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Expert advice on essential home decoration and maintenance, both indoors and out. With clear step-by-step advice on repairs, carpentry, flooring, brickwork, roofing, fences, walls and paths, painting, papering, tiling, and many other jobs around the home, with 2400 photographs to show what to do, this is an essential practical manual that you will refer to again and again.



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John McGowan

John McGowan (born 1953) is the Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University in 1974, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976 and 1978, respectively.



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