Other technologies and applied sciences

This vintage book contains a complete guide to bee-keeping, with information on hive constructions and management, the natural history of bees, harvesting, swarming, and all other related aspects.

This vintage collection of articles offers insights into the fundamental practice of leathercraft, with a special focus on glovemaking.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to horse shoeing, originally intended for novices and apprentices.

"e;The Race Horse"e; is a classic guide to buying, training, and keeping race horses.

"e;The Horsewoman"e; is a vintage guide to horse riding aimed at women.

This vintage handbook offers insights into the fundamental practice of leather wallet crafting.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to tanning leather, with information on tools and equipment, required materials, different techniques, benefits, common problems, and many other related aspects.

This vintage book provides a detailed history and overview of the quilting industry, exploring its routes, developments, popularity, and revival.

This vintage collection of articles offers insights into the fundamental practice of leathercraft, with a special focus on the leather bag.

This vintage handbook offers insights into the fundamental practice of leathercraft, with a special focus on the leather belt.

This book contains a detailed handbook on determining the sex of pure- and cross-bred chicks, with chapters on handing and care, common questions and problems, and more.

This vintage text contains an interesting and informative guide to the history and manufacture of grandfather clocks, complete with historical information, descriptions of many different varieties, and a plethora of authentic photographs.

"e;Spool Knitting"e; is a classic guide to knitting toys, dolls, and children's clothing using empty spools and pins.

This classic guidebook is perfect for the leatherwork novice and enthusiast alike.

"e;The Book of Bee-keeping"e; is a classic guide to keeping bees for profit and pleasure.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to making a gloves, with detailed directions for using leather, employing patterns, cutting, stitching, and everything else one might need to know.

This fantastic book contains a collection of classic articles on the subject of bee keeping, focusing mainly on queens and how to rear, introduce, and breed them.

Life for East End families like Pat's was always a struggle.

This book provides a comprehensive basics-to-advanced course in an aero-thermal science vital to the design of engines for either type of craft.

Female genital malformations represent miscellaneous deviations from normal anatomy.

Designing satellite structures poses an ongoing challenge as the interaction between analysis, experimental testing, and manufacturing phases is underdeveloped.

The book provides the newest definitive text on the current techniques used in assessing vascular disorders.

The main target of clinical and academic cardiology activities is to optimize the patient's management and ultimately their welfare.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This antiquarian volume contains a beginner's guide to watches, being an accessible and simplified description of the mechanics of wrist and pocket watches together with information on the history of their development.

This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to clock repair, with information on barrels, fuses, mainsprings, balance springs, pivots, depths, train wheels, and common stoppages of watches.

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This vintage book contains a complete guide to watch repair and maintenance, with information on the materials and tools used and directions for repairing, cleaning, altering, and adjusting all kinds of English and foreign watches, repeaters, chronographs, and marine chronometers.

The number of beekeepers has been doubled or trebled in many localities according to the statistics of Beekeepers' Associations and doubtless the total production of home-produced honey has been stepped up considerably.

Originally published in 1908, this is one of the earliest books on bee keeping and the natural history of the honey bee, with information on its natural history, bee society, anatomy, bee keeping, and much more.

Originally published in London, 1927.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to beekeeping, with information on starting a hive, hive management, swarming, harvesting honey, seasonal preparations, and much more.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to bee-keeping, with information on hive construction and management, the natural history of bees, harvesting, swarming, and all other related aspects.

This handy volume contains a comprehensive guide to cleaning, repairing, and adjusting watches.

Specially written for amateurs, beginners, cottagers and others who are desirous of keeping two or three hives of bees so as to yield the best results.

Scientists have concluded that 90 percent of men shave at least once a day.

'Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in.

How does it feel to live and work in the world's most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resort, surrounded by white sandy beaches and aquamarine seas?

'I was able to get on well with everyone below stairs and above, or so I thought until I began working for Lady Astor.

'The next Bill Bryson.

This book highlights the fundamental theories and prediction methods of radiowave propagation for the design, building, and operation of contemporary satellite systems.

This is the cookbook for people who love good food, but don't have time to spend hours in the kitchen.

While many films have attempted to convey the experience of the Second World War European battlefield, none adequately portray the mayhem and suffering that befell untold thousands of horses, their bodies impacted by bullet, flame and bomb as well as disease, starvation and backbreaking toil in the searing heat of summer and the freezing winds and snows of winter.

No other combatant nation employed motorcycles on the scale produced by the Third Reich.

Utilising a wealth of rare and unpublished images from official archives, authors Alastair Cameron and Liz Withey tell the story behind the development of the Honister Slate Mine in the Lake District.

The Lake District mountains are full of mineral veins.

From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying, today's governments have harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect.

From Roman times, rocks have been worked for a wide range of purposes, initially as building stone.

Beautiful boats last a long time, but ugly ones die young.

The remnants of slate mining and quarrying form as much a part of the Lakeland historic landscape as the stone walls, heathered moorlands and Lakeland farms do.