Over the Next Hill: An Ethnography of RVing Seniors in North America, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781551114231 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living either full or part time in a recreational vehicle has been an alternative lifestyle in North America since the 1920s. By the 1930s, Wally Byam's Airstream company could not keep up with the demand for his self-contained "house trailers." And today, "RVing" has become so widespread that, for perhaps two million retired North Americans, home is a recreational vehicle. In this book, anthropologists Dorothy and David Counts tell the story of their research living the life of RVing seniors in trailer parks, "boondocking" sites on government land, laundromats, and other meeting places... Living either full or part time in a recreational vehicle has been an alternative lifestyle in North America since the 1920s. By the 1930s, Wally B... |
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101,69 zł |
Infinity Over Zero: Meditations on Maximum Velocity
ISBN: 9780971997707 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meditations on maximum velocity. An introspective history of the land speed record.
Meditations on maximum velocity. An introspective history of the land speed record.
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76,43 zł |
You Can Afford To Be A Pilot: How To Become A Pilot And Fly For Fun On A Middle Income Budget
ISBN: 9781456408152 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is not to teach ground school or flight training, but is intended to teach the reader how to shop for these services and, once purchased, how to keep them affordable, efficient and useful. Certified FAA Instructor Timothy O'Connor uses his twenty years of experience with technical subjects and adult training to bring flying to people on a middle-income budget. Learn about the new Sport Pilot Certificate license, Ultralights, Light Sport Aircraft, Experimental Aircraft, How to pass the FAA Exams, the steps involved in learning to fly, getting the best flying lessons,...
The purpose of this book is not to teach ground school or flight training, but is intended to teach the reader how to shop for these services and, onc...
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49,37 zł |
Born Again Bikers a View from the Pillion
ISBN: 9781456771935 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a unique perspective 'A View from the Pillion' relates Jean's hair raising and fun filled adventures as she endures blizzards, howling gales, freezing fog, downpours and blistering heat whilst perched uncomfortably on the pillion of a motorcycle. Read about her exploits as she travels to rallies in Britain and in Europe. The breakdowns, the spills, the moments of terror, the discomfort and the laughter. Travel with Jean on the Alaska Highway and share the excitement of encountering bears and other wild life only yards away. Cross Canada East to West alongside vast lakes, through... From a unique perspective 'A View from the Pillion' relates Jean's hair raising and fun filled adventures as she endures blizzards, howling gales, ... |
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68,07 zł |
The Bikes And I: Motorcycling On Two-Lane Blacktop In Upstate Ny
ISBN: 9781434835239 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reflects my living with motorcycles (each with a distinct personality), and riding the backroads, learning more about life from each motorcycle. Motorcycles are living, breathing creatures and all riders believe this, regardless of what they admit. This book takes you on the ride. Hang on. You will enjoy experiencing the tight bond that exists between rider and bike.
This book reflects my living with motorcycles (each with a distinct personality), and riding the backroads, learning more about life from each motorcy...
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31,56 zł |
Fast Days
ISBN: 9781439219836 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fast Days by Joel Jackson tells the true story of one of the most accomplished performance groups in automotive history: the Chrysler-Shelby Performance Center. They took existing cars designed for other purposes and reinvented them into exciting performance sports cars that shattered records around the world. They set land speed records that may never be broken and bested the automobiles that helped create the Carroll Shelby legend. Fast Days celebrates this once in a lifetime period in automotive history and offers an intimate look at the personalities, mechanics, engine builders, crew...
Fast Days by Joel Jackson tells the true story of one of the most accomplished performance groups in automotive history: the Chrysler-Shelby Performan...
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45,05 zł |
The History of the NHRA Winternationals
ISBN: 9780984204311 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1960, the first official rumble of high-performance engines has echoed across Southern California's Fairplex at Pomona, signaling not just the beginning of another year of exciting NHRA Drag Racing, but also the launch of a thousand dreams of glory. From Don Garlits' first winged dragster in 1963 or his revolutionary rear-engine Top Fueler in 1971 to Bill Jenkins' tube-framed Vega Pro Stocker and Kenny Bernstein's aerodynamically enhanced Budweiser King Funny Cars, the Winternationals has always been fertile ground for the birth of new technologies and the launchpad for drivers to stake...
Since 1960, the first official rumble of high-performance engines has echoed across Southern California's Fairplex at Pomona, signaling not just the b...
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108,18 zł |
Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism
ISBN: 9780230115194 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the problematic nature of this non-natural, strategically-orchestrated sporting spectacle.
Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular...
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194,97 zł |
Pocono: NASCAR's Northern Invasion
ISBN: 9781456877262 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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162,28 zł |
Driven To The Past: Memories of 60-plus years in motorsports
ISBN: 9781461093039 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memories of 60-plus years in motorsports, accent primarily on humor
Memories of 60-plus years in motorsports, accent primarily on humor
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67,41 zł |
Porsche by Mailander
ISBN: 9781854432445 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the many holdings of the Ludvigsen Library were the works of Rodolfo Mailander, who photographed races, motor shows, new-car introduction and other events in Europe from 1950 through 1955. This book presents Mailander's photography, selected and with commentary by Karl Ludvigsen.
Among the many holdings of the Ludvigsen Library were the works of Rodolfo Mailander, who photographed races, motor shows, new-car introduction and ot...
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722,93 zł |
Sports Car Racing in the South: Florida to Texas, 1957-1958
ISBN: 9781854432469 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of sports car racing in the Southern United States featuring the top echelon of European sports cars has long been unexplored territory.
The history of sports car racing in the Southern United States featuring the top echelon of European sports cars has long been unexplored territory.
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428,40 zł |
How to Autocross
ISBN: 9781613250235 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The photos in this edition are black and white.
Autocross is the most accessible form of motorsports for the sports car enthusiast. With many clubs sanctioning events, it is possible to attend an event nearly every weekend in many areas. The low-risk format allows drivers to participate without needing to extensively modify their car for safety. Autocross events are held all across the United States and Canada. These events allow the average person to participate with their typical street cars. Because of the nature of the sport, drivers of many different skill levels and goals participate... The photos in this edition are black and white.
Autocross is the most accessible form of motorsports for the sports car enthusiast. With many clubs ... |
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154,39 zł |
Watkins Glenn, The Street Years: 1948-1952 Glory, Drama and the Birth of American Road Racing
ISBN: 9781854432513 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the transformation of post-World War II racing in America and how road racing became a leading sport in the US, beginning at Watkins Glen and followed by Sebring, Daytona, Laguna Seca and other circuits.
This book is about the transformation of post-World War II racing in America and how road racing became a leading sport in the US, beginning at Watkin...
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155,30 zł |
Make Haste Slowly: The Mike Duff Story
ISBN: 9780968570609 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Make Haste Slowly chronicles the grand prix motorcycle racing career of Canadian Mike Duff, the first North American and only Canadian ever to win a world championship grand prix race. Duff won three GP events, the 1964 250 Belgian GP at Spa Francorchamps, the 1965 125 Dutch GP at Assen The Netherlands and the 1965 250 Finnish GP at Imatra Finland. In 1964 Duff finished 3rd in the 350 world championship riding a private 350 AJS 7R single. In 1965 riding a factory Yamaha RD56 250 twin Duff finished 2nd in the 250 world championship. He never won a world title nor an Isle of Man TT, but he rode...
Make Haste Slowly chronicles the grand prix motorcycle racing career of Canadian Mike Duff, the first North American and only Canadian ever to win a w...
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112,51 zł |
Junior Dragster Dreams: How Sam Found His Own Ride
ISBN: 9780976169222 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first and only young people's novel about junior drag racing, "Junior Dragster Dreams: How Sam Found His Own Ride" is the story of Sam McCormick. There are secrets in Sam's life - secrets he knows nothing about. But these secrets - one in the basement of the home where he lives with his mom and one in his granddad's barn - are the keys to changing Sam from an unhappy ten year old to a boy with plans and dreams of his own. Discovery of these secrets not only alters Sam's life but also the lives of his best friend, Chloe, and the class bully, Truman.
The first and only young people's novel about junior drag racing, "Junior Dragster Dreams: How Sam Found His Own Ride" is the story of Sam McCormick. ...
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36,03 zł |
Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500
ISBN: 9781439149058 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "History comes alive" (Kirkus Reviews) in the wild and true story of the first Indy 500 and the dawn of the automotive age--now in paperback. Forty cars lined up for the first Indianapolis 500. We are still waiting to find out who won. The Indy 500 was created to showcase the controversial new sport of automobile racing, which was sweeping the country. Daring young men risked life and limb by driving automobiles at the astonishing speed of seventy miles per hour with no seat belts, hard helmets, or roll bars. When the Indianapolis Speedway opened in 1909, seven people were...
"History comes alive" (Kirkus Reviews) in the wild and true story of the first Indy 500 and the dawn of the automotive age--now in paperback. <...
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77,30 zł |
Fly Army: Army Rallying
ISBN: 9781449054519 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an in depth, and often hilarious look at the men and the machines that represented the British Army International rally team during the period from 1971 until 1982. Whilst predominently the story of one driver, Les Dalton, it also covers most of the Army, and RAFMSA crews competing on all the home International rallies during that time. It is chock full of action stories, and photographs of Turbo Charged Land Rovers, Austin 1800s, and Mini's, describing life as it was on the special stages in one of the GREEN MACHINES. For the real rally fans of that era, that used to support...
This book is an in depth, and often hilarious look at the men and the machines that represented the British Army International rally team during the p...
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306,58 zł |
Drag Racing 201: Racing in the New Economy
ISBN: 9781463730611 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the success of his first book, Drag Racing 101, where IH Racing's Team Owner Ike Heckler Jr. explains how to build your first race car and secure sponsorship, Ike now brings you Drag Racing 201 - Racing in the New Economy. After racing at NHRA tracks in the northeast and southeast for the past 10 years in a booming economy where securing sponsorships was relatively easy, Ike takes you on an exciting journey through 2010 and explains what it is like to uproot your personal life in order to pursue the goal of semi-pro drag racing. With over 52 career round wins and national media...
Following the success of his first book, Drag Racing 101, where IH Racing's Team Owner Ike Heckler Jr. explains how to build your first race car and s...
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103,49 zł |
Drag Racing 201: Racing en la nueva economía (Spanish language edition)
ISBN: 9781466227736 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the success of his first book, Drag Racing 101, where IH Racing's Team Owner Ike Heckler Jr. explains how to build your first race car and secure sponsorship, Ike now brings you Drag Racing 201 - Racing in the New Economy. After racing at NHRA tracks in the northeast and southeast for the past 10 years in a booming economy where securing sponsorships was relatively easy, Ike takes you on an exciting journey through 2010 and explains what it is like to uproot your personal life in order to pursue the goal of semi-pro drag racing. With over 52 career round wins and national media...
Following the success of his first book, Drag Racing 101, where IH Racing's Team Owner Ike Heckler Jr. explains how to build your first race car and s...
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103,49 zł |