Offers advice for starting a career in woodworking. Features information on the history of woodworking, as well as its tools, techniques, and materials. Contains color photographs and step-by-step directions for four woodworking projects. Also includes a timeline, profiles of woodworking artists, a glossary, and online resources.

"After two New York Times bestsellers, Nick Offerman returns with the subject for which he's known best--his incredible real-life woodshop,"--Amazon.com.

As a young mom on a tight budget, blogger Ana White learned to make her own well-designed pieces inspired by the styles in her favorite stores -- saving thousands of dollars in the process. This reference book is for woodworkers of all skill levels and includes plans for 34 versatile furniture projects for every room in your house -- from beginner-friendly home accessories to sturdy tables, a media center, kids' items, and storage solutions; information...

Provides illustrated instructions for constructing 101 things that go from wood and other materials, such as a skate-wheel skooter, a backyard merry-go-round, and a miniature windmill.

Features twenty-three simple woodworking projects designed to teach woodworking skills to a novice, including how to make a trophy base, pop gun, and butterfly house.

Step-by-step instructions show how to use different forms of wood or cork to create original craft projects.

The outdoor survival expert’s complete primer on traditional camping techniques—newly revised and updated with color photos and illustrations.
Before the days of RVs and nylon sleeping bags, people still went camping. In this comprehensive volume, wilderness educator David Prescott explains the methods used during the golden age of camping, including woodcraft, how to set a campfire, food preparation, pitching a tent, auto

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Provides details on how to build more than 40 projects--sheds, feeders, fences, and other structures--to enhance readers' sustainable living.

In 1990 European physicists set out to test the limits of cost-effective energy efficiency. The result was the first passive house, a four-unit townhouse that combined heavy insulation, airtightness, and heat-recovery ventilation to achieve reductions of up to 90% in the energy required for heating and cooling. This program introduces the passive house concept-popular in Europe, but slower to catch on in the States-and showcases some beautiful examples...