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Slot car racing reached its peak of popularity in the mid 1960s but has continued to draw fans during the digital age. The first generation of enthusiasts included an equal number of kids and adults, each of them having an avid appreciation of the sport/hobby. Now it is possible for more than one...

Jay Florian Mitchell was a talented Long Island/New York City photographer from the 1920s until the 1950s. Much of his work is in the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas. A talented portrait and children's photographer, Mitchell organized field trips in the New York metropolitan area beginning in...

My e-book is a compilation of newspaper stories of shark attacks in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Hawaii, South Africa, New Guinea, and Australia. Perhaps readers are unaware of the dangers of swimming in inlets, like those that empty into the open waters of Raritan Bay. At times sharks venture...

This book contains lab exercises used in BIOS 385, Parasitology, from 2006 to 2010 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Included are outcomes, tasks, materials, study questions, and vocabulary. These exercises are the basic ones used, but teaching assistants had quite a bit of freedom to modify...

Drawing from many years of professional software development and teaching experience, I prepared an innovative text that presents the Visual Basic language in a simple, yet powerful way, at the same time integrating Biblical perspective. Few textbooks address the simplicity of Visual Basic,...

Traveling to Europe and skiing in the French Alps may sound fun but it brought me no lasting fulfillment. Falling off a horse as a young child didn't help much either. This is a short story of some struggles in my own life, especially as a teenager and young adult, and how God intervened so that I...

We can use our energy to fuel positive decisions which cause positive reactions or it can be misused to fuel negative decisions which cause harmful stress and negative reactions. Simple, positive realistic decisions direct our energy to cause positive, healthy reactions. Energy is managed in a positive...

Lee spent a week working like a dog while Rachel was away, with only the promise of "I'll make it up to you" to keep him going. Now, Rachel has returned. Let the payback begin. Part 1 of several.

Sputnik blasted off in late 1957 and the Space Age and Space Race between the Cold War adversaries heated up. U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower was under pressure to do more in the science and military fields to catch up to the Soviet breakthrough. Sputnik I and it successors generated a debate...

Black Silk and Gold Cord (taken from contemporary regulations for the uniform of a staff officer) is a study of how the Army of the Potomac, the Union army in the eastern theater during the US Civil War, organized and conducted headquarters and staff operations. Subjects covered include personnel...

Dr. Kelly tackles the difficult problem of shame in relationships. Using an understanding of the biology of emotion outlined by Silvan Tomkins, he takes the reader on a journey from the motivation for earliest infant-caregiver attachments to the complex arena of adult emotional intimacy. His conclusions...

Centuries old and still going strong, calisthenics remain the most effective and efficient way to get in shape and stay that way. Whether you are a beginner just starting out, a dedicated weekday or weekend warrior craving variety, or a hardcore athlete looking for a fresh perspective or a new challenge,...

I have written from ancestry and newspaper sources a brief anthology of mini bios of young people who died in Cary, NC prior to the beginning of its rapid growth in the late 1970s. The e-book is most relevant to understanding the North Carolina town's past and its people. I have written in my Foreword...

This book contains about 120 pages of old exams given from fall, 2007, through spring, 2011, along with the answers, study tips, etc. The questions can also be used as a source of vocabulary words because each multiple-choice question on such exams typically contains five or six scientific terms....