DO IT YOURSELF
Do-it-yourself books, guides, self-help books, and manuals. From crafting to counter-culture to just plain bizarre.
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Stitch Magic: A Compendium of Sewing Techniques for Sculpting Fabric into Exciting New Forms and Fashions
$22.50In Stitch Magic, fashion and textile expert Alison Reid teaches sewers how to manipulate and sculpt fabric by using such techniques as folding, cutting, pleating, tucking, gathering, and stitching, creating entirely new surfaces and textures in the process. Learn More -
Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber”
$22.95Theodore Kaczynski saw violent collapse as the only way to bring down the techno-industrial system, and in more than a decade of mail bomb terror he killed three people and injured 23 others. Learn More -
The Elements of Style Illustrated
$24.95The classic writing manual, The Elements of Style, has been enriched to include vibrant, witty, and instantly recognizable images by Maira Kalman in a beautiful illustrated edition. Learn More -
The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week)
$24.00Within a single week in 2009, food journalist Robin Mather found herself on the threshold of a divorce and laid off from her job at the Chicago Tribune. Forced into a radical life change, she returned to her native rural Michigan. Learn More -
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
$22.95A practical guide to all aspects of edible wild plants: finding and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Learn More -
The Illustrated Doom Survival Guide: Don't Panic!
$20.00The Illustrated Doom Survival Guide is the definitive handbook to ensure your survival in a post-apocalyptic world. Learn More -
The Joy of Sox: 30+ Must-Knit Designs
$22.95Sox rocks! Here comes the hottest collection of knitted socks yet, filled with 30-plus designs, a variety of techniques, tips, and playful trivia from those in the know. And it’s all in one flirtatiously fresh package. Learn More -
The One-Block Feast: An Adventure in Food from Yard to Table
$24.99Based on the James Beard Award–winning blog The One-Block Diet, this all-in-one home gardening, do-it-yourself guide and cookbook shows you how to transform a backyard or garden into a self-sufficient locavore’s paradise. Learn More -
The Party Dress Book: How to Sew the Best Dress in the Room
$24.99The best dress. In any room. On any occasion. That’s a promise. Learn More -
The Shape of Knitting: A Master Class in Increases, Decreases, and Other Forms of Shaping
$29.95In The Shape of Knitting, innovative designer Lynne Barr gives readers a fascinating, in-depth master class on the techniques that can be used to shape flat and dimensional pieces of knitting—increases, decreases, short rows, dividing and combining stitches, and adding sections. Learn More
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