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4-6Checkerboard Library: Cool Industrial Arts series.
After brief introductions, workshop tips, and necessary tools, each technology or engineering–themed volume offers four progressively challenging projects manipulating materials such as batteries, LEDs, wire, or fire. More how-to than why, the books provide clear instructions for specific exercises without explaining how the materials or projects work. Close-up photographs illustrate texts. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Checkerboard Library: Cool Industrial Arts titles: Cool Battery & Electricity Projects, Cool Engine & Motor Projects, and Cool Engineering Projects.