Author : Random House Disney
Publisher : RH/Disney
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2009-01-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780736425704
Lightning McQueen and all the characters from Disney-Pixar's Cars star in this brand-new, deluxe fold-out activity set, which includes a coloring book with stickers, a write-on/wipe-off book, a painting book, crayons, paints, and a brush--all for just $8.99! It's three books in one!
Author : Ross Bentley
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1610600010
Shave lap times or find a faster line through your favorite set of S-curves with professional race driver Ross Bentley as he shows you the quickest line from apex to apex! With tips and commentary from current race drivers, Bentley covers the vital techniques of speed, from visualizing lines to interpreting tire temps to put you in front of the pack. Includes discussion of practice techniques, chassis set-up, and working with your pit chief.
Author : Neehar Sanadhaya
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1482838419
Who am I? is not the question to self, but, it is the answer to the universe about itself. It is the secrete answer about history (Ex. Pyramids) and belief. It is the answer about science and its future (ex. Bermuda triangle). It is the answer about excellence and intelligence of Human brain. It is answer to Time travel and time machine. It is first ever secrete answer, explaining the beginning and end of universe. It is the hope; to answer every question that could ever be asked by human intelligence. It is an answer to me about my-self. But, It is not about me, it is about you, Who you are! It about us (mankind) Who and why and How we exist! The book contains the much awaited pure knowledge and solutions of universe for human (both common man and scientists). Now humans and science will never be fooled. Now, there will never be any contradictions among the Religion, Science, History, Human Brain and the existence and role of Human in this universe. The book explains every Why and how about the seven Universe that exists. It is combination of knowledge explaining Psychology of Human thinking: how, what and Why they think. This is first book ever which proves Philosophy with scientific logics and mathematical proof.
Author : Elsa A. Nystrom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786470933
This book covers Joan Newton Cuneo's life, and her roles (from 1905 to 1915) as the premier female racer in the United States and spokeswoman for women drivers and good roads. Beginning with her family history and marriage to Andrew Cuneo, it traces her life in New York society, the birth of her children, and Joan's growing interest in automobile touring and racing and partnership with Louis Disbrow, her racing mechanic. The book covers Joan's experiences in three Glidden Tours, including her notes on the 1907 tour, her first races, and her rivals. It also looks at the growth and change of automobile culture and the battles for control of racing among the American Automobile Association, the Automobile Club of America, and the American Automobile Manufacturers Association--which ended in banishing women racers shortly after Joan's greatest racing victories at New Orleans (in 1909). The book then follows Joan's attempts to continue racing, the end of her marriage, her move to the Upper Peninsula, and her remarriage and death. The book also includes a chapter on her female rivals in racing and touring.
Author : Ross Bentley
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2011-08-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 161058273X
Performance and racing drivers constantly seek ways to sharpen their skills and lower their lap times. Ultimate Speed Secrets is the indispensable tool to help make you faster, whatever your driving goals. Professional race driver and coach Ross Bentley has raced everything from Indycars to World Sports Cars to production sedans, on ovals, road courses, and street circuits around the world. His proven high-performance driving techniques benefit novice drivers as well as professional racers. Ultimate Speed Secrets covers everything you need to know to maximize your potential and your car: Choosing the correct line Overtaking maneuvers Adapting to new tracks and cars The mental game and dealing with adversity Finding (and keeping) a sponsor. The pages are filled with specially commissioned color diagrams to illustrate the concepts described. Whether you are a track-day novice or a seasoned professional, Ultimate Speed Secrets will arm you with practical information to lower your lap times and help you get the best out of your vehicle—and yourself. It’s the ultimate high-performance driving tutorial!
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1849
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Professor Steven Lukes
Publisher : Picador
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1429941820
Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that trumps it all? These questions turn up everywhere, from Montaigne's essay on cannibals, to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, to the debate over female genital mutilation. They become ever more urgent with the growth of mass immigration, the rise of religious extremism, the challenges of Islamist terrorism, the rise of identity politics, and the resentment at colonialism and the massive disparities of wealth and power between North and South. Are human rights and humanitarian interventions just the latest form of cultural imperialism? By what right do we judge particular practices as barbaric? Who are the real barbarians? In this provocative new book, the distinguished social theorist Steven Lukes takes an incisive and enlightening look at these and other challenging questions and considers the very foundations of what we believe, why we believe it, and whether there is a profound discord between "us" and "them."
Author : Joe Brainard
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1598531778
Discover the works of Joe Brainard, whose quirky style earned him a reputation as a “recognizable American phenomenon” and “oddball classicist”—with a foreword by 4321 author Paul Auster (John Ashbery) An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major new retrospective with many other pieces that for the first time present the full range of Brainard's writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit. The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard gathers intimate journals, jottings, stories, one-liners, comic strips, mini-essays, and short plays, many of them available until now only as expensive rarities, if at all. “Brainard disarms us with the seemingly tossed-off, spontaneous nature of his writing and his stubborn refusal to accede to the pieties of self-importance,” writes Paul Auster in the introduction to this collection. “These little works . . . are not really about anything so much as what it means to be young, that hopeful, anarchic time when all horizons are open to us and the future appears to be without limits.” Assembled by the author’s longtime friend and biographer Ron Padgett and including fourteen previously unpublished works, here is a fresh and affordable way to rediscover a unique American artist.
Author : Thomas B. Coburn
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Goddesses
ISBN : 9788120805576
The Devi-Mahatmya is well-known to both devotees and scholars of the Indian Great Goddess. It is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess in Sanskrit, and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present day. Like so much in that tradition, however, the text has until now resisted careful study from an historical perspective. It is this study that the present volume accomplishes.The central task here is to explore how an anonymous Sanskrit text articulates a view of ultimate reality as feminine when there is virtually no precedent in the Sanskrit tradition for such a view. To accomplish this task, an appropriate method of scriptural analysis is developed. This involves an examination of Hindu understanding of the Puranas in general, and of the Devi-Mahatmya in particular, along with consideration of several recent scholarly discussions, in India and elsewhere. Subsequently, a comprehensive inquiry into the Goddess's epithets in this text is undertaken, followed by examination of the earlier history of the myths that the Devi-Mahatmya associates with her. The study culminates in translations of the text's hymns, which are annotated so as to indicate the synthesis that is here being accomplished. The resulting illumination of Sanskritized form of Goddess worship is what Daniel H.H. Ingalls calls in his Foreword a notable scholarly achievement.
Author : Diana Helmuth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2024-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 166800299X
A skeptic spends a year trying to find spiritual fulfillment by practicing modern Witchcraft in this fascinating memoir that’s perfect for fans of A.J. Jacobs and Mary Roach. Diana Helmuth, thirty-three, is skeptical of organized religion. She is also skeptical of disorganized religion. But, more than anything, she is tired of God being dead. So, she decides to try on the fastest-growing, self-directed faith in America: Witchcraft. The result is 366 days of observation, trial, error, wit, and back spasms. Witches today are often presented as confident and finished, proud and powerful. Diana is eager to join them. She wants to follow all the rules, memorize all the incantations, and read all the liturgy. But there’s one glaring problem: no Witch can agree on what the right rules, liturgy, and incantations are. As with life, Diana must define the craft for herself, looking past the fashionable and figuring out how to define the real. Along the way, she travels to Salem and Edinburgh (two very Crafty hubs) and attends a week-long (clothing optional) Witch camp in Northern California. Whether she’s trying to perform a full moon ritual on a cardboard box, summon an ancient demon with scotch tape and a kitchen trivet, or just trying to become a calmer, happier person, her biggest question remains: Will any of this really work? The Witching Year is a “compelling memoir” (Frances Denny, author of Major Arcana) that follows in the footsteps of celebrated memoirs by journalists like A.J. Jacobs, Mary Roach, and Caitlin Doughty, who knit humor and reportage together in search of something worth believing.
