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Lessons Learned II: Using Case Studies and History to Improve Safety Education
Deb Ajango
Watchmaker Publishing, 2005
Whereas Lessons Learned I provided a theoretical look at risk management in the outdoor industry, Lessons Learned II applies the theories to real life. Through careful examination of accident accounts, followed by analysis of what went wrong and what went right, author/editor Deb Ajango helps readers better understand how and why even seemingly ...
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The Watchmaker's and Model Engineer's Lathe: A User's Manual
Donald de Carle
Robert Hale, 1998
Great coverage of current and older watchmaker lathes
This book is divided in two parts. The first half of the book covers the overall concepts and use of watchmaker's lathes. The second half reviews all the models that might be typically found. Not entirely encompassing list... but pretty close. If you are ...
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Military Timepieces
Marvin E. Whitney
Amer Watchmakers Inst, 1992
Marvin Whitney began his extensive research for this book in the mid-eighties. He took advantage of archive records in Washington, D.C. and travelled extensively in New York, Pennsylvania, an New England searching out little-known facts. In 1986 Mr. Whitney began to reduce his voluminous notes and sketches to formally written articles about these ...
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A Treatise On Probability - Unabridged
John Maynard Keynes
Watchmaker Publishing, 2007
The best book ever written on probability,induction and analogy
In this path breaking contribution to the logic of probability,Keynes showed how to adapt the work of George Boole for the purpose of estimating probabilities.Keynes is the first scholar in history to explicitly emphasize the importance of interval estimates in ...
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The Watchmakers' Lathe
Ward Goodrich
Arlington Book Company, 1999
Great book for the beginning watchmaker
This book is wonderful for the person who knows the bare minimum about the watchmakers lathe. It gives you a great detailed history of how the modern lathe came about and goes indepth greatly on techniques, making of tooling and dogs, along with tons of other info. If ...
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins
W. W. Norton, 1996
Even IF blind
.....A watchmaker is still a watchmaker, and is presumably still making a watch that works. But whenever we don't understand something in our world, we say that there is no God. We profess to be intelligent beings but we think we know all there is to know, particularly ...
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The Watch Repairer's Manual
Henry B. Fried
Amer Watchmakers Inst, 1986
Learning Mechanical Watch Repair?
My review is for the 1949 edition of the book. The information is very good for the person just getting started in the repair of mechanical watches. It covers the tools & procedures for watch cleaning & repair in 1949. It has a troubleshooting section which is very ...
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Bet With the Best 2: Longshots
Andrew Beyer, Tom Brohamer, ...
DRF Press, 2008
Really enjoyed this one
Pick this one up. You'll enjoy the read and be able to add some things to look for in your handicapping. The book obviously covers 'longshots'. Each author (quite a few from the DRF team) has an individual chapter and they each have a specific category that they ...
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Modern Letter Engraving in Theory and Practice: A Manual for the Use of Watchmakers, Jewelers and Other Metal ...
Fred Holmes Rees
Kessinger Publishing, 2005
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More Than A Watchmaker, Autobiography
Rick Hohn, 1999
Living with cerebral palsy.
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Corrie Ten Boom: The Watchmaker's Daughter (Trailblazers)
Watson, Jean
CF4K, 1994
The story of Corrie ten Boom has inspired millions of people all over the world. Jean Watson is a skillful author and presents Corrie's stirring life and challenging hopefilled message for young readers. The Watchmaker's Daughter traces the life of this outstanding Christian woman from her childhood in Haarlem, through her suffering in Nazi ...
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How to Build a Regulator Clock
J. M. Huckabee
American Watchmakers Institute, 1989
Shop drawings with critical drawing notes, 82 fully illustrated pages.
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Watchmakers' Handy Manual 1949 Edition, C & E Marshall Co.
C. & E. Marshall Co., 1949
174 pages.
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Ninety-Three
Victor Hugo
Watchmaker Publishing, 2008
"Ninety Three":Victor Hugo's most perfect work
I have read four novels of Victor Hugo(and the synopsis of a fifth one)."Ninety Three" is the one in which he has reached perfection. This specially applies to his plot-structure which is one of the best I've come across. Hugo's rather naive artrifices and linking ...
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Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World
G.H., Baillie
Pomona Press, 2006
Vital.
Nothing is better than finding the clockmaker or watchmaker name you're looking for, and this book is the best way to do it. It's more of a surprise when you don't find the name you need. Saw this reviewed in the NAWCC Bulletin; membership in this organization is ...
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