An essential guide to basic and advanced restoration techniques for antique furniture, and a comprehensive directory of tools, materials and equipment. Step-by-step instructions for everyday repairs such as fixing loose joints and repairing broken legs as well as specialist skills, such as turning, [...]
(Book). The Ludwig Drum Company was the world's largest drum company in the 1920s under founder William F. Ludwig, and again in the 1960s under his son. This fascinating autobiography by William F. Ludwig II begins with his childhood recollections of home life and his father's drum factory. As a tee[...]
One Leg Too Few will feature an extensive range of fresh interviews, previously unpublished archive material and a wealth of information about the most creative (and explosive) double act that British comedy has ever produced. One Leg Too Few is a book about an extraordinary relationship: a friendsh[...]
The Medieval World View, Third Edition, presents the presuppositions of medieval society in a systematic fashion by integrating brief, self-contained selections from primary texts and carefully captioned photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations. The text is divided into[...]
This long awaited successor of the original Cook/Campbell Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings represents updates in the field over the last two decades. The book covers four major topics in field experimentation:[...]
Presents the findings on one of the most intensely investigated subjects in computational mathematics - the travelling salesman problem. This book describes the method and computer code used to solve a range of large-scale problems, and demonstrates the interplay of applied mathematics with increasi[...]
What is the shortest possible route for a travelling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the travelling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics - and it has defied solut[...]
What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics-and it has defied solution [...]
As a pharmacist turned lawyer turned master prohibition era bootlegger, George Remus is now remembered as one of the most notorious figures of the American prohibition. A lifelong teetotaler, Remus nonetheless built one of the nation's largest illegal liquor empires with little regard to disguises o[...]
Interpersonal phenomena such as attachment, conflict, person perception, helping, and influence have traditionally been studied by examining individuals in isolation, which falls short of capturing their truly interpersonal nature. This book offers state-of-the-art solutions to this age-old problem [...]
A classic how-to manual, William Wallace Cook's "Plotto" is one writer's personal method, painstakingly diagrammed for the benefit of others. The theory itself may be simple -- "Purpose opposed by Obstacle yields Conflict" -- but Cook takes his "Plottoist" through hundreds of situations and scenario[...]