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Get the Solid Preparation Needed to Pass Your Security Certification Exam on the First Try Filled with career-building instruction and guidance, Locksmith and Security Professionals' Exam Study Guide is a hands-on learning tool that will help you pass a wide variety of certification exams with flying colors! Comprehensive and easy-to-use, this self-study resource contains hundreds of exam-like questions and answers that will enable you to achieve security certification in your specific fields. Written by security expert and bestselling author Bill Phillips, the book takes you step-by-step through lock and security history…securing doors and windows…lock installation…picking locks…impressioning keys… opening automobile doors… and other topics. Locksmith and Security Professionals' Exam Study Guide features:Hundreds of multiple-choice, true-false, and fill-in-the-blank questions and answersSample tests for the registered professional locksmith (RPL) exam and the registered security professional (RSP) examA helpful table of contents that guides readers to their exam materialDetailed coverage of both physical and electronic securityInside this Sure-Fire Security Certification Study ToolLock History • Private Security and Loss Prevention • Securing Doors • Securing • Windows • Basic Locks and Keys • Picking, Impressioning, and Bumping Locks • Electromagnetic Locks • Opening Automobile Doors • Safe Basics • Basic Electricity and Electronics • Emergency Exit Devices • Wireless and Hardwired Alarms • Home Automation • Fire Protection • Safety and Security Lighting • Closed-Circuit Television Systems • Home and Office Security • Computer Security • Terrorism • Glossary • Bibliography • Sample Exams • And More!

Your key to the state-of-the-art in locksmithing. The completely revised and updated Second Edition of Bill Phillips Professional Locksmithing Techniques brings you up to speed with the latest advances in home, office, and auto security system installation and miantenance. Lavishly illustrated with over 350 photos and drawings, it gives you cutting-edge information on making keys, opening stuck locks and locked car doors, installing new locks, servicing advanced electrical security systems, and much more. Ready-to-use lock functions charts, a comparative key bland list, depth and space charts, ANSI/BHMA finish numbers, tips for getting jobs and cutomers, and a current list of trade publications and organizations make this handbook the most comprehensive tool in print.

Includes information on all the newest innovations in the locksmith trade, from basic locks to special locks on vending machines, mailboxes, security systems, as well as electronic locks; how to install, repair, make keys for, extract broken keys, install security systems, and more. Includes hundreds of illustrations and diagrams.

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The art of felting, the process of working wool fibers together to form felt, is the ultimate in craft creativity because no two items turn out exactly alike. The first book to cover knitted or crocheted felting, needle felting, and wet felting, Not Your Mama's Felting will have you creating fashions, accessories, and gifts that will have your non-felting friends asking, "How did you do that?" Fun and funky, this guide includes: The essentials: all about fiber, the tools of the trade, wet felting, needle felting, fulling, and dyeing Patterns and step-by-step instructions for approximately thirty projects, including an assemble-your-own wallet kit, a bad-boy hoodie, a loopy boa, a chunky bead necklace, needle vases, and more Tips to customize each design Basic knitting and crocheting instructions so that even non-needleworke...

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