***COURTESY OF TWOBEARS BOOKS*** The modern American home is a humming and clanking complex of hydraulic, electrical and mechanical systems. It needs a lot of care to keep it running smoothly-and to keep the costs of running it from going out of sight. The purpose of this book is to help you achieve more comfort and convenience, at less cost, by taking over household maintenance and repair jobs that anyone can do safely and efficiently. An understanding of how things work is fundamental to being able to fix them. Every article in this book begins with words and pictures that describe, with the aid of specially commissioned drawings, how the machines around you do their jobs: how air or liquid or electricity flows, how pipes or wires or gears fit together, how one part of a machine causes another part to move. Other illustrations and text explain how to disassemble things, replace parts and make adjustments. And troubleshooting charts provide a concise review of likely problems by listing sympthoms, causes and solutions. There are, of course, limits to the average homeowner's capacity for coping with the increasingly complicated devices he surrounds himself with. Radio and television repairs, for example, are not included in this book because they require expensive instruments and an intimate knowledge of electronic circuitry. But you will find that you can do certain essential, money-saving jobs even on some complex mechanisms, for even the most intricate contain relatively simple components. While only a qualified serviceman should work on the furnace, the detailed description of how the burner works will help you make adjustments in other parts of the heating system. In every case, this book will tell you what you can do - and, equally important, it will also tell you what you should not do.

How things work in your home (and what to do when they don't)

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Home Improvement & Design

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Explains human reproduction, describes a normal pregnancy and childbirth, and offers practical information on caring for infants and young children up to age five

Commonsense Guide to Birth and Babies

Medical Books

Henry Holt Co.

The Commonsense Guide to Birth and Babies

Millions of readers have turned to Time-Life Books for simple, reliable, money-saving manuals on home beautification. Now the editors of Time-Life Books introduce the definitive guide to planning, designing, cultivating, and maintaining a complete garden of earthly delights. 140 color photographs; 690 color illustrations.

Complete Guide to Gardening and Landscaping

Gardening & Landscape Design

PRENTICE/HALL

Features narratives and illustrations depicting America's move west

The Old West

History

Americas

Time-Life Education

Time-Life Home Repair Manual is packed with How to Dos for everyday household problems.

Time-Life Complete Home Repair Manual

From Library Journal This is an abridgement of the Time-Life series of the same name. Its focus is on plumbing, electrical, heating/cooling, appliance, and home electronics repair. Included are chapters on emergency measures and proper use of such tools as multitesters and soldering guns. As a demystifier of the mechanical and electrical apparatus in our lives, this helps counter our sense of their inscrutable and disposable nature. For each ailing piece of equipment, a troubleshooting guide lists a range of symptoms. Next to these is a list of recommended repairs with indication of their degree of difficulty and time for completion. Each repair procedure is then thoroughly explicated with a well-illustrated series of instructions. A tinker's delight, this belongs in most public libraries, especially those lacking the full Time-Life set.- Bill Demo, Tompkins Cortland Community Coll., Dryden, N.Y.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Time-Life Books Complete Fix-It-Yourself Manual

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The decade of the 1850s brought the United states exceptional growth and prosperity. the population increased by 35 per cent, to more than 31 million. Railroad trackage more than trebled, reaching 30,000 miles. the production of all kinds of foodstuffs and manufactured goods rose dramatically.

Brother Against Brother: Time-Life Books History of the Civil War

Prentice Hall Direct

Provides accounts of all events of the war, prewar and postwar actions, and illustrates and records the Apocalypse in depth

WW II: Time-Life Books History of the Second World War

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