Make magazine, launched in February 2005 as the first magazine devoted to Tech DIY projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration, has been hailed as "a how-to guide for the opposable thumb set" and "Popular Mechanics for the modern age." Itching to build a cockroach-controlled robot, a portable satellite radio or your very own backyard monorail? Hankering to hack a game boy or your circadian rhythms? Rather read about people who fashion laptop bags from recycled wetsuits and build shopping cart go-karts? Make is required reading.
Now, following on the heels of Make's wildly popular inaugural issues, O'Reilly offers Makers, a beautiful hardbound book celebrating creativity, resourcefulness and the DIY spirit. Author Bob Parks profiles 100 people and their homebrew projects-people who make ingenious things in their backyards, basements and garages with a lot of imagination and a little applied skill.
Makers features technologies old and new used in service of the serious and the amusing, the practical and the outrageous. The makers profiled are driven by a combination of curiosity, passion and plain old stick-to-itiveness to create the unique and astonishing. Most are simply hobbyists who'll never gain notoriety for their work, but that's not what motivates them to tinker. The collection explores both the projects and the characters behind them, and includes full-color photographs and instructions to inspire weekend hackers.
Parks is just the man to track the quirky and outlandish in their natural maker habitats. A well-known journalist and author who covers the personalities behind the latest technologies, Parks' articles on innovations of all kinds have appeared in Wired, Outside, Business 2.0 and Make. He has contributed essays to "All Things Considered" on public radio and discussed trends in technology devices with Regis Philbin and Russ Mitchell on television. As a Wired editor, Parks directed coverage of new consumer technologies and contributed feature articles.
All those who love to tinker or who fancy themselves kindred DIY spirits will appreciate Parks' eclectic and intriguing collection of independent thinkers and makers.

Makers: All Kinds of People Making Amazing Things In Garages, Basements, and Backyards.

Computers & Technology

Parks, Bob

Computer Science

Make Community, LLC

ON YOUR MARK! A Chronicle of EMU Track and Cross Country from 1967-2000: Volume 1

In his 34 years at the helm of the EMU track and field program, Bob Parks led the Hurons to 31 Mid-American conference titles in track and cross country, 13 MAC invitational titles, and nine NAIA/Division II titles. He had 286 MAC and Central Collegiate Champions, 31 NAIA/NCAA Champions, and earned 26 MAC Coach of the Year honors and eight NCAA Regional Coach of the Year honors. His runners also made their mark on the ultimate international track stage, the Olympic Games, where 10 of his athletes made 16 appearances in the Olympics. Former EMU great Hasely Crawford won the Gold Medal in the 100-meter dash at the 1976 Olympics for Trinidad-Tobago, and former Eastern standout Earl Jones won the Bronze Medal in the 800-meter run for the United States in the 1984 Olympics. On Your Mark follows EMU’s renowned program from 1967 to 2000—the Olympic athletes it helped produce, the friendships it forged, the lives it changed. Coach Parks holds nothing back in this in-depth, insider’s look at an extraordinary career.

Sports & Outdoors

Other Team Sports

Outskirts Press

On Your Mark!: A Chronicle of EMU Track and Cross Country from 1967 to 2000 Volume II

Hall of Fame Coach Bob Parks’ personal account of 34 years of Coaching EMU Track and Cross Country. Eastern Michigan University’s legendary track and cross country coach Bob Parks tells it as it happened, year by year:  the meets, the victories, the defeats, and the drama that comes with the territory, all written by the coach who guided EMU’s storied Division I Track and Cross Country program for over 33 years.In his 34 years at the helm of the EMU track and field program, Bob Parks led the Hurons to 31 Mid-American conference titles in track and cross country, 13 MAC invitational titles, and nine NAIA/Division II titles. He had 286 MAC and Central Collegiate Champions, 31 NAIA/NCAA Champions, and earned 26 MAC Coach of the Year honors and eight NCAA Regional Coach of the Year honors. His runners also made their mark on the ultimate international track stage, the Olympic Games, where 10 of his athletes made 16 appearances in the Olympics. Former EMU great Hasely Crawford won the Gold Medal in the 100-meter dash at the 1976 Olympics for Trinidad-Tobago, and former Eastern standout Earl Jones won the Bronze Medal in the 800-meter run for the United States in the 1984 Olympics.On Your Mark follows EMU’s renowned program from 1967 to 2000—the Olympic athletes it helped produce, the friendships it forged, the lives it changed. Coach Parks holds nothing back in this in-depth, insider’s look at an extraordinary career.

Hall of Fame Coach Bob Parks' personal account of 34 years of Coaching EMU Track and Cross Country. Eastern Michigan University's legendary track and cross country coach Bob Parks tells it as it happened, year by year: the meets, the victories, the defeats, and the drama that comes with the territory, all written by the coach who guided EMU's storied Division I Track and Cross Country program for over 33 years.In his 34 years at the helm of the EMU track and field program, Bob Parks led the Hurons to 31 Mid-American conference titles in track and cross country, 13 MAC invitational titles, and nine NAIA/Division II titles. He had 286 MAC and Central Collegiate Champions, 31 NAIA/NCAA Champions, and earned 26 MAC Coach of the Year honors and eight NCAA Regional Coach of the Year honors. His runners also made their mark on the ultimate international track stage, the Olympic Games, where 10 of his athletes made 16 appearances in the Olympics. Former EMU great Hasely Crawford won the Gold Medal in the 100-meter dash at the 1976 Olympics for Trinidad-Tobago, and former Eastern standout Earl Jones won the Bronze Medal in the 800-meter run for the United States in the 1984 Olympics.On Your Mark follows EMU's renowned program from 1967 to 2000--the Olympic athletes it helped produce, the friendships it forged, the lives it changed. Coach Parks holds nothing back in this in-depth, insider's look at an extraordinary career.

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Makers: All Kinds of People Making Amazing Things In Garages, Basements, and Backyards.

ON YOUR MARK! A Chronicle of EMU Track and Cross Country from 1967-2000: Volume 1

On Your Mark!: A Chronicle of EMU Track and Cross Country from 1967 to 2000 Volume II

ON YOUR MARK! A Chronicle of EMU Track and Cross Country from 1967-2000: Volume 1

On Your Mark!: A Chronicle of EMU Track and Cross Country from 1967 to 2000 Volume II