The Code Check series provides answers to all types of building code questions. The books are filled with essential information, yet are handy enough to take to the job …
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The Everyday Baker: Recipes and Techniques for Foolproof Baking
The Comprehensive, Must-Have Resource for Today’s Baker from former pastry chef and award-winning baking expert Abby Dodge. The Everyday Baker is the ultimate resource for anyone who likes, loves, or lives to bake. This definitive collection serves as a delicious roadmap through a baker’s sweet and savory kitchen and includes over 176 foolproof, innovative recipes all …
Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories
Winner of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award for International Cooking, this is the authoritative guide to stir-frying: the cooking technique that makes less seem like more, extends small amounts of food to feed many, and makes ingredients their most tender and delicious.The stir-fry is all things: refined, improvisational, adaptable, and inventive. The technique and tradition of stir-frying, …
Pizza on the Grill: 100+ Feisty Fire-Roasted Recipes for Pizza & More
Americans love pizza and grilling. Put them together and you have your own version of a wood-oven pizza, straight from your own gas or charcoal grill. Updated to include 10 gluten-free recipes, as well as homemade gluten-free pizza dough, this expanded edition of the best-selling Pizza on the Grill has a total of 60 delicious, creative recipes for …
Though the median size of a new single-family house is back on the rise–after a brief decline during the 2007-2009 U.S. recession–many are now choosing to live small deliberately. They’re building smaller, more environmentally and economically friendly homes. The New Small House presents small-house design strategies as well as whole-house case studies from across the U.S. and Canada …
Sewers who have ever longed to create clothing with the distinctive look of haute couture will love this book. They’ll learn the finer points of hand sewing, shaping, and finishing for a high-end, professional look. This book is for all sewing enthusiasts who appreciate fine …
Inspired by his collaboration with the British Quilt Museum, Kaffe Fassett’s newest book in his successful patchwork and quilting series is a peek into the mind of a master designer, and the finished results are stunning. Kaffe Fassett’s Heritage Quilts is a curated collection of rare and treasured quilts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries such as the …
When it comes to home renovation, there’s no substitute for experience. Renovation 4th Edition contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of contractors, architects and tradespeople who shared their first-hand experience with Mike Litchfield as he interviewed and photographed them on job sites across North America. As a founding editor of “Fine Homebuilding” magazine, the author of 12 acclaimed …
Woodworking Basics – Mastering the Essentials of Craftsmanship
Based on a two-week course in woodworking fundamentals offered at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Camden, Maine, this book takes a traditional approach to teaching, with the idea that learning basic skills is essential to craftsmanship. In the process, the book covers all the bases–from working with hand tools to cutting dovetails. Includes two complete projects: a …
Graphic Guide to Frame Construction: Details for Builders and Designers (For Pros By Pros)
Here for the first time is a complete visual handbook designed for architects, builders, students, and anyone else interested in wood-frame construction. Inside you’ll find hundreds of meticulous drawings illustrating every detail you might ever want to know about when building wood, whether you’re building basement walls or framing a chimney opening.This wealth of visual information is mined …