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Home, Garden, and DIY March 2018 |
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Access 2016 in easy steps
by Mike McGrath
Full-color visual guides, with plenty of screen grabs for ease of reference, cover business and professional skills and all areas of computing.
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Acrylics for the Absolute Beginner
by Charles Evans
Charles Evans' friendly, practical advice and simple step-by-step approach will quickly get you painting. With note on light and shade, buildings, water, skies, figures, animals, working from photographs, and colour mixing, the book guides you to a series of projects covering a variety of subjects. Each accompanied by an outline drawing to get you started quickly.
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Adobe Photoshop CC for dummies
by Peter Bauer
Introduces the basics of Photoshop CC, discussing such topics as fixing common photograph flaws, improving color quality, removing distracting background elements, and combining images.
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Art on the rocks : more than 35 colorful & contemporary rock-painting projects, tips, and techniques to inspire your creativity
by F. Sehnaz Bac
Turn plain rocks and stones into beautiful works of art. Packed with creative ideas, step-by-step projects, and endless inspiration, Art on the Rocks offers a colorful, modern approach to rock painting. Following an overview of how to gather and prepare your rocks, as well as a basic review of the tools and materials necessary for each project, three talented rock-painting artists demonstrate a range of contemporary designs featuring patterns, animals, mandalas, and more.
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A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils : Recipes and Practices for a Natural Lifestyle and Holistic Health
by Hayley Hobson
The holistic health pathway to wellness: Hayley promotes a holistic path to wellness by incorporating the use of essential oils with a regimen of exercise, healthy eating, and mental and emotional wellness practices. As a coach, she passionately empowers others to live their dreams and create lifestyle transformations by supporting them in becoming the best possible WHOLE versions of themselves.
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Camper rehab : a guide to buying, repairing, and upgrading your travel trailer
by Chris Peterson
This book is a top-to-bottom guide to getting a fifth-wheel, teardrop, or other camper trailer ready for the road and beyond. From basic troubleshooting to electrical and plumbing projects , replacing interior surfaces, and clever (sometimes "retro") decorating ideas, this book uses detailed illustrations, color photography, and a wealth of step-by-step, how-to information to get help you get your travel trailer into shape for your next big--or little--adventure.
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Doormaking : materials, techniques, and projects for building your first door
by Strother Purdy
Few pieces of furniture, save perhaps chairs, work as hard as doors. Building them to last, especially exterior doors, takes knowledge and experience that dont come from making other types of furniture, such as tables and bookcases. This book gathers all the information and guidance that both beginning and intermediate woodworkers need to be successful making their first door. While covering the construction of the eight most popular doors, the book starts first by addressing the fundamentals: the basics of good design and proper construction technique, the pros-and-cons of common materials including wood and sheet goods, interior and exterior finishes, hardware and the fine points of hanging doors. Once those key elements are covered, the book offers project chapters that walk the reader step-by-step through the construction of eight essential doors, explaining design and material choices in specific contexts, tool options and other considerations. The first four projects are easily accessible to a beginner while the remaining projects offer up some more challenging details for the intermediate woodworker. Also included are sidebars containing amusing anecdotes and mistake stories -- each delivering tips as well as details for hanging a door and an inspiring gallery of doors that are sure to inspire. This is a must for any woodworking hobbyist, professional craftsman, or DIY homeowner.
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DIY dollhouse : a recycling activity book for young architects and furniture designers
by Alexia Henrion
D.I.Y. Dollhouse is a lavishly illustrated guide for budding architects, builders, and designers, showing then how to build and furnish their own eco-friendly dollhouse, with an incredible eye for detail. The simple instructions cover everything children (and parents) need to get started, from making rooms out of crate boxes and pieces of scrap fabric to crafting countless furniture and household items using recycled materials, such as empty plastic containers and bottles, bottle caps, cardboard boxes, plastic trays, drinking straws, and more. Learn how to transform these easy-to-find household items into a sofa, bunk bed, desk chair, fridge, stove, bucket and mop, or even a hot tub for the rooftop garden, and come up with ideas of your own. The photographs of the finished interiors provide plenty of inspiration, and the project is sure to keep crafty children busy for days on end.
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Essential Sustainable Home Design : A Complete Guide to Goals, Options, and the Design Process
by Chris Magwood
Many people dream of building a beautiful, environmentally friendly home. But until now there has been no systematic guide to help potential builders work through the complete process of imagining, planning, designing, and building their ideal, sustainable home.
Essential Sustainable Home Design walks potential homebuilders through the process starting with key concepts, principles, and a project vision that will guide the house to completion.
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Hacking electronics : learning electronics with Arduino and Raspberry Pi
by Simon Monk
This intuitive DIY guide shows how to wire, disassemble, tweak, and re-purpose household devices and integrate them with your Raspberry Pi and Arduino inventions. Packed with full-color illustrations, photos, and diagrams, Hacking Electronics: Learning Electronics with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Second Edition, features fun, easy-to-follow projects. You'll discover how to build an Internet-controlled hacked electric toy, ultrasonic rangefinder, remote-controlled robotic rover, audio amp, slot car brakes and headlights--even a smart card reader!
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Home robotics : maker-inspired projects for building your own robots
by Daniel Knox
Relying on common, easily-sourced components, an illustrated guide for both beginner and intermediate robotics enthusiasts offers step-by-step instructions to design and build their very own robot beginning with a simple cardboard creation to a robot powered by solar energy.
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How to Build a Bike : A Simple Guide to Making Your Own Ride
by Jenni Gwiazdowski
"All the inspiration and information you need to build your own unique single-speed bicycle. Get to know your bottom bracket from your brake levers and your stem from your chainstays, and learn how fun, creative, and satisfying making your own bike can be."--back cover.
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HTML5 in easy steps
by Mike McGrath
A guide to the latest developments for web page design with HTML5 explains essential skills and concepts, including providing page information, creating body content, inserting hyperlinks, embedding media content, and building input forms.
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| Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix: 238 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and... by Niki JabbourWho it's for: gardeners who want to branch out and grow unusual vegetables. Using a "Like this? Then try this!" approach, Jabbour describes all sorts of veggies that readers may never had heard of -- and gives growing instructions. Lovely, colorful photos enhance the friendly writing style.
Want a taste? If you like cherry tomatoes, Jabbour recommends you try ground cherries, Cape gooseberries, tomatillas, and less familiar varieties of cherry tomatoes, such as the sweet Snow White. |
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Raspberry Pi for dummies
by Sean McManus
Provides instructions on using Raspberry Pi, including downloading the operating system, playing audio and video, programming Minecraft with Python, and programming an arcade game with Scratch.
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Small gas engine repair
by Paul Dempsey
Provides guidance on repairing the ignition, carburetors, fuel systems, rewind starters, electrical systems, and other parts of small gas engines.
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Train to tri : your first triathlon
by Linda Cleveland
Swim. Bike. Run. If the combination of those three words gets you excited, then you need Train to Tri: Your First Triathlon . Written by experts with USA Triathlon (USAT), the largest multisport organization in the world, this book provides proven strategies, secrets, and advice to gear up for your first sprint-distance or standard-distance event.
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Ultimate guide : plumbing
by Merle Henkenius
Provides instructions for fixing plumbing problems ranging from leaky faucets to dishwasher installations, along with information on different water systems, industry codes, products, sustainable solutions, and techniques.
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