This text explores the entire field of engineering drawing with a thorough examination of mechanical drawing. The text is comprehensive, avoiding the highly technical/formal method used by other texts in the field. This book should be of interest to students at FE colleges studying engineering.
If you want to get downright buggy, pick up this wonderful collection of insect tales from the "Bug Bowl" guru, Tom Turpin. After you're through, you'll know more about the six-leg kingdom and its occupants than any bookworm that you run across. How does insect suturing work? Which insect did the ancient Egyptians worship as a god? What did Ogden ...
As well as much-needed electricity, dams generate extremes of emotion. Traditionally, dams have facilitated hydraulic civilisations such as those in the Nile Valley, China and Mesopotamia, and, in the twentieth century, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Yet with the proliferation of dams - there are now more than 40,000 large dams worldwide - opposition ...
Rifles, shotguns and handguns from today's most talented artists are discussed in fine detail in this handsome hardcover volume. From exquisite engraving to the beauty of exotic woods, the mystique of today's custom guns is expertly detailed. Includes full-colour photographs of many of the world's most beautiful firearms.
The author of "Flies in the Face of Fashion", "Mites Make Right", and "Other Bugdacious Tales" is back with more ditties on the insect kingdom. Find out about Aesop's insects, Edgar Allan Poe's Gold Bug, and Ogden Nash's creepy crawlies. Dig up some facts on the Colorado and Japanese beetles, and cash in on the million dollar beetle. Head for ...
"First published in 1990" under the title of 'Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology' - this edition has been thoroughly revised, reorganised and updated, incorporating the latest developments in this exciting field. The text is divided into ten sections, each dealing with a particular aspect of plant metabolism. Section I deals with ...
Author Tom Turpin - who has been writing about firearms and engraving for three decades - gives us a welcome overview of the engraver's world, including a discussion of techniques and styles. As you will soon learn, there are subtle nuances to every engraving style, and every engraved firearm takes on its own unique character. The other part of ...
Jack's father, Lionel Turpin, came from British Guiana to volunteer for the British Army during the Great War. He was wounded on the battlefields of France and invalided to Warwick, the first black man to settle in the area. Lionel married a local girl but his early death left her struggling against poverty to raise their three sons and two ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Newson & Co.
Date Published: 1928
Description: Walter Crane and Others. Very Good. "Little Folk's Library: Second Series". 5-5/8" x 4-1/2". Softcover, stiff color illustrated wrappers. Illustrated in color. Very good, small edge tear at bottom of title page. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Newson & Co. 1928
Date Published: 1928
Description: ISBN. Small oblong 5.75 by 4.5 inch Staplebound, Trade Paperback. About Good Condition. Tight sound copy with creases to front and back covers, some browning to edges of interior pages, heavy rubs to edges and corners of covers. No statement of later printing on copyright page. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Newson & Co
Date Published: 1928
Description: Walter Crane and Other Artists. Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Clean color illustrated softcover book with stapled binding. Small faint name at top edge of front cover. 48 pgs. with color illustrations. No writing, marks or tears. 4-1/2 x 5-3/4". Children's. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Illustrated Cloth
Publisher: Newson & Company
Date Published: 1927
Description: C. T. Nightingale and Others. Very Good. No Jacket. Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 288pp. textblock clean and tight; moderate wearing along edges and spine, bumped corners, slight rubbing. read more
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