If ever there were a book to make you switch off your television set, The Dangerous Book for Boys is it.

Brief, accessible, and inexpensive, The Little Brown Essential Handbook, Fifth Edition, answers questions about the writing process, usage, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, document design, research writing, and documentation. Minimal terminology, clear explanations and examples, and pointers for ESL writers help students at all levels. Extensive sections on research writing, source ...

This is a handbook for life's turns for the worse. It provides step-by-step instructions on everything from how to wrestle an alligator, and defuse a bomb, to how to escape from quick sand, an elevator or a volcanic eruption.

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Is the ultimate real-world training manual for any aspiring caped crusader, showing how to: train a sidekick; execute a backflip; survive a poison gas attack; and throw a grappling hook. Included are original two-colour illustrations by a DC Comics artist. Age 10+.

Compiles information from action movies and television programs, including Aliens, The Matrix, and Scream, to teach readers skills such as how to outrun a fireball, profile a serial killer, and land a failing helicopter.

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. This 'little' book can help students communicate more effectively, showing them how to enliven their sentences, put statements in the positive form and write in a clear and simple style.

Provides mechanical and manufacturing engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, and machinists with a broad range material, from the very basic to the more advanced. This title also provides industry fundamentals and standards with material reflecting technological advances.

Compiles information from movies and television programs including Star Trek , Top Gun , and Body Heat to teach readers such skills as how to tell if someone is really dead, how to evade a MiG, and how to pick up someone in a bar.

Offering updated material to reflect current style, this 15th edition includes guidance on electronic publications, journals and mathematical copy. A comprehensive gathering of material, the Chicago Manual of Style is an essential reference for publishing professionals.

This handbook has been revised and redesigned to take into full account the major advance in biblical studies. It includes character studies of important biblical figures and advice on how to approach the different kinds of writings that appear in the Old and New Testaments.

A comprehensive guide that draws from reams of historical data, laboratory experiments, field research, and eyewitness accounts.

Designed to provide ideas for adventures and games, both indoors and out, during each season of the year.

Intended for writers at various levels - from first-year undergraduates, to dissertation writers submitting final manuscripts, this book deals with successful completion and submission of the student paper.

Includes discussion of the useful early stages of a research task: planning and drafting a paper. This title explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; and, how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to respond to them appropriately.

Provides you with the tips, techniques, and tricks of the trade to be the hero anywhere, at anytime. This handbook helps you to learn: Super Rescues; Super Aid; Super Skills; Super Everyday Emergencies; and more. It is illustrated with various original two-color step-by-step images for easy use.

This guide looks at how to write a successful crime novel - from critical points in development, including story setting, creating characters, building suspense, use of sex and violence, the importance of research and the basic rules of story construction - to how to get published.

Includes coverage of the writing process, as well as material on critical reading and argument, oral presentations and essay exams, online design and working with computers, and coverage of grammar and usage. This work includes exercises, a reference system, a spiral-binding and tabs, and explanations of grammar and usage.

Said to originate from the library of eminent Victorian dragonologist Dr Ernest Drake, this book imparts the secrets of the ancient science of dragonology.