Now in a completely revised and updated edition, Howard Massey's Basic Plumbing With Illustrations is the definitive "how to" manual for installing code-approved plumbing in residential and light commercial buildings. Systematically laid out in twenty-three chapters, Basic Plumbing With Illustrations covers all of the fundamentals of the plumbing trade including planning and sizing, installation, maintenance, common layout, materials, and code requirements. Invaluable and practical information is provided on inspections, floor plans and plot plans, drawing and reading isometrics, code definitions, and materials. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of charts, tables, installation diagrams, and rough-in measures, Basic Plumbing With Illustrations is enhanced further with a glossary of plumbing terms, plumbing abbreviations, extensive study questions at the end of each chapter, and a section with all the correct answers. This is the ideal text for students and apprentices, as well as practicing professionals in the field.

This book shows you everything about plumbing, including septic systems, solar water heaters, and hooking up swimming pools and spas--not to mention the basic and industrial plumbing fixures and techniques. This book is extremely interesting.

Seeing the Dark Knight in black and white is what made me give this book 5 stars. The black and white artwork was awesome! I must admitt that the short stories were just average, however the artwork saved the short medicore stories.

Well worth the discounted price I paid for it from Bud Plant Comic Art. A solid 5 star read.

This hardcover collects the excellent 4-issue miniseries from DC Comics. Contains short stories (some serious, some not) by some of the best writers and artists around, plus covers, sketches, gallery, tipped-in plate by Jim Steranko, and a cover image by Jeff Jones. The covers are on art board stock, giving it a very unique appearance. Also includes work by Corben, Simonson, McKeever, Timm, Kristiansen, Toth, Windsor-Smith, Ross, Stelfreeze... that should be enough to get your attention! The only problem I had with it was the brief appearance of Lobo in the Gaiman/Bisley story - can't stand that character.

Howard Coffin has established himself as the premier authority on Vermont and the Civil War. He has exhaustively researched Vermont's historical records including countless letters and diaries from the actual participants. He allows them to directly share their personal, heroic, sorrowful and inspiring stories and insights. It is difficult today to appreciate the pain and suffering which was brought home to every Vermont family during this Campaign. Mr. Coffin does honor to their memories and has provided a valuable research source for those interested in this period.

A powerful historical account of Vermont's role in the Civil War, The Battered Stars: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign by American Civil War historian and expert Howard Coffin (himself a sixth generation Vermonter with four ancestors who served with the Vermont regiments in the Overland Campaign) is founded on a wealth of primary sources and archival materials, including wartime letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts. The state of Vermont paid a toll in blood from the strife of the war, and the brutal battles are explored in detail as well as the resolve of those who stayed at home and did their best to keep the wheels turning. A welcome and much appreciated contribution to the growing field of Civil War Studies, The Battered Stars is a powerful, fascinating account highly recommended for civil war buffs, as well as anyone native to Vermont who wants to immerse themselves in the gripping saga of a watershed time of civil war.

I have found this book to not only answer my questions about what may cause my fatigue but it also is an excellent introductory book for someone who is wanting to begin Yoga. I have found ways to deal with my fatigue through non-yoga and yoga methods. I recommend this book to anyone who is dealing with stress, fatigue or who is just interested in learning about about Yoga.

I read this book in the UK and I thought it would be just like the rest. Not so! Basically, like all the megastars, I thought aerobocs would be the cure. But I now spend my relaxation time with my friends practising Yoga. Fiona is right in this book...This enhances your pleasure..Other exercise wears out an already exhausted body! Well done Fiona..I now have energy!!!!

Oh my, what a delight. This little book is going off to all my friends in the field of sustainable development, including a small group who think apiculture is one way to peace. Thank you Mr. Scott for this gem.

Concisely written, fascinating facts about bee behavior. After each little nugget of information is a pithy moral to provoke thought on human behavior and how we might be better off emulating the bees. A great little book to include in a graduation gift.

At first when I read this book I thought I would differ with the author due to our different political beliefs. However, I could not have been so wrong, Mr. Williams just explains that so many of todays youth want the easy way out and get rich quick by any means necessary. I agree with Armstrong that you have to understand the value of hard work in order to succeed legitimately in America, and just because we grew up poor and black is no excuse. The liberals of this country really hurt our community more than helping us by saying we as black turn to crime, because there are no alternatives. I grew up in a small city in Illinois, but I saw so many opportunities for myself to succeed and it did not come from wearing Tommy, Polo, DKNY or other top designer clothing. My success came from my knowledge through education, because education creates options not a life of fast living sell drugs.

Williams describes a "bad" young black man in Washington DC, who asked for help, and Armstrong wrote him insightful letters, giving ideal advice that, if followed, would "save" the young man and his posterity. I now greatly admire Williams and hope he can communicate his beliefs to many more "Brads" who need this help, who will change their lives for the better.

Yes indeed, Howard Goodall's tome is a wonderful look at (arguably) the five most important 'inventions' that made music what it is today. Well written and easy to comprehend, the book demystifies some of the more detailed workings of music, and gives credit to those who helped to make it happen. Highly useful in the music classroom, it is just as easily a bedside book, where one could be fascinated by the historical figures and events discussed.

Definitely a relevant and necessary work!

Howard Goodall (UK composer and broadcaster) based this book on his fascinating TV series of the same name (Howard Goodall's Big Bangs). He proposes that the 5 critical turning points in Western musical history were:
1. Invention of notation (music transferable without memorisation, complicated works became possible)
2. Opera (sung drama)
3. Equal temperament (the modern tuning system which corrects - on average - the Harmonic Series found by Pythagoras)
4. The piano ("the amazing loud and soft machine")
5. Recorded sound

He goes into quite a bit of detail about what made these discoveries special and what they meant to music and society at the time. It's an entertaining way to learn something about musical history, even if you don't know much about music.

...in a comicart novel. Hold on to your seats for this one. Stunning, graphic and over the top. Meaning it ain't fer the kiddies. Chaykin has been one of my faves since he illustrated Rice Burrough's "Pellucidar" for DC...

Before the Crying Game, there was Black Kiss.

Chaykin is atthe top of his form here. No censorship, no holds barred, nothing tokeep him from telling the twisted tale of transvestites, power and perversion in the underground world of Los Angeles.

This is the type of story he wanted to tell in American Flagg! but obviously unable.

Chaykin, like Elmore Leonard and Greg Rucka, has a knack for language and dialogue. His exchanges are tough and terse, but not too much. Blend this with his unmatched sense for panel layout and design and you have a brilliant storytelling vehicle. It's like a porno with a killer plot.

One caution: you will curse like hell at Chaykin for the ending to this one. It doesn't at all live up to the promise that the rest of the book offers. Nonetheless, a must have for every over 18 red-blooded, American male who reads comic books.

Buy it now!

Do you remember those glorious summer days at the seaside? BLESS YOUR HEART will bring those memories right back.

Each new adventure glows with joie de vivre & blessings, & Kim Howard's richly textured, lively pictures enhance Holly Bea's charming couplets.

BLESS YOUR HEART is a book for all seasons - to be read at bedtime in summer to reflect on the precious day just lived, & read in the darkness of winter, to remember & look forward to the brightness of summer.

Holly's & Kim's earlier book GOOD NIGHT GOD will also enthuse you with that particular excitement children bring to our lives.

With another cheerful mix of words and images, Holly Bea and Kim Howard are teaching my kids enduring values...while my kids ENJOY it!! My 4 and 6 year old son and daughter both love this book--they relate to the children pictured, love the wonder-filled illustrations of a day at the beach, and were inspired to search their own surroundings and bodies for things to "bless." Discovering and blessing freckles is lots of fun. My daughter had memorized parts of the book after two readings, and wanted to talk about why we might even bless boo-boos. Thanks, Holly and Kim, for another winner!

From the first page, this story captured my heart. I read it years ago and have never seen it since. Being a mother, I felt for the heroine, who is in destitute and in labor. When the hero helps her, then marries her, I felt a sigh of relief. The heroine's life hasn't been easy and she's afraid to reach out. When she reveals her past, the hero decides that HE is the one for her and her baby, despite the heroine's murky beginnings. I felt a tear in my eye as the author weaved a gentle, healing tale of love. I'm buying it and adding it to my collection.

A wonderful story that will warm your heart. A young mother finds herself in labor during a terrible blizzard and is rescued by an intelligent, handsome, and charismatic doctor who happens to specialize in babies in trouble. He rescues the mother, delivers her premature baby under stormy conditions and marries the deserted and destitute mother to provide the baby with all the advantages a doctor can give it. But his heart is captured by the young mother and he waits for her to find her way to him. A charming and heartwarming story of family love and support, and of a man's dedication and honor.