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Gladiators In Print A Bibliography Of Contemporary Print Resources
What 300 Meatheads Did For Us Paul Cartledge On Thermopylae
The Blonde Huns The Desert Of Wheat By Zane Grey
The Language Of Empire The Professor And The Madman By Simon Winchester
Sorrow-of-the-People The War That Killed Achilles By Caroline Alexander
Sinking The Atlantis Myth Lost Continents By L.Sprague De Camp
The Slaves That Conquered A World Nelson's Trafalgar By Roy Adkins: Stillbirth Of A Nation: End Notes
The Richard Bustillo Biography Book Review
A Sci-fi Classic From 1971 To Our Scattered Bodies Go By Philip Jose Farmer
Surviving Bad Parents With Grace The Glass Castle By Jeanette Walls
A Hungarian, A Texan, And Alexander The Great? Swords Of The Hills By Robert E. Howard
Someone Has Got Our Horses Research Reflections & Book Review
The Spawn Of Big-Headed Yakub Research Notes & Book Review
Frankenstein Book Review
Slavery In Maryland, 1838 Frederick Douglas, An American Slave, Appendix 10
A Question Of Mind The Terminal Experiment By Robert J. Sawyer
Fiction Reviews Blurbs From Readers
85 Reasons For Being A Pacifist Book Reviews
Anthropologist Jorja Leap On LA Gangs Book Review
Dag Hammarskjold: A Letter To The World Book Review
Gavin Menzies The Year China Discovered America Book Review
Montserrat Fontes: Dreams Of The Centaur Book Review
Near Future Hard Sci-Fi With Ben Bova Book Review
Seriously, Another Apocalypse? Marketing Doom: A Ph. D. On The Hysteria Prowl
Surviving On The Streets: A Loompanics Classic Book Review
The Ugly Little Boy: By Asimov & Silverberg Book Review
Captain John Godfrey On Self-Defense Book Review
Dictatress Of The World Studying Imperial Hubris With Michael Scheuer
Blood & Thunder Mark Finn On Robert E. Howard
The Granddaddy Of Inquiry Book Review
The First Lady Of History: Barbara W. Tuchman A Literary Reminder
Professor Of The Primitive: Brian M. Fagan Book Reviews
J. Christoph Amberger On The Sword The Best Book Yet On Western Martial Arts
Into The Mind's Eye Of Mythic Hellas Gene Wolfe's Novels Of Ancient Greece
Last Of The Breed: Louis L'Amour Book Review
The Boxing Bookshelf #1 Jake Shannon's Rare Boxing Compilation
Survivor Guilt Of The Literary Kind
John Warry & Jeff Burn On Ancient Combat The Indispensable Sourcebook On Greco-Roman Warfare
Slovomir Rawicz, The Long Walk The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom
Alice B. Sheldon The Woman Who Was James Tiptree, Junior
400 Years Of Insanity Paul Kirchner: Dueling With The Sword And Pistol
The Sale Of Pricilla Loosefoot Half Broke Horses: A Biographical Novel By Jeannette Walls, 2016 Update For America In Chains
Arthur C. Clarke: Tales From Planet Earth Belated Book Review
The Sleaziest Shipwreck The Wreck Of The Medusa By Jonathan Miles
The Last Headbangers By Kevin Cook The Insane Evolution Of America's Football Craze
The Classic Shipwreck Caliban's Shore By Stephen Taylor
At The War Geek Round Table Refighting The Pacific War With Jim Bresnahan
The Dead White Dude Who Saved My Mind J. B. Bury At The Turn Of Two Lost Centuries
A Brief Definition Of American Royalty Bank Of America: Too Crooked To Fail By Matt Taibbi
The Boxing Bookshelf #2 Billy Edwards' Art Of Boxing
Stranger Than Fiction, Bloodier Than D-Day Conquistador By Buddy Levy
The Martial Arts Of Renaissance Europe The Book By Sydney Anglo
Nobody Else Can Save You On The Highway To Hell With An Invisible Urban Evangelist
Uncle Sam As A Redneck The Story Of Our Army: WWII Children's Propaganda
The Man Who Ate Captain Cook's Big Toe Typee: By Herman Melville
Stairway Of Integrity Up From Slavery By Booker T. Washington: Appendix 11
2,500 Years Of Murderous Masterminds Ancient World Commanders By Angus Konstam
An Ocean Of Lost Worlds The Discovery Of Mankind By David Abulafia
On Safari With A Boy Named Ford Voodoo Fire In Haiti By Richard A. Loederer
Thirsty Work Machete Season By Jean Hatzfeld
Into The Mountains Of Madness Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton By Edward Rice
The Original Rock Stars The First Poets By Michael Schmidt
Our Pound Of Flesh Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man By John Perkins
The Man Who Hated Jack Johnson Gentleman Jim Corbett By Patrick Myler
'Reading Transports Me' The Guards, A Novel By Ken Bruen
'When God Died He Left Madonna In Charge' No Man's Land By Jack Donovan
'The Raw Wet Sound Of Splintering Bone' Tau 4 By V. J. Waks
My Darling Donkey Boy Our Little Egyptian Cousin By Blanche McManus
Who's For Dinner? Flesh And Blood By Reay Tannahill
American Prophet The Iron Heel By Jack London
The Boxing Book Shelf #3 Baltimore's Boxing Legacy By Thomas Scharf
Fear, Horror, Hate & Guilt On Killing By Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman
On The Ocean The Extraordinary Voyage Of Pytheas The Greek By Barry Cunliffe
Despite A World Of Ironic-detachment Leonardo By Serge Bramly & The World Of Leonardo By Robert Wallace
Knowing Their Place: A Honcho On Their Bent Back Born In Blood And Fire By John Charles Chasteen: Appendix 12
...And Something Else Hunger By V. J. Waks
Worse Than You Can Imagine No Fear? By J. T. C.
As The Shadows Close In Black Ajax By George MacDonald Fraser
Overflowing The Cup Of Wrath The Rising Tide Of Color By Lothrop Stoddard
The Key Of Heaven And Hell The Book Of The Sword By Richard F. Burton
Looking Glass By VJ Waks ComicCon Chicago: 8/8-11/2013 & GENCON INDY: 8/15-19/2013
Beyond The Garden Of Ishtar Gilgamesh: A New English Version By Stephen Mitchell, For The Man Wary Of Emasculation
The Smiling Face Of The Fist Of Power The Handbook Of Human Ownership: A Manual For New Tax Farmers By Stefan Molyneux
Demonic Ted Nugent Meth-heads With Guns Crossed By Garth Ennis And Jacen Burrows
Tattoo Rick The Novelist The Plates By Rick Catalano
A Conspiracy Of Kind An Author-to-Author Discussion With VJ Waks
The Sarissa's Song The Virtues Of War By Steven Pressfield
Man Is Born Unto Trouble Bad Bob! By J.T.C.
A Road With No Signposts Solomon Kane: The Castle Of The Devil By Scott Allie
From The Pit Solomon Kane: Death's Black Riders By Scott Allie
Thrown To The Dogs Hernando De Soto By David Ewing Duncan
Captains Among The Ghosts Translations From The Chinese By Arthur Waley
White Coral Eyes If They Could Only Talk By Hannah Bloch
Once That Minimum Is Achieved 1984: A Novel By George Orwell
A Nefarious Rabbit Named Joey Buzz Bunny Reader Feedback From Akira
Blood And Salt When Asia Was The World By Stewart Gordon
'You Think Men Are Mean, Just Wait!' Akira On Organa And The Author's Writing Essays
The Individual School Of Two Swords The Book Of Five Spheres By Miyamoto Musashi
Against The Green Book The Abolition Of Man By C.S. Lewis
Against The Tribe An Untitled Story By Robert E. Howard
The Lady And The Grunt Her's & His' Reviews With VJ Waks
'On A Placid Island Of Ignorance' The Call Of Cthulhu By H.P. Lovecraft
The Devil Dresses Like A Fried Chicken Salesman Wassup? & It's A Deal By J.T.C.
Surfing The Apocalypse In A Wheelchair Miracles For The Damned By Simon Clark
Beyond The Thieves Pole The Weight Of The Dead By Brian Hodge
From A Prodigious Coach Driven By Hunger Looking Back By Edward Bellamy
Under Nine Gods Lays Of Ancient Rome By T. B. Macaulay
Amid Hymns Of Hate The Renaissance By Will Durant
Where Could They Go? Conan: Queen Of The Black Coast From Dark Horse
Where Has The Reader Gone? Results Of An Interview With A Maryland Librarian
Keep On Truckin’ The Sissy, Last Rites, Why Should I? And Room 301 By J.T.C.!
A Letter From Planet Estrogen James Is Judged By A Female Reader
We Live In The Future Viking: The Long Cold Fire By Ivan Brandon & Nic Klein
Strawberries Four Times Bigger And Better Savage Kingdom By Benjamin Woolley:Appendix 13
That Gaijin Mojo Shinku By Ron Marz And Lee Moder
‘Drums, Cannon And Human Misery’ Napoleoon Bonaparte By Alan Schom
‘Society As Mutual Masturbation' The Policeman Is Your Friend And Other Lies By Ned Beaumont
'Down The Grim And Bloody Eons' The Shadow Kingdom By Robert E. Howard
‘The First Sketch Of The Real God’ That Hideous Strength By C. S. Lewis
Without A Shudder Of Horror The Revolt Of The Masses By Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Gender In Fiction With V.J. Waks 'His Take, Her Take' Book Review Ground Rules
‘Kisses For Us All’ His Take, Her Take: Bram Stoker’s Dracula With V. J. Waks
The Little King And The Old Worm Pax Romana By Jonathan Hickman
The Hand Of The Voice The Nightly News By Jonathan Hickman
Glut Mad Fangs In The Forest Of Villefere, A Song Of The Werewolf Folk And Wolfshead By Robert E. Howard
Is That A Horizon? Pride Of Baghdad By Brian K. Vaughan And Niko Henrichon
He Said Coldly Solomon Kane: Red Shadows By Bruce Jones
From Otzi To Industrial American Zen The Book Of Swords By Hank Reinhardt
Conan’s Dance Card A Survey Of The Fictional Barbarian’s Leading Ladies
The Last Of The Magicians Archimedes To Hawking By Clifford A. Pickover
Incubus Of A Six-year-old President Hardcore History: The American Peril By Dan Carlin
The Will Of Heaven The Wrath Of The Khans By Dan Carlin
When The Great Horn Boomed The Proud Tower: The Patricians By Barbara Tuchman
NOV/04/13
‘A Temporary Place’ Red Gold: The Conquest Of The Brazilian Indians, 1500-1760, By John Hemming
NOV/05/13
Among The Three Wise Men The History Of Grandmasters & Masters Of The Martial Art In Baltimore Maryland By Rodney L. Eggleston
NOV/06/13
‘The Secret Cause Of All Suffering’ The Power Of Myth By Joseph Campbell, With Bill Moyers
NOV/20/13
‘Another Mask On The Wall’ Death Throws Of The [Roman] Republic: Part One By Dan Carlin On Hardcore History
DEC/06/13
The Meaning Of The Purple Smoke The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World By Harlan Ellison
DEC/23/13
‘The Smartest Niցցer In The Pine Woods.' Twelve Years A Slave By Solomon Northup: Appendix 14
DEC/26/13
‘The Flute Of The Fallen Tiger’ Lone Wolf And Cub #4 By Kazuo Koike And Goseki Kojima, With Frank Miller
JAN/02/14
‘Morning-Crowned And Shinning’ The Tower Of The Elephant By Robert E. Howard, The Perfect Adventure Story
JAN/09/14
‘One Tank Of Gas Away’ How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It By James Wesley, Rawles
JAN/12/14
The American Cane Stick-Fighting: Self-Defense, Cane, Yawara, Umbrella, Handstick, Walking Stick By Bruce Tegner
JAN/12/14
‘All Made Up Of Wonders’ Olaudah Equiano And The Bad Spirits Of The Sea: A Primitive Boy’s View Of Technology
JAN/22/14
‘Horatius At The Bridge’ The Roman Army By Osprey Publishing, With Stephan Turnbull And Angus McBride
JAN/26/14
Best Novel Of The 20th Century The Book Of The New Sun By Gene Wolfe: Shadow Of The Torturer
JAN/28/14
‘This Ghastly Sacrifice’ The Vale Of Lost Women By Robert E. Howard, And The 2002 Illustrations By Mark Schultz: His Take, Her Take With V. J. Waks
FEB/10/14
‘The Primitive Math Of Violence’ The Way Of Men By Jack Donovan, The Most Important Book Of The 21st Century
MAR/04/14
‘My Body Will Eat From Itself’ Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life And Missions With America’s Elite Warriors By Don Mann
MAR/04/14
‘Action With Intent’ Blood Brotherhood And Other Rites Of Male Alliance By Nathan F. Miller And Jack Donovan
APR/12/14
‘The Hawk Upon The Wolf’ Asaemon The Decapitator: Lone Wolf And Cub #16 By Kazuo Koike And Goseki Kojima
APR/14/14
‘Watchers’ Of A World Unveiled Encyclopedia Of Native Tribes Of North America By Michael G. Johnson And Richard Hook
APR/23/14
‘The Sheriff’s Whore’ The Painted Ladies Of San Quentin By David Paul And Jason Lenox With Joe Freistuhler
MAY/05/14
The Hero’s Stage In A Drugged Age Ancestral Fantasy & Cultural Spirit: Notes On Various Peoples Of The Hyborian Age & The Hyborian Age By Robert E. Howard
MAY/05/14
‘A Man Among Men’ [Updated With Reader Notes] Crow Killer: The Saga Of Liver-Eating Johnson, By Raymond W. Thorp And Robert Bunker
MAY/21/14
‘Remember’ Hyborian Genesis: Notes On The Creation Of The Conan Stories By Patrice Louinet
JUN/10/14
‘The Gender Of Tortillas’ The Meanings Of Macho: Being A Man In Mexico City By Matthew C. Gutmann
JUN/12/14
‘The Smith & Wesson Retirement Plan’ Enjoy The Decline: Accepting And Living With The Death Of The United States By Aaron Clarey
JUN/26/14
The ‘Complexity Industrial Complex’ Don’t Hurt People, And Don’t Take Their Stuff, A Libertarian Manifesto By Matt Kibbe
JUL/03/14
In The Reign Of Stupor Mundi The Devil’s Horseman: The Mongol Invasion Of Europe By James Chambers
JUL/09/14
‘The Abyss Of His Degradation’ The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces Of The Egyptian Short Story, Edited By Denys Johnson-Davies
JUL/11/14
Science-Fiction Buffs Click Here Ten Neglected Examples Of Ancient Science-fiction By Edward Wozniak At Balladeer’s Blog
JUL/16/14
‘Self-Initiated Field Activity’ Contempt Of Cop, And How To Avoid It By James Tarr In Be Ready! Magazine
JUL/18/14
‘The Pain Of Being Human’ War Before Civilization: The Myth Of The Peaceful Savage By Lawrence H. Heeley
JUL/27/14
‘Carrying A Knife In Public’ What To Know When You Carry A Knife By Mike Haskew In Stay Alive, Summer 2014
JUL/27/14
‘Knowledge Weighs Nothing’ Lessons From The Typhoon Apocalypse By Art Merrill, In Stay Alive Magazine Summer 2014
AUG/02/14
‘Sci-fi Male Solipsism’ Beauties In Beast Mode: Why Are So Many Men Applauding Masculine Women? By Jack Donovan
AUG/24/14
‘To Sail Beyond The World’ The Boat Of A Million Years By Poul Anderson: Or The Difference Between Sci-fi And Fantasy
AUG/25/14
‘Preaching To Ravens’ ‘This World Is Small”: Prophecy And Reality In 1492 By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
AUG/25/14
‘God Made Men, Not Lineages’ The Extinction Of Islam In Western Europe By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
AUG/25/14
‘God’s Arena’ “That Sea Of Blood”: Columbus And The Transatlantic Link By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
SEP/10/14
‘Children Picking Up Pebbles’ The Path Between The Seas: The Creation Of The Panama Canal 1870-1914 By David McCullough
SEP/10/14
‘Reward Their Vicious Labors’ Priest-Kings Of Gor: The Chronicles Of Counter-Earth Volume 3, By John Norman
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