Non Fiction - Hobbies

This book is a treasure trove of guidance and wisdom, advice based on years of practical and personal experience. It is a comprehensive guide to building your own wood-fired oven. It offers a brief history of wood-fired ovens, basic design considerations, and a guide to starting your wood fired oven project. Appendices cover oven doors and doorways, making arches and door entries, dampers and chimney bases. The book also includes some wonderful recipes.

Serves as a guide to the world of chess. This title covers the essentials of the game, including a guide to each individual piece and tactics. It includes a guide to the history and politics of chess throughout the ages.

Classic girl power is finally here! Females of all ages will celebrate the first just-for-girls entry in the Popular Mechanics classic activity series. Like its predecessors, The Girl Mechanic presents time-tested projects that build skills, enhance creativity and provide hours of pleasure with great ideas for crafts, toys, furniture, sports and games. The standout items include doll houses (one has an actual working lift!), jewellery boxes, picture frames, playhouses, Christmas cards and so much more. Activities to suit all skill ... read more

This book continues the "Popular Mechanics'" tradition of making science engaging and entertaining. It includes experiments that range from constructing a compass and magnetising watches to those with gravity, pressure and vacuums. The is the latest in the hugely successful series. Science has never been so much fun! Taken from the turn-of-the twentieth-century issues of "Popular Mechanics" magazine, these 145 experiments are based on chemistry, maths and physics. Even though technology has changed and our knowledge of how things w... read more

A one-of-a-kind welding book exploring the practical and decorative aspects of welding, with an emphasis on the hardworking projects most popular with serious workshop enthusiasts. It includes information on tools and materials, metal basics, setting up shop, safety, welding and cutting processes, but also includes dozens of plans for metalwork projects.

Whether you feel you have little talent and you doubt you could ever learn, or you enjoy drawing, but have not been able to get much beyond a childlike level, this book aims to give you the skill you have always wanted. First published 1979; this edition 1999.

For nearly 40 years, Max Robertson's The Game of Mah Jong has been accepted as the foremost authoritative guide to the rules and scoring of this fascinating game. Using specimen hands to illustrate techniques, it outlines the most correct and popular method of playing the game.

This is a handy, succinct and comprehensive guide to picture framing. It is aimed at people wanting to learn picture-framing from scratch, those looking to grow their hobby into a small business and artists wanting to frame their own work. The book is split into two general sections, with information for both amateurs and professional picture framers. It contains useful advice about techniques, materials, safety, and suppliers, as well as clear and easy-to-follow step-by-step guides for making various types of frame and framing dif... read more

4th Edition This is a definitive work on the small lathe which will prove invaluable to every amateur, garage proprietor and light engineer. It is a complete course of instruction embracing almost every process that can be accomplished on the highly adaptable small lathe.

This companion contains a cross-file reference to over 120 hands. The hands are illustrated in colour and identified by following flip-top headings on each page. Each hand also contains a full synopsis. First published 1997.

The books in the Best of American Woodworker Series include superb collections of the best projects from the archives of American Woodworker magazine. Each book includes updated information featuring the latest tools, technologies, and techniques for woodworking success. They include step-by-step instructions, exploded diagrams, cutting lists, and everything a craftsman needs to make beautiful furniture, cabinets, accessories, and heirlooms. This book is an ideal resource for woodworkers looking for a new project or want... read more

Keeping chickens is a trend that just keeps on growing, even for city dwellers. With this book, today's modern farmer will find plans and construction techniques for making seven different chicken coops, along with interesting chicken facts and recipes for eggs. Experienced farmer, woodworker and author Chris Gleason's hip eye for design, combined with sound woodworking techniques make the coops both attractive and sturdy. Practical information such as how to properly size a coop and how to source reclaimed materials is included. D... read more

Just in time for the millennial back-to-basics movement--more than 150 experts share their knowledge and experience in this ultimate guide to living a more self-sufficient, satisfying life. 1,200 2-color illustrations.This is the book for anyone who wants to become more self-reliant, from suburbanites with 1/4 of an acre to country homesteaders with several. The information is easily understood and readily applicable. More than 150 of Storey's expert authors in gardening, building, animal raising, and homesteading share their s... read more

This follow-up to "The Boy Mechanic (ISBN) - Popular Mechanics" collection of can-do ingenuity from the early 1900s - features over 200 unique toys and games that anyone with a basic tool kit will want to make. There's amusement for little kids, including a toy donkey that nods and wags its tail; a child's playhouse and a miniature windmill; items for the great outdoors, from a homebuilt canoe to a diving tower; plus gizmos and gadgets, "scien-terrific" motors and engines, and objects for an older child to create and play with.

You'll find in this comprehensive book, the complete rules of your favourite card games and many you have never even heard of. To learn a new game, to play old favourites better or to settle any questions that come up, this is an authorative reference for any home or card room.

This follow-up title to "Chess - From First Moves to Checkmate" introduces a wide range of board and card games, detailing their history and strategy as well as providing playing instructions for a variety of international games including draughts, mancala, rummy and whist.

With illustrated, in-depth discussions of nearly 50 hands, and chapters on each of the major games, this guide is extremely effective to understanding, playing, and winning the most popular game in town.

What do Martina Navratilova, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet have in common? They're all bridge fanatics! The card game is popular again - at home, online, and in schools. Whether readers are learning bridge or looking to improve their game, this is the ultimate contract bridge manual. Bridge master Brent Manley will teach readers step by step from bidding to tournament play. "The Everything[registered] Bridge Book, 2nd Edition" provides readers with the skills and tips they need to play this totally addicting card game! This title i... read more