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The illustrated encyclopedia of woodworking handtools, instruments, & devices

containing a full description of the tools used by carpenters, joiners, and cabinet makers, with many examples of tools used by other woodworkers such as, woodsmen, sawyers, coach makers, wheelwrights, shipwrights, wainwrights, coopers, turners, pattern m

Blackburn, Graham

1974

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Kings and queens in art

Coen, Rena Neumann

1965

The history of royal portraiture as exemplified in some of the most famous works of royal persons by the greatest artists.

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Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

Larsen, Rebecca

1988

Traces the life of the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic bomb.

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A forest journey

the role of wood in the development of civilization

Perlin, John

1989

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Big hoops

a season in the Big East Conference

Reynolds, Bill

1989

Discusses the Big East 1988-1989 basketball coaches and players from the locker rooms, to gym workouts, arenas, and tournaments.

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The Black man in America, 1619-1790

Jackson, Florence

1970

Traces the history of blacks in America, the anti-slavery movements, and the individual contributions of some outstanding black men from the landing of the first slaves at Jamestown to the framing of a new constitution.