January 2012
17 posts
Acting Proverbs Acting Rhymes Adventurers All Fours Alphabet Game Animal, Vegetable or Mineral Ants and the Grasshopper Balancing Spoon Band Box (Charade) Beggar My Neighbor Bingo Birds, Beasts and Fishes Bird Catcher 26, Birds Fly Blackboard Relay Blind Man’s Buff Blind Man’s Wand Bob Major Bridge of Knives Buff Says Buff Buzz Card Games Cat and Mouse Cat...
A Search and Rescue Guide on Where to Look - for Land, Air and Water
Island Series
The books in this world-wide series have a stronger reference value than most previously-published works on islands, but at the same time special care is taken to capture the island atmosphere and to deal with those aspects of life that are different on an island.
The approach is businesslike and realistic and the books contain much information not hitherto available.
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
Particularism and Universalism
Though you may be dead soon, the fact is that the next format and the format after that, will in fact still be digital. Your descendants will be seeing clear digital photos of you, without the fading or damage.
Facades: Selection and Details
September 2011
1 post
Infinite Series: Ramifications
July 2011
4 posts
A customer who bought a cell phone on a Russian internet site - but received, instead, a bar of soap
A man who ordered a video camera - but when the parcel came it contained a bag of sugar
I prefer to talk about numbers.
Spirit level in column base.
June 2011
1 post
Anonymous Artists' Supplement
The illustrations were made, as frequently as possible, from original photographs. In quite a number of cases, especially those objects which could no longer be located, our plates were taken from existing reproductions. Where neither object nor image could be found, a boxed description has been substituted.
May 2011
5 posts
date stamp
time stamp
April 2011
21 posts
valuable mediums
aazzz
His father owned a record store, and consequently Glass’s record collection consisted to a large extent of unsold records.
The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening
Injection Moulding
Hot set
Cold set
Transfer
Injection
Compression
Material does not flow freely,
use a softer material.
Material too soft,
use a harder material.
Material contains foreign matter,
protect material against contamination.
Material too hard and/or pressure too low:
increase pressure and/or use softer material.
Mirrors
Gloves
Tools
Channel flow, ductile extrusion and exhumation in...
When we talk of a substance being “plastic” (the adjective) most people would agree on its meaning. It can flow or be moulded, it is ductile or it can be shaped, but when we turn to defining “plastics” (the noun) we have problems. Almost any simple definition will exclude materials which everyone would agree should be included so we have to turn to scientific terms and start with the comment that...
Preface to the third edition
We have been very flattered by the success of this weed book. We have also been amazed at the breadth of its appeal.
101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject
Chess Openings for the Average Player [Paperback]
I disagree with the previous reviewer who claims this book suffers from too many typos, etc. I’ve used the book for over a decade, and have found very few such errors; indeed fewer than most newer chess books.
Surfacant City
Teachers of the Blind: Descriptive Profiles
Speculative Pragmatism