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A guide to practical and decorative wood projects to maximize minimal space. ... Read more

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Good book for amateur non-woodworkers
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This is another in the generally terrific Black & Decker Portable Workshop series.Many of these books, including this one, deal with construction of sturdy wood furniture and/or accessories using mostly hand tools and lumber.

All these books contain a basic introduction to the tools, materials and techniques.They also contain many full-color photos of the finished projects and several steps in the construction, as well as exploded drawings and materials/cutting list.

Keep in mind that this is NOT a "fine-woodworking" book!You are not going to build any "heirlooms" (although if you take your time, some could be darn good).Many of the projects in this book are too simple for that, made mostly from "1-by" and "2-by" lumber, using non-power hand tools, circular saw, jig saw, router, power sander and drill.(You will find a power miter saw useful, but not absolutely necessary.Likewise, for someprojects, a table saw or band saw could come in handy, but are not required.)But if that's what you're looking for, it's a great project book.

The projects in this book include:

1) card table
2) hallway bookcase
3) tile-top coffee table
4) china cabinet
5) armoire
6) portable workbench
7) mirrored display shelf
8) bathroom drying rack
9) nesting office
10) behind-the-sofa bookcase
11) computer stand
12) table/chair
13) corner bar
14) coffee cabinet
15) corner display stand
16) folding table
17) door-hung ironing center
18) exer-tainment center
19) pop-up wine bar
20) gateleg table

Anyone with the ability to work with basic hand tools and simple hand-held power tools should have no difficulty completing any of the projects in this book.

IMPORTANT:Some of the projects in this book also appear in other books in the series.If you are considering this book, you might want to look at the projects listed in the other books in the series.You might find that one book contains several projects you find interesting from this book, but includes an extra interesting project or two.

You won't go wrong with this book.But check the others in the series first to make sure you're getting the best one to suit your interests.

Now go build something...;-)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was a NASA-funded program that was operated by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) for NASA from 1998 until its closure on 31 August 2007. NIAC sought proposals for revolutionary aeronautics and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA developed and conducted its missions. It provided a highly visible, recognizable, and high-level entry point for outside thinkers and researchers. NIAC encouraged proposers to think decades into the future in pursuit of concepts that would "leapfrog" the evolution of contemporary aerospace systems. While NIAC sought advanced concept proposals that stretch the imagination, these concepts were expected to be based on sound scientific principles and attainable within a 10 to 40-year time frame. Since February 1998, NIAC has received a total of 1,309 proposals and has awarded 126 Phase I grants and 42 Phase II contracts for a total value of $27.3 million. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), published by T.H.E. Journal, LLC on October 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2798 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Students were asked to imagine themselves as participants in the 21st Century Teachers Network, and they were asked to build their own expertise in using learning technologies. Among their goals were the following: to share their expertise and experience with colleagues; to share their expertise with students as part of the learning process; and to make classroom technology available to all students and teachers.

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Exploring the Moon focuses on the exploration carried out by the Apollo astronauts while on the lunar surface, and not on the technology of getting there.

It is a story of the great adventure of exploring the Moon, and combines the words of the astronauts themselves with the photographs they took.Exploring the Moon is a lunar travelogue, a minute-by-minute account of what the astronauts did, said and felt, enhanced by their subsequent reflections.As you read this book, you will seem to walk with the astronauts as they explore...

David Harland concentrates on the final three Moon landings - Apollos 15, 16 and 17 - each of which spent three days on the lunar surface and used the famous "lunar rover" vehicle to get around.The three missions accounted for three-quarters of all lunar surface activity to date.

Although you can read the text for its description of a unique human adventure, the work of the astronauts is related to studies of lunar geology and will enable those interested in planetary geology to understand how a "field trip" on the lunar surface was conducted.There is also a "before and after discussion" of the results of the Apollo programme.

If you have ever asked yourself What did the astronauts do on the lunar surface? What did they say while they were there? What did they photograph? How did their discoveries alter our understanding of lunar geology? Will we ever go back to the moon? If so, Exploring the Moon is the book for you. This unique insight into the three Apollo missions (15, 16 and 17) answers all these questions and much more. Using the actual transcripts of what the astronauts said to each other whilst carrying out their duties, and numerous photographs taken at each step of the exploration, this book provides a graphic illustration of what can arguably be described as Mankinds greatest feat of exploration.

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A must for any Apollo enthusiast.
Exploring the Moon by David Harland is the 2nd edition of his original book of the same title.It explores the details of how Apollo explored the Moon during 6 lunar landings between the first on July 20, 1969 by Apollo 11 and the last by Apollo 17 only 3 and a half years later in December 1972.Most of the public knows little about what exploration was carried out after the first "Giant Leap for Mankind" on Apollo 11.This book does an exceptional job of describing the exploration moment by moment as each crew explored their landing site.This book improves on the first edition with larger and more detailed images and corrects a few other things here and there.It's a must for any space and Apollo enthusiast.Hopefully the author will be able to describe the next round of lunar exploration in another decade or so....

Excellent book on lunar geology
Having worked on the Apollo launches at Kennedy, I was most interested in reading this book, as most of my interest to date has been with the history of the space program, not lunar geology which I admit I knew nothing about.

Mr. Harland does a very good job in bringing the surface explorations to life, and if I didn't know better, I would have thought he was a third astronaut taking notes while the other 2 went about their tasks.It is that detailed, yet still fascinating to read.

He has also done an excellent job in reproducing the photos.The quality is better than I have ever seen.He even went to great pains to remove all the crosshairs.A previous reviewer complained about the small photos, but the 40th Anniversary Edition is chock full of full page photos, many in color.

Also included are specs of all the manned missions and descriptions of all the other unmanned recon missions that went before.

If you want details of the entire missions, look elsewhere, but if you want to know what happened after touchdown, this is the book.

Fantastic Read
OK, I admit it:I'm an Apollo nut, and author of two space book titles myself.But this book is the best thing written on the lunar missions since Andy Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon." With intense detail and great narrative of the geological science behind the missions, as well as records of the collected samples, it's the best thing I have seen on the moonwalks.

Note: This is a very enjoyable read, but not a casual one. You should be prepared to invest some time into the process. Otherwise you will not reap the full benefit of this very enjoyable book.

A Detailed Account of what the Astronauts Did on the Moon
In the last decade no one has been more productive than British writer David M. Harland at turning out histories of spaceflight written for a popular audience. All have similar features, a mastery of the secondary literature, especially that available through the NASA History Series, a digestion of a wealth of scientific and technical information, and an engaging writing style that focuses on narrative rather than analysis. "Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions" is very much in sync with Harland's earlier works and serves as a useful introduction to the subject. Not a scholarly work--there are no footnotes--but it does have an extensive bibliography. His emphasis in this book is on the work of the six crews of astronauts that landed on the Moon, although there is an opening chapter on the robotic precursors and concluding chapters on Apollo in context and exploration of the Moon in the 1990s.

The heart of this book are the six chapters dealing with the lunar surface activities of Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17. Harland expends the majority of the books space on the last three of this, and appropriately so because they represented the most significant scientific return of the program. NASA took a building block approach to exploration, something that seems obviously rational now but was not so well accepted at the time, with time on the surface and complexity of the mission advancing with every flight. The last three missions, of course, were extraordinary in collecting superb scientific data about the Moon, its origins, and the evolution of the solar system. Collectively, experiments carried out as a result of Apollo yielded more than 10,000 scientific papers and a major reinterpretation of the origins and evolution of the Moon.

"Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions" is a solid discussion, if uninspired history of lunar surface activity. Readers should read it in conjunction with two other major sources. The first is NASA's official history of the Apollo lunar surface activities entitled "Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions," by W. David Compton (Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration SP-4214, 1989). Is conveniently available on-line for those who do not need a physical copy at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4214/cover.html. Second, anyone who hopes to understand these missions must read the "Apollo Lunar Surface Journal," the brainchild of Eric Jones. Jones has placed on-line more detailed information about the astronauts on the lunar surface than anyone previously. This is available for all to review at http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/.

A MUST FOR THOSE INTO SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION
David Harland's book is one of the finest I have ever seen on the Apollo program or on Solar System exploration in general.Getting beyond the techincal aspects of spaceflight, the spacecraft or the astronauts' personalities which have been done by other authors, this book brings out the excitement of exploration and the discovery of the unknown that the Apollo astronauts participated in.Many people have been exposed to a taste of this in the episode about Apollo 15 in Tom Hanks' excellent television series "From the Earth to the Moon" which showed how, under excellent teachers, the astronauts, coming from a background of engineering and aeronautics, became true scientists and explorers.

It is true that a lot of geological concepts are thrown at the reader from the beginning and those (like myself) who have no previous background in geology might be intimidated but I find that a careful reading of the excellent glossary contained in the book should give enough background to make the science generally accessible.Harland makes clear why the various landing sites were chosen and what the geological issues were that were to be investigated.Traverse maps showing the various geological features to be explored are included for each mission.The many photographs presented illustrate the main discoveries and their significance.Of special note are the panoramas personally assembled by Harland (which are also available on the internet's Apollo Lunar Surface Journal) which give a stunning view of the Lunar environment as the astronauts saw it.

Finally, I strongly urge someone who finds himself becoming more interested in the subject of Lunar geology to also read Don Wilhelm's "To a Rocky Moon" which presents the historical development of our ideas about the Moon up through the famous Kona Conference in 1984 which determined that the Moon was probably created due to a giant body impacting with the fledgling Earth and also Paul Spudis' "The Once and Future Moon" which gives a summary of our state of knowledge up to the mid-1990's and directions for future exploration. ... Read more

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Looks at the technology and design of spacecraft, with related projects and activities. ... Read more

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Lucy and Kevin visit the U.S. & Soviet Apollo-Soyuz mission exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum. Suddenly they become Soviet Cosmonaut Alexi A. Leonov and American astronaut Thomas Stafford. Experience the docking of the mission's two spacecraft act out the famous handshake in space. This title includes stories that creatively combine modern experiences with fascinating historical settings and people. An historical background note and glossary of key terms enhance each story. Audiobooks (Free CD) feature dramatised narration plus authentic sound effects and music. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Mars Project (German: ) is a nonfiction science book by German (later German-American) rocket physicist, astronautics engineer and space architect, Wernher von Braun. It was translated from the original German by Henry J. White and first published in English by the University of Illinois Press in 1953. The Mars Project is a technical specification for a manned expedition to Mars. It was written by von Braun in 1948 and was the first "technically comprehensive design" for such an expedition. The book has been regarded as "the most influential book on planning human missions to Mars". Wernher von Braun developed a fascination for interplanetary flight while he was at school in Germany. In 1930 he went to university in Berlin to study engineering, and there he joined the Spaceflight Society (Verein für Raumschiffahrt) and later worked on the design of liquid-fuel rockets. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, von Braun was recruited by the Germany Army to assist in the building of long-range military rockets. He quickly rose through the ranks and became technical leader of the team that developed the V-2 rocket. Towards the end of the war over a thousand V-2s were launched from Germany and bombed England. In 1944 von Braun was arrested by the Gestapo and charged with proposing the building of interplanetary spacecraft instead of military weapons, but he was released after two weeks. As the war drew to a close in early 1945 von Braun and his rocket team fled the advancing Red Army, and later surrendered to American troops. Von Braun and his scientists, plus 100 V-2s, were shipped to the U.S. Army's rocket research facility at Fort Bliss in New Mexico. In 1948 the U.S. Army's V-2 test program was completed and von Braun used his spare... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26434031 ... Read more

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Highlights the accomplishments of the twelve missions of the Gemini Program, including the first manned space flight and the first extravehicular activity or walk in space. ... Read more

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During a field trip to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Lucy and Kevin time travel to the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project and find themselves as Alexei Leonov and Thomas Stafford enacting the historic first rendezvous in space. ... Read more

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This book is written from actual classroom demonstration with grades 7 through 12 and demonstrates and challenges the scientific principles behind aerospace such as buoyancy, acceleration, deceleration, pressure differential, gravity, Newton's laws, weightlessness, composition of the atomosphere, and more. It will interest both the average science student and the advanced science student. ... Read more

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Describes different types of rockets and how they work, including delta rockets, Saturn V, and the space shuttle. ... Read more

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This gift book combines high-flying space science with hands-onfun. Future astronauts can read an exciting introduction to spaceexploration while constructing three model spacecrafts. Amazing facts andup-to-date photographs round out this fantastic voyage. ... Read more

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Experience the force of liftoff

• Create your own constellations
• Write a postcard from another planet
• Make a club-soda comet, and more!

From rocketing out of Earth's gravity and orbiting our planet to probing other planets and walking on the Moon, Cosmic Science makes exploring space a blast! More than 40 easy, safe—and fun—activities show how rockets work, why the shape of the Moon seems to change, just how much power the Sun has, what it's like to live and work in space, and much more! ... Read more

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Great for Educators
As a new teacher, I am a firm believer of hands-on activities; as the saying goes, "I do, and I understand."While beginning a unit on space, I wanted to make it as concrete as I could, and my kids are now ableto understand some very abstract concepts - thanks to the activities inthis book.Most of these activities can be modified for students of alllevels; for higher-level students, teachers could get into inertia, airpressure,... My kids really loved the activity that proves how rocketswork.All of the activites use materials that you already have at home. ... Read more