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Provides 101 cost-effective projects that add value to a home, including exterior and interior changes as well as suggestions for specific rooms, heating, plumbing, and electrical projects; and discusses permits, inspections, subcontractors, and consumer preferences.

Provides instructions on home electrical installation and repair; covering tools, parts, solid connections, running cable, light fixtures, adding and extending circuits, solving common problems, and more.

Contains advice on home repair and maintenance, drawn from Norman Becker's column in "Popular Mechanics" magazine, providing solutions to five hundred questions asked by homeowners about roofs, chimneys, landscaping, attics, interior rooms, electrical systems, plumbing, and other topics.

Presents an overview of home repair; explains how to do an internal and external home assessment and fix common problems; and looks at basic electrical, plumbing, and heating repairs and maintenance tasks.

Explains what tools to have in a home workshop, how to repair and restore interiors, exteriors, furniture, repair plumbing, and many other common household repairs.

Provides tips, techniques, and shortcuts to fix-ups in every room in your home, with lists of necessary tools, important precautions, and safety tips.

A young boy discovers a ghost living in his attic and tries to help the spirit solve a decades-old mystery.

Presents a study of the way homes have been constructed from prehistory through the twentieth-century and shows how people lived in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China, castles of the Middle Ages, the American frontier,and tenement houses of the big cities.

Bear perseveres until he finds just the right material for building the perfect house.