"Learn how to choose the best tool for getting any project done quickly, correctly, and efficiently from the editors of Popular Mechanics."--Back cover.

"A comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to the ins and outs of retirement planning--the key resource for creating a retirement you can live on! How much do I need to retire? Can I retire early? What's the retirement age, anyway? No matter whether you are 25, 65, or any age in between, you probably have questions about retirement and knowing the answers is the key to planning your future. Whether you want to retire as soon as possible or are...

If the desire to start a garden has been planted in your heart, then this essential guide is a wonderful companion to accompany you on your new adventure! If you're not sure of the first steps to take, this handbook takes the anxiety out of plotting and planting and equips you with all the know-how and confidence you need to get digging into your garden. Creating a garden that you can enjoy and keep looking beautiful all year is easier than you...

"This book demystifies the complex rules and procedures of criminal law. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and what suspects, defendants, and prisoners can expect. It also provides critical information on working with a lawyer."--Provided by publisher.

The book explores the different uses of hand weapons, from pistols to semiautomatics to sniper's rifles, from flick knives to machetes, from stun grenades to CS gas, from knuckle-dusters to nunchaku sticks. With tips and techniques from combat experts, the book explains which weapon to choose for given situations and how to use each weapon. With more than 300 easy-to-follow illustrations and handy pull-out lists of key training tips, Guns, Knives...

From searching for high-value enemy targets such as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to finding soldiers caught behind enemy lines, from escaped prisoners and serial killers to a missing child, Manhunt explores just how the military and police forces track people down. Including many case studies of high-value targets, suspected criminals and fugitives from justice, and with extensive background on the different techniques in tracking used, from...

Complete reference to all types of pay, allowances, bonuses, and specialty pays available to officer and enlisted personnel in all branches.

Striking out on your own after a lifetime of living with your parents is equal parts exhilarating and intimidating, but most of all, it is awkward. There is so much that people expect you to know that no one ever bothered to tell you-stuff you actually need to know to avoid bankrupting yourself through overspending, poisoning yourself with bad cooking, or drowning in a rising tide of dirty dishes and unwashed laundry. But you don't have to learn all...

What makes a lady? It's what the French (who know about these things) call je ne sais quoi. It's a certain something that results from the delicate combination of elegance, charm, and wit. No matter how good looking, wealthy, or accomplished a woman might be, she isn't living the life of a lady until she behaves like one. “How to Live Like a Lady” is a handbook that will guide any woman, manicured hand in manicured hand, to a lifestyle of manners,...

The POW How to Escape Handbook covers everything you need to know about making a successful return to friendly territory. Beginning from the point where a combatant finds himself or herself trapped in enemy territory, the book offers useful tips and solid advice on how to evade capture and, if that fails, how to escape. Key topics include the will to survive; handling stress in captivity; escape techniques; survival in a variety of environments, including...