amateurs' manuals

Explains basic design and structure principles, discusses tools and equipment and provides step-by-step instructions for woodworking techniques and numerous projects.

Explains what tools to have in a home workshop, how to repair and restore interiors, exteriors, furniture, repair plumbing, and many other common household repairs.

A clever resource for the ever-growing home recording market. The revised edition is updated with a greater focus on digital recording techniques, the most powerful tools available to the home recordist. There are chapters devoted to instrument recording, humanizing drum patterns, mixing with plug-ins and virtual consoles, and a new section on using digital audio skills. And since, many true "Guerrillas" still record to analog tape, we have retained the best of that world. This edition features many more graphics than in the original edition, further enforcing Guerrilla Home Recording's reputation as the most readable, user-frienly recording title on the market.

Provides tips, techniques, and shortcuts to fix-ups in every room in your home, with lists of necessary tools, important precautions, and safety tips.

A guide to painting and wallpapering a home, with advice on selecting colors and coverings and step-by-step instructions for each part of the job.

A guide to using digital cameras that provides information on finding the proper equipment, enhancing and manipulating photographs, downloading to the Internet, and other related topics.

Presents quirky projects that explain how to turn everyday objects into spy gadgets and other helpful objects such as metal detectors, spy gadgets, survival kits, gas masks, speakers, and more.