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Bob Dunlap goes back to the bench to give you hands on instruction on the design and manufacture of coil springs. Now you can make those springs for the odd jobs that always seem to crop up. Obsolete guns can be saved and used again. We'll show you how to figure out the size of the spring you need, how to wind it and how to temper it to get a long lasting professional part.

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A New Edition Of The Phenomenal #1 Bestseller
"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis, and answering the questions he has been most frequently asked by parents across the country, this third edition also includes two new chapters—on how to be a political activist and social entrepreneur in a flat world; and on the more troubling question of how to manage our reputations and privacy in a world where we are all becoming publishers and public figures.

In this second part of the Drawing the Figure series, Jack explores the properties of structure. Here, he introduces the basic elements required to create the illusion of 3-Dimensional space and form as they apply to the human figure. By constructing simple forms, exploring overlap and translating the complexity of the human body into its simplest, most basic forms, we can begin to understand the process of converting a 3-Dimensonal, real world form onto a flat, 2-Dimensional surface that an observer can understand. Jack will demonstrate how to see the forms and draw through them without losing the gestural quality described in his first DVD.

In this unique and beautiful book, beloved doll-designer Barbara Willis guides readers through various approaches to doll design and basic and advanced construction techniques. Through the creation of three complete step-by-step projects, readers will develop color boards, learn to use vintage images, create both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional cloth dolls, learn sophisticated costuming techniques, and gain knowledge of elaborate soft sculpting. A gallery shares the inspirational work of several well-known doll artists who have created their own versions of each project. Complete patterns and templates are included.

This week The Gnomon Workshop releases a new series of Dynamic Figure Drawing DVDs by DC Comics artist David Finch. Finch is a veteran comic book illustrator who recently joined DC Comics after a long stint at Marvel Comics working on such titles as Ultimate X-Men, Avengers Disassembled, The New Avengers, Moon Knight and Ultimatum. These new DVDs focus on teaching the techniques artists need in order to draw the human figure from multiple angles and poses without the need for tracing and using reference. Each DVD covers specific areas of anatomy that are often difficult for artists to visualize and translate from their imagination to paper.