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Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter Elizabeth Speller bearing witness to a restlessA warm and inspiring book for anyone who has ever dreamed of changing tracks, Hammer Head is the story of a young woman who quit her desk job to become a carpenter. Writing with infectious curiosity, Nina MacLaughlin a Classics major who couldn't tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver describes the joys and frustrations of making things by hand. Filled with the wisdom of writers from Ovid to Mary Oliver and MacLaughlin's own memorable accounts of