Amateur Books

If you're a Georgette Heyer fan with a liking for period language and witty dialogue, try Jeffery Farnol. His books came out in the early 1900s and compare quite favorably to her regency romances. You have the duels, highwaymen, and haughty ladies with a variety of plots. They are great reading.

If you're a Georgette Heyer fan with a liking for period language and witty dialogue, try Jeffery Farnol. His books came out in the early 1900s and compare quite favorably to her regency romances. You have the duels, highwaymen, and haughty ladies with a variety of plots. They are great reading.

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This is one of the finest modern magic books available to the general public. It teaches how to entertain with magic, not just how the tricks are done. It is an all-encompassing book, with major sections on all types of sleight-of-hand, mentalism, self-working (head) magic, and apparatus magic. Couple this book with the Mark Wilson Complete Course In Magic and Bill Tarr's 101 Easy Magic Tricks for a comprehensive library for beginners and intermediates alike. I have dozens of other, more advanced fine magic books, and I have done magic for 30 years as a hobby, but I refer to Amateur Magician's Handbook regularly. Very Highly Recommended!

MANY projects to try at home using basic supplies, within two weeks of buying the book my three year old and I started all sorts of Science experiments and are now keeping a detailed Nature/ Bird/ Plant journal and have decided to turn the back yard into a Natural Habitat. Well written and easy to understand, even for the newbie like myself.

Covers:
1.) How to get started
2.) Items you will need
3.)How to keep track of your records

Our next project is to grow our own moss on flower pots from spores. This book made my daughter and I both more aware of nature and the animals around us. Wish I could find more great books like this one for our collection.

Wonderful book. Ever wonder how to make film developer in your basement? Great tips on picture taking, exposure, etc. Everything you need to know is here. Teaches you all the things you should know before buying that new Nikon N-90...from a very elementary level.

A must read for anyone interested in how real people think about nuclear strategy and the arms race. Fascinating and provocative.

One of the best short story collections- Robison is a genius and her style shines in these exquisitely crafted stories. Short, sharp, hits the mark and transforms you. An absolute favorite.

These two slim volumes contain all the information you need to find all of the Messier objects easily. Well, almost. You also need a basic star atlas to get you to the fields where the instructions begin and a polar-aligned, equatorially mounted telescope. This is because the instructions rely on right-angle moves in right ascension and declination (no vague instructions like "Now go 3/5 of the way northeast from mu to near omicron..."). The author carefully worked out the instructions for finding each object using a 4 1/4 inch Newtonian telescope. They have been successfully field tested by many amateurs.

Regarding the low price, the author comments on the Memphis Astronomical Society's web page: "While this book was written and published in the mid 60's, we have checked and everything still works......the price is a hold over from those days as well. Please don't let the price fool you. The printing was donated so all of the money goes to our Observatory project."

These books are an incredible bargain.

A great read...I recommend this book to anyone interested interested action and adventure in an exotic location...