Books with author Harvey Weiss

This book describes the many different kinds of maps and explains the methods that mapmakers use to convey information, including clear and simple explanations of scale, latitude, longitude, and altitude. It also shows you how to make your own map.

An informative history of maps and mapmaking describes the techniques used by mapmakers to convey data; offers succinct explanations of latitude, logitude, scale, and map symbols; and explains how to develop one's own mapmaking skills.

Hardcover no jacket, as issued. 1962 Young Scott Books edition. Illustrated.

Directions for using simple construction methods and tools to make models of a tugboat, sailboat, stern-wheeler, submarine, and other types of boats.

slim hardcover with dust jacket

Introduces the tools and techniques for carving wood and stone

Farm houses, townhouses, castles, and doll houses and just some of the model buildings covered in this fun-filled, how-to book for children

An introduction to six simple machines--the lever, the inclined plane, the screw, the wheel and axle, the wedge, and the pulley--and their use in more complex machines such as derricks, bulldozers, and metal lathes.

Lists the necessary equipment and gives instructions for making such items as a weather vane, sunbeam alarm clock, hand-held sail, and other useful and useless gadgets.

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Arts crafts hobbies

Presents the basic elements of drawing with details on starting procedures, workable goals and realistic expectations