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Dan Holohan has taught more than 200,000 students in the HVAC industry and beyond. This 2nd Edition of his popular book, How to Teach Technicians (without putting them to sleep ), is both entertaining and enlightening. Dan first published this book in 1999 and went on to teach until his retirement in 2016. This updated version includes even more insight from Dan's successful teaching career. Dan gives valuable advice on how to overcome your fear of public speaking, as well as how to prepare for and teach an engaging seminar. He shares tips to navigate meeting logistics, locations, and any challenges that may come your way as a teacher. He'll tell you about the time a wild dog ran into his classroom and even about the time he managed to set his hand on fire. You'll be laughing and learning with each page and, in the end, you'll be a more successful teacher. Here are some of the many topics covered in this book: How to prepare for your seminar, Overcoming your fear of public speaking, logistics, how to get a big group settled down on time, body language, how to tell a story, making your seminars fun, using PowerPoint and other tools, the "Seminar in a Box," facing challenges, dealing with hecklers and rudeness, being prepared for questions, arranging the meeting place (with a sample specification sheet for the hotel/meeting location), gathering feedback from students, and more

I wrote this book for people who prefer plain-English explanations of how things work. You won't find much math in this book. No formulas. No mumbo-jumbo. What you will find are simple words of ordinary conversation, and a lot of very easy-to-follow drawings relating to hydronic radiant heating. There are also stories - lots of them I like to tell stories about the things I've seen as I've traveled around the US, Canada and Europe, looking at hydronic radiant installations. I've seen installers do things the right way and the wrong way, and I learned from them all. I dug into old books as well as the current literature to write this one, and I did my very best to boil down the engineering into understandable terms.This book contains 215 pages of practical, common sense information that you can use right away. I've made lots of analogies to things you already know. Hydronic radiant heating doesn't have to be complicated or spooky. There are rules of thumb that work, and installers are using them with great success every day. There are simple ways to install and control these systems. I'll show you how.All in all, you're going to find straight answers to direct questions in this book. I've done my best to present a subject that I love in a way that I think you will find both informative and very enjoyable.

In 1996, a couple of nice guys approached me about writing a monthly column for Contractor magazine. I asked what they wanted me to write about and they said they'd love to hear me tell some good stories about contractors and what happened to them along the way. I could even make some parts up if it helped the story along. Who could say no to that? Anyway, they kept me around for 67 issues until a new owner came along and had the good sense to fire us all. I complimented the new guy and left with the stories. So here they are, together again after all these years. I hope you enjoy meeting these folks as much as I enjoyed telling their stories. I've changed all the names, of course. You would have done the same if you had met them. - Dan Holohan

A heartwarming and clever story, Emma's Way explores the jaggedly complex and beautiful mosaic of family relationships.Henry Fletcher is a former tile worker who spent his life turning pieces of ceramic and porcelain into art for people he didn't like. The work came together beautifully, but his relationships always seemed disjointed, including those with his wife and son. Now retired and widowed, he has withdrawn from the world, figuring he can get everything he needs delivered from the Internet. That is, until his four-year-old granddaughter Emma comes along. This funny and sweet tale of an unlikely duo will have you turning pages and considering how, in the end, our differences may be the glue that holds us together.

In the summer of 1968, seventeen-year-oldBrian McKenna takes a job delivering milkto homes on Long Island. In an era of bothpromise and heartbreak, Brian finds comfortin the routine of the milk route as relationshipsunravel around him. Then fifteen-year-oldHannah Kepler pulls him into her orbit, causinghim to question everything. Traveling betweenpast and present, this compelling story pondersa time when childhood was fleeting and somesaw more than they could bear.

Each morning, for forty years, Dominic Murphy has taken a walk through his neighborhood. The path is the same, but the people change and Dominic is a silent witness to their secrets hidden in plain sight. Then one day, a heart-wrenching loss changes his course forever.Tim Tu is a successful radiologist who is haunted by a diagnosis. In an effort to escape it all, he takes a trip to Hawaii and meets a stranger who is not who he seems.Gripping and poetic, this novel is about how the choices we make define us and ripple throughout our lives, for better or worse.

The Lost Art of Steam Heating Companion walks you through the history of steam heating with pictures and hard-to-find literature about older steam-heating systems from a time long gone. These are the research materials that Dan Holohan used to write the original Lost Art of Steam Heating. He brought them together in this beautiful companion book to help you on that next steam-heating job. Usually, if you can just see what the thing looked like when it was new, you can stand a pretty good chance of fixing it. The same goes for old steam-heating systems. If you can just see how it was supposed to work, your odds of success as a troubleshooter improve tremendously. In the Lost Art of Steam Heating Companion, you'll see the progression and growth of a great industry, as well as the movement from one-pipe steam heating to vapor heating and then from two-pipe steam heating to vacuum heating. It covers the Hoffman Differential Loop, the Plimpton & Hills Corp., Trane Highest Grade Heating Specialities, Moline Heat, Broomell Vapor Heating, the Model K System, McDonnell & Miller Co., Webster's Double Service Valve, and more. You can use this book to solve steam-heating problems - once and for all. It will make you sharper and smarter and that's a great way to feel. Add a copy to your library and you'll see what we mean.