Skyhorse imprint: 3212 books
Percussion Revolvers
A Guide to Their History, Performance, and Use
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A fascinating look at the history and development of the revolver.
Highly detailed and informative, Percussion Revolvers explores the advent, development, and use of precartridge revolvers during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The percussion revolver emerged in the 1830s and remained...
The Illustrated Guide to Chickens
How to Choose Them, How to Keep Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Chickens are fun, useful, and easy to keep. If you have ever considered raising your own backyard flock, The Illustrated Guide to Chickens is the book for you! It offers practical advice and contains all the information you need to choose from one of the 100 most familiar breeds of chicken in North...
Handy Hints for the Horse Person
Hundreds of Tips to Save Time and Money
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Anyone who has kept a horses or pony knows that riding and stable management can be time-consuming and expensive activities. Any advice that can save horse owners time, effort, and money is welcome. Karen Bush rides to the rescue with this compact, comprehensive book, full of tips that range from...
Blood Sport
A Journey Up the Hassayampa
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Welcome to the wilderness of masculinity, where anything goes—where women throw themselves unreservedly at men and games are played to the death. This is the outdoor paradise of the Hassayampa, a legendary river whose bank is overrun with prehistoric and mystical creatures prime for hunting and...
Mom Rules
Notes on Motherhood, the World's Best Job
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Following on the heels of their successful books on grandparenting (Grandma Rules and Grandpa Rules), wife-husband author team Jill and Michael Milligan set their sights on the joys and stresses of motherhood. A response to all those sappy mommy books with flowers and puppies on the cover, Mom Rules...
Be a Hero
The Essential Survival Guide to Active-Shooter Events
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Dealing with the unthinkable
It’s never going to be you. Then one day you hear the clatter of automatic fire at the mall. You have been drawn into the chaos and terror of an active shooter event. What do you do? Who do you turn to?
Be a Hero is the essential guide to terrorist attacks that...
by Charles K. Reed, Chester A. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Here in one comprehensive source are all the age-old instructions for correctly mounting all kinds of game, from birds and deer to fish and beyond. The Complete Guide to Traditional Taxidermy will show you the pleasure of performing taxidermy work for yourself and the profit to be gained in performing...
Solving Deer Problems
How to Deerproof Your Yard and Garden
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
What can I do? Gardeners are asking themselves-and experts-this question with increasing urgency about the deer that threaten their carefully cultivated lawns and gardens. With the increased development of suburban and rural land and the lack of natural predators, deer populations are exploding and...
One Life at a Time
An American Doctor's Memoir of AIDS in Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
When Dr. Daniel Baxter arrived in Botswana in 2002, he was confident of the purity of his mission to help people with AIDS, armed with what he thought were immutable truths about life—and himself—that had been forged on his AIDS ward in New York City ten years earlier. But Baxter’s good intentions...
The Ultimate Obamacare Handbook (2015?2016 edition)
A Definitive Guide to the Benefits, Rights, Responsibilities, and Potential Pitfalls of the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
"The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, makes health insurance available to the majority of Americans.
In fact, failure to obtain coverage will result in penalties, but the process of obtaining insurance can be daunting. This brief handbook explains the law and its history and tells readers how to...
The Sociopath's Guide to Getting Ahead
Tips for the Dark Art of Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Can you be manipulative or irresponsible? Do you occasionally experience a lack of guilt or empathy? Can you be impulsive and feel a need for excitement? Well, these traits are the hallmarks of the sociopath inside you, and it’s time to embrace it! The time to unleash your inner sociopath has never...
It's All True
Walking by Faith in a Funky World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Christian songwriter and minister shares his life’s tragedies and triumphs in this touching, inspirational memoir.
Multiplatinum recording artist and worship leader Jeff Slaughter has garnered worldwide success while helping children discover what a passionate relationship with Jesus is all...
The Overparenting Epidemic
Why Helicopter Parenting Is Bad for Your Kids . . . and Dangerous for You, Too!
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Helicopter parents, tiger moms, cosseters, hothouse parents . . .
Whatever we label it, overparenting—anxious, invasive, overly attentive, and competitive parenting—may have finally backfired. As we witness the first generation of overparented children becoming adults in their own right,...
Hexes for the Modern Age
Contemporary Curses for the People Who Irritate You the Most
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A tongue-in-cheek book of spells that will teach you how to give life’s most irritating people a taste of their own medicine.
“Revenge is a dish best served through these hilarious curses. . . . What are you waiting for? Make your shit list actionable!” ―Rachel Federman, author of Test...