Product Description: Trade secrets of finish carpenters explained. * How to plan and execute finish carpentry projects whether building or remodeling * Materials, tools, and techniques explained fully * How to install paneling, wainscoting, a fireplace surround, and more * Covers trims and moldings, box beams, wood floors, stairs, railings, shelves, closets * 40 informative photographs * 100 detailed illustration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains how to install and repair roofs, siding, and gutters. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Politics is a comprehensive and comparative introduction to the essential components of democratic politics. It familiarizes students with enduring themes and issues that have arisen over the roughly 2,000-year history of political research and provides foundations for more advanced study in the discipline...read more

Product Description: Ideologies offers a fresh treatment of liberalism, conservatism, and socialism, as well as an examination of contemporary social movements such as feminism and environmentalism.Professor Johnston treats each ideology as a product of the intersection of ideas and particular socio-historical contexts...read more