Do you want to be handy and live a more practical life? Then this book is for you. Because it's a different kind of DIY book, one which will take you far beyond trying to blindly follow step-by-step instructions, to where you can stop faking it, and actually make it. To actually be practical; to be handy. Using Ian's simple R.E.L.E.A.R.N method you'll 'relearn' how you look at DIY; to see the world through 'practical eyes'. Relearn how you observe, listen, feel, and smell everything and what it all means. Plus, you'll know how and where to find the information you need to fill any gaps and create workable solutions for your DIY projects. You'll learn how to use a few simple tools to easily transform your home, using your own head, hands, and heart to create something wonderful, fix something you treasure, maintain something you want to keep forever or build something just for fun. There's more than 30 years of experience from a professional builder and handyman, packed into this easy to follow method which explains how handy people like Ian tackle practical tasks, (especially the new and unknown), learning 'just enough' to get the job done. Once you experience the physical world like a handy person does, you'll think like a handy person and then you'll be able to do anything. Seriously; anything you set your mind to. Is this book right for me? If you want to learn how to DIY and live a more practical life, be good with your hands, be good with tools, be knowledgeable about practical things, able to deal with breakdowns, make improvements or even build stuff from scratch; then YES If you've never done DIY before, make this the first book you read. If you've already started, it'll show you how to build and improve the skills you have. Here are the Chapter headings... Developing Practical Knowledge Developing Practical Skills Preparation and Plans Buying Stuff Tools, Tools, and Even More Tools Fixings and Fasteners Assembling & Installing (Flat Packs) Maintaining Stuff Repairing Stuff Dismantling & Demolishing Stuff Improving Stuff Making New Stuff Health and Safety Appendices and Glossary Be a DIY superstar and... Develop your 'handiness' and practical know-how. Plan your projects including the best places to buy materials. Use tools, materials, fasteners, and hardware properly. Easily assemble and install new flat pack stuff. Maintain your stuff and repair breakdowns. Dismantle and demolish stuff you want to remove. Make improvements to your home and garden to fit your lifestyle. Build stuff from scratch using your new skills. Good luck with your own DIY endeavours and work safe.

Irving Crump's "Og—Son of Fire '' is perhaps one of the most popular works of fiction that also goes beyond history into pre-history. Following Og, a prehistoric man as he begins using fire as a tool to cook. Using fire, however, leads Og down an adventurous life that remaining in the dark might have spared him. Full of images to fully immerse readers, this book is part fact, part fiction, and entirely a story that has, fortunately, been saved from being lost to time.

"Hands-on learning is 'learning by doing'. It requires students to become active participants as they investigate, experiment, design, create, role-play, cook and more, gaining an understanding of essential scientific concepts from these experiments. Hands-on learning motivates students and engages them in their learning. Instead of being told 'why' something occurs, they see it for themselves, directly observing science in action." -- P. iii.

The Bacon Chase is the story about a lovable cat with an amazing, magical tail. Katya or, as her owners affectionately call her, Kit-Kat simply loves bacon and will do almost anything to get her beautiful paws on some. During a summer holiday at the seaside, she befriends a nervous seagull with one leg, Frederick Twiddle. While attempting to help Frederick to take revenge on the greedy hotel cat, Chubs, who bit off his leg, Katya lands herself in the middle of a CATastrophe with fluffy winter slippers and some really strange and scary humans. After a daring rescue effort, she receives a tasty reward!

DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection of feminist masterpieces - from fictional protagonists who influenced generations of young women to the real heroines of the past, their life stories and their legacy. Fiction: Camilla (Fanny Burney) Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov) Hester (Margaret Oliphant) Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen) Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen) New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett) A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter) The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland) My Ántonia (Willa Cather) The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) Summer (Edith Wharton) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) Sisters (Ada Cambridge) Hagar (Mary Johnston) Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley) The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie) To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale) Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Emily of New Moon (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Memoirs: Madame Vigée Lebrun Jane Austen Caroline Herschel Mrs. Seacole Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emmeline Pankhurst Biographies: Lucretia Sappho Aspasia of Cyrus Portia Octavia Cleopatra Julia Domna Zenobia Valeria Hypatia Roswitha the Nun Marie de France Mechthild of Magdeburg Joan of Arc Catharine of Arragon Anne Boleyn Queen Elizabeth Mary, Queen of Scots Queen Anne Maria Theresa Marie Antoinette Madame de Stael Augustina Saragoza Charlotte Brontë Florence Nightingale Harriet Tubman