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This book offers a well-rounded selection of reliable, well-researched formulas for the most popular exploding fireworks, including M80s, cherry bombs, ash cans, chasers, globe torpedoes, Knallkorpers, aerial bombs, cracker balls, Flashcrackas and more. For academic study only.

John Donner, who has been honing his skills as a pyrotechnist for more than 30 years, preserves for all time the now all-but-outlawed techniques that makers of traditional fireworks have used and Americans have enjoyed for generations.
$20.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-929-2 136 pages 5.5" x 8.5" illustrations

For the first time since World War II, the United States faces an enemy fully capable of defeating it. Contrary to popular belief, this war did not begin with the attacks of September 11, 2001, and it will not end in Iraq or Afghanistan or with an election here at home. This fight is going to be with us for a very long time. When you are in a fight for your life, you can either be the winner or the loser – there is no middle ground.

If we are going to be the winner, we will have to realize the true nature of this conflict and our enemy. You will not see landing crafts full of al-Qaeda operatives coming ashore on U.S. beaches, nor battalions of radical fanatics parachuting onto your lawn. It is just not that kind of fight. If America loses this war, it will not be because what our enemy was able to do; it will be because of what we have done or failed to do.

Within these pages, Delta Force veteran, Kit Cessna, offers his unapologetic, no-punches-pulled assessment of what this war is really about and why we must defeat these radicals. He explains their history and motivations, and outlines their strengths and weaknesses (yes, they do have weaknesses). Most important, he discusses the role and duties all Americans must embrace in this fight for our survival‹cultural and physical. If you are an American concerned with the future of our nation, this is a must read.

Kit Cessna served in the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta (Delta Force), 2nd Ranger Battalion and the 1st Special Forces Group as an A-Team member. While in Delta Force, he saw combat action in the 1989 invasion of Panama. Currently, he is an instructor for the U.S. State Department Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program and is the lead instructor for the Southern Anti-Terrorist Training Academy in Louisiana. He has served as a reserve SWAT officer for two police departments.
$14.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-718-5 142 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

NEW! The original Paladin Book of Dangerously Fun Stuff hit a nerve with thrill seekers and information junkies everywhere. Now, we've dug even deeper into the Paladin archives and commissioned more new articles for a second volume of action arcana, handy how-to, taboo topics, comical capers, and just plain weird stuff that we're sure will delight all you guys who've never really grown up.

What's on the menu this time? This action-packed sequel will teach you how to:

* survive an armed roadblock without getting shot
* live high on the hog without a job
* buy and sell precious metals without getting screwed
* keep a military coup covert . . . or improvise when it gets discovered
* defuse a barroom brawl (four strategies!)
* outwit your interrogator on the witness stand
* remember where you stashed your valuables in that place no one would ever think to look but now even you forgot
* identify five deadly firearm training traps

All this and much more on gangs, guns, drugs, bears, propaganda! Driving drunk, picking locks, hitchhiking intelligently, snatching prisoners! Crooked cards, mantraps, gunpowder, tractors! (Tractors?)
The dozens of authors represented here are not only the top researchers, practitioners, and writers in their fields, they are also largely the cognoscenti to whom the "authorities" and "experts" go for advice. And they deal with topics you will find covered nowhere else. Some of your favorite Paladin authors included in this book are:

* Max Edison
* Marc "Animal" MacYoung
* James Ballou
* George Hayduke
* Ragnar Benson
* Jeff Cooper
* Paul Kirchner
* and more.

So read on, and as we said before: Live dangerously. Live free. And have fun.
$35.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-739-0 300 pages 8.5" x 11" Photos, illustrations

What is invisible resistance to tyranny? It is an underground movement of secret freedom fighters, each acting individually and independently to ignore, evade, resist and thwart the increasingly heavy hand of government power. Invisible resisters do not join protest groups, stand on street corners making speeches or run with a mob throwing rocks at police vehicles. Rather, they make up a collective silent insurgency that tyrants won't be able to put down because they won't be able to find it. Invisible Resistance to Tyranny is both a manifesto and manual for everyday citizens who are alarmed by the never-ending encroachment upon the individual freedoms recognized by the Bill of Rights and who want to do something about it now before it comes down to a choice between violent revolution and total submission.
$20.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-308-8 152 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

Many of the people who bought volume one of Ragnar's Action Encyclopedia contacted Ragnar to tell him they loved having all that vital information together in one book, but could he please include information in the next volume on choosing the right weapon, assembling a sniper rifle, taking out tanks and APCs, avoiding police entrapment, doing your own medicine, fighting back at the politicians and IRS . . . The result is Volume Two, with more than 40 all-new chapters on topics that could be critical to you in the uncertain future world confronting terrorism.

Ragnar Benson is America's most-esteemed survival expert. He has written more than 20 books for Paladin throughout the years on a variety of topics covering everything from weapons to politics to survival medicine.
$40.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-926-1 248 pages 8.5" x 11" photos

This reference book may be the most valuable weapon you have in your survival arsenal. Included among its 60 chapters are precise instructions, diagrams and photographs showing you how to build, choose, store and use weapons; select, build, stock and defend a retreat; change your ID and drop out of sight completely — or find someone who has; defend your family and property; trap deer, fish, fowl or anything that moves; provide medical care at a fraction of the cost; avoid costly mistakes when standing up to big government and nosy do-gooders; use dozens of other proven techniques to take control of your life and live better than ever!

Ragnar Benson is America's most-esteemed survival expert. He has written more than 20 books for Paladin throughout the years on a variety of topics covering everything from weapons to politics to survival medicine.
$40.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-801-1 344 pages 8.5" x 11" photos

NEW! Every few years, American voters get fed up and "throw the bums out." One party sweeps to victory on promises of "change" or "getting government off our backs." Such monumental electoral changes swept the country in 2008. And 1994. And 1980. And 1968. But amid all this change, the one thing that never actually does change is the one thing we imagine we're changing—government. We throw the bums out—and throw another bunch of bums in. We vote for smaller government—and government gets even bigger. We vote for less spending, and spending soars. In other words: no matter who we vote for, the government gets elected.

"It's hopeless," we tell ourselves. "There's not a damn thing we can do to change anything." But that sort of cynicism simply just plays into the system. There are alternatives to the failed methods of good citizenship, and that's what this book is about. Let freedom activist Claire Wolfe show you how to use a bad attitude to effect real change:

* Bypassing politics entirely to get things done and preserve your freedoms
* Keeping politicians and bureaucrats in their place—and out of yours
* Halting the increased militarization of police
* Choosing between creative disregard and civil disobedience
* Assessing the necessity of elections in society

The goal of Claire's unconventional brand of political action is to generate a momentum of individual independence around the country, at the same time as government-as-usual engineers its own doom by being oppressive and unresponsive. There may not be a sea change at first, but as more and more citizens become fed up with the status quo and find cause within the freedom movement, change could come bullet-train fast.

"Claire Wolfe is one of the great revolutionaries of our time. . . . The Bad Attitude Guide makes a great stocking stuffer—it is a unique book and a unique perspective."
––Brian Wilson, Radio Show Host

Claire Wolfe is the author of The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook and I Am Not a Number, both published by Paladin Press. She is the coauthor, with Aaron Zelman, of the young-adult novel Rebelfire: Out of the Gray Zone. She is a regular contributor to S.W.A.T. magazine and Backwoods Home.
$19.95
Softcover 978-1-58160-741-3 228 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

Curious. A nose for adventure. A taste for the dangerous. A sense of humor. Sound like you? Then The Paladin Book of Dangerously Fun Stuff is just what you need!

Paladin Press has always been the single best resource for how-to freaks and inside-information junkies. Now, we've put together our most engaging book ever: we commissioned a slew of brand-new articles from all your favorite authors – plus some new ones you are sure to love – and distilled excerpts from all corners of the Action Library, from best-sellers and hidden gems. The result is a wildly eclectic compilation of dangerously fun topics that offers something for every taste.

Want to learn how to land an airplane if you had to? It's here. Want to know what it's like to drive a car off a 300-foot cliff? That's here, too. Build a backyard catapult? Yep, plus 70 more chapters that provide, in the Paladin tradition, all sorts of unusual perspectives on guns and weapons, self-defense, revolutions, self-reliance and much, much more. You'll get unusual advice on such things as how to:

* Fight a duel
* Start your own country
* Deal with wacko coworkers
* Rake in the dough as a sports bookie
* Put out a house fire with a garden hose
* Get your vehicle on the road after a rollover
* Crack a whip like Indiana Jones
* Talk your way out of a fight
* Disable a tank

From some of your favorite Paladin authors like:

* Ragnar Bensen
* John Plaster
* Jeff Cooper
* Mark Hatmaker
* Loren Christensen
* Paul Kirchner
* Dwight McLemore
* and more.

Live dangerously. Live free. Have fun. This book is dedicated to all that good stuff, carefully selected for those of us who never really grew up. And don't intend to.
$39.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-689-8 322 pages 8.5" x 11" photos, illustrations

Claire Wolfe is back, and she has expanded the groundbreaking content of her original 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution to 179 explicit courses of action for modern-day Minutemen. This new book is based on the premise that when governments turn bad, things like dissent, initiative, individual pleasures and exercise of one's basic rights become crimes. In such dire times, it is up to determined, patriotic citizens to protest and resist – both overtly and covertly.

In this entertaining, hard-hitting book, Wolfe outlines 27 things you can quit wasting your time on right now, 43 ways to not cooperate with tyrants, 31 ideas to increase your independence from the State, 30 means to take part in "agitation for outlaws," 34 monkeywrenching tips and, finally, 14 last-ditch paths to take if it ever comes down to resistance or total submission.

Guns, computers, identity documents, taxes. Engaging in civil disobedience, operating in the black market, going deep underground - Wolfe covers it all. These are not far-out, impractical ideas but 179 things that anyone with the proper motivation and determination can do today to help beat back the tide of tyranny.
$30.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-578-5 210 pages 8.5" x 11"