📚 Explosives

Nobel’s dangerous family: from black powder to dynamite, mining, demolition, and the chemistry of rapid gas.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject explosives in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Chemistry of high-energy materials	Thomas M. Klapötke	2010	15
	The Anarchist Cookbook	William F. Powell	1971	13
	Ley federal de armas de fuego y explosivos y su reglamento	Mexico.	1975	12
	Explosives	Rudolf Meyer	1981	10
	The Chemistry of Explosives	Jacqueline Akhavan	1998	10
	Propellants and Explosives	Naminosuke Kubota	2001	10
	Revolutionäre Kriegswissenschaft	Johann Joseph Most	1883	8
	Lectures on explosives	Willoughby Walke	1891	8
	A Handbook on Modern Explosives	Manuel Eissler	1897	8
	Notes on military explosives	Erasmus Morgan Weaver	1906	8
	Explosives	Arthur Marshall	1915	6
	List of Authorised Explosives	Edgar George Whitbread	1971	6
	The poor man's James Bond	Kurt Saxon	1972	6
	The big bang	G. I. Brown	1998	6
	Detonation Phenomenon	John H. S. Lee	2008	6
	Performance of Explosives and New Developments	Bibhu Mohanty	2012	6
	Industrial nitrogen compounds and explosives	Martin, Geoffrey	1915	5
	Blasters' handbook	E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.	1925	5
	Metal-fluorocarbon based energetic materials	Ernst-Christian Koch	2011	5
	The science of high explosives	Melvin A. Cook	1958	4
	High explosives and propellants	S. Fordham	1966	4
	List of Authorised Explosives	Health and Safety Executive Staff Great Britain	1977	4
	The analysis of 1, 3, 5-Triamino-2, 4, 6-Trinitrobenzene/phenoxy composites	W. Selig	1979	4
	The manufacture of explosives	Oscar Guttmann	1895	3
	Vertical farming	Gilbert Ellis Bailey	1915	3
	Explosives Engineering	Paul W. Cooper	1996	3
	Rock blasting terms and symbols	Agne Rustan	1998	3
	Liquid Explosives	Jiping Liu	2015	3
	Explosives and homemade bombs	Joseph F. Stoffel	1962	2
	Explosives and rock blasting	Unknown author	1987	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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