Diagram Group
Summary: This guide covers the entire history of weapons, from the earliest, most primitive instruments up to remarkable advances in modern defense and warfare. Comprehensively illustrated, with diagrams, charts, photographs, and much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin's Griffin 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.409 NEW1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.4 NEW
Summary: With a spectacular illustrated journey through 4,000 years of weaponry, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armour is the most comprehensive visual reference charting the history of arms and armour worldwide. Follow the evolution of weaponry from stone maces to machine-guns, and discover the brutal history of the warriors who wielded them. Drawing extensively on the treasures of the Royal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.44 WEABillings, Tanner
Summary: "What is biosecurity? It's the methods militaries use to protect us from biological attacks, and developing biosecurity systems, protocols, and technology requires the application of every area of STEM. As such, readers gain a stronger understanding of a variety of STEM concepts as they explore this exciting and essential topic. They learn how the things they learn in the classroom can applied...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 358 BILSummary: See how Wild West gangs used Mississippi rifles and Arkansas toothpicks to terrorize the frontier. Spotlights the hoodlums of the wild West and the weapons that made their criminal deeds possible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WILSummary: Investigates the theory that the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine had been orchestrated by the Soviet Union as a screen for the decommissioning of the Duga (i.e., Woodpecker) ballistic missle advance warning system (based in the vicinity of the reactor) because of the inevitable change in relations between Ukraine and what was soon to become post-Cold War Russia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016