The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Do
by Conn Iggulden
from HarperCollins Publishers
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Harvard Art Museum)
from Harvard Art Museums
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.
Thank-you (Tiny Tomes Minitures)
by Edited by Bridget Sullivan
from Ariel Books
The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Know
by Hal Iggulden Conn Iggulden
from HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
The Slightly Odd United States of America
from Klutz
Comes With: little known facts about the USA
• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun
What About You?: 280 Questions on the World's Most Fascinating Topic (Klutz S.)
from Klutz
Comes With: 50 page notepad, bendy pencil
• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun
Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records; Arcade Volume, Third Edition
by Walter Day
from 1st World Publishing
The Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records - ARCADE VOLUME *Video Games * Emulation * Arcade Novelties * Pinball The Official Book of Records is now divided into three volumes. This Arcade Volume will be followed by two additional volumes that focus on Console Gaming and PC Gaming. What you will find in this 3-volume set: 1....Each volume settles all arguments by telling you what the current high score is on almost any game and who you have to beat to become the new world champion! 2...Each volume is the authority that establishes the rules and standardized settings on each game! 3...Each volume promotes computer gaming as a professional sport, with a tradition of contests, statistics, world records and star players! 4...Each volume publicizes an international schedule of tournaments players can compete in to gain entrance into this record book! 5...Each volume brings credit to thousands of gamers around the world who know they are the best!
Wine Notes (Large Themed Journal)
from Ryland Peters & Small
These new large notebooks feature friendly rounded corners and an elastic closure band, plus a handy ribbon marker and a useful pocket inside the back cover for storing cards or clippings. They make the perfect gift for the keen traveler, a green-fingered friend, or a wine enthusiast to make notes.
Hobbies
by Steven M. Gelber
from Columbia University Press
Whether it's needlepoint or woodworking, collecting stamps or dolls, everyone has a hobby, or is told they need one. But why do we fill our leisure time with the activities we do? And what do our hobbies say about our culture? Steven Gelber here traces the history and significance of hobbies from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1950s. Although hobbies are often touted as a break from work, Gelber demonstrates that they reflect and reproduce the values and activities of the workplace by bringing utilitarian rationality into the home, imitating the economic stratification of the marketplace, and reinforcing traditional gender roles.
Drawing on a wide array of social and cultural theory, Hobbies fills a critical gap in American cultural history and provides a compelling new perspective on the meaning of leisure.
Ancient Coins Were Shaped Like Hams: and Other Freaky Facts About Coins, Bills, and Counterfeiting
by Seuling
from Picture Window Books
Money may make the world go around, but whose money is it, where did it come from, and whose idea was it? You will get your money's worth in this book full of facts about coins, bills, counterfeiting, and other interesting money topics.
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