Cook Books

Home Improvement Indoor/Outdoor, Decorating,  Gardening

Dennis D. Gleason

Good painting estimates aren't an accident. They're created by skilled estimators working with the right data, the right knowledge and following sound estimating procedures. There's no other way to compile consistently reliable, consistently profitable bids for painting. 

Until this book was published, there was no comprehensive guide to paint estimating that explained the "how-to" of the paint estimator's trade and had the material and manhour tables a paint  estimator needs. Using the information in this manual and following the procedures recommended, any paint contractor can compile professional-quality estimates for most types of residential, industrial or commercial project - both new construction or repainting existing structures. 

Whether you're a paint contractor wanting to improve your estimating skills, or an experienced estimator, this manual has information you can use. It covers all phases of estimating - in the field, or from plans and specs in your office. It shows how to predict labor productivity; figure labor, material, equipment and subcontractor costs; factor in miscellaneous and contingency costs; and adjust the markup to suit your company, the competition, and variables in the job.

The author explains paint estimating step-by-step, and includes material and manhour tables that cover nearly every painting operation, from simple residential repaints to the most complicated commercial job - even heavy industrial and government work. Included are valuable estimating tips, tables, take-off forms and checklists you can copy and use. Two complete sample estimates show exactly how the information in this book should be applied. 

Bidding strategies, contracts, and financial management are all covered in detail. You'll find pointers on effective advertising, promotional and sales techniques, organizing your business for profits, and keeping good records for future estimates.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

Labor - Material - Equipment - Overhead - Profit 

Estimating Painting Costs

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Terry Tamminen

-Water chemistry made easy
-Troubleshooting and repair
-Automatic pool cleaning and control
-Decks made easy
-Money- and time-saving tips and techniques

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Want a beautiful, hassle-free pool? Now you can save thousands of dollars by doing it yourself. Using easy-to-follow examples and illustrations, "Poolman to the Stars" Terry Tamminen shows how to purchase, install, repair, maintain, and upgrade above ground pools. The author includes parts and tools lists, tricks of the trade for each procedure, and a difficulty rating to help readers decide when it's time to call a professional.


*How to select the best pool for your site, budget, and individual use
* Realistic cost estimates
* Installation and repair
* Heating inexpensively and repairing heaters
* Repairing and replacing liners
* Winterizing
* Decks made easy
* Pool enhancements for added value

Ultimate Guide to Above-Ground Pools

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Reader's Digest Editors

There are dirty marks on some of the pages from previous use of the book, but otherwise this book is in great shape! 


The NEW standard for the 1990's - replacing the classic bestseller that helped start America's do-it-yourself revolution 20 years ago

New tools, new materials, new techniques described, explained, and shown

Bonus Chapters: YOUR HOUSE - Planning improvements, paying for them, getting your money's worth, dealing with contractors
EMERGENCIES - How to cope with everything from hurricanes and power outages to gas leaks and clogged toilets

Clear step-by-step sequences show exactly what to do and how to do it

Up-to-the-minute information about home insulation, solar heating, energy conservation

More than 4,000 illustrations, 528 fact-packed pages, most in full color

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A quick reference guide to do-it-yourself home improvement projects teaches readers how to cope with emergencies and includes information on financing home improvements, working with contractors, obtaining permits, and more

New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual

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Carl Sagan

Richard Turco

This is a tough-minded and at the same time hopeful book about what is by far the most serious threat ever identified to the global civilization and the human species. 
   The first light of the Trinity nuclear explosion over the New Mexico desert in 1945 heralded the dawn of a new age of military power and unprecedented global insecurity. During the following decades, weapons of mass destruction were built at a breathtaking pace- each side convinced that the more it had, the safer it was- until the global arsenals were glutted with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. Now, in a time of dramatic improvement in the us/soviet relations, there is a temptation to believe that the danger is passed. Even with existing and anticipated treaty reductions, though, there are still enough weapons in the world to devastate every city on earth 25 times over. 
   But that's not the worst of it. Discovered in 1982-83, nuclear winter is the precipitous and widespread cold and dark that, it is predicted, would be generated in even a "small" nuclear war, putting at risk billions of people all over the Earth. It was a landmark discovery, one that revealed in the starkest terms how vulnerable our global civilization is to the long-term environmental after-effects of nuclear war.
   Despite the much-heralded thawing of the Cold War, the fact remains: even a limited use of our current arsenals can provoke a planetary-scale nuclear winter, indiscriminate in its ravages. Years of intensive scientific research have further substantiated and refined nuclear winter theory, and, disturbingly, have confirmed its stunning prediction of climate catastrophe, agricultural collapse, and world famine.
   Carl Sagan and Richard Turco were instrumental in the discovery and development of the nuclear winter theory. They here tell the personal story of their findings. In recognizing the threat of nuclear winter, they have exposed dangerous inadequacies in U.S. and Soviet nuclear policy and doctrine that have yet to be addressed in the current climate of apparent goodwill. Now is the time, the authors propose, to introduce sweeping reductions in the world arsenals and reforms in the thinking that sustains them- changes, they argue, that would lead to far greater political and military stability, a more just allocation of economic resources to human needs, and protection from the deadly prospect of nuclear winter.

Nuclear Winter and Its Implications

Discusses the theory of nuclear winter, its predicted consequences, and what can be done to prevent a war.

A Path Where No Man Thought

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Paul M. Barrett

BASED ON FIFTEEN YEARS OF RESEARCH, GLOCK IS THE RIVETING STORY OF THE WEAPON THAT HAS BECOME KNOWN AS AMERICA'S GUN.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Rise of America's Gun

Based on fifteen years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as American's gun.  Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. police departments, glamorized in countless Hollywood movies, and featured as a ubiquitous presence on prime-time TV. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists, and coveted by cops and crooks alike. 
 
Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, an obscure Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer, and swiftly adopted by the Austrian army, the Glock pistol, with its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, arrived in America at a fortuitous time.  Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with standard six-round revolvers, were getting "outgunned" by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols. They needed a new gun.
 
When Karl Water, a firearm salesman based in the U.S. first saw a Glock in 1984, his reaction was, "Jeez, that's ugly." But the advantages of the pistol soon became apparent. The standard semi-automatic Glock could fire as many as 17 bullets from its magazine without reloading (one equipped with an extended thirty-three cartridge magazine was used in Tucson to shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others). It was built with only 36 parts that were interchangeable with those of other models. You could drop it underwater, toss it from a helicopter, or leave it out in the snow, and it would still fire. It was reliable, accurate, lightweight, and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wesson's revolver. Made in part of hardened plastic, it was even rumored (incorrectly) to be invisible to airport security screening.
 
Filled with corporate intrigue, political maneuvering, Hollywood glitz, bloody shoot-outs--and an attempt on Gaston Glock's life by a former lieutenant--Glock is at once the inside account of how Glock the company went about marketing its pistol to police agencies and later the public, as well as a compelling chronicle of the evolution of gun culture in America.

Glock

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Chautona Havig

Beneath the Cloak is the final book in the trilogy of adventure surrounding Phillip and Dove of Wynnewood

Beneath the Cloak

The Journey of a Lifetime begins in Wynnewood.After three years of friendship, adventures, dangers, and triumphs, Dove still wrestles with the ultimate question. Is I AM the God of her heart? While Philip struggles with the direction of his own life, his friend's secret threatens to divide more than friends. Who is Dove? What is Dove? And can Philip truly accept her when he discovers who is beneath the cloak she wears? The adventure continues beyond anything either of them could have imagined. With Philip studying at Oxford, who will help Dove as she struggles with trusting I AM, and who will come to her rescue as she's whisked away to the caves of the Sceadu in the middle of the night? Lord Morgan is torn as the news arrives that both of his young friends are in trouble. Can the Earl of Wynnewood come to the rescue in time?Beneath the Cloakis the final book in the trilogy of adventure surrounding Philip and Dove of Wynnewood

Annals of Wynnewood

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Biomedical Information Corporation

The Physicians' Drug Manual should be one of the most frequently consulted books in any home health library. It has evolved over the last two years with painstaking care and research and is a direct outgrowth of The Physician's Compendium of Drug Therapy - a comprehensive reference designed to provide doctors with important information about the most frequently used drugs.

This manual covers more than 95% of all medications prescribed by primary care physicians, plus the most frequently used nonprescription drugs as of January 1981.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs

Physicians' Drug Manual

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George Fooshee

YOU CAN BE FINANCIALLY FREE

 Did you know that the Bible has much to say about resolving charge accounts, easy payment loans, mortgages, installment buying - even though these financial complexities are all products of a modern credit system developed long after the Bible was written? 
 Did you know that God has established timeless principles of money management that can save you thousands of dollars in your lifetime?

YOU CAN BE FINANCIALLY FREE is a guide to sound personal finances for the  average Christian written by a Christian financial expert who has helped thousands escape the "debt trap." 
 It belongs in every Christian's home library for it will be referred to frequently for counsel in seeking the biblical principles of fiscal responsibility.

Worn, faded cover. Some staining on pages. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Practical Christian principles for handling your family finances 

You Can Be Financially Free

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Peter Schwartz

The Path to Strategic Insights for Yourself and Your Company

Using the techniques Peter Schwartz presents for the first time in The Art of the Long View, can begin to chart the course of their own future or their company's, not with hard numbers, but with intangibles: belief in the company, their own hopes and fears, and their reaction to events. Among Schwartz' clients are the White House, Disney, Nissan, the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. National business media.

The Art of the Long View

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Helping Yourself/Helping Others

Robert J. Sternberg

This indispensable book combines under one cover practically everything a psychologist or aspiring psychologist needs to know to communicate effectively in articles, books, grant proposals, talks, and lectures. 

Abounding in practical advice that the reader can use immediately, The  Psychologist's Companion offers pointers that even the seasoned writer will find useful.

A Guide to Scientific Writing for Students and Researchers

This book is a guide to scientific communication for students and researchers in psychology and related subjects. It is unique in that it combines under one cover practically everything the reader needs to know to communicate effectively in articles, books, grant proposals, prospectuses, talks, and lectures. The emphasis is on tips and practical advice that social scientists can actually use to improve communication. Robert Sternberg reviews rules for effective prose in a variety of formats, debunks common misconceptions about writing, highlights commonly misused words and gives instruction on the preparation of tables, figures, and bibliographies. For the third edition, the author has added entirely new chapters on 'How to Win Acceptances from Psychology Journals: Twenty-One Tips for Better Writing', 'Writing a Grant or Contract Proposal', 'Writing Book Proposals' and 'Writing a Lecture', and has expanded the chapter on 'References for the Psychology Paper'. He has also updated the volume's references. This book is an essential purchase for all psychologists and aspiring psychologists.

The Psychologist's Companion

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Gish

Laminate is lifting from cover(shown in photos). Otherwise, this book is in great condition.

Having challenged the dogmatic humanistic religion of evolutionism, creation scientists have endured scathing denunciation by the adherents of this worldview. Within the pages of many volumes of anti-creationist books, evolutionists have risen to the defense of their beloved theory while denouncing the views, the objectivity, and even the honesty of creation scientists. As founders of the Institute for Creation Research and early combatants in the creation/evolution controversy, Henry Morris and Duane Gish, have often been the highly visible targets of evolutionists. In this book, Dwayne Gish, the author, who has faced evolutionists in almost 300 debates, reviews the history of the controversy, and critiques and challenges the attacks of evolutionist against the theory of special creation and its proponents. He evaluates the major arguments for and against special creation and evolution and defends creation scientists against a distorted, inaccurate, and often vicious attacks of evolutionists. This book provides a fascinating account of this present-day battle of those holding opposing world views and attendant interpretations of this scientific evidence concerning origins.

Discusses the arguments between creation scientists and evolutionists.

Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics

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William Stallings

The book is taped where the binding began pulling away from the pages (shown in photo). Nonetheless this book is still very sturdy and is not falling apart.

This timely revision of an all-time best-seller in the field features the clarity and scope of a Stallings classic. This comprehensive volume provides the most up-to-date coverage of the essential topics in data communications, networking, Internet technology and protocols, and standards - all in a convenient modular format. Features updated coverage of multimedia, Gigabit and 10 Gbps Ethernet, WiFi/IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, security, and much more. Ideal for professional reference or self-study. For Product Development personnel, Programmers, Systems Engineers, Network Designers and others involved in the design of data communications and networking products.

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