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TotlTxt
The Big Bk of Ltle Txt Msgs
ISBN 0-7858-1625-9
This book shows you all the short cuts and tricks you need to talk fast in text (known as “texting”), with a step-by-step guide to sending messages and a list of essential abbreviations, acronyms, and emotions.
8 1/2 x 5 1/4, 198 pages. $7.99

Bringing Home the Bacon & Cutting the Mustards
The Origins and Meaning of the Food We Speak
ISBN 0-7858-1611-9
This book is peppered with hundreds of food-related sayings—idioms that owe their origins to anywhere that food and drink is prepared and served.

5 1/4 x 8, 192 pages. $9.99

Swinging the Lead & Spiking the Gun

Military Expressions and Their Origins

ISBN 0-7858-1612-7

Drawing on the language of fighting men throughout the ages, this phrase book delves into the origins and evolution of expressions that originated on the battlefield, gun-deck, and in the air.

5 1/4 x 8, 190 pages. $9.99

Chess
By Graham Burgess
ISBN 0-7858-1516-3

Comprehensive and easy to follow, this invaluable guide to the age-old game of chess will enable even players with very little experience to progress to a good club level—or better.

5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 544 pages. $9.99

Barron’s Travel Wise German

By Barron’s Educational Publishers
ISBN 0-7641-7115-1
Package contains a 320 page phrasebook and dictionary, a cassette (approximately 60 min.) with life-like dialogues, and a cassette transcript booklet.
4 x 7, Boxed. Orig. $16.95, Sale $5.99

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Art of Blacksmithing
Alex W. Bealer
ISBN 0-7858-0395-5.
Revised edition.  Tells how they did it in yesteryear.  Over 500 illustrations show how they made everything from knives to horseshoes, from iron grills to rifle barrels and barrel hoops.
5-1/2 x 8-1/4.  440 pages.  $9.99.

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Old Ways of Working Wood
Alex W. Bealer
ISBN 0-7858-0710-1.
A newly updated and revised edition of a classic guide to woodworking methods.  Every technique involved with chopping, splitting, using the workbench, sawing, hewing, boring, chiseling, shaping, planing and turning is described in detail.  Also included are valuable tips on the role of various tools in the evolution of wood products and the types and characteristics of wood.   Illustrated B&W. 
6 x 9.  256 pages.  $9.99.

Art of Dowsing
By Richard Webster
ISBN 0-7858-1430-2
With plenty of expert guidance and inspiration from Richard Webster, you’ll learn to dowse anywhere for anything in the world without leaving your living room by using the most versatile dowsing techniques. Locate valuable hidden items, detect harmful radiation in your environment, diagnose and treat ailments and more.
5 x 8, 192 pages. $8.99

What to Say and How to Say It
For All Occasions
By David Belson
ISBN 0-89009-602-3

Belson, a practicing lawyer and public advocate, has produced a comprehensive handbook for speakers and writers, explaining not only how to speak but what to say for a wide range of occasions.

5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 224 pages. $7.99

Why Do We Say It?

The Stories Behind the Words, Expressions and Cliches We Use

ISBN 1-55521-010-4
From “lollypop” to “passing the buck,” the origins of hundreds of unusual words and expressions are explored, giving readers an entertaining way to expand their vocabularies.
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 286 pages. $7.99

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