The first step in any DIY effort is to make sure the right tools are on hand, but how to figure that out? The expert and enthusiastic editors at Popular Mechanics have created a ‘definitive guide’ to the baffling world of tools. Well designed and sturdy (the book opens flat and stays open), this precisely informative, confidence-boosting resource presents 100 tools that will support “a lifetime of everyday projects.” Each tool is displayed with a full-page color photograph facing a lively and lucid one-page description, followed, in many cases, by a tip or how-to advice.