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Created in association with Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative guide features more than 500 rocks and minerals. Packed with photographs and details on characteristics, distinguishing features, and more, Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks and Minerals makes identification easy.
Designed for beginning and experienced collectors alike, this guide explains what rocks and minerals are, how they are classified, and how to start a collection. Look up...
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"Revised edition with the most up to date stats, info, and sixteen pages of brand-new material! It's time to wire up and get connected to one of the most complex areas of Minecraft--redstone. Redstone experts guide you through all aspects of working with redstone including mining, smelting, using repeaters, circuit components, and circuit designs. This handbook--now with sixteen addtional pages of new content--also includes exclusive tips from game...
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"What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually...This 2016 edition features the latest studies and perspectives on today's job-market, including proven strategies for finding jobs even when everyone tells you there are none. Career expert Richard N. Bolles reveals surprising advice on what works--and what doesn't--so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results. This helpful...
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"A comprehensive guide to the artistry, design, and skills all woodworkers need to propel their hobby to the next level. Master woodworker Jim Whitman walks you through planning your work space, helps you select tools and the right wood for the right projects, and gets you comfortable with your tools so you feel at ease in the studio and ready to experiment-all with gentle instruction and reassuring humor. His 20 teaching projects make you feel like...
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"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's...
11) Monster manual
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Fifth edition.
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The Monster Manual presents a horde of Dungeons and Dragons creatures, including dragons, giants, mind flayers, and beholders -- a monstrous feast for Dungeon Masters ready to challenge their players and populate their adventures. The monsters contained herein are culled from the D and D game's history, with game statistics and stories. This book details all manner of creatures that characters might encounter over the course of their adventures.
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"The Art of Kayaking is the distilled essence of a lifetime of kayak instruction at all skill levels around the world, with the added insights gained from years of designing kayaks, paddles, and kayaking equipment. This comprehensive kayaking manual by one of the biggest names in kayaking offers more essential detail about commonly used techniques than ever before published in a single volume. Color photo action sequences show how to perfect skills,...
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"Starting middle school can be scary. But knowing what to expect will make you feel more confident. Packed with tips and fun quizzes, here's the inside scoop on topics like classes, lockers, homework, and getting involved in after-school activities. Get help deciding the best way to introduce yourself to those new classmates. Plus, you'll read letters from other girls who were just as worried about starting middle school, and advice from girls who...
16) The small business owner's manual: everything you need to know to start up and run your business
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An Owner's Manual provides fast, practical, and direct advice and that's what you get with this book! The Small Business Owner's Manual is useful for newly minted entrepreneurs as well as seasoned business owners and can be read from cover-to-cover or to quickly look up information in the midst of a crisis. For example:
• Choose among 13 ways to get new financing and the 17 steps to building a winning loan package.
• Weigh the pros and cons among...
17) The Field & stream rifle maintenance handbook: tips, quick fixes, and good habits for easy gunning
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A good hunter is a safe hunter, and a safe hunter treats his rifles well. The Field & Stream Rifle Maintenance Handbook is chock-full of tips for keeping rifles clean and operating smoothly and safely. It also contains a section on quick fixes for problems in the field and proper habits for rifle maintenance. Suitable for novice shooters looking for a comprehensive guide as well as advanced hunters requiring a reference manual for their libraries....
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"This is the comprehensive guide to all things Game of Thrones and beyond. From the prehistory to the coming of the First Men, through the reign of the Targaryen kings and Robert's Rebellion, this guide--co-written by George R.R. Martin and the immensely knowledgeable founders and keepers of the www.westeros.org site--will tell series readers old and new all they might want to know about the history and culture of Westeros and the lands beyond the...
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