Author: David E. Jones
Publisher: Potomac Books
Keywords: warriors, history, women
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1574882066
ISBN-13: 9781574882063

Now in paperback, Women Warriors is the most comprehensive work available about women’s martial heritage. David Jones, an anthropologist, tells the history of women in battle from Cleopatra and Joan of Arc to Thusnelda, the Teutonic warrior, and the 20th century’s Ming Khai. He challenges the notion that only men are capable of fighting or leading in battle. From sword-wieldin soldiers to modern-day helicopter pilots, women around the world who have fought, led and ruled come to life in Women Warriors.

Author: Sol Yurick
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: warriors
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802139922
ISBN-13: 9780802139924

The basis for the cult-classic film The night of July 4. Teenage violence runs wild through the streets, exploding with firecrackers and patriotic celebration. In the Bronx, the police move in to break up a citywide convention of gang leaders. Whistles, shots, pounding nightsticks, and suddenly, six members of "the Family"—the Coney Island Dominators—are alone on enemy terrain. Their desperate flight back to their native turf is a journey filled with murder, rape, and subway mayhem that will leave the awestruck reader at a new station of awareness. An exhilarating novel that ex

Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Darby Creek Publishing
Keywords: warriors
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1581960220
ISBN-13: 9781581960228

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. As a member of the lacrosse team and of Iroquois heritage, Jake knows how sacred the game is, but when he moves to a boarding school and plays for its team, he finds that the coach is feeding untruths to his team about the game.

Author: Tom Zambrano
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: fire, warriors
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $30.50
ISBN-10: 1412013208
ISBN-13: 9781412013208

Young firefighters were forced to become hardened veterans almost overnight when serving in New York City during the politically charged decades of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The day-to-day dangers we firefighters endured together produced the highest degree of bonding that one can imagine. As "family," we shared the love, and laughter, as well as the tears of each other’s personal tragedies. This book also tells how we, as firefighters, shared in the anguish felt by the innocent victims and their families. Fighting accidental fires was a tough enough job, but the embattled f

Author: Richard Kim
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
Keywords: warriors, weaponless
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1974-12-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0897500415
ISBN-13: 9780897500418

Here is a rare book—an informal history of Okinawan karate and its growth, told through vignettes about its most famous practitioners. This rare chronicle is one of the most thoroughly researched histories on Okinawan karate, with rare photographs of the earliest pioneers of naha-te, the empty-hand style of self-defense. An essential addition to any martial artist’s library. Kim, a judo and karate black belt, has studied shorinji-ryu kenpo and is an expert on karate history.

Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Jove
Keywords: war, men, warriors, secret
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0515124907
ISBN-13: 9780515124903

The New York Times bestselling series continues with the second Men at War novel by W.E.B. Griffin.Washington D.C., 1942. With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out uranium ore essential to the arms race. But this time, Canidy is not in the saddle; he’s the backup pilot. And though he’s not used to waiting for something to go wrong, he knows that it will... "Shrewd, sharp, rousing entertainment!"--Kirkus Reviews"A storyteller in the grand tradition."--Tom Clancy

Author: Alan Duff
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Keywords: warriors
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 070222829X
ISBN-13: 9780702228292

Alan Duff’s ground-breaking first novel is one of the most talked-about books ever published in New Zealand and is now the basis of a major New Zealand film. This hard hitting story is a frank and uncompromising portrayal of Maori in New Zealand society. It is a raw and powerful story in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new life. Alan Duff was born in Rotorua and now lives in Havelock North. He is the author of two novels, Once Were Warriors and One Night Out Stealing and one work of non fiction, Maori, the