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New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual
Reader's Digest Editors Manufacturer: Readers Digest ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0895773783 |
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The most complete and authoritative home repair manual ever published, this book is the yard-stick by which all other books on do-it-yourself are measured. The definitive guide to home repair, maintenance, and improvement. Over 4,000 illustrations.Customer Reviews:
New Home Owers Handbook.......2007-09-02
A must have for any home owner or do-it-yourselfer.......2007-05-20
Great detail (US).......2006-06-09
Buy the new edition.......2005-04-09
Lots of information.......2004-12-07
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New Remodeling Book: Your complete guide to planning a dream project (Better Homes & Gardens)
Better Homes and Gardens Books Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0696207400 |
Book Description
The new cornerstone of Meredith's remodeling and home improvement category.Two books in one: A dream book filled with lush photos of remodelings big and small and a workbook that leads readers through the process of planning their own beautiful home improvement projects.
Provides an inspirational starting point for readers who may hire a contractor, but want to do the dreaming and design work themselves.
Tips for increasing the beauty, livability, and even the resale value of any home.
Helps readers assess their own personal needs and evaluate their home and its market potential.
Leads readers through the process of planning major room additions, as well as smaller improvements, such as opening up existing spaces by removing walls.
Tips on financing.
Illustrations show readers some common remodeling mistakes to avoid.
Advice from some of the top remodeling experts in the country.
Approximately 450 full-color photos show whole-house redos, single-room makeovers, and dramatic exterior facelifts.
Customer Reviews:
Informative and visually stunning.......2006-02-04
A good buy for everyone.......2002-12-14
Benefits for those who are going to remodel:
This book is jammed backed with information! It shows you how to evaluate your house and neighborhood before you remodel, how to "finesse" a floorplan and what is involved with remodeling (e.g. the section on working with contractors), it discusses potential problems and pitfalls to avoid when remodeling, it has case studies (the problem, "the program," the cure), it has information on both interior and exterior remodeling with special sections on bathrooms and kitchens. It discusses different materials and many different types of changes you can make to your house.
Benefits for both interior design junkies and those who are just starting out:
This book is a good primer on both interior and exterior design. It cotains general information on house types and exterior color combinations. This book has a section on how to enhance existing interior space, and the pictures throughout the book can be used as inspiration for redecorating projects, in addition to remodeling projects.
Minuses: There is only one interior style represented here, a mix of traditional and country. The exteriors are primarily arts & crafts and traditional styles. I'm sure the style was created to appeal to the broadest range of people, which is a plus for the publishers, but a drawback to those who have a more individual style. However, I think that the information on remodeling can be applied to many styles.
Recommendation:
I would recommend this book to anyone!
remodeling project basics plus allowance for "youness".......2000-05-29
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New Complete Guide to Home Repair & Improvement (Better Homes & Gardens)
Better Homes and Gardens Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0696211890 Release Date: 2001-09-15 |
Book Description
The largest home improvement manual on the market, includes 600 pages, 500 projects, and more than 3,000 full-color illustrations for home repairs and improvements.Organized in four large sections of subject matter to make the information easy to find, including: Inside Your Home, Outside Your Home, Your Home's Systems, and Basics You Should Know.
This book is designed so readers can scan each page and quickly understand the scope of each project.
Color bars located on the outer edge of each page designate each section to make it easy for readers to see where they are in the book.
You'll Need boxes list the skills, time, and tools required to complete each project shown in the book.
Material Matters features educate the reader about the pros and cons of different types of materials to use for the job.
Helpful Hints features highlight the how-to wisdom of the Better Homes and Gardens (r) team of experts.
Customer Reviews:
The best one out there..........2006-11-04
Great How to Book.......2002-10-13
A feature that I really like is the "You'll need" which gives the Skill level, time and tools needed to complete each task.
This is the best of the home repair books I reviewed before purchasing.
Excellent reference for the inexperienced do-it-yourselfer........2000-01-10
Compare this with Black & Decker's repair book before buying.......1999-12-14
How can you expect more from a book on this subject?.......1999-07-25
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Hagalo usted mismo/Do it yourself: Nueva edicion del manual mas completo jamas publicado/New edition of the most complete manual never published (Manual Completo)
Manufacturer: Ediciones Del Prado S a ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8483727803 |
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NEW COMPLETE DO-IT-YOURSELF MANUAL
Sally (Editor) French Manufacturer: Reader's Digest ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000RAK5WQ |
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New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual : An All-Canadian Guide
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Association (Canada) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GYXQSI |
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Inhuman Relations: Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry (Labor and Social Change Series)
Guillermo J. Grenier Manufacturer: Temple University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0877225028 |
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This vivid exposé of the use of Quality Circles by a major company to defeat a union organizing drive dramatically presents a negative view of the highly acclaimed new humanism in American management. Guillermo Grenier gives a unique insider's account of Johnson & Johnson's implementation of the workplace reform technique called Quality of Worklife or Quality Circles as a union-busting tactic. He describes this and other methods of controlling workers, which are veiled by the benevolent rhetoric of the new managers, and shows how the supposed "democratic reforms" often have autocratic underpinnings and results.For seven months in 1982-83, the author worked as a graduate researcher under the social psychologist in charge of Team development at a Johnson & Johnson division in Albuquerque. "Team" is the name used by the company for the quality circle technique of organizing workers into small groups that discuss problems on a regular basis. The Team approach, Grenier explains, "in fact increased the conflict not only between management and worker but between the workers themselves. With calculated precision, the workforce was divided and eventually conquered because management controlled their formal and informal interactions while at the workplace."
Timely, controversial, and dramatic, Inhuman Relations presents the view that human relations management techniques have a strong anti-union tradition and have developed into liberal, acceptable methods of controlling the workforce.
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Passport to New York Restaurants 2001
Peter D. Meltzer , and Amy Meltzer Manufacturer: Passport Pr Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0937413135 |
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The Red Hat Society(R)'s Laugh Lines: Stories of Inspiration and Hattitude
Sue Ellen Cooper Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0446695114 |
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The follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Red Hat Society is a collection of the RHS members' most memorably funny and touching stories. It's Chicken Soup for the Red Hat Soul. Life begins at 50! And the women of the Red Hat Society are proud of it. In THE RED HAT SOCIETY'S LAUGH LINES, Sue Ellen Cooper and the women of the RHS celebrate the life experiences that have made them who they are today. Over the years, they've accumulated well-earned laugh lines and cry-lines from wonderfully funny, incredibly touching stories that will warm readers' hearts and touch their souls. Just as there is so much more to each of these women than a purple outfit and a red hat, there's so much more to their lives than the RHS-from their husbands, children, and grandchildren to living life fabulously after 50. This book is a collection of some of the most touching and funniest stories that they want to share with their sisters, and is filled with sidebars recommending their favorite books and movies. With contributions from members across the country, this collection is bound to thrill all Red Hatters-and those who soon will be.
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The Red Hat Society's Laugh Lines: Stories of Inspiration and Hattitude
Sue Ellen Cooper Manufacturer: Warner Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0739453491 |
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rare Warner hardcover 2005 edition.
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The Red Hat Society's Laugh Lines - Stories of Inspiration and Hattitude (LARGE PRINT EDITION)
Sue Ellen Cooper Manufacturer: Warner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0739454137 |
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The Red Hat Society's Laugh Lines: Stories Of Inspiration And Hattitude
Sue Ellen; Reekstin, Andrea Cooper Manufacturer: Warner Books Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MSCZYO |
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Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records
Tim Hollis , and Greg Ehrbar Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1578068495 |
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Around the world there are grandparents, parents, and children who can still sing ditties by Tigger or Baloo the Bear or the Seven Dwarfs. This staying power and global reach is in large part a testimony to the pizzazz of performers, songwriters, and other creative artists who worked with Walt Disney RecordsMouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records chronicles for the first time the fifty-year history of the Disney recording companies launched by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney in the mid-1950s, when Disneyland Park, Davy Crockett, and the Mickey Mouse Club were taking the world by storm. The book provides a perspective on all-time Disney favorites and features anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographies of the artists who brought Disney magic to audio.
Authors Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar go behind the scenes at the Walt Disney Studios and discover that in the early days Walt Disney and Roy Disney resisted going into the record business before the success of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" ignited the in-house label. Along the way, the book traces the recording adventures of such Disney favorites as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Cinderella, Bambi, Jiminy Cricket, Winnie the Pooh, and even Walt Disney himself. Mouse Tracks reveals the struggles, major successes, and occasional misfires. Included are impressions and details of teen-pop princesses Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills, the Mary Poppins phenomenon, a Disney-style "British invasion," and a low period when sagging sales forced Walt Disney to suggest closing the division down.
Complementing each chapter are brief performer biographies, reproductions of album covers and art, and facsimilies of related promotional material. Mouse Tracks is a collector's bonanza of information on this little-analyzed side of the Disney empire.
Customer Reviews:
The stars shine........2007-06-12
Memory Lane.......2007-03-16
A bit sparse on specific information--but still a good read for Disney aficionadoes.......2007-02-26
Mouse Tracks.......2006-11-03
AN E-TICKET FOR DISNEY MUSIC!.......2006-10-10
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Jukebox Jive: Hot Tips to Keep Your Romance Sweet (Retro Moments) (Retro Moments)
Wynn Wheldon Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0764127276 Release Date: 2003-12-03 |
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Here's a words-and-pictures memory trip into the era of bobby sox, the glowing, multicolored Wurlitzer jukebox, the jitterbug, and the lindy hop. A typical quip comes from playwright Thornton Wilder, who says: "My advice to you is not to inquire why or whether, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-" Juke Box Jive is one of a two-book series titled Retro Moments. These titles recall the days when Mom and Dad were teens. Old-fashioned photos and illustrations on every page appear with pithy quotations and comical quips drawn mainly from mid-twentieth-century writers-or with brief, entertaining one-page essays that give historical background to many aspects of twentieth-century pop culture. Retro Moments make great gift books, but bookstore gift-buyers probably will take home extra copies for themselves. These delightful little books carry their readers back to the days of drive-ins, roadside diners, fin-tailed convertibles, and the bright magazine advertisements of yesteryear.
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From Churchill's Secret Circle to the Bbc: The Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Ian Jacob, Gbe CB Dl
Charles Richardson Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0080376924 |
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Fix Your Own PC
Corey Sandler Manufacturer: MIS-Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0764534688 |
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Do you have the urge to take the casing off your Windows-based PC and tinker around, but you're a little intimidated? If so, get this book first. The text is clear and well-indexed, and this book will give you the information, and then, confidence, that you need. (It would also be a great book for anyone who wants to help recycle old computers for schools or non-profits). Two Torx blades up!Book Description
Why rush to the repair shop to install a next-station video card or deal with a Windows 2000 meltdown? With a good set of screwdrivers, an antistatic strap, and Fix Your Own PC, you'll be ready to tackle any job -- big or small. Packed with detailed charts and photos, this indispensable guide will help you keep your PC up and running and up to date.Customer Reviews:
Its a good starting point but it doesn't cover everything.......2006-04-13
Become a D.I.Y. expert.......2006-02-25
It worked for me!.......2002-01-12
An Extremely Helpful, Informative Book.......2000-01-25
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Fix Your Own PC
Corey Sandler Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470107871 |
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FIX YOUR OWN PC
Susan B. Sasser Manufacturer: MIS Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000M0KRJM |
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