Global Sovereign University · The Trades

The Trade Floor

Every trade in one room — the books that teach the work, and the fourteen 2D Immersive Applications that let you practice it. You control everything. Nothing plays itself.

New on the Shelf

The latest arrivals — the full Sovereign Trades Series is on this floor below. Every trade gets the full treatment: the complete book, and — where they're built — the controlled Read & Listen immersive reader and the trade's own 2D Immersive Application on its reading page.

New · 2026
How to Become a Plumber — book cover
How to Become a PlumberOn Amazon → Skilled Trades
Apprenticeship Pathways
Apprenticeship PathwaysOn Amazon → Read free on GSU
Residential Framing
Residential FramingRead + Blueprint Desk → Free lesson
Plumbing Basics
P-Trap MasteryWatch before you do →

The Simulator Floor

Fourteen trades, each with its own 2D Immersive Application. Walk the floor.

WeldingMIG, TIG, Stick & metallurgy CarpentryFraming, finish & joinery Concrete & MasonryMix, slump & rebar LinemanHigh voltage, transformers & grounding RoofingPitch, flashing & fall protection IronworkerRigging, crane signals & steel MillwrightAlignment, bearings & hydraulics Elevator MechanicTraction, safety circuits & A17.1 BoilermakerWelding, rigging & pressure vessels Heavy EquipmentExcavators, dozers & graders Painter & DecoratorPrep, color & finish GlazierGlass, storefronts & safety codes Trade MathThe numbers every trade runs on The Field RoomTake the book outside — earn a Golden Egg
Honest ledger: every trade above has its 2D Immersive Application live today. The controlled Read & Listen immersive readers are built for Residential Framing and rolling out trade by trade — each trade's application will live on its reading page as those pages are built. Where a button doesn't exist yet, we don't show you one.
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Don't Just Read About the Trades — Diagnose It Yourself

The most valuable skill a tradesperson has isn't a fact — it's judgment: read the symptom, check the safest and cheapest cause first, narrow it down. Practice that exact skill below, across plumbing, electrical, appliances, small engines, and automotive. Climb the global leaderboard, build combos, and keep a daily streak. GENO coaches every step.

GENO AI Tutor available 24/7 — a robot you can actually TALK to. Stuck on a repair? Ask him anything, in 83 languages.

The Sovereign Trades Series

Competence, bound in a working library.

Plain language, real procedures, and the confidence to open the panel, lift the hood, and look. Each volume stands alone; together they run a household.

The Working Volumes
Foundations of Repair — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Volume I

Foundations of Repair

The mindset, the toolbox, and the universal method of fixing things — the volume every other volume stands on.

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Basic Automotive Knowledge — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Volume II

Basic Automotive Knowledge

What's under the hood, what the noises mean, and the maintenance that keeps you off the shoulder and out of the shop.

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Basics of Home Wiring — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Volume III

Basics of Home Wiring

Circuits, breakers, outlets, and the bright line between what a homeowner can safely do and where the licensed pro begins.

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Plumbing Without the Plumber — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Volume IV

Plumbing Without the Plumber

Drips, clogs, shutoffs, and the anatomy of the systems behind your walls — handled calmly, before they handle you.

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Lawn and Garden — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Volume V

Lawn and Garden

The living systems around the house: soil, season, equipment, and the grounds a family keeps with its own hands.

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Basic Appliance Repair — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Volume VI

Basic Appliance Repair

Washers, dryers, refrigerators, ranges: the diagnostics, the common failures, and the repairs that save the replacement.

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Home Safety Inspection — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Volume VII

Home Safety Inspection

The inspector's eye, installed in the owner: the room-by-room audit that finds the hazard before the hazard finds the family.

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Carpentry Without the Crew — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Also in the Series

Carpentry Without the Crew

A working foundation in framing, finishing, forms, repair, and marine joinery — built one honest cut at a time.

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Fixing Drywall — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Also in the Series

Fixing Drywall

Master the wall and overcome the flinch — hanging, patching, and finishing drywall the right way.

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Also in the Series — Free to Read
Stonemasons — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Trade Skill

Stonemasons

The oldest building trade there is — how stone is cut, set, and shaped into work that outlives the hands that laid it.

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Trades Geometry — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Trade Skill

Trades Geometry

The working math every trade runs on — angles, layout, rise and run, squared corners — geometry for the job site, not the chalkboard.

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Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Installers — Sovereign Trades Series cover

Trade Skill

Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Installers

The newest trade on the roof — how panels turn sunlight into power, and the craft of mounting, wiring, and commissioning them right.

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Every volume stands alone. Together, they hand a family the keys to its own house, its own car, and its own competence.

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Open the Talking Toolbox → Trades Dictionary → ← Back to The Trades

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