This is the definitive guide for learning the art of lock picking. Inside you will discover the secrets of the trade. By reading this book, practicing, and applying the methods introduced, you can successfully become a master at picking all the common locks of today. This book makes it easy and gives you the edge to quickly learn what it takes others years to gather. This book is a valuable addition to any collection and will open doors for you. Not only does this book cover what tools and techniques are needed to pick most common locks, but it also goes through what to do step-by-step; and actually teaches you how to do it. It explains what all of the tools are and for what they are used. What really sets this book far above the competition, however, is the vast assortment of illustrations that make everything easy to understand. This really is a visual guide containing over 60 pages filled with diagrams and drawings that will instantly show you how locks work, and exactly what to do to bypass them. You can start learning today! This book makes learning the art of lock picking fun and easy. You don't have to waste your time guessing how it's done, reading some amateur's theories, or trying to learn from the movies. (They always get it wrong). Now, you can get accurate information that the professionals use. Their secrets have finally been revealed. Inside, you will find sections about warded locks, pin tumblers, wafer tumblers, and more. These are the locks found on most residential and commercial doors, cars, padlocks, desks, filing cabinets, safes, equipment, vending machines, bike locks, etc... Each section includes a detailed and easy to understand explanation as to how that type of lock works. This book even outlines several exercises you can perform in order to improve your lock picking skills. You'll be picking every lock in your house in no time. Now, you can understand the technology that has kept thieves at bay for centuries. Even in the time of antiquity, within the halls of the great pyramids, tomb raiders found their untold riches behind surprisingly sophisticated locks. Today's locks inherit these same principle designs. We give you the keys to their secrets. How many times have you or someone you know been locked out? Now, you don't have to be helpless in that situation while you wait and rely on some locksmith who is going to charge you a lot of money to do what you can do yourself. You don't have to be a victim of your circumstances. The next time someone forgets their keys, you can be confident with the knowledge that you can help yourself and your friends and save a lot of money in the process. This is the authoritative guide on lock picking. Even if you already know how to pick some locks, this book covers tips & techniques that you can use. This book is perfect for existing locksmiths, auto repossessors, and car dealers. Whether you are interested in becoming a locksmith, need to know how to bypass security locks for your job in law enforcement or emergency services, interested in lock picking as a hobby, just want to be prepared in an emergency, or for whatever reason, this book will get you started off right!

Visual Guide to Lock Picking

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

McCloud, Mark

Home Improvement & Design

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Plato studied under Socrates and was Aristotle’s teacher.  Together these three Greeks developed the basis of philosophical thinking for the entire Western world.  Plato was also a writer, mathematician, and founder of the Academy in Athens, which was the first university in Europe.  In Laches Socrates attempts to define bravery.  The fathers of Nicias and Laches ask Socrates to help them decide whether their sons should take up arms and learn to fight.  Nicias, the tactician, wants to learn the new art, which he describes as the gymnastics of war.  Laches, the blunt warrior, thinks that such an art is not knowledge and cannot be of any value.  Socrates asks the young men to define courage as a way of deciding their argument.

Laches

Literature & Fiction

Jowett, Benjamin

Plató

Dramas & Plays

Shaw used his writing to attack social problems such as education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.   Shaw was particularly conscious of the exploitation of the working class.  Set in Egypt, Caesar and Cleopatra, is a drama in which the 50-year-old Roman general meets the childish young Queen and exerts a fatherly influence on her. The subject is treated in modern terms, as the author professed a belief that there has been no perceptible progress in civilization since 53 B. C.

Caesar and Cleopatra

SHAW, BERNARD

Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden) was an American author born in 1841. Alden wrote for adults as well as for children.  She also wrote Christian literature and edited several magazines including Pansy for children.  At the turn of the century, years after the death of his beloved Christian sister,Ester, Alfred Ried bemoans his inability to carry on her charitable work, especially with a group of unruly poor boys.  Help comes in the form of his boss's young wife, Flossy Roberts. Despite Alfred's grave doubts, the results are astounding.

Ester Ried

Alden, Isabella MacDonald

Plato studied under Socrates and was Aristotle's teacher.  Together these three Greeks developed the basis of philosophical thinking for the entire Western world.  Plato was also a writer, mathematician, and founder of the Academy in Athens, which was the first university in Europe.  Written in 380 B C, Euthydemus satirizes the logical fallacies of the Sophists. It describes a visit paid by Socrates and various youths to two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus,  Plato hopes through satire to contrast Socratic arguments and education with Sophism and prove the latter inferior.   Euthydemus and Dionysodorus continually attempt to trap Socrates with deceptive and meaningless arguments, to demonstrate their professed philosophical superiority.

Euthydemus

Henry Morley was Professor of English at University College in London.  The Introduction begins with these wise words from Plato.  "it is the aim of Individual Man as of the State to be wise, brave and temperate. In a State, he says, there are three orders, the Guardians, the Auxiliaries, the Producers. Wisdom should be the special virtue of the Guardians; Courage of the Auxiliaries; and Temperance of all. These three virtues belong respectively to the Individual Man, Wisdom to his Rational part; Courage to his Spirited; and Temperance to his Appetitive: while in the State as in the Man it is Injustice that disturbs their harmony."  Essays included in this work are Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella"s City of the Sun, and part of Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem.

Ideal Commonwealths

Various, Authors

Andre Alice Norton was a 20th century American science fiction writer.  She also wrote historical fiction and contemporary fiction.  Andre Norton was her pseudonym.   She was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977.  Norton was awarded the coveted Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the SFWA in 1983.  Key Out of Time is part of the Time Trader Series in which Ross Murdock and Arthur Ashe continue their adventure across space and time.  Ross and Arthur are helped by Karara and two trained dolphins.  In Hawaika, which was settled by Hawaiian and Polynesian settlers. The planet Hawaikan is a warm tropical planet that is mostly ocean.  It is so different from what they had expected that they decide to risk a time trip back in the planet’s history.  Just as they are about to use the time gate a storm blows up and Murdock is flung through the gate and into the planet's past. The time gate is destroyed and Murdock is left to cope with this different and alien world on his own.

Key Out of Time

Science Fiction & Fantasy

NORTON, ANDRE

Science Fiction

Peter Schlemihl

Adelbert von Chamisso (1781 –1838) was a German poet and botanist. In 1796 his family was forced to leave France. They settled in Berlin where Chamisso became a page-in-waiting to the queen.  He later joined the Prussian infantry.  Peter Schlemihl is the story of a man who sells his shadow to the Devil for an always full wallet.   He then finds out that a man without a shadow is shunned by society.   The woman he loves rejects him, and he spends the rest of his life wandering the world in scientific exploration. The Yiddish word Schlemiel means a hopelessly incompetent person, a bungler. The name is a synonym for one who makes a desperate or silly bargain

von, Chamisso Adelbert

George Wharton James (1858 – 1923) was a lecturer and journalist.  He wrote many books on California and the Southwest.  He came to the United States and became a Methodist minister in the Southwest.  His wife sued him for divorce.  He subsequently underwent an ecclesiastical trial, charged with real estate fraud, using faked credentials, and sexual misconduct.  He was defrocked, although he was later reinstated.  James experienced several months of what might now be called a mental breakdown.  When James was on his way to recovery he determined that he must commit to a life without so much worry.  This book is the result of his journey away from worry.

Quit Your Worrying

JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON

John Keble (1792 – 1886) was an English clergyman and part of the Oxford Movement.  After writing The Christian Year its success led to his being nominated to the Chair of Poetry at Oxford.  The Christian Year was so popular that 95 editions were printed during Keble’s lifetime.  The book has a poem for every day of the year.  There are several hymns included.  This book was exceedingly popular during the 19th century and is beginning in the 21st century to receive  more interest.

The Christian Year

Keble, John

Religion & Spirituality

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