7 must-read woodwork books like Worked: A Bench Guide to Hand-tool Efficiency by Joshua A. Klein

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Worked: A Bench Guide to Hand-tool Efficiency

By: Joshua A. Klein

4.25

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Book about hand tool wood working and techniques for mastering the basics of the craft.

If you liked the woodwork plot in Worked: A Bench Guide to Hand-tool Efficiency by Joshua A. Klein , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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2. The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

By: Wendell Berry

4.34

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beauti… read more

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"She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart."

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understan…"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intell…"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"Sitting there, eyes shut, head tilted back, hands at rest upon his cane's crook, he seems to sink immeasurably, to float down into a well of light as warm and red as blood. He has met the sun at its …"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

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3. The Village Carpenter

By: Walter Rose

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

Walter Rose was a master carpenter and the son and grandson of master carpenters. He writes of a vi… read more

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4. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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5. Made by Hand: Furniture Projects from the Unplugged Woodshop

By: Tom Fidgen

4.29

Format: 128 pages,

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6. The Joiner and Cabinet Maker: His Work and Its Principles

By: Anonymous , Christopher Schwarz , Joel Moskowitz

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

"The Joiner and Cabinet Maker" is a huge book - with more than 370 pages of detailed handtool instr… read more

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7. The Anarchist's Design Book

By: Christopher Schwarz

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

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8. Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

On opposing sides, Captain Cordelia Naismith and Admiral Lord Aral Vorkosigan marry and live in ari… read more

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9. Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is t… read more

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10. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By: Randall Munroe

4.14

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more

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"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

11. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

By: Matthew B. Crawford

4.00

Format: None pages,

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12. The New Traditional Woodworker: From Tool Set to Skill Set to Mind Set

By: Jim Tolpin

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Working Wood, Not Machining It If you're more interested in working with wood rather than machining… read more

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13. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.11

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of I… read more

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14. The Stick Chair Book

By: Christopher Schwarz

4.83

Format: 622 pages, Hardcover

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15. Euclid's Door : Building the Tools of 'By Hand and Eye'

By: George R. Walker

4.43

Format: 101 pages, Hardcover

“Euclid's Door: Building the Tools of ‘By Hand & Eye’” is an illustrated how-to journey through bui… read more

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16. The Anarchist's Workbench

By: Christopher Schwarz

4.62

Format: 323 pages, ebook

“The Anarchist’s Workbench” is – on the one hand – a detailed plan for a simple workbench that can … read more

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17. Worked: A Bench Guide to Hand-tool Efficiency

By: Joshua A. Klein

4.25

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Book about hand tool wood working and techniques for mastering the basics of the craft. read more

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5 best-selling american revolutionary war books like In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick

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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Joseph J. Ellis

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

3.74

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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Rick Atkinson

4.43

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