BUY A REPAIR GUIDEBOOK FOR YOUR IN-HOUSE EXPERT.Some excellent new books about home maintenance and repair are available this year for holiday gift giving or merely to bring do-it-yourself libraries up to date. ``New Fix-It-Yourself Manual'' (Reader's Digest Reader's Digest U.S.-based monthly magazine. Founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace, it was first published in 1922 as a digest of articles of topical interest and entertainment value condensed from other periodicals. ; $35 hardcover) is a revised and updated edition of a 1977 book that sold 5 million copies and is a standard reference work. The ``rebuilding'' of the book, as Reader's Digest call it, includes coverage of advances in home appliances and electronics as well as new tools and repair products. The new edition has more than 1,000 color photographs and some 2,250 drawings and covers hundreds of topics from appliance repair and adhesives to yard tools and recreation gear. The text is concise but, when combined with illustrations, makes its points clearly. There is a thorough index and a good chapter on home emergencies, including segments on giving CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac and stopping bleeding. If there is a definitive book about home repair, this is it. ``Home Improvement 1-2-3'' (Meredith; $34.95 hardcover) is subtitled sub·ti·tle n. 1. A secondary, usually explanatory title, as of a literary work. 2. A printed translation of the dialogue of a foreign-language film shown at the bottom of the screen. tr.v. Expert Advice From the Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box and was compiled with the help of employees of the home-center chain. It covers such common projects as painting and wallpapering, plumbing plumbing, piping systems inside buildings for water supply and sewage. The Romans had a highly developed plumbing system; water was brought to Rome by aqueducts and distributed to homes in lead pipes—hence the name plumbing from the Latin word plumbum , electrical work, installing cabinets and counter tops, and weatherproofing - the ``home-improvement projects (Home Depot) customers most actively pursue.'' Some 2,300 color illustrations, mostly drawings, are used to show the steps in each project along with brief blocks of text and captions. Each project is rated with a ``skill scale'' and an estimate of how long it will take. This is a first-rate book, and is available at a sizable siz·a·ble also size·a·ble adj. Of considerable size; fairly large. siz  a·ble·ness n. discount from the bookstore price at Home Depots
(the recent Home Depot price was $24.97).
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