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Housing and the City

$45.00

Architect Daniel Solomon's account of the century-long struggle between two antithetical models by which cities accommodate working people, immigrants, and the poor.  Housing is a matter of great urgency around the world. In cities that drive technological change and staggering...

How Art Heals

$24.99

Access the healing power of art through guided meditation, collage prompts, and artist stories to connect to, and express, your deepest emotions.  Use this compassionate guide to access your deepest emotions, express them through art, and transform them into tools...

How Did You Get That Shot?

$29.99

On the road again, award-winning photographer and educator David Skernick lets serious photographers in on the decisions he makes—some split-second, some carefully planned—to capture 144 spot-on images from rural America. This notebook explains the why, when, where, and especially the...

How the Oysters Saved the Bay

$16.99

The peaceful habitat of the Chesapeake Bay is at risk from pollution! Can oysters Chester and Meredith clear up this murky problem with the help of all their saltwater friends?  The Chesapeake Bay is a wondrous and exciting place to...

How to Bamboo

$14.95

Illustrations and instructions for various bamboo furniture projects for the home, along with a thorough primer on tools and techniques. Bamboo, bemoaned by many as a runaway weed, is treasured in many cultures around the world for its strength, durability,...

How to Be Happy

$19.99

This charmingly illustrated gift book offers 52 creative ideas to help you unlock the keys to happiness through acts of kindness, a positive mindset, and healthy habits.  Learn to practice patience, embrace forgiveness, release anger and find lasting joy with...

How to Brew Honey Wine

$24.99

The legendary drink of Vikings and verse and the oldest alcoholic beverage, mead is brewed by both amateur winemakers for their own consumption, and in larger quantities by beekeepers who have built a separate line of business of mead production....

How to Build a Flatiron Skiff

$19.99

A veteran wooden boat building teacher presents his traditional, minimalist boat-building technique accompanied by 100+ photos, and suggested variations.  For the economical do-it-yourselfer who wants to build his or her own skiff, this instruction manual relies on simple techniques and hand-powered...

How to Carve Bellamy Eagles

$16.99

Patterns, painting and finishing instructions for how to carve three Bellamy style eagle figures.  John Haley Bellamy (1836-1914) was a folk art woodcarver from New England, best known for his eagles. His work is prized today by collectors, and has...

How to Create Encaustic Art

$29.99

Internationally successful encaustic artist Birgit Hüttemann-Holz walks you through the ancient art of hot-wax painting. Learn the basics, step by step—materials and supplies, encaustic mediums and coloring agents, and surfaces like canvas or textured substrates. Following her guidance, discover how...

How to Customize Kicks

$29.99

The perfect resource for fans who take their love of collectible sneakers to the level of customizing. With photos and tips for turning sneakers from well-known brands like Adidas and NIKE sneakers into works of art, the team at the...

How to Haunt Your House Halloween Craft Fun

$24.99

Turn your home into a haunted house for a fun and spirited Halloween. Are you ready for some Halloween crafting together with your family? Want to learn to make your own party decorations and Halloween tree ornaments, transform a room...

How to Hook Rugs

$15.00

With 159 beautiful photos and clear, complete instructions, you can create 16 marvelous hooked projects, for rugs, pillows, eye masks, footstools, and stair treads in a wide range of colorful, playful patterns. Learn about backing fabrics, rug hooking tools, materials,...

How to Make Art for Joy’s Sake

$29.99

A joy-based, hands-on way to enrich your art-making journey, improve your technique, and keep the creativity flowing. Kristy Rice’s joy-focused approach to watercolor art has won the hearts of fans worldwide. Here she teaches the basics of watercolor painting, infusing...

How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear

$12.99

Written by a man who made a lifelong study of leather craft and rawhide work, How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear is the answer to many requests for how-to-do-it information from cowboys, horsemen in show business, dude ranchers, and many...

How to Make Whips

$24.99

Ron Edwards was born in Australia in 1930 and brought up in the country where small farmers still plowed with horses and harvested their half acres with sickles and scythes, and larger properties relied on the annual visit of the...

How to Make Wonderful Porcelain Beads and Jewelry

$19.95

Making beautiful porcelain bead jewelry has never been simpler. Using over 100 color photos and straightforward instructions, readers are guided through all the steps necessary to create magnificent layered beads, beads with inclusions, millefiori beads, bead necklaces, earrings, and buttons....

How to Navigate Today

$6.95

The sixth edition follows faithfully in the tradition of its honored predecessors, which, for more than forty years, have provided exactly what is needed for beginning navigators to learn the subject on their own. It explains what is being done...

How to Render Attractive Characters with COPIC Markers

$29.99

Amazing characters are what bring manga to life, and this guide—created in cooperation with COPIC—gives illustrated, easy-to-understand, and thorough instructions on how to create characters that jump off the page. As manga artists around the world know, COPIC markers are...

How to Render Eye-Catching Textures with COPIC Markers

$27.99

From a renowned manga artist, step-by-step visual instructions for using COPIC pens to add dozens of textures. COPIC markers are very popular drawing materials used all around the world. This long-awaited book provides techniques for rendering exciting textures using COPIC...

How to Survive on a Desert Island

$14.99

Calling all castaways! You've probably pretended to be an explorer alone on a desert island in the middle of the ocean. It’s a fantastic adventure! But if you were shipwrecked and washed ashore, do you think you’d be able to...

How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman

$29.95

The only how-to book on Navajo weaving told by Navajo weavers Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books about Navajo weaving, but no other book like this...

How We Lived

$29.95

What did normal farm, town, and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution, Western nations switched from horse-drawn vehicles to airplanes, from oil lamps to electricity, and from...

Hubley Catalogs: 1946-1965

$29.95

A tremendous resource for toy collectors and dealers, this new book compiles the catalogs of the Hubley Manufacturing Company from 1946 to 1965. Each page is reproduced in full color, making it an invaluable reference for identifying and dating Hubley...

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