Presents the information you'll need to get started with this craft. This guide helps you work your way through sections on choosing & storing timber, using & maintaining hand tools, creating precision joints, an introduction to laminating & veneering & finally a look at basic machinery. ...

A guide to what you need to know about selecting, fitting, & even building cabinets & counter tops. It also

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Traces the history of cabinets of curiosities, from their first appearance in the inventories & engravings commissioned by Renaissance nobles such as the Medici or the Hapsburgs, via those of the Dane Ole Wurm & the Italian polymath Athanasius Kircher, to the serious 17th- & 18th-century scientists Elias Ashmole & Levinas Vincent. ...

An illustrated guidebook that helps readers through the process of finding a site, designing a cabin, finding a builder, building the cabin & personalising it. It contains photographs of cabins small & large, details & design tips, stories from other cabin owners around the country. ...

Whether building a summer cottage in the woods or homesteading off the grid, this book gives readers a logical approach to building permanent shelter in out of the way places. It

Includes:: a section on designing small buildings to cope with Mother Nature, including earthquakes, heavy snow, high wind & flooding.

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Minnesota's seasonal getaways aren't limited to its bountiful lakes: vacationers trek to hideaways in the woods, to ice shacks along the Mississippi River; out to cottages beside the highways, relics from the days when farmers rented vacation places along cornfields & cow pastures. This work highlights the state's unique & treasured cabins. ...

Steven Kovacks (Matthew Broderick) is undergoing a trial separation from his girlfriend Robin & has just moved into a new apartment. He is so lonely he bribes the cable TV guy Chip (Jim Carrey) to give him all the movie channels for free. Chip takes this as a sign that he has made a friend for life, but when Steven attempts to distance himself from Chip's manic overtures, the relationship takes a sour turn. ...

Double bill featuring two comedies starring Jim Carrey. In ' The Cable Guy' (1996), Steven Kovacks (Matthew Broderick) is undergoing a trial separation from his girlfriend Robin & has just moved into a new apartment. He is so lonely he bribes the cable TV guy Chip (Carrey) to give him all the movie channels for free. Chip takes this as a sign that he has made a friend for life, but when Steven attempts to distance himself from Chip's manic overtures, the relationship takes a sour turn. ' Fun With Dick & Jane' (2005) is based on the novel by Gerald Gaiser & the 1977 movie of the same name. Dick Harper's (Carrey) years of hard work finally pay off when he is promoted to vice president at Globodyne, a worldwide leader in the consolodation of media properties. But after exactly one day in his new job, Globodyne is destroyed by an Enron-like calamity
- & he is left holding the bag. Dick's sudden reversal of fortune has left him little time to set money aside for a rainy day. Now it's raining buckets as Dick & his loving wife Jane (Tea Leoni), watch in horror as their deluxe home, their luxury cars & their status-conscious friends quickly vanish into thin air. After playing by the rules & working single-mindedly to build a comfortable life for his family, Dick is utterly unprepared to give up the American dream. Taking a lesson from his current employer, however, Dick hits on a brilliant idea: if stealing was good enough for his boss, then it's good enough for him.
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