Books like The metal lathe by David J. Gingery

A soldier's harrowing journey across the stars, spanning space and time in Joe Haldeman's hard sci-fi epic war story.

Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap, Book 3

Second volume of Raymond A. Serway’s comprehensive physics textbook, covering chapters 15‑22 of fundamental topics for scientists and engineers, with clear explanations, problem‐solving exercises, and applications relevant to scientific research and engineering practice.

"Edgar T. Westbury enjoys a reputation second to none as a writer on model and light engineering practice and design ... In Metal Turning Lathes the author has widened his scope, a more comprehensive range of lathes is covered, and embraces all used in general engineering from the smallest to about 6in. centre height, but excluding watchmaker's lathes at the one extreme and heavy industrial ones at the other ... This latest work therefore embraces the latest practice and covers the evolution of the lathe, details a number of the latest models on the market, and goes on to discuss elements of lathe design." (From dustjacket blurb, 1970 edn.)

An introduction to the ancient Egyptian language and Hieroglyphic script.

A sweeping social history of religion that explores the influence of the great monotheisms on the past and the modern world.

The rampant illnesses of our society - including the disintegration of the family, the degradation of the environment, unlimited commercialism, and unrelenting stress - are familiar to us all. For the first time, Stephen Bertman attempts to explain these disparate, overwhelmingly negative phenomena with a single, unifying principle: that the accelerated pace of American society is eroding the essence of our most fundamental values. We live, according to Bertman, in a society ruled by the "power of now," a power that gives us instant gratification even as it demands our instantaneous obedience. As a result, we have adapted our lives and values to match the speed-of-light electronic technologies that surround us. But, in so doing, we have paid a high price in spirit and mind. Hyperculture dares to suggest that the cure for our condition lies not in an "information superhighway" or "third wave information revolution," but in the radical and painful process of decelerating our lives enough to reclaim them.

The Book of Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart is a concise manual that blends camping techniques with woodcraft skills, aiming to support long‑term thinking about civilization.