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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Very Good. 2026, Mortise & Tenon, Blue Hill, Maine. Paperback, Smyth-sewn binding; covers clean and bright, light rubbing to rear corners; spine square, lettering bright; binding tight, solid & square. Interior clean and unmarked. Color photographs and period advertising art throughout, captioned; six woodworking projects, from spoon carving to a post & rung chair; index. Publisher's note card laid in. 7.25 x 9.5 in (4to). Cover art: Jusepe de Ribera, Saint Simon, 1630. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: In Tools for Engagement: Reclaiming Craft in an Age of Technology, authors and woodworkers Joshua A. Klein and Michael Updegraff make the case for human craftsmanship in the 21st century. "Craftsmanship," it has been said, "is a word to start an argument with," and workshop automation, digital design software and engineered materials have made it hard to define where human creativity ends and machine production begins. Drawing from historical precedent, workshop wisdom and modern research, the authors explore why it is critical to cherish and celebrate humane handwork. Examining the effects of the Industrial and Digital Revolutions, Klein and Updegraff show how the trajectory of technology has a definite and disengaging arc, one that is decidedly not neutral. Chapter by chapter, the authors lay out a new way of thinking about old ways of being: a charge to seek engagement w/ the natural world, connection w/ the work of our hands, and fellowship w/ one another. Color photographs, anecdotes and practical woodworking instruction run throughout. Six chapters each close w/ a hand-tool project: wooden spoon carving, a sliding-lid box, a low bench, a post & rung chair, re-handling a chisel and carved fan birds. An introduction, All the Difference, opens the book, and an afterword, Resolutions for Engagement, closes it, followed by an index. Mortise & Tenon, the hand-tool woodworking magazine Klein founded, published the book in 2026.…