Author: George Choundas
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Keywords: amp, rogues, swashbucklers, language, primer, mastering, pirate
Number of Pages: 469
Published: 2007-03-29
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1582974896
ISBN-13: 9781582974897

The Pirate Primer is the first and only comprehensive guide to the world of pirate language. A complete course in pirate vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and syntax. This is the authoritative work on the subject, containing every distinctive term, phrase, usage, and speech structure uttered by or attributed to pirates in film, television, literature, and historical accounts over the last three centuries. Every entry in the Primer is accompanied by an illustrative historical example of pirate speech, allowing you to see the contents of the Primer deployed in context by actual

Author: George Gilder
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: tech, innovation, enterprise, future, swashbucklers, eye, microchip, silicon
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-05-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393328414
ISBN-13: 9780393328417

Technology insider George Gilder delivers a "compelling" (Wired) look under the hood at a genius-fueled startup. Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywhere�PDAs, phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens. Battling to usurp this two-billion-dollar market is a Silicon Valley company, Foveon, whose technology not only produces a superior image but also may become the eye in artificially intelligent machines. Behind Foveon are two legendary figures who made the personal computer possible: Carver Mead of Caltech, one of the founding fathers of information tech

Author: Richard Cohe
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: champions, modern, library, paperbacks, olympic, swashbucklers, history, gladiators, musketeers, samurai, sword
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2003-08-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0812969669
ISBN-13: 9780812969665

By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting�a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing history of the world via the sword.