“Step-by-step illustrations that guide the novice and hobbyist to successful taxidermy.” Start with a bird, it’s the easiest, while fish are the hardest to do. Sharks are impossible. Snakes have to be chloroformed or frozen alive. Urethane mannequin forms are easy to use. Skinning an animal’s head takes a couple of hours, so give yourself time. Test a knife’s edge by skinning a chicken. Chapters include: “Basic Mounts,“ “Big Game Head Mounts,” “Novelties,” “Rugs,’’ “Tricks With Antlers and Horns,” “Lifelike Snakes,” “The Taxidermy Knife” and “Dare to be Different.” With a listing of suppliers and tips from the pros. GR

Publisher: Stoeger
Paperback: 224 pages
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Cloak-and-dagger tip sheet detailing superserious spy methods. “Now you can study the techniques used by real professional spies and investigators. Learn how to gather any type of information you may want—or stop others from getting info on you!” 007-style contents include:
• The significance of HUMINT, or human intelligence gathering.
• Infiltration and maintaining cover.
• Methods for gaining entrance to enemy installations; how to open and reseal letters.
• Escaping in trains and vehicles; how to avoid dogs; escaping from handcuffs.
• Letter drops, couriers, visual signals, audio signals, scrambling systems, invisible ink.
• Hand cameras, video cameras, night-vision devices. GR

Publisher: Flores
Paperback: 174 pages
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The accoutrements of espionage—the world’s second oldest profession—laid out in full-color, pornographic splendor for all the world to see. “An inconspicuous figure in a raincoat… border crossings at midnight… living under constant threat of betrayal and torture… secretive and shadowy, the world of the spy.” Nothing hidden—all tricks revealed! Thrill at the tiny danger of the lipstick pistol! the wrist pistol! the poison pellet pen! the cigarette pistol! the cigar pistol! the pipe pistol! the wallet gun! the toothpaste-tube gun! the glove gun! the poison pellet cane! and (don’t sit down) the rectal pistol! Then gasp at the miniature madness of the wristwatch camera! the briefcase camera! the cigarette-pack camera! the KGB necktie camera! the book camera! the waist-belt surveillance camera! the button camera! the matchbox camera! and the cigarette- lighter camera! (Sorry, no rectal camera.) Items from the collection of Keith Melton, adviser to U.S. intelligence agencies. Co-foreword by William Colby (ex-CIA) and Oleg Kalugin (ex-KGB), both of whom, during the Cold War, used many of the same spy tools on each other. GR

Publisher: DK
Hardback: 176 pages
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Extraordinary document of Victorian London, told from the bottom up, by a literary gadfly and one-time editor of Punch, the British humor magazine. “The image of London that emerges from Mayhew’s pages is that of a vast, ingeniously balanced mechanism in which each class subsists on the drippings and droppings of the stratum above, all the way from the rich, whom we scarcely glimpse, down to the deformed and starving, whom we see groping for bits of salvageable bone or decaying vegetables in the markets. Such extreme conditions bred weird extremities of adaption, a remarkably diverse yet cohesive subculture of poverty. Ragged, fantastic armies, each with its distinctive jargon and implements, roamed the streets: ‘pure-finders’ with bucket and glove, picking up dog dung and selling it to tanners; rag-gatherers, themselves dressed in the rotted cloth they salvaged, armed with pointed sticks; bent, slime-soiled ‘mud-larks,’ groping at low tide in the ooze of the Thames for bits of coal, chips of wood, or copper nails dropped from the sheathing of barges… The rapid, wrenching industrialization of England (London’s population trebled between 1800 and 1850) was breeding a new species of humanity, a rootless generation entirely environed by brick, smoke, work and want.” Hundreds of first-person narratives, told in the vernacular of the workers themselves. Puts Dickens to shame. GR

Publisher: Dover
Paperback: 494 pages
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Extraordinary document of Victorian London, told from the bottom up, by a literary gadfly and one-time editor of Punch, the British humor magazine. “The image of London that emerges from Mayhew’s pages is that of a vast, ingeniously balanced mechanism in which each class subsists on the drippings and droppings of the stratum above, all the way from the rich, whom we scarcely glimpse, down to the deformed and starving, whom we see groping for bits of salvageable bone or decaying vegetables in the markets. Such extreme conditions bred weird extremities of adaption, a remarkably diverse yet cohesive subculture of poverty. Ragged, fantastic armies, each with its distinctive jargon and implements, roamed the streets: ‘pure-finders’ with bucket and glove, picking up dog dung and selling it to tanners; rag-gatherers, themselves dressed in the rotted cloth they salvaged, armed with pointed sticks; bent, slime-soiled ‘mud-larks,’ groping at low tide in the ooze of the Thames for bits of coal, chips of wood, or copper nails dropped from the sheathing of barges… The rapid, wrenching industrialization of England (London’s population trebled between 1800 and 1850) was breeding a new species of humanity, a rootless generation entirely environed by brick, smoke, work and want.” Hundreds of first-person narratives, told in the vernacular of the workers themselves. Puts Dickens to shame. GR

Publisher: Dover
Paperback: 494 pages
Illustrated

Extraordinary document of Victorian London, told from the bottom up, by a literary gadfly and one-time editor of Punch, the British humor magazine. “The image of London that emerges from Mayhew’s pages is that of a vast, ingeniously balanced mechanism in which each class subsists on the drippings and droppings of the stratum above, all the way from the rich, whom we scarcely glimpse, down to the deformed and starving, whom we see groping for bits of salvageable bone or decaying vegetables in the markets. Such extreme conditions bred weird extremities of adaption, a remarkably diverse yet cohesive subculture of poverty. Ragged, fantastic armies, each with its distinctive jargon and implements, roamed the streets: ‘pure-finders’ with bucket and glove, picking up dog dung and selling it to tanners; rag-gatherers, themselves dressed in the rotted cloth they salvaged, armed with pointed sticks; bent, slime-soiled ‘mud-larks,’ groping at low tide in the ooze of the Thames for bits of coal, chips of wood, or copper nails dropped from the sheathing of barges… The rapid, wrenching industrialization of England (London’s population trebled between 1800 and 1850) was breeding a new species of humanity, a rootless generation entirely environed by brick, smoke, work and want.” Hundreds of first-person narratives, told in the vernacular of the workers themselves. Puts Dickens to shame. GR

Publisher: Dover
Paperback: 494 pages

"How to get the two 'breeder cards' that lead to the acquiring of a driver’s license, passport, Medicare card and so on—in other words, all the documents that make you an 'American' in the eyes of the U.S. Government, whether or not the first two are frauds. Tell the difference between real and fake birth certificates and baptismal certificates. How birth certificates are certified and how they and death records are cross-referenced. Learn the difference between state and county certificates, Social Security numbering schemes, aging documents and the Government can spot a fraudulent card." GR

Publisher: Index
Paperback: 160 pages

This is the most up-to-date volume of lore on America’s big problem with bogus documentation, be it altered, forged or falsified. Explains how birth certificates are fraudulently created, how Social Security cards are faked, how driver’s licenses are forged, and how passports are created for nonexistent persons. “Our estimate puts the number of people who are using some sort of altered identity document at well over 10 million!” say the authors. Goes into great detail on several subjects: provides SSN charts that show what all the numbers mean; includes a state-by-state section showing characteristics of each state’s driver’s license; and features a state list of Vital Statistics Bureaus, noting addresses and the prices to obtain birth-, death- and marriage-certificate information. GR

Publisher: Index
Paperback: 160 pages
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This is a copy of the document prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General. “The object of this publication is to provide a general understanding of the Social Security Number (SSN) issuance process, how individuals attempt to subvert it and misuse SSNs, and what experience has shown with respect to the investigation of these criminal activities . . . . a reference tool that will provide the investigator with insight into the SSN issuance system and an idea of how violations have been identified and established in past cases. GR

Publisher: Eden
Paperback: 82 pages
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“Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the bunker . . . “ More recipes for homemade C-4 explosive from a professional “powder monkey.” Focuses on inexpensive, unregulated chemicals that average citizens can find cheaply and locally. “More bang for the buck!” Assumes a working knowledge of explosives deployment. GR

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 77 pages
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