How-To Books
October 6, 2005 11:26 PM   Subscribe

I'm interested in hearing recommendations for how-to books that you find actually come close to lucidly explaining a subject that you already know well from first hand experience.
posted by fairmettle to Education (14 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Mastering Mountain Bike Skills by Brian Lopes, Lee McCormack.
This book made me rethink some of the skills that I thought I had, and gave me a new way of riding after years of time on my bike.
posted by tumble at 11:31 PM on October 6, 2005


Zinn And The Art Of Mountain Bike Maintenance by Lennard Zinn
posted by veedubya at 2:17 AM on October 7, 2005


Code Complete by Steve McConnell.
posted by Katravax at 2:34 AM on October 7, 2005


How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot.
The How-To book that taught me what to look for in a How-To book.
posted by Floydd at 6:30 AM on October 7, 2005


Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects by Trish and Chris Meyer.

Great compendium of what I already knew, presented in a lively, approachable manner. Their other related books are great, also.
posted by jpburns at 6:57 AM on October 7, 2005


I saw a dog reading one called "Peeing Outdoors for Dummies"...well, it was a cool cartoon.
posted by rabbus at 7:01 AM on October 7, 2005


The Lost Art of the Great Speech by Richard Dowis.
posted by cribcage at 7:38 AM on October 7, 2005


The Holy Bible.


kidding.

I like Stitch-n-Bitch.
posted by LittleMissCranky at 9:02 AM on October 7, 2005


Floydd is right. How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is the best written and most helpful how-to book I have ever read.

I am also fond of How to Shit in the Woods, and though it's a bit outdated, I like How to Stay Alive in the Woods a lot.

(Favorite advice: If you're lost, light three fires, not one. It'll make you far more visible and is an immediately recognizable SOS code to air searchers.)
posted by melissa may at 9:09 AM on October 7, 2005


Ashtanga Yoga by David Swenson. Best yoga book/practice manual I've ever seen.
posted by Bella Sebastian at 9:57 AM on October 7, 2005






Grammar of the Edit (and its companion, Grammar of the Shot), by Roy Thompson.

In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch.
posted by Vidiot at 5:48 AM on October 9, 2005


Mindfulness In Plain English by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana.
posted by flabdablet at 8:12 AM on October 9, 2005


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