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LeeSiegel, author of Falling Upwards, Not RemotelyControlled, and Against the Machinedelivers a provocative critique ofmodern lightness and frivolity, and a timely guide to being serious in an unser……続きを見る

Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering ……続きを見る

From Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu, legendary bassist of nu-metal pioneers KORN, comes Got the Life: a no-holds-barred look at his extreme highs, drug- and-booze-fueled lows, and, finally, redemption throu……続きを見る

Pete Jordan, author of the wildly popular Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, is back with a memoir that tells the story of his love affair with Amsterdam, the city of bi……続きを見る

From the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative book on the twenty-five works of literature that have most shape……続きを見る

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the hidden and costly wonders of our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of transportation, revealing the surprising truths, mountin……続きを見る

Dewayne Tiny Lund came to NASCAR from Harlan, Iowa in the midwest in 1958. He served four years in the U.S. Air Force before returning to racing in 1963. It was in 1963 that his greatest accomplishm……続きを見る

Fred Lorenzen was an outsider in the world of stock car racing. A midwesterner, he came from Elmhurst, Illinois, near Chicago. Most all of the stock car racers were southern born, where the traditio……続きを見る

Glenn Fireball Roberts acquired his nickname as a sandlot baseball player before he pitched two years for the University of Florida baseball team. Roberts became one of the most successful NASCAR dr……続きを見る

Marshall Teague was an early NASCAR driver who drove Hudsons to victory in the early 1950s. My e-book looks at Teague's performances from news clippings that were published in newspapers of the era.……続きを見る

Blinded as a child, sent to a school for the blind and losing his father at an early age might have narrowed the prospects for many young men. But not Woodlee. Leaving his home state of Tennessee, W……続きを見る

John Brown Herreshoff built all kinds of boats for recreation as well as for the military. But he is most remembered for the many yachts that he built that won the America's Cup. Blinded as a teen, ……続きを見る

Dick Hutcherson was an Iowa transplant who came to southern stock car racing in 1964. He raced out of Camden, South Carolina. Hutcherson had a short but successful career in NASCAR, racing until 196……続きを見る

Bill Vukovich was the top driver in the United States when he was killed in a tragic multiple car wreck at Indianapolis on Memorial Day 1955. Bidding to win the event for a third and unprecedented t……続きを見る

Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969.……続きを見る

At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that chal……続きを見る

Generational identity plays a large role in how teachers view educational change and school reform. Teachers of the Boomer generation, an era characterized by optimism and innovation, tend to be mor……続きを見る

A collection of true articles that have been published by Car Magazines from an unconventional driver. 続きを見る

This book describes in vivid detail how a newly independent nation with neither a history of technical education nor industry, developed in a short period of time a world-class system of technical a……続きを見る

So many days I felt like a god, drunk with freedom and power, riding a motorcycle I’d crafted with my own two hands with that winged skull on my back. George Christie was president of the notorious ……続きを見る

Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. Military Aircraft f……続きを見る

Sunday Times Bestseller As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British Bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British……続きを見る

Dieses Buch ist ein MUSS für jeden, der sich für alte Segelschiffe begeistert. Es beschreibt die Ära der letzten großen Windjammer und Frachtsegler, die ab dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts noch einmal ……続きを見る

How a few women fought to board planes, then fly them, and finally to break through earth’s atmosphere into space. The story of how women in Canada, from Newfoundland to British Columbia, struggled ……続きを見る

The Aviation Pioneers of Canada 7-Book Bundle presents the high-flying insight of Peter Pigott, in a special collection chronicling the aviators, aircraft, and drama of over a century of Canadian fl……続きを見る

Specially commissioned to mark the 40th Anniversary of History of Education, and containing articles from leading international scholars, this is a unique and important volume.Over the past forty ye……続きを見る

Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also f……続きを見る