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Trade Secrets: Everything You Will Ever Need to Know About Everything

by Katherine Lapworth

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Trade Secrets contains over 3,000 hints, tips, and shortcuts on every subject under the sun--from cleaning kettles to fixing your car--gleaned from professionals developed or discovered during their long working lives. Each series of tips is divided into subjects, and there is a comprehensive cross-referenced index.

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Katherine Lapworth

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Genres: Nonfiction, Home & Garden, General Nonfiction, Economics
DDC/MDS: 640 — Applied science & technology Home economics & family management Home and family
LCC: TX158 .T68 — Technology Home economics Home economics
BISAC: HOM HOUSE & HOME Reference
REF REFERENCE Personal & Practical Guides

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 3
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Published: 1998
Genres: Nonfiction, Home & Garden, General Nonfiction, Economics
DDC/MDS: 640
LCC: TX158 .T68

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