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Men's Health: Huge in a Hurry
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Men's Health Huge in a HurryMen's Health Huge in a Hurry

 Men's Health Huge in a Hurry will add inches to your muscles and increase your strength, with noticeable results quickly, no matter how long you've been lifting. Author Chad Waterbury offers the most current neuromuscular science to debunk the fitness myths and conventional wisdom that may be wreaking havoc on your workouts and inhibiting your gains. Forget lifting moderate weights slowly for lots and lots of sets and reps. The best way to get huge in a hurry is to use heavy weights and lift them quickly for fewer repetitions. 
 
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Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers
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Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering ContainersIncredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers

Shiny green cucumbers; firm, juicy tomatoes; baby lettuces handpicked one salad at a time—these are the tasty benefits of the backyard vegetable garden. But earth gardens are a lot of work. They require a plot of plantable land and a significant time commitment to sowing, watering, weeding, and tending each plant. 
 
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The Solar Home: How to Design and Build a House You Heat With the Sun
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The Solar Home: How to Design and Build a House You Heat With the SunThe Solar Home: How to Design and Build a House You Heat With the Sun

I am a first-time DIY owner-builder, presently in the early planning stages of my house project. I picked this book up at Borders as my first book on homebuilding, and was glad that I did.
It was a quick and easy read, and its friendly, informal, confident style makes the first-time homebuilder feel that perhaps doing it yourself is not so daunting a task after all. The book contains enough detailed explanations and drawings to give one a feel for what kind of work is involved in all the various stages of a typical passive solar homebuilding project, while remaining brief enough as to not be too intimidating.
 
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Lofts
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LoftsLofts

Although loft living once meant converting old industrial warehouses, today it has evolved into a style and approach for modern living spaces. This new volume in the Good Ideas series provides more than 50 recent examples of contemporary lofts from around the world, ranging from remodeled industrial buildings to old farmhouses and garages transformed for today's lifestyle. With 800 photographs, Good Ideas: Lofts is an incredible value for anyone who dreams of owning or living in a loft.


 
 
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How To Draw Celtic Knotwork: A Practical Handbook
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How To Draw Celtic Knotwork: A Practical HandbookHow To Draw Celtic Knotwork: A Practical Handbook

Shows how a relatively simple series of 'formulas' can be applied, rather like a new language, to enable the reader to create knotwork patterns very quickly...opens new doors for the serious artist interested in learning the language of Celtic knotwork.
 
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