Akron Public Library

When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs-neither of which had been thought of yet-their simple mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships,...

Phil Broker travels to Landgon, North Dakota, to assist his estranged Delta Force operator wife and daughter only to learn that his wife is running a smugling operation with links to terrorism.

Grief and guilt are the ghosts that haunt you when you survive what others do not…. After their last deployment, when she got shot, her fiancé Martinez got killed and his bomb-sniffing dog Elvis got depressed, soldier Mercy Carr and Elvis were both sent home, her late lover’s last words ringing in her ears: “Take care of my partner.” Together the two former military police―one twenty-nine-year-old two-legged female with wounds deeper...

Prepare for nerve shattering adventure as a flight carrying a highly secure shipment of the world's deadiest explosives crashes headlong into the snow covered mountains of Alaska. The battle for survival has just begun and only one U.S. Military Agent has what it takes to save the passengers and stop the deadly explosives from falling into the wrong hands.

Follow an explosive trail through the ages, starting in ninth- century China, and continuing through the discovery of the atomic bomb in the twentieth century.

"A board book format with movable parts illustrates the demolition of structures using explosives"--Provided by publisher.

No scandal is more threatening to the Obama administration than Operation Fast and Furious. While other scandals involve money, Fast and Furious involves lives, including that of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, gunned down with a weapon that the federal government put in the hands of Mexico's narco-terrorists.

""With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the old girl could run. But, if you're very, very lucky there will be the one dog you would lay down your life for - and for me that dog is Buster." Buster, an English springer spaniel who has served his comrades and his country with unstinting devotion, has...

"Inside this book, meet the men and women who use science and their precision engineering skills to do one of the world's most dangerous jobs. What is it like to work with highly dangerous explosives? How do blasters plan and prepare a demolition? And what dangers do they face when destoying old buildings or blasting tunnels deep underground?" -- Publisher description.