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A curated collection of books related to Diy, ranked by recommendation signals.

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Anything You Want
Anything You Want

40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

7 recommendations
Description

Anything You Want is Derek Sivers' iconic manifesto on lessons learned while becoming an entrepreneurYou don't need a visionary master plan, loads of funding or a brilliant team to start a business.All you really need is GENEROSITY.When Derek Sivers started CD Baby, he wasn't planning on building a major business. He was a successful independent mu...

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No coverAstronomy
Astronomy

A SelfTeaching Guide, Eighth Edition (Wiley Self Teaching Guides)

Description

For a generation, Astronomy: A SelfTeaching Guide has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide to the night sky. Now this classic beginner's guide has been completely revised to bring it up to date with the latest discoveries. Updated with the latest, most accurate information, new online resources, and more than 100 new graphics and ...

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100 Organic Skincare Recipes
100 Organic Skincare Recipes

Make Your Own Fresh and Fabulous Organic Beauty Products

Description

Allnatural beauty product recipes for healthy, glowing skin and a happier you! Stimulate your senses with Lemon Poppy Seed Scrub. Rejuvenate your skin with a Glowing Goddess Face and Body Mask. Wash away your worries with a Fizzy Mojito Foot Spa. Filled with allnatural ingredients like shea butter, essential oils, and brown sugar, each recipe in ...

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No coverKnitting Ganseys, Revised and Updated
Knitting Ganseys, Revised and Updated

Techniques and Patterns for Traditional Sweaters

Description

Originally released in 1993, Beth BrownReinsel's bestseller, Knitting Ganseys, is a classic in the hearts of traditional and modern knitters alike, bringing this historic tradition to your needles for 25 years! This completely revised and update version of the perennial bestseller includes 100% new photography, new patterns, and more!This special ...

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No coverAlterKnit Stitch Dictionary
AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary

200 Modern Knitting Motifs

Description

Break the rulesknit outside the lines!AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary takes an unexpected look at stranded colorwork with 200 new motifs. These nontraditional colorwork charts are perfect for the creative knitter looking to break away from the ordinary. Derived from graphic design elements, these fresh motifs include everything from geometric mounta...

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No coverAmiguruME
AmiguruME

Make Cute Crochet People

Description

Make a miniature version of you, your friends, and celebrities too! You'll absolutely love this comprehensive guide to creating amigurumi people. Media favorite Allison Hoffman?whose delightful creations have graced the sets of Conan, Martha Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and more?explains how to craft and customize these Japanese dolls at every stag...

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Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible
Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible

260 Exquisite Patterns by Hitomi Shida

Description

In the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible knitting guru Hitomi Shida shares some of her favorite needlework patterns.Shida's strikingly original designs and variations on every imaginable classic stitch result in intricate patterns that form the basis for beautiful and unique knitted fashions. This is the perfect book for the experienced knitter who is...

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No cover750 Knitting Stitches
750 Knitting Stitches

The Ultimate Knit Stitch Bible

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The Ultimate Knit Stitch Bible is both a stitch guide and a howto knit primer, all in one volume. You get all the information needed to get started, including how to choose yarn and needles, read patterns, work basic stitches, how to check gauge, increase and decrease, join pieces and finish projects and care for your knitted items. The comprehens...

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Artisan Sourdough Made Simple
Artisan Sourdough Made Simple

A Beginner's Guide to Delicious Handcrafted Bread with Minimal Kneading

Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Diy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for reader-fit discovery across adjacent interests. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop
Description

Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop guides knitters from beginner to master status through carefully created lessons. Included are: Learning to knit, knitting with two colors, Elizabeth's Percentage System (EPS) for sweater design, yoke style sweaters, dropshoulder sweaters, and knitting garter stitch, lace, arans, guernseys, and fair isles. ...

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How to Raise Monarch Butterflies
How to Raise Monarch Butterflies

A StepbyStep Guide for Kids (How It Works)

Description

"The breezy and downtoearth text ... nicely communicates the wonder ... Especially effective is the eightpictured depiction of the development of the caterpillar into a chrysalis." School Library JournalObserving a Monarch butterfly as it transforms itself from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly is among the most thrilling experiences that ...

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No coverAlchemy of Herbs
Alchemy of Herbs

Transform Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies That Heal

Description

Did you know there?s a powerful herbal medicine chest in your kitchenImagine being prepared for that next cold, scrape, headache, digestive issue, stressful day, or sleepless night with simple ingredients from your cupboard. Instead of pills, reach for:Cinnamon Tea to soothe your throat . . . Garlic Hummus to support your immune system . . . Ginge...

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Bowhunting Public Land Whitetails
Description

Bowhunting Public Land Whitetails is the goto resource for realworld hunting information. Tony J. Peterson has carved a name for himself in the bowhunting industry by focusing his efforts on commonground whitetails and his success is nearly unparalleled. Throughout this comprehensive book you'll read about Peterson's detailed scouting strategies...

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Decorating Cookies
Decorating Cookies

60 Designs for Holidays, Celebrations & Everyday

Description

Let cookie guru Bridget Edwards guide you through more than 60 delicious cookiedecorating designs for every occasion and holiday, from luscious springtime daisies to spooky spider webs to personalized birthdays. Cookie dough and royal icing recipes are included, and every iced design features easytofollow instructions and stepbystep photos. Fi...

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No coverHow To Make It in the New Music Business
How To Make It in the New Music Business

Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician (Second Edition)

Description

When How to Make It in the New Music Business hit shelves in 2016, it instantly became the goto resource for musicians eager to make a living in a turbulent industry. Widely adopted by music schools everywhere and considered ?the best how to book of its kind? (Music Connection), it inspired thousands to stop waiting around for that ?big break.? N...

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Mapping Trophy Bucks
Description

Using Topographic Maps to Find DeerTopographic maps and aerial photos can lead you right to the biggest bucks you've ever seen. You just have to know how to use them.Brad Herndon takes the mystery out of finding deer with maps. Through years of dedicated hunting and careful study of maps and photos, Herndon has perfected the use of maps to find the...

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Mobile Solar Power Made Easy!
Mobile Solar Power Made Easy!

Mobile 12 volt off grid solar system design and installation. RV's, Vans, Cars and boats! Doityourself step by step instructions.

Description

Finally an easy approach to mobile solar design and installation: Add a solar system to your RV, Van, Car or Boat Stepbystep instructions that anyone can follow Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced methods for calculating your solar system. You choose! Tips and tricks that will save you time and money You can read this book from start to finish, o...

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No coverAmy Herzog's Ultimate Sweater Book
Amy Herzog's Ultimate Sweater Book

The Essential Guide for Adventurous Knitters

Description

"Yarn and fiber enthusiasts everywhere will celebrate the latest addition to Amy Herzog's beloved knitting series (which includes You Can Knit That, Knit to Flatter, and Knit Wear Love). This essential guide details every aspect of sweater knitting, starting with instructions for four basic sweater types: yoke, raglan, drop shoulder, and setin sle...

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Ayurveda
Description

Ayurveda (Sanskrit for science of life), a consciousnessbased system of healing, is stepping up to close the gaps between thinking, knowing, feeling, and doing. Idiot's Guides: Ayurveda focuses on the mindbody connection and explain that our experiencesincluding perceptions and lifestyle choicesare metabolized into molecules in our bodies a...

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DIY Lithium Batteries
DIY Lithium Batteries

How to Build Your Own Battery Packs

Description

Are you a hands on person Do you prefer making things yourself Are you working on a project that requires lithium batteries If so, then this book is for you! We'll cover everything you need to know about lithium batteries. From choosing the right cells to designing a battery pack and building it yourself, this book includes all the steps for bui...

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Escape from the Ordinary
Description

Retire early, sell everything, buy a boat 3,000 miles away and sail around the world. What could go wrong Meet Glen and Julie, sailors who search for paradise in places not covered in travel brochures and discover that reality can be even bigger than dreams. From Force 10 storms in the North Atlantic to the crystal blue waters and white sand isl...

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No coverKnit One Knit All
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One can only cite the elegant appearance of Garter stitch. It forms beautiful crinkly ridges, which are handsome in themselves...I like to think that the very first knitter, doodling with sticks and sinews at the sunny entrance to his cave, or peering at his knitting by the flickering firelight, doodled with, or peered at, Garter stitch; the bread ...

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Knitting Without Tears
Knitting Without Tears

Basic Techniques and EasytoFollow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes

Description

Do you love to knit and hate to purl Have you ever started a sweater without enough yarn from the same dye lot to finish it When you cast on, do you end up with a tail of yarn that's maddeningly too long or too short Elizabeth Zimmermann comes to the rescue with clever solutions to frustrating problems and stepbystep instructions for brilli...

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No cover200 Tips, Techniques, and Recipes for Natural Beauty
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Many of today's beauty products contain harmful chemicals and other additives that most of us don't even know about and if we did, we wouldn't use themno more. With 200 Tips, Techniques, and Recipes for Natural Beauty you'll learn all that you need to know to make your own organic beauty products. Create delightful lotions and potions in your o...

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No coverBadass Embroidery
Badass Embroidery

Transform Conventional Stitches into 25 Unconventional Designs

Description

Like coloring, embroidery is a way to destress and engage the imagination and has become trendy. After a quick tutorial, readers can create beautiful, quirky designs that they can display at home or give as gifts. Renee Rominger, the owner of Moonrise Whims, has created 25 edgy designs that go above and beyond traditional flowers. Instead of "Home...

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No coverBibliostyle
Bibliostyle

How We Live at Home with Books

Description

A visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library, this dreamanddrool design book features some of the most jawdropping book collections of homeowners around the world.Interior designer Nina Freudenberger, New Yorker writer Sadie Stein, and Architectural Digest photographer Shade Degges give readers a peek at ...

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Collins Complete DIY Manual
Description

Collins Complete DIY Manual has sold over 3 million copies and is the most comprehensive and authoritative DIY manual ever produced. For novices, DIY enthusiasts or professionals, this essential book continues to be the most indepth, uptodate and userfriendly DIY book on the market, covering everything from decorating and repairs to electricity...

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No coverEdible Landscaping
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Since Rosalind Creasy popularized the concept of landscaping with edibles a quartercentury ago, interest in eating healthy, fresh, locally grown foods has swept across the nation. More and more Americans are looking to grow clean, delicious produce at home, saving money and natural resources at the same time. And food plants have been freed from t...

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No coverFabrics AtoZ
Fabrics AtoZ

The Essential Guide to Choosing and Using Fabric for Sewing

Description

Fabrics A to Z is the essential guide for sewists and fabric enthusiasts of all levels. This thorough resource explains the unique characteristics, strengths, and limitations of more than 100 fabrics in easytounderstand terms, so any sewist can enter a fabric shop with confidence. From dotted swiss to silk charmeuse to faux fur, each entry includ...

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No coverGet That Job!
Get That Job!

The Quick and Complete Guide to a Winning Interview

Description

Get That Job! The Quick and Complete Guide to a Winning Interview is packed with all you need to get ready for the best interview of your life.Through proven interview tips and stepbystep instructions, you will learn to:Identify and communicate the unique strengths that make you the right person for the job. Understand why employers ask many of t...

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Hello Glow
Hello Glow

150 Easy Natural Beauty Recipes for a Fresh New You (DIY Skincare Book; Natural Ingredient Face Masks)

Description

Forget paying big bucks at a spa, or slathering on overpriced ?mystery cream? that contains who knows what. Make your own fresh, organic, and effective spa, skincare, hairmaintenance, and cosmetics recipes at home with these beautiful, triedandtested tutorials, brought to you by the popular DIY beauty and wellness website helloglow.co.Stephanie ...

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No coverInvesting QuickStart Guide
Investing QuickStart Guide

The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Successfully Navigating the Stock Market, Growing Your Wealth & Creating a Secure Financial Future

Description

The book you wish you'd had before you began investing.The Investing QuickStart Guide offers a simplified but expansive introduction to the world of investing. Author Ted Snow brings 30 years of experience in the finance industry, much to the benefit of novice learners and experienced investors alike. Snow provides readers with the complete picture...

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Make It Up
Make It Up

The Essential Guide to DIY Makeup and Skin Care

Description

Ever think of making your own beauty products handmade, high performance, healthy alternatives to just about every chemical laden product you currently put on your face and body It's easier than you think!In Make It Up author Marie Rayma shares the recipes she has developed through years of trial, error, and testing to come up with the very bes...

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Make Your Own Beauty Masks
Make Your Own Beauty Masks

38 Simple, AllNatural Recipes for Healthy Skin

Description

Make Your Own Beauty Masks: 38 Simple, AllNatural Recipes for Healthy Skin is a glam and gifty book of more than thirty allnatural beauty mask recipes.Luxuriating! Refreshing! Renewing!This book has simple and fun recipes that feature wholesome ingredients you can find in your fridge or pantry. Whether you are dryskinned, oily, or just want refr...

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No cover100 Things Every Homeowner Must Know
100 Things Every Homeowner Must Know

How to Save Money, Solve Problems and Improve Your Home

Description

The Family Handyman's 100 Things Every Homeowner Must Know gives you the knowledge you need to be a better homeowner. You'll make informed decisions, avoid frustrations and save thousands over the life of your home. Here's just a small sample of what's inside: The smartest thing you can do before going on vacationPush a button and save $100Be ready...

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No coverBeeswax Alchemy
Beeswax Alchemy

How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

Description

Featuring over 40 DIY projects that illustrate how to transform one of the world?s most natural ingredients into tangible creations, Beeswax Alchemy is the perfect amalgamation of recipe craft book and beekeepers? guide. Considered the miracle of the beehive and used by humans for 8,000 years, beeswax remains a vital ingredient to society and is st...

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Big Little Felt Universe
Big Little Felt Universe

Sew It, Stuff It, Squeeze It, Fun!

Description

Enter the big, beautiful universe of crafting with felt, with this irresistible collection featuring a supercute Asianinspired aesthetic. Twelve ?sets? include more than 70 projects, from fruits and a felt knife for ?slicing? them to a showstopping birthday cake with decorations and detachable candles. Hundreds of photos and fullsize templates...

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Black & Decker The Book of Home HowTo
Black & Decker The Book of Home HowTo

The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair & Improvement

Description

All the doityourself information you need for your home repairs. BLACK?? The Book of Home HowTo is easy to search through, even easier to use.The editors at Cool Springs Press know a thing or two about DIY home improvement and maintenance; we've been writing about it for the past quartercentury, and we have more than a few bestsellers unde...

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BoHo Chic Jewelry
BoHo Chic Jewelry

25 Timeless Designs Using Soldering, Beading, Wire Wrapping and More

Description

Everything old is new again.Combine pieces of the past with today's jewelrymaking techniques and your own unique touches as you create 25 stylish, readytowear projects. In Boho Chic Jewelry, remnants of treasured keepsakes or any pretty item you likepatterned china, etched glass, delicate lace, even an ornate spoon handleevolve into oneofa...

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By Hand
By Hand

The Art of Modern Lettering

Description

Learn the beauty and joy of modern lettering with By Hand, a thoughtful collection of projects and lessons to bring unique, handmade designs into your life, home, and gatherings. In a world of screens and social media, people are constantly searching for ways to reconnect to the handmade and the authenticto add a personal spark and a beautiful loo...

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DIY Solar Power
DIY Solar Power

How To Power Everything From The Sun

Description

Are you a hands on person Do you prefer making things yourself Are you ready to power everything from your devices to your home with solar energy If so, then this book is for you! We'll cover everything you need to know about solar power. From understanding all of the components that go into solar powered projects to choosing the right solar...

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Go
Go

A Complete Introduction to the Game (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)

Description

Played throughout eastern Asia for thousands of years, go has captured the imagination of more game players than any other strategy game. Today, go is becoming increasingly popular in the western world as more and more people discover its beauty, elegance, and strategic depth.This book is the best and most authorative introduction to this ancient a...

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Good Clean Fun
Good Clean Fun

Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop

Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Fiction, Humor, Diy, Carpentry lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverChess Fundamentals
Description

Capablanca's Masterpiece now in Algebraic NotationWritten with the novice chess player in mind, Chess Fundamentals equips you with the essential opening, middlegame, and endgame techniques needed to advance your game. Capablanca writes with an ease of understanding that any chess player will grasp, and includes 14 full games annotated by the World ...

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Creepy Cute Crochet
Creepy Cute Crochet

Zombies, Ninjas, Robots, and More!

Description

Contains more than 25 patterns for zombies ninjas Vikings vampires aliens robots and even Death himself. Easyto follow patterns with stepbystep diagrams hilarious com mentary and fullcolor photos. HARDCOVER Hachette Book Group...

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No coverDoodle Stitching
Doodle Stitching

Fresh & Fun Embroidery for Beginners

Description

Asianinspired lampshades embellished with flying fish. Canvas sneakers decorated with pink and white swirls. A pretty pillow adorned with a sleeping bunny, sweetly curled up. All it takes to create these appealing projects?or add charming embroidered touches in no time at all?are a few simple stitches, some easy techniques, and the nearly 30 proje...

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Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts
Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts

An AtoZ Guide with Detailed Instructions and Endless Inspiration

Description

For nearly 20 years, home crafters have turned to the pages of Martha Stewart Living for all kinds of crafts projects, each presented in the magazine?s inimitable style. Now, the best of those projects, including stepbystep instructions and fullcolor photographs, have been collected into a single encyclopedia. Organized by topic from A to Z, Mar...

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Natural Beauty Skin Care
Natural Beauty Skin Care

110 Organic Formulas for a Radiant You!

Description

?In Natural Beauty Skin Care, you'll learn how to create wholesome beauty products without looking too far past your pantry. The bonus The recipes and formulas within actually work.??DR. FRANK LIPMAN, founder of the ElevenEleven Wellness Center and New York Times bestselling author of The New Health Rules When it comes to skin care, everyone know...

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This list aggregates books that appear in public recommendation sources, reader-interest signals, and category data. Books are ranked by their position from the source list; recommendation counts and ratings are shown where available. Open any book to see source-backed recommendation proof, editorial context, and Amazon options — the per-book detail page is where the trust signals live.