Doug Williams – författare

PDAs and robotics come together in this innovative resource! Here is the ONLY BOOK to provide in-depth designs and concepts on how to create a robot that utilizes your PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) as the remote control--or "brains." * Allows any PDA to communicate with and control the robot * No connectors necessary--works on a wireless link between the PDA and the robot * Requires only inexpensive, off-the-shelf components * Modules can be easily customized for individual use * Covers specialized software, control circuits, and interfaces ideal for creating artificial life forms

This is a present-day story with historical roots in the gold and silver found in the mountains and high deserts of the old west. Greta Sadler, an attractive woman in her early thirties, returns home to Reno, Nevada after ten adventuresome years on the east coast. On the way home, she encounters Alex Mackenzie, a brainy but rugged, geology professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. They become living-together lovers against her father’s wishes. Greta is the only remaining child of the President of the Sadler Corporation, a 90-year old family company that is an icon in northern Nevada. The professor’s younger brother, Quid, shows up penniless and unexpectedly after years in the U.S. Navy and, recently, some time in jail. He finds a bowling alley job in Reno, learns to play blackjack, and eventually meets a wizened 5thgeneration gold prospector, Frank Adams, who believes he is close to locating the legendary Lost Pants Mine first reported in an 1879 San Francisco newspaper story. That story triggered forty years of searching for the mine by many people, but it remained lost. A hundred years later Alex, Frank and Quid team up to complete the search. Meanwhile, Greta and Alex’s separate stories become more and more interwoven as external events pull each of them into difficult, life-altering decisions and some unexpected consequences. Love, money, ambitions, and family frictions intersect with a desire they each have to prove themselves to themselves and others as they traverse their thirties with nagging, unanswered questions flickering in their heads.  

The lie detector (polygraph) has been scientifically proven to be faulty. It can not discern whether a human being is lying or being truthful, and yet it is used daily to enforce laws, prosecute citizens, dismiss people from jobs and keep others from acquiring the career they are fully qualified for. Two million people a year in the U.S. are forced to take a polygraph despite the fact that telling the truth does not help the person pass the "exam". In order to protect people from the horrors of the polygraph test and its aftermath. How to Sting the Polygraph was written. How to Sting the Polygraph is a step by step instruction manual that teaches anyone how to pass the polygraph test, simply and quickly. Written by the world's most recognized and reliable polygraph expert. It is the closest thing to having a coach with you at the actual testing.