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The Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles Over Motors is a compendium of information on the physics and physiology behind pedal-powered, treadled, and hand-cranked devices. In includes plans for building your own human-powered machines and stories about how these devices are used around the world. Published by New Society Publishers, 2008. Excerpt

During and after my career in IT, I wrote college textbooks on computer networking and telecommunications. Network+ Guide to Networks, now in its 7th edition, has long been a bestseller in the U.S. and was translated into several languages. More