Featuring 30 designs by leading designer-makers from around the world DIY Furniture shows you how to use simple techniques to make stunning designer furniture from scratch.Along with designs for seating and storage, the book also features projects for making your own bed, wardrobe, lighting and garden furniture. Each project features hand-drawn diagrams with short, easy-to-follow instructions on how to build the piece.All the projects can be easily assembled using common ma...

Featuring 30 new designs by leading designer-makers from around the world, DIY Furniture 2 builds on the international success of the previous title, showing you step-by-step how to make unique designer furniture.Including both conceptual objects and modern designs, the book showcases innovative processes using readily available materials commonly found at the local hardware store. Each project features diagrams with short, easy-to-follow instructions on how to build the piece....

Advanced pH Measurement and Control: Digital Twin Synergy and Advances in Technology details system design, installation, maintenance and ongoing improvement, including a special focus on how digital twins and first-principles charge balance contribute to innovation, operability, productivity, reliability and maintainability. It offers insights into key principles and advances in electrode technology and diagnostics, including a simple and largely untapped method for computing tit...

From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our livesWe've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-consuming, and fun. But as Dr. Stuart Brown illustrates, play is anything but trivial. It is a b...

La mappa globale dell’imperialismo USA che ha ridisegnato il mondo Dalla nascita della Repubblica a oggi, gli Stati Uniti hanno fatto della guerra uno strumento ordinario di politica estera. Interventi armati, operazioni segrete, basi militari, missioni “di sicurezza”, guerre dichiarate e conflitti mai ufficialmente riconosciuti: la proiezione della potenza americana ha attraversato il pianeta intero. Questo libro è un inventario dei fatti: Paese dopo Paese, capitolo dopo capitolo, ricostr...

A collection of three suspense novels by Christopher Coates, Didi Oviatt & Stuart G. Yates, now available in one volume!A Brother's Obsession: Evan Brown struggles with the guilt and grief of his sister's death, haunted by the past for over a decade. Meanwhile, detectives Dan Felty and MacKenzie Bell investigate a series of bizarre murders in Tucson with no apparent motive or connection between victims. As they draw closer to the killer, the detectives become the t...

Explores the link between King Arthur’s kingdom and the rise of Mercia, uncovering lost battlefields.England today is a rich, complex mix of identities, cultures, and heritages. However, in the decades after Roman Britain collapsed in the fifth century, the cultures of the Angles and of the Saxons, with significant degrees of homogeneity, spread rapidly westwards across much of eastern, southern and central England.Then it stopped. Or was stopped. For the a...

Lord Baltimore's story returns in a deluxe omnibus edition!After a devastating plague ends World War I, Europe is suddenly flooded with vampires. Lord Henry Baltimore, a soldier determined to wipe out the monsters, fights his way through bloody battlefields, ruined plague ships, exploding zeppelins, submarine graveyards, and much more on the hunt for the creature who's become his obsession.This omnibus collects original Baltimore volumes 1-4, with ...

Improve your game's code with design patterns to make it more readable, reusable, modular, and optimized, guided by an Unreal Authorized Instructor to enhance your overall use of C++ with Unreal EngineKey FeaturesExplore programming patterns, structures, and principles and their applications in Unreal Engine 5 game developmentTranslate code from Blueprint to C++ to implement performant solutions in game developmentBuild a decoupled communicatio...

A scathing attack on Wall Street's illegal ties to Nazi Germany before WWII—and the postwar whitewashing of Nazi business leaders by the US governmentPrior to World War II, German industry was controlled by an elite group who had used their money and influence to help bring the Nazi Party to power. After the Allies had successfully occupied Germany and removed the Third Reich, the process of reconstructing the devastated nation's economy began under supervision of t...

Plain Style is an amusing and instructive guide to written English by the late Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism, The True and Only Heaven, and many other memorable works of American history and social criticism. Written for the benefit of the students at the University of Rochester, where Lasch taught from 1970 until his death in 1994, it quickly established itself in typescript as a local classic—a lively, witty, and historically minded alt...

This lively history reveals how a single year radically changed British society, politics, and culture: "absorbing . . . in its rich texture and detail" ( Publishers Weekly).1603 was the year that Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudors, died. Her cousin, Robert Carey, rode like a demon to Scotland to take the news to James VI. The cataclysmic time of the Stuart monarchy had come and the son of Mary Queen of Scots left Edinburgh for London to claim his th...