Stanley Yokell is a professional engineer who lives in Boulder, Colorado. Like many Colorado residents, he has had a full life of outdoor activities. His published books include The Ship, a book about a landing ship tank that served in the Pacific during World War II; The Ride (written under the pen name S. Israel), about a solo coast-to-coast bicycle trip that the author took to celebrate his 59th birthday; Dog Stories, about the important canine friends in his life; House of Mirrors, an erotic novella; and Sex, Love and Erotic, an anthology, both written under the pen name S. Israel. His other books are A Working Guide to Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers; Tubular Heat Exchangers Inspection, Maintenance and Repair; Murder at Plato House; A Happy Life, an autobiography; and Old People, an anthology of stories related to the elderly. Awaiting publication is The Murder on the Mall the second book in a trilogy of murder mystery. With two colleagues he is working on Closed Feedwater Heaters for Power Generation: A Working Guide, scheduled to be published by McGraw-Hill in December 2013.