A man should know certain things in his life to be a man. He had to use his callused hands - and the knowledge passed down through the generations - to carve a homestead from the wilderness and to feed his family by hunting and trapping animals or coaxing crops from the earth. But today, as men trade hammer and ax for computer and fax, and a cabin ...
Time-honored instruction is given on all the essential skills of farm blacksmithing. Starting with the basics, Drew leads the reader step by step through a course in forging cutlery, candlesticks, lanterns, horseshoes, and handy farm devices. Illustrations throughout.
Featuring everything a man needs to know, "The Man's Manual" provides instruction on "inspirational sex," urban tenting, step-by-step directions for impersonating a smart person, and much more. 50 b/w illustrations.
Filled with more than 200 engravings, "Farm Conveniences" includes information on how to build a milk shed, a dam, a sled for removing corn shocks, a variety of animal traps, gatepost braces, a log boat, carts, and a great number of other farming and homesteading instruments.
Originally published in 1913, this sportsman's bible is made available to the modern-day hunter and fisherman. Chapters cover camping, fishing and angling, hunting, trapping, and other outdoor pursuits. Photos and illustrations throughout.
From surviving office politics to playing with chainsaws, this handbook of expert advice, secret tips, and essential tells today's man all he needs to know to get along in today's world. Written by the popular magazine columnist and principal author of the bestselling Modern Man's Guide to Life, this is the one book that every guy should own. Line ...
The author of "The Modern Man's Guide to Life"--an authority on all things manly--reawakens the man in every guy with this useful and nostalgic set of instructions for projects all men used to know how to do. This priceless treasury of forgotten lore features dozens of projects designed to rekindle that dying ember of machismo, from hunting and ...
As America gears up for the presidential primary season, Boyles explodes the myth that conservatives have tricked hapless Midwesterners into voting against their economic interests in order to support backward cultural values.
In this bitingly funny and insightful polemic, Boyles, who has lived and worked in France for several years, examines the internal crises -- a falling birth rate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige -- that have changed the personality of what was once 'La Belle France', transforming it into a ...
Here is the ultimate guide for today's women, created by their own expert peers. Women can learn how to prepare seven edible facials; behave at a bullfight; deal with friends' children; tip a taxi driver and much more. 150 line drawings.
When you're a girl, the world can be a baffling and mysterious place. Denis Boyles, author of "A Modern Woman's Guide to Life", interviewed hundreds of American kids to glean advice on growing up. Topics include how to make your own playground, how to negotiate an allowance, weird and unusual kids, and what your cat does while you're at school.
In a world of confusion and complications, contemporary men need to know it all. Sassy, smart, and filled with essential information, here's the one guide with everything a modern man needs to know. 150 line drawings.
In this melange of high adventure and historical re-creation, satirist Denis Boyles guides readers on a railroad journey through space and time in East Africa. As Boyle fills in the surrounding landscape with African politics, racial tensions, slave trading, transportation problems, haphazard restaurant dining, and a delightfully odd assortment of ...
From the five branches of philosophy to the 20th century's three philosophic schools, this compendium explains Kant, questions Socrates, and picks Locke's brain.
From the five classical arguments for the existence of God to balancing yin and yang, this compendium fires its canons, separates "teleology" from theology, and delineates the denominations.
A razor-sharp guide from the authors of The Modern Man's Guide to Life. This enlightened book contains the sort of true-life wisdom that once came from fathers, uncles, and grandfathers. The authors never shrink from detailing how the way some men act is sometimes distinctly unmanly. Excerpted in Playboy magazine.
In the bestselling tradition of Life's Little Instruction Book, this rootin-tootin' collection of Wild West wisdom spotlights Cowboy lore, lies, tall tales, witty proverbs, and advice. Collected from real-life and movie cowboys and cowgirls, Cowboy Wisdom covers such topics as "Love and Horses" and "Greenhorns, Tenderfeet, and other Amusements".
Whether a new student of physics or someone in need of a refresher course or reference tool, this guide tackles physics in an intensive course that discusses everything from the importance of matter to the physics of everyday living.
From a homemade water heating vat to a sheep-shearing bench, this fully illustrated book from the turn of the century explains the construction of gadgets and inventions that are useful on a farm. Line drawings.
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