The Best of the Firemaker is a summary of five years of state-of-the-art research in pyrotechnics by Larry Homan. Larry is one of the industry's most devoted and knowledgeable practitioners. From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Homan published a journal devoted to expanding the general knowledge of fireworks. The journal was appropriately named "The Firemaker". This book is a summary of the best of those issues. 239 pages.