Datapoint
Paperback – August 30th, 2012
[maxbutton id="1" text="Ebook | $9.99" url="/product/datapoint-ebook/"] [maxbutton id="2" text="Paperback | $19.95" url="#"]Forget Apple and IBM. For that matter forget Silicon Valley. The first personal computer, a self-contained unit with its own programmable processor, display, keyboard, internal memory, telephone interface, and mass storage of data was born in San Antonio TX. US Patent number 224,415 was filed November 27, 1970 for a machine that is the direct lineal ancestor to the PC as we know it today. The story begins in 1968, when two Texans, Phil Ray and Gus Roche, founded a firm called Computer Terminal Corporation. As the name implies their first product was a Datapoint 3300 computer terminal replacement for a mechanical Teletype. However, they knew all the while that the 3300 was only a way to get started, and it was cover for what their real intentions were – to create a programmable mass-produced desktop computer. They brought in Jack Frassanito, Vic Poor, Jonathan Schmidt, Harry Pyle and a team of designers, engineers and programmers to create the Datapoint 2200. In an attempt to reduce the size and power requirement of the computer it became apparent that the 2200 processor could be printed on a silicon chip. Datapoint approached Intel who rejected the concept as a “dumb idea” but were willing to try for a development contract. Intel belatedly came back with their chip but by then the Datapoint 2200 was already in production. Intel added the chip to its catalog designating it the 8008. A later upgrade, the 8080 formed the heart of the Altair and IMSI in the mid-seventies. With further development it was used in the first IBM PC-the PC revolution’s chip dynasty. If you’re using a PC, you’re using a modernized Datapoint 2000.
Deck Rebellion: Revolutionary Concepts for Outdoor Living.
A deck guy wrote in on a construction group, wanting to know how to build something. The master craftsman said, “This is a Deck Remodelers project. You should check with them. They have their own technique.” Then he said, “Be careful you don’t bite off more than you can deliver. You’re being asked to emulate quite possibly the best deck builder in the world.”
“The possibilities are endless, and I invent stuff all the time,” says Sean McAleer, master deck builder and visionary extraordinaire. “Deck Remodelers has been copied too many times to count. It used to make me mad. Now I know it’s because of how innovative we are. I often say, “I can do anything as long as it follows the laws of physics – and the zoning department.”
Sean McAleer, Owner and visionary of Deck Remodelers, North America’s most awarded deck designer and builder.
DeckRemodelers.com
Emerging from the Trenches
September 3, 2019
Paperback – September 3rd, 2019
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There is no “one correct way” to get through to an autistic child or to get through the day.
The parents of an autistic child constantly battle for the right to raise their child in the way they know is beneficial for their child. Families have experienced all the emotions: guilt, anxiety, depression, anger, confusion, chaos…but there’s also joy, laughter, and a whole bunch of love in the homes with these remarkable children.
There is no right or wrong answer on how you “should” raise your autistic child. There are a ton of outsiders who claim to be experts who bombard parents them with an opinionated agenda when they are really only strangers to the autistic child’s world.
Emerging from the Trenches is one mother’s experience with her autistic son. Raw, unfiltered, laugh-out-loud funny and always poignant, this is a book that will help any family with an autistic child feel empowered.
Parents of autistic children will realize they are not alone, and everyone who reads this will get a rare and delightful glimpse into the camaraderie within the autistic community rarely seen by outsiders.
With Emerging from the Trenches, you will
- Get educated
- Open your mind
- Stop judging autism so quickly
- Accept and embrace the beauty of autism and what it brings to the grey areas of communities around the world.
Emerging from the Trenches
September 3, 2019
UPDF eBook – September 3rd, 2019
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There is no “one correct way” to get through to an autistic child or to get through the day.
The parents of an autistic child constantly battle for the right to raise their child in the way they know is beneficial for their child. Families have experienced all the emotions: guilt, anxiety, depression, anger, confusion, chaos…but there’s also joy, laughter, and a whole bunch of love in the homes with these remarkable children.
There is no right or wrong answer on how you “should” raise your autistic child. There are a ton of outsiders who claim to be experts who bombard parents them with an opinionated agenda when they are really only strangers to the autistic child’s world.
Emerging from the Trenches is one mother’s experience with her autistic son. Raw, unfiltered, laugh-out-loud funny and always poignant, this is a book that will help any family with an autistic child feel empowered.
Parents of autistic children will realize they are not alone, and everyone who reads this will get a rare and delightful glimpse into the camaraderie within the autistic community rarely seen by outsiders.
With Emerging from the Trenches, you will
- Get educated
- Open your mind
- Stop judging autism so quickly
- Accept and embrace the beauty of autism and what it brings to the grey areas of communities around the world.
FACES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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FACES OF THE MIDDLE EAST is a collection of photographic images that aims to introduce the various ethnic and social groups who reside throughout the region––proof that this part of the world is not, as many in the West mistakenly believe, a monolithic culture.
From the mountains of Petra and Iraq, to the quiet inner quarters of Jerusalem, TV Anchor, Hermoine Macura, unravels another side to one of the world’s most controversial areas through her intimate portrayal of the people who call the region home.
Neither a definitive story nor a political statement, Hermoine’s work is a documentation of the rich diversity found in the Arab world.
FACES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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FACES OF THE MIDDLE EAST is a collection of photographic images that aims to introduce the various ethnic and social groups who reside throughout the region––proof that this part of the world is not, as many in the West mistakenly believe, a monolithic culture.
From the mountains of Petra and Iraq, to the quiet inner quarters of Jerusalem, TV Anchor, Hermoine Macura, unravels another side to one of the world’s most controversial areas through her intimate portrayal of the people who call the region home.
Neither a definitive story nor a political statement, Hermoine’s work is a documentation of the rich diversity found in the Arab world.
FarmGirl
Paperback – August 28th, 2012
[maxbutton id="1" text="Ebook | $5.99" url="/product/farmgirl-ebook/"] [maxbutton id="2" text="Paperback | $14.95" url="#"]Aging is not for the faint of heart-nor for the quitters. When you get “up there,” some mornings you look at the obituaries, see a friend or loved one has passed and think “Well, I lasted longer than another one.” Or, you may find a certain sadness creep in that makes you wonder why them and not you. FarmGirl ruminates on what it means to age, but more important it looks at the world through the lens of experience-that nice way of saying many-perhaps too many-years of watching and wondering at the world. Sometimes witty, sometimes poignant, FarmGirl, like its predecessor, Rack and Wruin, will make you laugh but it will also make you think about the decisions we make in our lives and the consequences inherent in the outcomes. A mix of prose, poetry, and sundry musings, hopefully there is enough variety herein to make reading this book worthwhile. Thank you for giving it a go.
Freedom’s Rush
Paperback – September 26th, 2013
[maxbutton id="1" text="Ebook | $2.99" url="/product/freedoms-rush-ebook/"] [maxbutton id="2" text="Paperback | $17.95" url="#"]When you’re out riding, things happen. If you keep at it, everything happens…. Thus goes the simple wisdom of Foster Kinn in Freedom’s Rush: Tales from a Biker and His Beast. Join Foster Kinn as he travels through the continental United States with an occasional detour into Canada, experience with him all that can happen in the “day in a life” of a biker: “Sometimes you’re hungry, sometimes you eat too much. Sometimes you’re unbearably hot, sometimes painfully cold. You lose things and get lost; you find things and find your way. You fall in love, you find things to despise. You bleed and you heal; you get sick, then you’re invincible. The rains pelt, the snows blind, the winds make you helpless. You ride through gorgeous scenery and through desolate wastelands; all places are the way they’re supposed to be and they’re all perfect. It’s life in microcosm.” In part a celebration of the grandness of this wide, wonderful world, in part a meditation on the meaning of freedom and our sacred right to create, you will laugh with Kinn at all the wonderfully wacky characters he meets on the road, and you will be dazzled by the utter joy he finds as he rides. When you read the last line, you will know what he means when he writes: As long as freedoms exist, we will ride; As long as we ride, freedoms will exist.
Freedom’s Rush II
Paperback – May 20th, 2017
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The best road is the one you’re traveling,
The best destination is wherever you’re headed,
The best time to get there is whenever you arrive.
—db Mikkelsen
From the Alps to the Cascades:
The Stefani and Tinetti Families
from Italy to America 1540-1953
Paperback – November 1st, 2023
[maxbutton id="1" text="Ebook | $9.95" url="/product/From-the-alps-to-the-cascades-UPDF/"] [maxbutton id="2" text="Paperback | $24.95" url=#"]The story of a family living for hundreds of years in a small village in the Italian Alps then journeying to the New World To live in a small town in the Washington Cascades. The use of Family memoirs and interviews brings the people to life. This is as American a story as the Mayflower.
