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An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth-century Turkey. Through the fictional story and Macaulay's distinctive full-color illustrations, readers will learn not only how such monumental structures were built but also how they functioned in relation...

"The Audubon Birdhouse Book is the most authoritative book available for creating safe, sturdy, and easy-to-build homes for many of North Americas favorite birds. This updated second edition includes important new and timely topics including impacts of climate change on birds, nestbox monitoring for citizen science, native plants for native birds, and how birders can help birds. A visit to almost any home or garden center presents birders with numerous...

"Game design expert Jesse Terrance Daniels teaches all the fundamentals of game design, from rule-setting to physical construction, along with original illustrations that capture the ethos and energy of the young, contemporary gaming community" --

Offers twelve designs for building traditional birdhouses and feeders, and provides insight into creating the perfect backyard bird environment. Meisel covers how to attract the right kinds of birds and ensure that they will keep coming back. He includes complete plans for making basic, practical bird-welcoming structures, accompanied by patterns, illustrations and full color photographs. Also included are instructions on mounting techniques, types...

Presents instructions for more than one hundred robotic projects, describing useful tools, materials, and techniques, along with practical advice on power supply, robot locomotion, arm systems, circuit boards, microcontrollers, and remote control systems.

Landscaping with Stone, 2nd Edition is a combination landscape design and project book in one, and this Second Edition has been updated with all new photographs. The first section of the book will provide you with a framework for incorporating stone in your landscape designs, including a look at the different types of stone used in landscapes, sources of inspiration, and ways to think about stone in relation to other landscape elements. The second...

A guide to building bird houses that covers construction, materials, mounting, and support methods and provides instructions for twenty-six projects that use natural materials.

Discusses the background and principles of greenhouses, provides the basics of greenhouse construction, and shows examples of freestanding and attached greenhouses.