Restoring Wooden Houses by Nigel Hutchins, ISBN 1552093476
Packed with practical information, illustrations and photographs, this essential guide shows how to preserve and restore wooden homes.
The author gives advice on everything from care and protection of wood, paint stripping, wet and dry rot, climinating carpenter ants, to repairing the roof to ensuring proper ventilation.
Mas Oyama's Classic Karate
It's a classic, with over 750,000 copies sold! The world's greatest karate master, and the founder of modern day karate, Mas Oyama, reveals his philosophy and technique for practicing one of the world's greatest martial arts. With more than 1,300 photos that break down each movement and exercise, the Master describes every important aspect of karate. It all begins with the basic elements and leads up through set combinations, sparring, and even Tameshiwari, the art of breaking wood and other materials with your fist. From hand to foot, there's a technique to build strength, control, precision, and agility. Try various fists, handswords, foot and upper body work, preparations for the roundhouse block, 16 different stances, numerous defensive moves, and Katas--karate's set and leveled combinations that must be practiced to perfection. Everything the budding black belt needs is right here.
Mas Oyama's Classic Karate 
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Richard Deacon by Jon Thompson, ISBN 0714839493
Awarded the Turner Prize in 1987, Richard Deacon has occupied the foreground of British sculpture since the early 1980s and continues to be an artist of international significance, fulfilling major public sculpture commissions around the world. His virtuoso constructions in wood, metal and plastic range in scale from the domestic to the monumental; they loop and curve across space like three-dimensional drawings, or hover on the floor like great drops of liquid.
The new edition of this monograph has been updated to include over fifty additional pages documenting the artist's work since 1995, including a major retrospective at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, in 1999. The update essay by Penelope Curtis, Head of Programmes at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, examines new directions in Deacon's most recent work. British curator and critic Jon Thompson examines Deacon's work in relation to language; the artist discusses the contexts of place and space with Italian scholar Pier Luigi Tazzi;...
Richard Deacon by Jon Thompson, ISBN 0714839493
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