Traditional Buildings of Britain: An Introduction to Vernacular Architecture

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The third edition of the leading introduction to traditional buildings contains a completely new chapter that carries forward the story to the Vernacular Revival of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and shows its influence on houses of today.

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What should one know to choose an engagement ring? The answers are all here, with facts and practical advice that is easy to understand. Learn how to determine what you should pay, where diamonds come from, and how to judge their cut, color, clarity and weight. Learn about popular colored stones, different metals, and the many classic, modern, and unique ring settings. If you can't find what you want in the stores, design your own. Presented here are over 160 color photographs of antique and modern engagement rings along with a selection of ring sets and wedding bands. The 4-step guide makes judging what you like easy and the selection process a pleasure. After you make your choice, learn how to protect and care for your ring. This is the perfect gift for your fiancee, before the ring! Get the book and thank yourself on every anniversary.

How to Make Folding Knives/a Step-By-Step How-To: A Step-By-Step How-To

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great info,but very limited use for the hobbyist
It might have been a nice book.
About par for the many books on this subject
Excellent how - to. Lost my copy... buying another.
Detailed stuff, but buy only if you're a knifemaker

How to Make Folding Knives/a Step-By-Step How-To: A Step-By-Step How-To
Ron Lake , Frank Centofante , and Wayne Clay
Manufacturer: kp books
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ASIN: 0873413903

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great info,but very limited use for the hobbyist.......2005-01-01

this is a great book, you will see several professional knife makers work their magic & turn out beautiful high end folders.
the book is well worth the price for that alone!
BUT ...
dont buy this book thinking it will help you make knives, it wont , unless you own or have use of a well equipted machine shop, and the skill to use a milling machine etc.
as a hobby i have been making decent quality working knives for 20 years, including a few simple folders. however i can not even begin to use the techniques in theis book or afford the machines it assumes you have on hand.
cmk-montana

It might have been a nice book........2003-01-14

Just got a copy of this for Christmas; latest printing I believe.

I haven't tried to make a folder yet, but I might give it a go soon. However, I'll be buying some other book before I try it.

OK These guys make knives and are the big names. I don't expect them to write well and I wasn't surprised. However, I was surprised on the print quality. Most of the pictures (which the authors rely on quite heavily) are nearly black. "In photo 14 you can see how to ...." In photo 14 you can't see squat.

Personally I think it's great that these guys are willing to share their methods. It's just a shame that the publisher is not doing them justice.

I also need to warn some readers that these 3 are professionals with professional equipment and professional methods. Some of us are garage knife makers and don't have milling machines. This makes their plans quite a bit harder to implement.

Overall if you want to know how these guys construct their knives, you will get a feel for it. If you already make folding knives, you might get some more ideas. If you want to use this book to learn how to do it, forget it.

Also, as another reviewer pointed out, this book is quite remiss in not covering linerlocks.

About par for the many books on this subject.......2002-11-24

I am a knife knut. There are three "make a knife" sections to this book. The authors - Lake, Centofante, and Clay are each well respected knifemakers. For a general idea of what goes into knifemaking this book is about average for the "let's write a book for our fans who aspire to make their own" book. It gives methods that each contributor goes through (learned after painstaking years of trial and error, hands on work). The text gives a pretty good description of each artists work, start to finish. As in most of the books in this price range and size, the pictures are not very helpful.
You will not become a knife maker reading this or any of the books like this one. It does show you how much talent and hardwork and knowledge you need to make just one knife though.

Excellent how - to. Lost my copy... buying another........1999-03-13

I believe that there are items in this book which are exactly what one is looking for if they would like to learn to make folders. I bought this book at a knife show a long time ago but misplacd it. Now I have enough room to set up a bench and think I will buy another copy and give it a go.

Detailed stuff, but buy only if you're a knifemaker.......1998-10-17

First off, I have to mention that I am a knife collector and enthusiast. The names of the authors would be instantly recognizable for their work and reputation. However, unlike the Loveless book it was intended to compliment, this work reads as a dry, mechanical, how-to of building folders. Sorry, Ron I love your knives and I dream of someday owning one, but this book won't convert many people into 'knife-nuts'

There is a lot of information here, but this book would probably be of interest to knifemakers. Also, not covering linerlocks, probably the most popular of the folder styles is a serious ommission.

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Beginner's Luck

pretty pictures, but not very useful

The Bead Book: A Step-by-Step-Guide to the Creative Art of Beading (Collectors Guides)
Victoria Dutton
Manufacturer: New Line Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Book of Beads: A Practical and Inspirational Guide to Beads and Jewelry Making

ASIN: 1880908964
Release Date: 2005-01-01

Customer Reviews:

Beginner's Luck.......2007-04-10

As a relatively new "beader", this book ranks among my favorite. Clear text and excellent photography provide clear guidance for numerous projects.
The best in my collection of "how-to" books and a great value.
Don't be fooled by my "title", as this also offers more complex beading ideas with step-by-step directions.

pretty pictures, but not very useful.......1998-01-17

The full-color pictures of beads are very inspirational to us bead designers, but this book was short on good illustrations and details. Various knots and findings are mentioned, but never explained. Only the very basic, simple techniques are covered, and not in depth.

Handmade Jewelry: Simple Steps to Creating Wearable Art (Decorative Painting)

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Handmade Jewelry: Simple Steps to Creating Wearable Art (Decorative Painting)
Carol Grape
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0891346600

Beads & Strings Jewelry: A Step-by-step Workshop (Beaded Fantasies)

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Beads & Strings Jewelry: A Step-by-step Workshop (Beaded Fantasies)
Ani Afshar
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Beads & Wires Jewelry: A Step-by-Step Workshop (Beaded Fantasies)
Ani Afshar
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Step By Step Art of Making Jewellery
Cheryl Owen , and Annette Claxton
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Making Jewellery (Step-By-Step Art of)
Richardson
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Camera work: A critical anthology
Jonathan Green
Manufacturer: Aperture
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Binding: Hardcover

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Camera Work: A Critical Anthology
Jonathan Green
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Binding: Hardcover
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Camera Work: A Critical Anthology
Alfred] Camera Work [Stieglitz
Manufacturer: Aperture
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KUTXI0

Book Description

A collection of highlights from many years of online humor, this compilation includes jokes on sex, politics, religion, current events, celebrities, and "things that never happen on Star Trek." Plus a special section of more than 100 variants on "how many does it take to change a light bulb?"

Politically Incorrect Jokes from the Net

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Great Jokes

Politically Incorrect Jokes from the Net
Phillip Adams , and Patrice Newell
Manufacturer: Souvenir Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

The very best and worst of jokes from around the globe are contained in this compendium of completely irreverent humor gathered from the Internet. This book contains hundreds of the funniest and most scandalous jokes that are traveling the information superhighway-and none of them honor the current doctrine of political correctness. These jokes don't even flirt with good taste-they are racist, sexist, blasphemous, and hilarious! Not just Internet humor, some of the topics included are Dumb and Dumber, Intersex, and Lawyers and Other Criminals.

Customer Reviews:

Great Jokes.......2000-03-25

I have really enjoyed this book - excellent! Well worth a look, if a little politically incorrect!

E-Tales: The Best & Worst of Internet Humor

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Funny But Can Be Somewhat Vulgar
Best book on e-tails
It was alright

E-Tales: The Best & Worst of Internet Humor

Manufacturer: Cassell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

E-Tales? It's cyberspace entertainment in print for the first time. This huge collection of Internet humor parades outrageous jokes, alarming facts, amazing-if-true stories, revealing personality tests, and mind-numbing word games. The world's worst accidents and horrible diseases appear next to terrifying tales of air travel. Jokes about the sex lives of old people mix with signs that you're getting old. You'll find drawings you can make using x's and o's. "Darwin Awards" honor people who do stupid things that result in their demise (thus removing themselves from the gene pool). Vying for the worst country and western songs: "How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?" and "I Still Miss You Baby, but My Aim's Getting Better." Much more to come: two men in a bar stories, sex in the White House jokes, and St. Peter at the Pearly Gates jokes.

Customer Reviews:

Funny But Can Be Somewhat Vulgar.......2001-11-16

This book has a lot of hilarious jokes in it, but it also has quite a few inappropriate jokes ranging from slightly vulgar to downright crude. Granted, the majority of the jokes are clean (as far as the language goes) but have adult themes (i.e. the differences between men & women, sex, drinking, etc) Overall this is a good book (in my opinion) but the reader should be aware of the possibility of being offended by some strong cuss words and outright obnoxious themes.

Best book on e-tails.......2001-09-10

This book is so funny. I love the fact that it is a good-time read and is shocking at times. I can't remember a time when I read a book that I showed my friends and they couldn't put it down. Ever since I showed my friends and family, everybody I know has asked me where I got it. We took this book everywhere and everytime we got bored we'd just start reading it. If they came out with another book like this I'd definitly be the first to get it. I'd definitly recommened this book.

It was alright.......2001-08-12

This book is a pretty cool book if you like that kind of stuff. Definitely not for the little kids though. Some vulgarities are included in the book. But all in all, it is really funny.

1001 Internet Jokes: Get the Jokes You've Been Missing

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1001 Internet Jokes: Get the Jokes You've Been Missing
D. Schwab , and D. M. Schwab
Manufacturer: iUniverse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

1001 Internet Jokes compiles internet jokes into a hilariously funny volume for many different types of people. Sections devoted to parenthood, men vs. women, gay and lesbian, and Canada vs. United States makes this diverse book both entertaining and readable for anyone.

The best Internet joke I ever read was...

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The best Internet joke I ever read was...

Manufacturer: D. L. Enterprise, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0978630939

Best Jokes & Other Humor from the Internet

Average customer rating:

Funniest Book Ever!!!
This book rocks!
This book could have been better

Best Jokes & Other Humor from the Internet
Jonathan P. Sullivan
Manufacturer: Castle Pacific Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0965386910

Book Description

Straight from the Internet to you, read about the finer points of men's room etiquette, the Republican swift sword of death, Bill Gates and the Afterlife, and more!

Customer Reviews:

Funniest Book Ever!!!.......2005-03-28

I have to admit that Jon is a dear friend of mine. So I am biased. But this really is a great collection of old school internet humor. I wish that my signed copy was not "borrowed" by a friend of mine.

Hey Jon! If you read this review...mail me another copy! Thanks, bubba!

- Kevin

This book rocks!.......1999-06-07

I think that other guy must be humor-impaired. This is the funniest collection of email jokes I have ever seen, other than in my email!

This book could have been better.......1999-04-17

I have read this book and I feel that it is rather dissapointing. I was hoping to find a collection of great e-mail jokes, and I did find a collection of jokes but it just was missing that special something. Hopefully there will soon be a book that lives up to my expectations in this subject area

Cyber Jokes: The Funniest Stuff on the Internet

Average customer rating:

quality stuff
Unoriginal.

Cyber Jokes: The Funniest Stuff on the Internet

Manufacturer: Andrews Mcmeel Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0836210751

Customer Reviews:

quality stuff.......2003-11-14

Most collections contain lots of filler
but almost every page of this book has
something to make you smile.

Unoriginal........1997-01-04

I was disappointed to see so much unattributed material in this book. Dave Barry's famous column on exploding whales appears, but is attributed to someone named "Tom Mahoney". Most of the other jokes are cut-n-pasted into this book with no indication as to their source. Dave Barry deserves an apology for this ripoff of his work. Perhaps many other authors do too.

Distasteful, Disgusting, Dirty Jokes-stolen from the internet

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Order with confidence
From the dirty jokes master
The Skin brothers will make you laugh..
Disgusting and Hilarious
DISCUSTINGLY FUNNY!

Distasteful, Disgusting, Dirty Jokes-stolen from the internet
Harry Goatskin , and Rompel Forskin
Manufacturer: Tanuki Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0967276705

Book Description

the best of dirty , tasteless pollitically incorrect jokes from the internet.

Customer Reviews:

Order with confidence.......2001-05-31

We run one of the most popular daily adult joke websites on the net, and as such we often feel like we've run across every tired old wheezer of a joke that's ever been written.

This book proved us completely wrong; this is a TON of the best and funniest jokes now circulating, and none of the garbage. We only wish we'd thought of this first!

From the dirty jokes master.......2000-12-15

I have collected all the dirty joke books from their debut in the middle 80's. The ones that have been coming out in the last 6 years or so, have been a rehash of the old ones. This one is DYNAMITE! It's gross and excellent. The jokes are new and extremely good. Any of the older jokes (Which represents the ones frome the older joke books are the best ones of the bunch.) I hope they come out with edition II.

The Skin brothers will make you laugh.........2000-01-14

I was fortunate enough to purchase this book while dining in Japan's finest mexican food restaurant. The owner says he is good friends with Mr. Goatskin and Mr. Foreskin.

If you hate getting constant Forwards from friends with jokes that you have to muddle through the 50 times it was forwarded before it got to you, due to the fact that most internet and computer users are oblivious to this thing call cut and paste, look no further. Our research team tells us that this book has every joke forwarded from person to person all over the world in it.

So when you get that email from a friend where the subject line reads; "FW: Ha-ha" or "FW: Thought this was funny" or "FW: LOL", delete it and buy this book and you will have all those jokes.

These jokes are funny. There are one-liners, stories, battle of the sexes jokes. It is just like the title says. This book is way better than Drew Carey's.

Disgusting and Hilarious.......1999-12-10

Never have I seen such a collection. It's not the one or two funnies here and there type of book. Every joke, every page, this one will either make you laugh or make you sick.

DISCUSTINGLY FUNNY!.......1999-12-09

So funny, I made my husband highlight his favorites and then compared them with mine. Very funny! Great to review before going to parties.

E-Tales Two: More of the Best & Worst of Internet Humor

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OMIGOD! Buy this book!

E-Tales Two: More of the Best & Worst of Internet Humor

Manufacturer: Cassell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 030435760X

Book Description

The first book made you roar with laughter--and it made you ravenous for even more! So here it is: another 300-plus pages of weird, wacky, and wonderful Internet humor. Absolutely uncensored, it can be gratuitous, scatological, shocking, silly, and superficial. You'll get more helpings of frivolous forwardings, sick tales of personal injury and injustice, celebrity lampoons, puerile puns and sexist sideswipes, and other timeless gags. Laugh out loud at amazing "true" stories, dozens of relationship case studies, and important "research" on whether hair color affects your behavior. Always topical, these witty writings from the electronic age puncture pretentiousness in all aspects of modern life, from cybersex to office politics to Dubya-isms.

Customer Reviews:

OMIGOD! Buy this book!.......2002-11-13

This is a laugh-out-loud book to read for yourself or to other people. It truly shows that humor transcends any culture.
My husband, normally quiet, introspective and conservative, read it cover to cover laughing all the way.
A book small enough to fit into your handbag or briefcase, but thick enough (336 pages) with humor to last for a long time. I'm buying the other two editions!

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Em@Il Joke Book
Huw Jarsz
Manufacturer: CARLTON BOOKS (Pref
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1844429105

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