Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, cooper, mini
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845841832
ISBN-13: 9781845841836
This is a comprehensive study of the career of one type of rally car – the BMC Mini-Cooper/Mini-Cooper S. In the 1960s the Mini became famous as Britain’s most successful rally car. It combined superb handling, a tiny body shell, high-performance engines and the excellence of front-wheel-drive in an irresistible package. Not only this, but the works team included famous drivers like Paddy Hopkirk, Timo Makinen and Rauno Aaltonen. The works Minis not only won the Monte Carlo three times – 1964, 1965 and 1967 – along with the European Rally Championship in 1965, but also won events all
Authors:Adrian Lister, Paul Bahn,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: ice, giants, mammoths
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-11-24
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0520261607
ISBN-13: 9780520261600
A dazzling visual record of one of Earth’s most extraordinary species, this updated and revised edition of Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age integrates exciting new research to piece together the story of mammoths, mastodons, and their relatives, icons of the Ice Age. Incorporating recent genetic work, new fossil finds, new extinction theories, and more, Mammoths is a captivating exploration of how these mighty creatures evolved, lived, and mysteriously disappeared. The book features a wealth of color illustrations that depict mammoths in their dramatic Ice Age habitats, scores of photogra
Author: Bo Burlingham
Publisher: Portfolio Trade
Keywords: choose, companies, giants, small
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2007-03-27
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1591841496
ISBN-13: 9781591841494
It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do . . . creating a great place to work . . . providing great customer service . . . making great contributions to their communities . . . and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable companies that have chosen to
Author: Robert K. Merton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keywords: postscript, shandean, giants, shoulders
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1993-05-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226520862
ISBN-13: 9780226520865
With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton’s aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Merton presents a whimsical yet scholarly work which deals with the questions of creativity, tradition, plagiarism, the transmission of knowledge, and the concept of progress. "This book is the delightful apotheosis of donmanship: Merton parodies scholarliness while being faultlessly scholarly; he scourges pedantry while brandis
Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, stratos, lancia
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845840410
ISBN-13: 9781845840419
This book describes the birth, development and rallying career of the Lancia Stratos, Europe’s very first purpose-built rally car, in the mid/late 1970s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport. Written by a world renowned motoring historian and heavily illustrated, this is a key work of this subject.
Authors:Matt Johanson, Wylie Wong,
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Keywords: giants, francisco, san
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2007-04-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1596701870
ISBN-13: 9781596701878
An old gangster becomes a gangbuster. A pitcher inspires his two daughters to become professional athletes. Two best friends split apart, only to separately land behind bars. In Giants: Where Have You Gone?, authors Wylie Wong and Matt Johanson reconnect readers to San Francisco players of the past, especially those whose lives took dramatic turns. Included in the book are stories about Willie McCovey’s struggles to heal his ruined knees, Orlando Cepeda finding peace through Buddhism after a drug conviction and prison term, and Will Clark, after learning that his son was autistic, going
Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, impreza, subaru
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845840429
ISBN-13: 9781845840426
This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the turbocharged, four-wheel-drive Subaru Impreza in the 1990s and early 2000s. Forged in the fierce heat of WRC (World Rally Championship) competition and honed by years of continuous development, the Subaru Impreza is not only one of the greatest rally cars of all time, but has also become one of the most desirable high-performance road cars, too. This book provides a compact and authoritative history of where, when, and how it became so important to the sport.
