"The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites." Henry Steele Commager, The New York Times Book Review

Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists and Robert Owen's Idealists the two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony, Indiana Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experiments Rapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him.

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The Global Collapse hit everyone hard throughout the world. Eight in ten people died during the collapse that left civilization in ruins. Out of the ashes rose new pockets of civilization and trade. Resources were scarce, petroleum products non-existent, and steam power took over again for farming, light industry, and the movement of goods and people. Out of this a young woman intent on finding her brother, travels to Arizona. Follow her journey to find family in this neo-steampunk western.

The rapier has been immortalized over the centuries and no more-so than today on stage and in film. Princess Bride, the Three Musketeers, and other films have brought this sword to life. Today, stage combatants, fencers, and re-enactors study the world of the rapier. William E. Wilson the founder of the Tattershall School of Defence brings the history and use of the rapier to life in this manual. He dispels many misconceptions about the weapon, discusses its history, and also its purpose and use. The theory and practice of many of the historical masters such as Capoferro, Fabris, Marozzo and...