Product Description: Craft and the Creative Economy examines the place of craft and making in the contemporary cultural economy, with a distinctive focus on the ways in which this creative sector is growing exponentially as a result of online shopfronts and home-based micro-enterprise, 'mumpreneurialism' and downshifting, and renewed demand for the handmade...read more

Product Description: These 101 classic projects from the pages of Popular Mechanics will bring out the kid in everyone! Go full speed ahead with these wonderful things to build, from a Motor Car, Motorcycle-powered Catamaran, and Ferris Wheel to a Spring-propelled Toy Seam Engine and an entire Electric-Locomotive Model and Track System...read more

Product Description: Fire up your soldering iron, charge up that drill, and get ready to hack! From a tiny theremin to a watermelon keg, from an automatic cat feeder to a glowing mousepad, the ingenious and hilarious projects in The Big Book of Hacks are perfect for aspiring makers...read more

Product Description: The ornamental or complex lathe, with its infinite capability for shaping and decorating, was perfected by the Holtzapffel family of London between 1780 and 1914. This amazing machine makes use of a broad range of attached tools, engineering works of art in themselves, to turn hardwood — and, at the time, ivory — into an astonishing variety of intricate patterns...read more

The study of craft production is a complex and challenging one that illuminates key aspects of the material, organizational, and ideological interests, values, and capacities of a given culture. Many crafts are treated as separate, but are actually practiced concurrently and in close proximity to each other, facilitating crucial interaction. There is a need for a balanced evaluation of the roles of producer and consumer in craft production, and the importance of properly contextualized workshop excavations and the definition of the entire sequence of operation in documenting craft production both as a social and material process. Craft Production in Complex Societies redresses the skewed conception and approach to craft production that have been shaped by studies focused on separate, single medium crafts, finished products, and the consumer. It presents case studies and regional syntheses from diverse geographical areas, time periods, and sociopolitical complexities that break important new ground in the anthropological study of the creative role and social identity of the producer and multi-craft production. It is expected to serve as a key reference in craft studies for many years to come.

Describes the best available sources for kits to make home furnishings and features, outdoor structures, musical instruments, toys, and other items

Describes the best available sources for kits to make home furnishings and features, outdoor structures, musical instruments, toys, and other items

A junior high industrial arts textbook introducing the basics of drafting, graphic art, woodworking, electronics, metalworking, photography, plastics, leather, electricity, power mechanics, and home maintenance. Also provides information on careers in each of these areas.Describes the appearance, behavior and different types of dinosaurs and the world in which they flourished, and includes a dictionary of dinosaur names

A junior high industrial arts textbook introducing the basics of drafting, graphic art, woodworking, electronics, metalworking, photography, plastics, leather, electricity, power mechanics, and home maintenance. Also provides information on careers in each of these areas.Describes the appearance, behavior and different types of dinosaurs and the world in which they flourished, and includes a dictionary of dinosaur names (view table of contents)

A textbook analyzing the place of industry in the world and introducing some of the processes and methods used in the woods, metals, plastics, energy and power, and electricity and electronics industries.

A text describing the equipment and techniques for creating artistic, practical objects from metal, wood, leather, and other materials

The early-nineteenth-century children's book features descriptions of and engravings for twenty-three trades and crafts practiced in American villages during the period

A textbook outlining the techniques of technical drawings, woodworking, metalworking, electronics, graphic arts, ceramics, plastics, and leatherwork.