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Prewar O Gauge Trains – My Legacy in Pictures
Today it has become both easy and economical for someone to publish a book in either hard or electronic copy. With that in mind, the author became inspired to share his passion for Antique O Gauge Model Trains with the interested public. These trains are great items for anyone who likes "stuff" to enjoy reading about them. The book briefly details the history of O Gauge Trains and then goes on to provide annotated pictures of more than 30 Cataloged Sets produced by noted American and foreign manufacturers, such as Lionel, American Flyer, Ives, Marklin, Bing, Marx and Joy Line. It turns out that the writing of such a book has proven to be a great way for anyone with a collection to document what they have (or used to have) for posterity and sharing through the ages. Buy the Book
Standard Gauge Trains - Explore the Magic
Today it has become both easy and economical for someone to publish a book in either hard or electronic copy. With that in mind, the author became inspired to share his passion for antique Standard Gauge model trains with the interested public. These trains are really cool items for anyone who likes "stuff" to enjoy reading about. The book briefly explains the history and practical operation of Standard Gauge trains and then goes on to provide annotated photographs of more than 30 cataloged sets produced by the more noted American manufacturers. It turns out that the writing of such a book has proven to be great way for anyone with a collection to document what they have (or used to have) for posterity. Buy the Book
Model Train Tinplate Layout on a Budget
Many owners of modern-era Lionel model train sets yearn to run some vintage items, but perceive them as expensive, temperamental, mysterious, or possibly all the above. After reading this book, you will have learned tricks and insight for creating your O-Gauge Train Layout on a Budget. Selecting the proper equipment to build a compact and inexpensive prewar train layout is described in this book. Additionally, basic as well as more advanced important maintenance, repair, and restoration tips of importance to the aspiring collector are discussed and depicted. Buy the Book
Antique Lionel Trains on Autopilot
We have truly entered a world whose very existence relies on the Computer and its offspring, the Microcomputer. There is a computer chip present in almost every device that can be plugged in the wall or is powered by batteries. The sheer abundance of inexpensive Smart Modules available in today’s electronics marketplace has made it feasible to design an inexpensive “Smart” Controller that can automatically direct the actions of vintage and antique model trains. The same concepts set forth in this book can be applied to give intelligence to many electronic devices. This book describes the design path leading to the physical realization of an Automated Model Train Controller. Buy the Book
The IoT: One Engineer’s Adventure
One Engineer Explores the Internet of Things (IoT). This book details the author’s year-long effort to measure everyday household variables such as temperature, humidity, and ambient light and to subsequently store them on an internet “Cloud” for later analysis. For those with some electronic and computer programming skills, building microcontroller-based prototypes for accomplishing myriads of every-day tasks has become both practical and economical. Hardware may be purchased in many places where electronic parts are sold. Software development tools are available for use on-line or for download to run on a home computer. Buy the Book Buy the e-Book
Favorite Recipes From Our Little House In The Big Woods
This book was written to share favorite family recipes. The family lived in the big woods of Pennsylvania. The author always attempted to provide the teenagers with healthy diets of food selections that they actually loved to eat. These healthy teenager favorites were practical, economically cost effective and very easy to prepare. The teenagers loved to help shop for the most cost effective foods, to share with their friends for social enjoyment.
Step by Step instructions and acquired tricks are included in this book. The holiday traditional meals were developed and consistently requested, year after year. The grown children still prepare these holiday specialty meals for their children.
The grown children often requested a copy of the instructions to prepare the foods they cherished from their childhood. After providing the recipes via email, or creating a written version of a recipe, the author of this book came up with the idea of creating a book to share all the recipes with all the children. During the creation of the Favorite Recipes from a Little House in the Big Woods, she had a new idea. The actual building of the structure for creating the book was quite challenging at times. With the technical background and the experience of training and working with people, she decided it would be a wonderful endeavor to help people capture and tout their own recipes. With this thought, the idea for a new book was born. A new book will provide the instructions that enable anyone to easily create and publish their own collection of recipes, quickly and at very low cost. Buy the Book
Favorite Recipes from the Little House on the Big Beach
This book was written to share the favorite recipes from the wonderful days of enjoying the beach lifestyle which includes friends sharing recipes, sharing a meal and sharing a great beach experience. A bi-product of the good times is a Collection of Favorite Recipes from the Days at the Beach Condominium.
Life and Times changed from the days of creating menus and agendas for healthy, teenager favorites, practical, cost effective (economical), easy and quick to prepare foods that appeal to the taste buds of a teenager, to an Adult Life at the Beach. Still practical, cost effective and easy to prepare meals are on the schedule; however, there is more focus on healthy and creative cooking and festive servings on the lanai. A new motivation is healthy air at the beach and healthy food on the table.
As time goes by, I have built upon and enumerated the Step by Step instructions and acquired tricks to make foods even healthier for reducing cholesterol and fat in the diet. Daily meal planning involves eating less red meat and eating more fish, chicken and vegetables.
Through the adaptation from tastings of others, I am still learning and creating. As friends participate in concocting new food choices, we continue to want to share our recipes. Creating a book for all to enjoy is the perfect solution to sharing with all the interested people. Buy the Book
Write Your Book
Capture and Share Your Memories. Write a Book!
This book was written as a guide to provide a simplified approach to writing electronically formatted (soft copy) books. The process uses Microsoft Word as an authoring tool, and provides tips and tricks for designing your book, in a format that is capable of being submitted for electronic publication. The soft copy book will be formatted for reading the book on all electronic book readers, such as smart phones, tablets, electronic readers, laptops and computers.
There are many people around the world that have collected information, such as family recipes over the years, or have created book content they hope to make available for sale and sharing. People have struggled with how to share their information with family and friends. They seek writing instructions and guidelines to enable them to electronically share their information. They need publishing expertise and advice. Many people attend family and personal functions and later regret not having captured the memories of those occasions or they wonder how they may preserve the heritage of their recipes for future generations.
Step by step instructions and acquired tricks for creating your electronic book, are included in this book. Having a technical background and the experience of training and working with people, the author decided it would be a wonderful endeavor to help people capture and share their own information. With this thought, the idea for this book was born. The book provides the instructions that enable anyone to easily create and publish their own collection of information, quickly, at very low cost, with the benefit of leveraging the experience and expertise of the author. Buy the Book
Huricane Irma - Enhancing our Great Southwest Trip
This Picture Journey is well suited for two types of readers. First, for those who just like to sit in their comfortable arm chair and see what great sights others have seen, this book will afford some of the best entertainment. Second, for those contemplating or planning a trip to our Southwestern National Parks, this book will provide valuable insight as to what to see and hints for how best to travel from park to park. You will not only find a great number of wonderful pictures in this book, but you can also read descriptions of each location. We sincerely hope you will explore nature’s beauty through this pictorial story and enjoy these pictures and communications as much as we enjoyed taking the pictures and sharing them with the publication of this book. We would be delighted if you are able to gleam some tidbit of information to help in the planning of your travels. Buy the Book Buy the e-Book