : David W. Morgan
Download or read book Braiding Fine Leather written by David W. Morgan and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Designed to help the beginning leather braider acquire basic skills in a straightforward manner, this book shows readers how to braid simple projects fairly quickly. With close attention to detail and a little practice using the methods described here, novices can produce attractive and enduring items from either precut lace or from a skin or side of leather.Leather braiding was developed in Australia in whipmaking shops. The craft had been carried to Australia by thongmakers from England, who were familiar with the thongs used on finely braided carriage whips. Kangaroo leather, one of the finest leathers available for braiding, provided the material for high-quality work, and a large and discriminating market in Australia led to improvements in techniques. Using these highly refined techniques and providing complete instructions and clear closeup photographs showing each step in the process, David Morgan has created an excellent book for those who want to learn to braid leather.A metallurgical engineer by training and occupation, in the 1960s Morgan became interested in Australian braided work made from kangaroo hide. With his wife he set up a part-time mail-order business selling a variety of Australian imports. In the 1980s he made the whips for the Indiana Jones movies, and he has been making them ever since. By 1990 he had abandoned metallurgy to run the mail-order business full time. He is now following an interest in the historical aspects of cattle-working whips."--Wheelers.co.nz.
Download or read book How to Make Whips written by Ron Edwards and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron Edwards was born in Australia in 1930 and brought up in the country where small farmers still plowed with horses and harvested their half acres with sickles and scythes, and larger properties relied on the annual visit of the steam-driven threshing machines. By the 1940s all this had vanished, and Edwards had realized that the country's traditional crafts also were disappearing. He began making drawings and notes of them and published these materials in his native country. How to Make Whips is the American edition of his ninth book. The first section gives instructions for a basic eight-strand whip; the second deals with the making of fine kangaroo hide whips. Other chapters explain the making of bullwhips, snake whips, and whips made from precut lace. Also included are instructions on plaiting names in whips and using plaiting designs for whip handles.
Download or read book West of Want written by Laura Kaye and published by Entangled: Select. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayal is all he's ever known, but in her, he'll find a love strong enough to be trusted... When Marcella Raines' twin brother dies, she honors his request to be buried at sea, never expecting the violent storm that swamps her boat. Though she's gravely injured—and still emotionally damaged from her recent divorce—Ella fights to survive. Zephyros Martius is the Supreme God of the West Wind and Spring, but being the strongest Anemoi hasn't protected him from betrayal and loss. Worse, he's sure his brother Eurus is behind it. When Zeph's heartbreak whips up a storm that shipwrecks a human, his guilt forces him to save her.Ella is drawn to the vulnerability Zeph hides beneath his otherworldly masculinity and ancient blue eyes. And her honesty, empathy, and unique, calming influence leave Zeph wanting...everything. When Eurus threatens Ella, she and Zeph struggle to let go of the past, defend their future, and embrace what they most want—a love that can be trusted. Each book in the Hearts of the Anemoi series is STANDALONE: * North of Need * West of Want * South of Surrender * East of Ecstasy
Book Synopsis The Legendary Velvet Whip by : Henry Steinfort
Download or read book The Legendary Velvet Whip written by Henry Steinfort and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Velvet Whip was the Midwest's unique late 1960s answer to west coast psychedelic and experimental rock. The iconoclastic group, proud of its Milwaukee roots, eschewed national tours and albums, mesmerizing its loyal regional audience till its explosive energy inevitably fizzled and the group disbanded. The Legendary Velvet Whip is told best, and entertainingly, by the band's co-founder Dan Ball, with fellow Whipster Henry Steinfort. Included are chapters and memorable recollections from Wisconsin underground cartoonist Denis Kitchen, bass guitarist Tom Ruppenthal, lead guitarist Ken Blochowiak, drummer Chas "Chuck" Reitzner, Whipster The Richard aka Richard Bussian and Richard Ramsay and Discovery World CEO Paul Krajniak. Profusely illustrated with period b&w photos, cartoons, and distinctive Velvet Whip memorabilia. As primary author Ball summarizes, "The Velvet Whip grew out of a desire to fuse classical music instrumentation and contemporary music. It quickly became one of the hottest acts on the counterculture scene, playing at the Avant Garde Coffee House and other sixties sub-culture venues throughout the Midwest in the second half of the 1960s. Henry and I initially had the bright idea to start a rock band. I played violin, so I could obviously play guitar, and Henry could transfer from a cello to electric bass. Little did we know how inadequate those ideas were. We were clueless about the rock band scene and without experience, but driven by burning desire. It seemed like fun and a great way to meet girls. Having no connection to regional rock musicians, we looked for other long haired guys in town to join us. Long hair was a real novelty in Milwaukee in the mid-60s, so there were all of three candidates. Two could play guitar and the other (Richard Bussian aka The Richard) was an experience unto himself. This unlikely band-building strategy proved miraculous: an amazing, hilarious and totally original adventure into rock and roll ensued. Despite the forces that tried to stop us, we left an unmistakable mark, one that seems even more unlikely and miraculous in hindsight. "
Book Synopsis Let's Get Cracking! (Second Edition) by : Robert Dante
Download or read book Let's Get Cracking! (Second Edition) written by Robert Dante and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition of his widely read book, bullwhip expert (and 4-time Guinness World Record holder) Robert Dante teaches whip cracking for beginners to advanced performers, from A to Z, covering the dynamics of safe bullwhip handling, basic cracks, elementary tricks and stunts, advanced whip cracking routines and flashes, performing, whips as exercise for fitness, whip maintenance, teaching, two-handed whips, blacklight nylon whips, and much more. Includes photos of some superstars of the world-wide bullwhip community. With Sylvia Rosat. Illustrated, with appendices.
Book Synopsis Voltaire's Bastards by : John Ralston Saul
Download or read book Voltaire's Bastards written by John Ralston Saul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we’ve never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our “rational elites” have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts—“Voltaire’s bastards”—whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertainment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process. In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins—whose “pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor” (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)—Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural establishments of the West.
Book Synopsis Deep Trails in the Old West by : Frank Clifford
Download or read book Deep Trails in the Old West written by Frank Clifford and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of lives—and raised a lot of hell—in the first quarter of his life. The number of times he changed his name—Clifford being just one of them—suggests that he often traveled just steps ahead of the law. During the 1870s and 1880s his restless spirit led him all over the Southwest, crossing the paths of many of the era’s most notorious characters, most notably Clay Allison and Billy the Kid. More than just an entertaining and informative narrative of his Wild West adventures, Clifford’s memoir also paints a picture of how ranchers and ordinary folk lived, worked, and stayed alive during those tumultuous years. Written in 1940 and edited and annotated by Frederick Nolan, Deep Trails in the Old West is likely one of the last eyewitness histories of the old West ever to be discovered. As Frank Clifford, the author rode with outlaw Clay Allison’s Colfax County vigilantes, traveled with Charlie Siringo, cowboyed on the Bell Ranch, contended with Apaches, and mined for gold in Hillsboro. In 1880 he was one of the Panhandle cowboys sent into New Mexico to recover cattle stolen by Billy the Kid and his compañeros—and in the process he got to know the Kid dangerously well. In unveiling this work, Nolan faithfully preserves Clifford’s own words, providing helpful annotation without censoring either the author’s strong opinions or his racial biases. For all its roughness, Deep Trails in the Old West is a rich resource of frontier lore, customs, and manners, told by a man who saw the Old West at its wildest—and lived to tell the tale.
Book Synopsis The Filipino Fighting Whip by : Tom Meadows
Download or read book The Filipino Fighting Whip written by Tom Meadows and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive guide for advanced whip training methods and combat applications as practiced and taught by the best fighters and whip practitioners in the world. It features chapters on the evolution of whips and their fighting techniques; the various types of whips, including the Western bullwhip, The Doce Pares rope whip and custom self-defense whips; manipulation skills and range-control techniques; self-defense theories and sparring drills; cracking and slashing with the whip; safe handling techniques; and construction, care, maintenance and repair of whips.
Book Synopsis Whip Your Life Into Shape! by : Emily Dubberley
Download or read book Whip Your Life Into Shape! written by Emily Dubberley and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women today must champion themselves, whether in the workplace or at home--and they don't need whips, four-inch heels, or leather to strut through life. This guide will help readers rediscover themselves and reevaluate their everyday actions.
Download or read book Scale written by Geoffrey West and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in. Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term “complexity” can be misleading, however, because what makes West’s discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities and our businesses. Fascinated by aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science: West found that despite the riotous diversity in mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. If you know the size of a mammal, you can use scaling laws to learn everything from how much food it eats per day, what its heart-rate is, how long it will take to mature, its lifespan, and so on. Furthermore, the efficiency of the mammal’s circulatory systems scales up precisely based on weight: if you compare a mouse, a human and an elephant on a logarithmic graph, you find with every doubling of average weight, a species gets 25% more efficient—and lives 25% longer. Fundamentally, he has proven, the issue has to do with the fractal geometry of the networks that supply energy and remove waste from the organism’s body. West’s work has been game-changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his work’s applicability. Cities, too, are constellations of networks and laws of scalability relate with eerie precision to them. Recently, West has applied his revolutionary work to the business world. This investigation has led to powerful insights into why some companies thrive while others fail. The implications of these discoveries are far-reaching, and are just beginning to be explored. Scale is a thrilling scientific adventure story about the elemental natural laws that bind us together in simple but profound ways. Through the brilliant mind of Geoffrey West, we can envision how cities, companies and biological life alike are dancing to the same simple, powerful tune.
