Fuel Economy: In Road Vehicles Powered by Spark Ignition Engines
ISBN: 9780306414381 / Angielski / Twarda / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concern about the reduced availability and the increased cost of petroleum fuels prompted great efforts in recent years to reduce the fuel consumption of auto mobiles. The ongoing efforts to reduce fuel consumption have addressed many relevant factors, including increased engine performance, reduced friction, use of lightweight materials, and reduced aerodynamic drag. The results of the investigations assessing the various factors affecting fuel economy have been published in journals, conference proceedings, and in company and government reports. This proliferation of technical information...
Concern about the reduced availability and the increased cost of petroleum fuels prompted great efforts in recent years to reduce the fuel consumption...
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776,43 zł |
Automotive Engine Alternatives
ISBN: 9780306425493 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on Alternative and Advanced Automotive Engines, held in Vancouver, B.C., on August 11 and 12, 1986. The symposium was sponsored by EXPO 86 and The University of British Columbia, and was part of the specialized periods program of EXPO 86, the 1986 world's fair held in Vancouver. Some 80 attendees were drawn from 11 countries, representing the academic, auto- motive and large engine communities. The purpose of the symposium was to provide a critical review of the major alternatives to the internal combustion engine. The scope of...
This book contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on Alternative and Advanced Automotive Engines, held in Vancouver, B.C., on August 1...
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582,32 zł |
Gas-Turbine Regenerators
ISBN: 9780412983313 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regenerative gas turbines are attractive alternatives to diesel engines and spark ignition engines for automobiles and to diesel engines and combined-cycle en gines for power generation. Theory indicates regenerative gas turbines should achieve higher thermal efficiencies than those of diesel engines and combined cycle engines. Further, regenerative gas turbines are potentially lower in cost, require less maintenance, require less space, and pollute less than competitive systems. Regenerators can be used for exhaust-gas heat exchange or for intercooling in gas-turbine systems. As an...
Regenerative gas turbines are attractive alternatives to diesel engines and spark ignition engines for automobiles and to diesel engines and combined-...
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582,32 zł |
Auto-Opium : A Social History of American Automobile Design
ISBN: 9780415105712 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive history of the profession and aesthetics of American automobile design. The text reveals how the appearance of vehicles became an integral part of the system of mass production and mass consumption forged in the struggles of US society. It traces the development of automobile design, from the first utilitarian cars around the turn of the century to the most modern of symbol-laden cultural icons. The author shows how the demand of working Americans for beautiful, stylish and constantly improving cars was a response to the deprivations of mass production. Combining a...
This is a comprehensive history of the profession and aesthetics of American automobile design. The text reveals how the appearance of vehicles became...
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656,16 zł |
Auto-Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design
ISBN: 9780415105729 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive history of the profession and aesthetics of American automobile design. The text reveals how the appearance of vehicles became an integral part of the system of mass production and mass consumption forged in the struggles of US society. It traces the development of automobile design, from the first utilitarian cars around the turn of the century to the most modern of symbol-laden cultural icons. The author shows how the demand of working Americans for beautiful, stylish and constantly improving cars was a response to the deprivations of mass production. Combining a...
This is a comprehensive history of the profession and aesthetics of American automobile design. The text reveals how the appearance of vehicles became...
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237,17 zł |
Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production: The Challenge of Japanese Efficiency
ISBN: 9780521341417 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and/or imports for Canada, Germany, Japan, and the United States, and these trade flows are heavily influenced by the basic relative competitiveness of the production processes for automotive manufacturing. In this book the authors analyze the factors that contributed to the comparative cost competitiviness of the four countries' auto industries over the period 1961-1984 and disentangle the factors contributing to the Japanese cost and efficiency advantages. The authors provide estimates of comparative costs of automobile production...
Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and/or imports for Canada, Germany, Japan, and the United States, and these trade flows are he...
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413,88 zł |
The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry
ISBN: 9780521552837 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a concise and lucid review of the strengths and weaknesses of the British motor industry during the one hundred years since its foundation. Placing the industry firmly in a European context, the author first assesses its achievements before 1960, and then tests the various explanations that have been offered to explain its decline in the past thirty years. He examines the role of government, of the trade unions, of management and of the multinationals, all of which have been seen as major players in the industry's demise.
This book is a concise and lucid review of the strengths and weaknesses of the British motor industry during the one hundred years since its foundatio...
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267,51 zł |
Car & Motorcycle Slang
ISBN: 9780595010806 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,11 zł |
Plastic Ozone Daydream
ISBN: 9780595157945 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,71 zł |
A System at Risk: The Economics of Transportation
ISBN: 9780595366439 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A System at Risk" is a comprehensive analysis of the transportation dilemma in the United States that continues to affect the economic competitiveness and quality of life in America. Written for the layman and the professional alike, it describes an impending crisis in the surface transportation system, which is the foundation of economic vitality.
Dr. Harold Worrall exposes the underlying relationship between transportation and economics by reviewing public economic theory and choice. Incremental policy making has done little to reduce automobile and truck traffic growth. Further, an... "A System at Risk" is a comprehensive analysis of the transportation dilemma in the United States that continues to affect the economic competitivenes...
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72,44 zł |
Iron Fist, Lead Foot: John Coletti and Ford's Terminator
ISBN: 9780595409709 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Like every other Mustang fan, as soon as I heard about this supercharged car I couldn't wait for it to be built."
-William Clay Ford, Jr. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Company A factory supercharged Ford Mustang had long been on the wish list of muscle car fans, but it took the passion of a single man to make it happen: O. John Coletti. Coletti? That was one name in the Ford Motor Company phone book guaranteed to stir up differing opinions among the huge auto manufacturer's upper management. Maverick or visionary? Tyrant or leader? One thing... "Like every other Mustang fan, as soon as I heard about this supercharged car I couldn't wait for it to be built."
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Corvette Stories from the Backbone of America
ISBN: 9780595431205 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,71 zł |
A System at Risk: The Economics of Transportation
ISBN: 9780595673988 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A System at Risk" is a comprehensive analysis of the transportation dilemma in the United States that continues to affect the economic competitiveness and quality of life in America. Written for the layman and the professional alike, it describes an impending crisis in the surface transportation system, which is the foundation of economic vitality.
Dr. Harold Worrall exposes the underlying relationship between transportation and economics by reviewing public economic theory and choice. Incremental policy making has done little to reduce automobile and truck traffic growth. Further, an... "A System at Risk" is a comprehensive analysis of the transportation dilemma in the United States that continues to affect the economic competitivenes...
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115,17 zł |
The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Ind
ISBN: 9780743299794 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors. When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world's largest auto maker. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success. Authors Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They exhaustively...
The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors. <...
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81,15 zł |
500 Tips for Primary School Teachers
ISBN: 9780749423711 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manual provides practical advice and tips on dealing with aspects of the primary teacher's role, from classroom organization to professional development.
This manual provides practical advice and tips on dealing with aspects of the primary teacher's role, from classroom organization to professional deve...
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126,14 zł |
Porsche High-Performance Driving Handbook
ISBN: 9780760327548 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's been more than a decade since the first Porsche High Performance Driving Handbook set the standard for getting the most out of a Porsche. If driving techniques haven't changed since then, technology definitely has. This book, by the world's foremost expert, takes that new technology into account as it gives readers the latest information on how to drive a Porsche to its limit.
Once upon a time, the Can Am and Trans Am race series changed their rules because Vic Elford and his Porsches were winning too often. Here Quick Vic shares his insights into ride control systems,... It's been more than a decade since the first Porsche High Performance Driving Handbook set the standard for getting the most out of a Porsche. If...
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140,98 zł |
The USA from a Chevrolet: Scenes from a Forty-Year Drive in a '65 Biscayne
ISBN: 9780786425884 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In July 1965, an Artesian Turquoise Chevrolet Biscayne rolled off a General Motors assembly line. Little did James Ward know that this car would become a cherished member of his family, playing a role in his wedding, honeymoon, years of graduate school, birth of his daughter, and her wedding, among countless other memories. Four decades--and a lot of history--later, the author still drives this rolling historical artifact dubbed Phoebe. Using the Biscayne as a narrative thread, this first-person account explores facets of American history the author and Phoebe experienced since the mid-1960s,...
In July 1965, an Artesian Turquoise Chevrolet Biscayne rolled off a General Motors assembly line. Little did James Ward know that this car would becom...
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125,90 zł |
Cities and Cars: A Handbook of Best Practices
ISBN: 9780786429196 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans for years have treated the automobile as a form of freedom. People can now live in the country and work in the city. Suburbia and shopping malls were made possible by the automobile. And none of this would have been possible without huge legal and financial commitments made by all levels of government to expand America's interstate freeway systems, regional highways, expressways, arterials, commercial avenues, and residential streets. Our society now has a number of significant diseconomies associated with the individual use of the automobile. Traffic congestion and pollution in...
Americans for years have treated the automobile as a form of freedom. People can now live in the country and work in the city. Suburbia and shopping m...
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245,32 zł |
Latin American Business: Equity Distortion in Regional Resource Allocation in Brazil
ISBN: 9780789035356 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examine the costs and benefits of fiscal "wars" between Brazilian states
Latin American Business examines Brazil's use of fiscal incentives to attract investors to help remedy disparities in the country's regional distribution of income. Since the 1990s, individual Brazilian states have taken the initiative in trying to lure domestic and foreign firms to locate within their borders, targeting the automotive industry, textiles, and shoe production. But their efforts have led to mixed results and questions about whether these fiscal wars have been legitimate attempts at regional... Examine the costs and benefits of fiscal "wars" between Brazilian states
Latin American Business examines Brazil's use of fiscal incentives... |
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201,84 zł |
Latin American Business: Equity Distortion in Regional Resource Allocation in Brazil
ISBN: 9780789035363 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examine the costs and benefits of fiscal "wars" between Brazilian states
Latin American Business examines Brazil's use of fiscal incentives to attract investors to help remedy disparities in the country's regional distribution of income. Since the 1990s, individual Brazilian states have taken the initiative in trying to lure domestic and foreign firms to locate within their borders, targeting the automotive industry, textiles, and shoe production. But their efforts have led to mixed results and questions about whether these fiscal wars have been legitimate attempts at regional... Examine the costs and benefits of fiscal "wars" between Brazilian states
Latin American Business examines Brazil's use of fiscal incentives... |
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428,98 zł |