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This book features:
Sizing up the problem
Tools & how to use them
Painting
Fixing scratches, squeaks, scrapes, & chips
Repairing leaks & clogs
Electrical repairs you can do
What to do about mold, mildew, moss & dry rot
Pets & pests
Yard work
Energy efficiency
Creating a year-round home-maintenance schedule
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This book features organizing ideas for the Kitchen Bathroom Clothing and linen closets Bedroom Entryways, mudroom and laundry area Home office Children's spaces Pets and their gear Attics, basements, and garages Ideas for small homes and apartments How to organize your organiaing: creating a year-round schedule
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While learning a new language isn't a "knack" for everyone, Knack American Sign Language finally makes it easy. The clear layout, succinct information, and topic-specific sign language partnered with high-quality photos enable quick learning. By a "bilingual" author whose parents were both deaf, and photographed by a design professor at the leading deaf university, Gallaudet, it covers all the basic building blocks of communication. It does so with...
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For girls, puberty is one stage in life when girls want to look their best. And, if they have been naughty or nice during childhood, then this can be a particularly difficult period. While it is natural to feel excited about starting a new phase of your life, being a teenager is not all fun and games.
Puberty is one of the most exciting events that happen to teenagers. They experience the changes happening to their body, minds, and emotions. During...
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For those who have always wanted to prepare Chinese food at home, here is the book they can actually learn Chinese cooking from-full-color, step-by-step photographs fully convey the process and presentation of Chinese cuisine. With 350 photos and 100 main recipes plus 250 variations suited for the contemporary kitchen, Knack Chinese Cooking offers a veritable banquet of authentic recipes from the Eight Great Cuisines of China, as well as dishes from...
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Featuring 450 step-by-step, full-color photos, the book first establishes training basics, and then shows how to enhance core training sessions with classic tricks as well as advanced obedience games; agility training; jumping, retrieving, and digging tricks; flashy frisbee tricks-and useful tricks such as finding the remote, retrieving the newspaper, and cornering the cat.
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This user-friendly resource presents all the essentials of fishing-using all kinds of tackle, from spincasting and baitcasting to surf casting and fly fishing-for a variety of fish, in both fresh and salt water. With step-by-step photographs on every page, it shows how to tie the essential knots; select the right lures, lines, and tackle; identify fish; and make effective casts.
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"Wilderness medicine expert Buck Tilton covers every step needed for the best hiking and backpacking experience. From gear to gourmet trail food, from good hiking technique to dressing the part, from using a map and compass to nibbling wild plants, this visually organized resource has everything today's hiker wants and needs--including top-quality color photos for inspiration." --back cover.
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Coauthored by an ob/gyn and a noted pregnancy and childbirth expert, Knack Pregnancy Guide is the most reader-friendly, visually informative book ever on the subject. Encompassing all vital pregnancy information, it is organized to meet the needs of today's busy mothers-to-be. It introduces the latest ideas and research-from prenatal testing to the long-term effects of prenatal nutrition-and provides indispensable advice to mothers at high risk or...
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Wedding flowers are a huge part of the bridal dream, and a firm grasp of floral fundamentals is essential to planning an unforgettable big day. With more than 400 full-color photographs, Knack Wedding Flowers provides unparalleled inspiration and authoritative information for brides and wedding planners. Among the many details covered: what's on a floral shopping list, the smarts of in-season flowers, matching flowers to formality and location, and...
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For those new to wine or for dabblers who could use some help deciphering foreign labels, Knack Wine Basics brings unprecedented clarity to the world of the world's most ubiquitous libation. By a California-based expert-and including 400 full-color photos, ten recipes, and twelve maps-it covers everything from how to read a label to entertaining with wine, ordering and serving wine, food and wine pairings, cooking with wine, profiles of red, white,...