| Description |
xi, 403 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
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Includes index. |
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"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
Cooking -- Sewing -- Laundry & clothing -- Domestic arts -- Life skills -- Domestic repair -- Woodworking & metalworking -- Plumbing -- Electrical -- Mechanical. |
| Summary |
An encylcopedia of DIY provides instructions for activities that range from cooking and sewing to car maintenance and household repairs. |
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"A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ec teachers, if you had them. Features practical projects and how-tos, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, relevant charts, sidebars, lists, and handy toolboxes. There's a kitchen crash course. Sewing 101. Housecare tips. Plus, in shop, the tools that everyone should have, and dozens of cool projects that teach fundamental techniques, from making a bookshelf to re-wiring a lamp"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Home economics.
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Dwellings -- Maintenance and repair.
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Life skills.
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Do-it-yourself work.
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Home economics.
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Houses -- Maintenance and repair.
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Life skills.
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Do-it-yourself work. (OCoLC)fst00895997
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Dwellings -- Maintenance and repair.
(OCoLC)fst00900125
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Home economics. (OCoLC)fst00959173
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Life skills. (OCoLC)fst00998359
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| Added Author |
Bowers, David, 1962- author.
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| ISBN |
9780761171737 (paperback) |
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0761171738 (paperback) |
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