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Written for reasonable risk takers and suburban dads who want to add more excitement to their lives, this daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects explains why danger is good for you and details the art of living dangerously.
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For the last century it has been impossible to find reliable information on alcohol fuel production and use. Oil companies have continuously suppressed data on Henry Ford's favorite auto fuel.
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Step by step, readers will learn unique methodS and sought-after techniques. Along with surface alterations (faux-aging, patinas and the use of unusual household products) Altered Curiosities teaches metal etching with rubber stamps, simple wiring to create dramatic lighting, instruction for altering simple toy figures (making two-headed animals, for instance) and more.
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Anticraft
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Apollo EECOM: Journey of a Lifetime
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Art Cars
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Featuring a variety of knitting, crochet, stitching and beading projects the book instructs, inspires and entertains. Includes quirky sidebars such as "How to tap into your dark side" and "The top five reasons it's good to be an AntiCrafter", plus comic strip art, recipes and more.
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Get an insider's view of NASA's space missions and how the Flight Controllers operated and just what they faced when events were crucial.
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Wearing his passion for this movable art on his sleeve, Blank elaborates on the odd and celebratory beauty of the art car in this sequel to his 1993 Wild Wheels.
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Astronomy Hacks
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Auto Pocket Reference
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Backyard Ballistics
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Why use the traditional approach to study the stars when you can turn computers, handheld devices, and telescopes into out-of-this-world stargazing tools?
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AutoRef gives you all kinds of information, including, but not limited to: charts, driving and accident helps, safety information, maps and more. Note: Don't read while driving! Make: branded cover. 768 pages.
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Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide.
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Beadalicious
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Big Book of Apple Hacks
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Big Book of Windows Hacks
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Everybody loves beading—it’s one of the most popular categories in crafting. So why does every DIY jewelry book exactly the same? Except this one! Author and domestic diva Sonya Nimri breaks through the same-old same-old mold with 25 fresh, fashion-forward projects.
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Bigger in size, longer in length, and broader in scope, the new Big Book of Apple Hacks offers a grab bag of tips, tricks and hacks!
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Bigger, better and broader in scope, the Big Book of Windows Hacks gives you everything you need to get the most out of your Windows Vista or XP system.
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Building The Perfect PC 2nd Edition
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Cabaret Mechanical Movement
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Clean: The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing
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Regardless of your technical experience, Building the Perfect PC will guide you through the entire process of building or upgrading your own computer.
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124 pages packed with diagrams, information and useful tips on making your own automata. Using the machines and automata from CMT to explain levers, shafts, cranks, cams, springs, linkages, ratchets, Drives and Gearing and even coin-op control, this is a great introduction for those inspired to go and make their own work.
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It’s easier than you think to clean your home in a nontoxic, environmentally responsible way! This wonderful guide will help get your house shipshape without hurting the environment or your health.
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Creepy Cute Crochet
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Device Vol. 1: Fantastic Contraption
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Digital Video Hacks
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This unique craft book contains more than 20 patterns for zombies, ninjas, Vikings, vampires, aliens, robots, and even Death himself. Each easy-to-follow pattern is presented with step-by-step diagrams, hilarious commentary, and full-color photographs of the creatures in their natural environments.
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If you’re a fan of amigurumi, you already know that super-sweet crocheted bunnies and kitties and pandas have taken the indie craft world by storm.
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With digital video, the hacking possibilities are limitless, for both amateurs and professional artists. From acquiring footage, mixing, editing, and adding effects to final distribution, Digital Video Hacks provides unique tips, tools, and techniques for every stage of video production.
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Eccentric Cubicle
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Fashioning Technology
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Gaming Hacks
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From desktop guillotines and crossbows to mood-enhancing effects and music makers, author Kaden Harris of Eccentric Genius introduces aspiring and die-hard Makers to a highly entertaining parallel universe of surreal office-based projects that are sure to pique the curiosity of even the most jaded office mates.
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Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? With "smart" materials, unorthodox assembly techniques, and the right tools, you can create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, make sounds, or do even more.
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Gaming Hacks is the indispensable guide to cool things gamers can do to create, modify, and hack videogame hardware and software.
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Getting Started with Arduino
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Google Apps Hacks
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Google Maps Hacks
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This valuable little book offers a thorough introduction to the Arduino open source electronics prototyping platform that's taking the design and hobbyist world by storm.
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With 100,000 businesses running trials of Google Office, the venerable Microsoft Office suite has a serious challenger. But can Google's web apps make the cut? With scores of clever hacks, workarounds, and other undocumented tips, this book helps you get more than the obvious out of Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Presentations, and a host of other Google applications.
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The nearest pizza, the cheapest gas, the best meeting place for a group-Google Maps Hacks shows you creative ways to add to and customize the satellite images and underlying API of Google Maps for applications serendipitous or serious.
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Halo 2 Hacks
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Handyman In-Your-Pocket Reference
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Haywired
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Even if you've finished Halo 2 in Legendary Mode, you're not done with this game. This incredible book gives you a horde of great hacks for weapons, levels, vehicles, game play and mods. With all the clever tips & tricks we have in store, you'll turn Halo 2 into a whole new experience, whether you're a level 25 or above, or even a complete n00b.
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Finally, the building and maintenance reference book you have been looking for! This amazing new shirt pocket reference is designed specifically for handymen, maintenance people, engineers, scientists, industrial workers, contractors, and builders.
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Haywired proves that science can inspire odd contraptions. Create a Mona Lisa that smiles even wider when you approach it. Learn how to build and record a talking alarm, or craft your own talking greeting card. Construct a no-battery electric car toy that uses a super capacitor, or a flashlight that can be charged in minutes, then shine for 24 hours. Perfect for budding electronics hobbyists.
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Home Theater Hacks
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Howtoons
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Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders
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A smart collection of insider tips and tricks, Home Theater Hacks covers home theater installation from purchase to viewing.
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As seen in Make Magazine. Part comic strip and part science experiment, Howtoons shows children how to find imaginative new uses for common household items.
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Amateur astronomy is now within the reach of anyone, and this is the ideal book to get you started.
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Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments
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iPhone Hacks
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Kilobyte Couture
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For students, DIY hobbyists, and science buffs, who can no longer get real chemistry sets, this one-of-a-kind guide explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments in basic chemistry.
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With iPhone Hacks, you can make your iPhone do all you'd expect of a smartphone -- and more. Learn tips and techniques to unleash little-known features, find and create innovative applications for both the iPhone and iPod touch, and unshackle these devices to run everything from network utilities to video game emulators.
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Increasingly popular among teens and twenty-somethings, the "geek chic" movement embraces techie culture, indie music, Japanese style, and a DIY sensibility. Kilobyte Couture celebrates the very essence of geek chic, with 25 easy-to-do jewelry and accessory projects made from electronic components.
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KnitKnit: Profiles + Projects From Knitting's New Wave
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M-80 Rocket Powered Skateboard
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Make Primer: Moldmaking (PDF)
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27 of the most talented artist-crafters knitting today contributed a project to this book meant to inspire you to find and follow your own creative path.
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M-80 Rocket Powered Skateboard: A do-it-yourself guide to turn your tired old deck into a street legal rocket powered skateboard. Hundreds of photos and helpful illustrations that show you everything you need to know to start ripping...fast!
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Mythbusters' Adam Savage teaches you how the pros replicate objects.
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Make Primer: Printed Circuit Boards (PDF)
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Make Primer: Welding (PDF)
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Make Primer: Working with Carbon Fiber (PDF)
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Step-by-step instructions for making your own PCBs at home.
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Mister Jalopy's excellent primer explains the process and shows how you can be a welder by the end of the weekend — and end up with a couple of jigs for the effort.
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Form, lay up, and cure your own high-performance composites.
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Make Projects: Cigar Box Guitar (PDF)
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Make Projects: Compressed Air Rocket (PDF)
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Make Projects: DIY Coffee (PDF)
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This sweet-sounding, three-stringed mini guitar revives an American musical tradition that uses only one power tool and common hardware.
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Blow your friends away as you send this 25-cent rocket hundreds of feet in the air!
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Got a jones for caffeine and technology? Mod your espresso machine to dial in the perfect shot, with precise temperature control and a filter hack that kicks out maximum tasty crema. Roast your own with a hand-built custom coffee roaster. Hack a toaster timer to perfect-brew your tea every time. And fire up your coffee pot from the internet using X10 automation.
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Make Projects: Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former (PDF)
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Make Projects: Nightlighter 36 Spud Gun (PDF)
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Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs
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From take-out coffee lids to airplane interior panels, vacuum-formed plastic is everywhere. And for good reason: vacuum forming makes light, durable, and cool-looking 3D parts. Here’s how to cook some up in your kitchen.
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The potato cannon, a.k.a. the spud gun, is a popular and very entertaining amateur science project. It's simple to make, and few devices offer such bang for the buck.
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Shoebox sized and smaller, small form factor PCs can pack as much computing muscle as anything from a PDA to a full-sized desktop computer.
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Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs (PDF)
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Make Projects: Stirling Engine (PDF)
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Make Projects: The Brain Machine (PDF)
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Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs is the only book available that shows you how to build small-form-factor PCs -- from kits and from scratch -- that are more interesting and more personalized than what a full-sized PC can give you.
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Make Projects: The Stirling engine has long captivated inventors and dreamers. Here are complete plans for building and operating a two-cylinder model that runs on almost any high-temperature heat source.
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Ride your own brain waves! You don't have to be a Buddhist monk to meditate, or a Sleeping Beauty to sleep well. Achieve these altered states of consciousness, and others, with this simple microcontroller device.
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Make Projects: Wind Powered Generator (PDF)
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Maker Tales: Athanasius Kircher's "Magnetic Clock" - Excerpted from the travel journal of Sir Robert Moray
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Maker's Notebook
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With a motor and some piping, it’s surprisingly easy to build this inexpensive, efficient wind generator — and enjoy free energy forever.
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MAKER TALES. 1st in a series: Athanasius Kircher's "Magnetic Clock" - from the travel journal of Sir Robert Moray.
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From the creators of Make & Craft Magazine comes the Maker's Notebook. Put your own ideas, diagrams, calculations & notes down in these 150 pages of engineering graph paper. We've also included 20 bonus pages of reference material, from useful stuff like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conversions and more...PLEASE NOTE: FREE MAKERS NOTEBOOK OFFER IS WITH ADDITIONAL PURCHASE ONLY.
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Makers
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Making Things Talk
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Mapping Hacks
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Meet The Makers...Now on the heels of MAKE's wildly popular issues, O'Reilly introduces Makers, a beautiful hardbound book celebrating DIY inspiration and the people behind the projects.
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Programming microcontrollers used to require an expensive development environment costing thousands of dollars and requiring professional electrical engineering expertise. This book contains a series of projects that teach you what you need to know to get your creations talking to each other, connecting to the web, and forming networks of smart devices.
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Mapping Hacks is a collection of one hundred simple techniques available to developers and power users who want to draw digital maps. You'll learn where to find the best sources of geographic data and then how to integrate that data into your own creations.
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Mind Hacks
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Mind Performance Hacks
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction
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This exploration into the moment-by-moment works of the brain uses cognitive neuroscience to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, and subliminal perception.
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Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires hacking your brain. With this book, you'll cut through the clutter and tune up your brain intentionally, safely, and productively.
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We’ve come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies—binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and (of course) matches and barbeque lighters—troublemakers of all stripes have the components needed to build an impressive, if somewhat miniaturized, arsenal.
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PC Hacks
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PSP Hacks
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Retro Gaming Hacks
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Covering both Windows and Linux, PC Hacks combines the bestselling Hacks series style with the world's most popular computing hardware. Hacks for enhancing performance and preventing problems with your PC include overclocking CPU and video cards, tweaking RAM timing, selecting the best performing components, and more.
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PSP Hacks shows you how to make the versatile and powerful new PlayStation Portable (PSP) do more than you ever imagined--and more than Sony ever intended--with 50 innovative hacks, tweaks, tricks, and how-tos for customizing your PSP and taking full advantage of features, capabilities, and functionality far beyond what's listed in the PSP user manual.
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Whether you're just discovering Tetris or you've been a Pong junkie since puberty, Chris Kohler's Retro Gaming Hacks is your indispensable new guide to classic games. Kohler has compiled the how-to information that used to take weeks of web surfing to find and presents it in highly readable Hacks style.
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Secrets of Rusty Things
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Semiprecious Salvage
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Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things
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Secrets of Rusty Things takes readers behind the scenes to show them each step in the assemblage art process.
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Semiprecious Salvage shows readers how to think beyond the techniques taught in traditional beading and jewelry books in order to create found art jewelry. Mixed-media applications like sewing, plasterwork and altering found objects tie together to create jewelry pieces such as brooches, pendants, necklaces, earrings, bracelets and belts.
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Ingenuity has met its match in frequent MAKE Magazine contributor Cy Tymony. In his book, Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things, Cy combines the sneaky fun of his Sneaky Uses series with the growing interest in green living. The result is an easy-to-practice manual for conserving energy.
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Subversive Cross Stitch
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The American Boy's Handy Book
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The American Girl's Handy Book
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Subversive Cross Stitch -- In this wicked little book, Julie Jackson reinvents the age-old craft of cross-stitch, finally putting an end to all that saccharine sentimentalism and giving modern stitchers the chance to say what's really on their minds. Stitch up Bitch in Kitchen for a heartfelt housewarming gift. Spread cheer with the ever-festive Bite Me. Or whip up This Place Sucks for a cherished co-worker.
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As timely as it is timeless, this instructive book has captured the interest and imagination of boys for well over a century. Chapters on kite flying and fishing, rigging and sailing boats, camping out without a tent, knot-tying for mountain climbing and other activities.
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A reprint of a 1890's publication for young ladies instructing them in such hobbies as fancy needlework, handmade dolls, china painting, painting in oils, heraldic painting, preservation of wild flowers, and many others. Emphasizing what girls can do, presents a portrait of girlhood that is vigorous, active, and full of possibilities.
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The Art of the Catapult
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The Best of Instructables Volume I
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The Best of MAKE
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Whether playing at defending their own castle or simply chucking pumpkins over a fence, wannabe marauders and tinkerers will become fast acquainted with Ludgar, the War Wolf, Ill Neighbor, Cabulus, and the Wild Donkey-ancient artillery devices known commonly as catapults. Re-creating these simple yet sophisticated machines introduces fundamentals of math and physics using levers, force, torsion, tension, and traction.
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With more than 10,000 projects to choose from, the Instructables staff, editors of MAKE: Magazine, and the Instructables community itself have put together a collection of technology how-to's from the site.
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After two years, MAKE has become one of most celebrated new magazines to hit the newsstands, and certainly one of the hottest reads. If you're just catching on to the MAKE phenomenon and wonder what you've missed, this book contains the best DIY projects from the magazine's first ten volumes -- a surefire collection of fun and challenging activities going back to MAKE's launch in early 2005.
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The Expert at the Card Table
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Theo Gray's Mad Science
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Thomas J. Glover Pocket Reference
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This book by S.W. Erdase, first published in 1902, is known as the "bible" of card handling for both magicians and cheaters alike.
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In the spirit of Discovery Channel's MythBusters and Smash Lab, Popular Science columnist Theo Gray demonstrates fundamental scientific principles through wacky, daredevil experiments that will have readers exclaiming, "Holy !!*$#!!"
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All the reference information anyone needs on virtually any subject is right at the fingertips in this handy pocket-sized guide.
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Whoosh-Boom-Splat: The Garage Warrior's Guide to Building Projectile Shooters
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Woodworkers Pocket Ref
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YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts
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These are the homemade machines that you've dreamed of building, from the high-voltage Night Lighter 36 spud gun to the Jam Jar Jet, the Marshmallow Shooter, and the Yagua Blowgun. Including detailed diagrams and supply lists, Gurstelle's simple, step-by-step instructions help workshop warriors at any skill level achieve impressively powerful results.
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Sized for a shop apron, this handy reference is packed with tips and answers to all of your woodworking questions in an easy to read and quick to find format.
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If you want to make a splash on YouTube with your videos, this book shows you what it takes. It's written by two YouTube veterans who know how to make quality video art, and have the subscribers and millions of views to prove it. They'll take you through the basics, and will teach you how to write, shoot, edit, optimize, upload, and promote your work.
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