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Profusely illustrated woodworking guide, brimming with expert tips and advice, covers proper care and use of tools, replacing lost hardware, strengthening fractured joints, and much more. Illustrations of restored furniture.

Current publication reproduces "ideal" 1896 edition in which text, typography, and illustration complement each other. Ten great illustrations capture the mock-heroic, delicate fancy of Pope's poem.

What is the most distinctive feature of human nature? Does human nature play any significant role in explaining ethical objectivity? How do we arrive at moral judgments? What is the relationship between moral judgments and moral motivation? In answering these questions, this book defends a naturalist, realist and internalist theory of the foundations of ethics. This theory, grounded on a particular concept of humanity, combines insights from M...

Black-and-white images of a peacock, dragonfly, sea horse, morning glories, poinsettias, acorns, berries, and other flora and fauna -- all 526 designs rendered in eye-catching stencil format.

The most widely used early 19th century architectural style and source book, this work ranges from the Colonial up into Greek Revival periods. Benjamin covers the extensive development of carpentry and construction techniques. Over 375 figures.

More than 11, 500 entries, first English-Russian, then Russian-English, containing exact idiomatic translations for over 30, 000 phrases and sentences. Also includes 15, 000-word grammatical introduction. Focus is on phrase or sentence as basic unit of communication, method now recognized as best.

What animal doesn't play fair? The Cheetah. What's worse than finding a worm in an apple? Finding half a worm. Hundreds of zany rib-ticklers to challenge puzzle lovers of all ages.

Valuable hints on dyeing fibers and fabrics, soap plants to use for cleaning textiles, fragrant plants to scent and protect fabrics, planning and creating a garden featuring cotton, flax, indigo, much more.

The 16 choice selections in this volume include "The Ransom of Red Chief, " "The Last Leaf, " "The Voice of the City, " and the classic, "The Gift of the Magi, " more. Large print edition.

Features 28 meticulously rendered, ready-to-color illustrations, among them the capture of Africans in their homeland, their revolt aboard ship in Havana, imprisonment in a New Haven jail, and their successful defense before the Supreme Court by former U.S. President John Quincy Adams. Captions.

This coloring book introduces 44 of the world's most unusual animals. Included are the shock-producing electric eel, the double-humped Bactrian camel, the aye-aye, a tree-loving, nocturnal primate with finger-like claws, and many other animals considered especially unusual because of their shape, coloration, defenses, and adaptation for survival. Captions provide fascinating information.

Lucid, well-written chapters introduce the reader to the concept of possibilities, including combinations and permutations, probabilities, expectations, the law of large numbers, including Chebyshev's theorem, and more. Numerous exercises throughout reinforce the methods and ideas explained. The volume demonstrates that the study of probability can be fun, challenging, and relevant.

One of the best-written, most skillful expositions of group theory and its physical applications, directed primarily to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics, especially quantum physics. With problems.

Standard text covers classical statistical mechanics, quantum statistical mechanics, relation of statistical mechanics to thermodynamics, plus fluctuations, theory of imperfect gases and condensation, distribution functions and the liquid state, more.

Mathematical reference for theoretical physics links classical and modern physics. Topics include the vibrating string, linear vector spaces, the potential equation, problems of diffusion and attenuation, much more. 1972 edition.

Twenty-six cleverly rendered full-page illustrations -- depicting letters of the alphabet and appropriate ready-to-color illustrations -- teach the ABCs and simple reading skills in large-format pictures and print.

Riveting true-life story of two sisters taken by Indians, their life in captivity, and their brother's search for them.

With over 200 detailed illustrations and descriptions, these two catalogs are essential reading and reference materials and identification guides for Stickley furniture. Captions cite materials, dimensions, and prices.

Clear, thorough, and easy-to-follow, with nearly 200 helpful illustrations, WOOD-FRAME HOUSE CONSTRUCTION offers a detailed, informative guide to construction techniques invaluable for the do-it-yourselfer or as a review for the professional.

Three-dimensional model (16¿ inches high) of full human skeleton can be assembled with scissors, glue, needle, and thread. Easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams help pre-teens and older youngsters with little or no adult help.