HOE TO MAKE ANIMATED TOYS AND WHIRLIGIGS features full-size patterns and step-by-step instructions for building seventeen unique animated toys and whirligigs. The toys perform when pushed or manipulated by hand or a crank is turned. The whirligigs do their antics when placed in the wind. The projects were selected to get you started in the craft and hobby of making animated toys and whirligigs and then take you on to an advanced skill level. The author Jack Wiley earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1968, did exercise physiology teaching and research, and has written fifty...

CONTINUING FREE BEING RVING IN ROADHOUSE is all about making road trips in small motorhomes. Special interests of the author Jack Wiley - all covered in this book - include RVing solo, RVing in small motorhomes, RVing full-time, RVing on minimal budgets, RVing without hookups, and continuing RVing as we get older. The author puts his principles of RVing on small budgets into practice by describing actual on-the-road experiences, including the decision making that go along with them, on two road trips he made the second year he owned Roadhouse in 2014-15. One of these trips was an 82-day...

THE HANDSTAND BOOK is a complete guide to learning to do a basic handstand and then progressing on to intermediate and advanced skills. The mechanical principles for holding balance on your hands are detailed. A step-by-step method is given for learning to do a basic handstand. From there the book takes you on to intermediate and advanced skills, including press ups into handstands and doing handstands on one arm. Partner and group hand balancing is covered. There is a chapter on doing handstands on apparatus, including parallel bars, rings, balls, and chairs. Regardless of whether you just...

THE HOW-TO GUIDE TO HOW-TO WRITING covers the process of writing how-to articles and books, which includes selecting fertile how-to subjects, extracting material from your past experiences, generating new experiences, researching, writing, revising and polishing, and using photos, line drawings, and other illustrations to enhance your writing. THIS BOOK is based on the author's actual experiences. From 1972 until now he has made his living entirely from his writing, and the majority of this writing has been how-to articles and books. SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE: How-To Writing Past and Generated...

WHEELIE LIVING: ALL MY HOUSES HAVE WHEELS explores the possibilities of living in houses that have wheels, including RVs, park model trailer houses, and mobile homes. These are viable alternatives to living in houses fixed in one place on foundations. Houses on wheels are generally cheaper to own and live in than are conventional houses. This is generally true even if the houses on wheels are "permanently" parked, as mobile homes and park model trailer houses usually are. Some houses on wheels called recreational vehicles (RVs) - especially motorhomes, travel trailers, and fifth wheels - have...