Author: Jack GillisPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Car Book. 1991 Edition
Author: Jack GillisThe Classic Car Book
Author: DKPublisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 0241428807
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
From the Chevrolet Bel Air to the Ferrari Testarossa, this book takes you on a scenic drive through the history of classic cars, exploring their status as objects of luxury and desire. The Classic Car Book showcases the most important and iconic classic cars from every decade since the 1940s, with a foreword by award-winning writer and commentator on the industry, history, and culture of cars and motoring, Giles Chapman. Fully illustrated and packed with stunning photography, The Classic Car Book uses specially commissioned photographic tours to put you in the driver's seat of the world's most famous and celebrated cars, including stylish roadsters and luxury limousines from manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Rover, Jaguar, and Bentley. The Classic Car Book is ideal for any car collectors and enthusiasts.
Dodge and Plymouth Muscle Car Red Book
Author: Peter C. SesslerPublisher: Stillwater, MN : Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780879384975
Category : Chrysler automobile
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Dodge & Plymouth Muscle Car Red Book Peter C. Sessler. A great guide to authenticity for the 1964-67 Barracuda, 1972-74 Challenger, 1967-74 Coronet, Super Bee, GTX, and Road Runner, and the 1968-71 Chargers. Base price and option costs, production figures, and more! Sftbd., 4 1/2"x 7 1/4", 144 pgs., 5 ill.
The Car Book 1991
Author: Jack GillisPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780062730718
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
For a decade, The Car Book has proven itself to be America's #1 single-colume consumer resource for buying a new car. Gillis provides the latest information on pricing, insurance rates and safety records, fuel efficiency, resale value, consumer protection laws and customer satisfaction ratings. Illustrated.
The Car Book. 1991 Edition
Author: Jack GillisPopular Mechanics
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Chapman's Car Compendium
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781858944142
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Chapman takes readers on a fascinating global journey of bumper-to-bumper facts and other miscellanea, from the brake horsepower of the 10 most powerful cars available to the funniest bumper stickers spotted on cars in America.
The House on Mango Street
Author: Sandra CisnerosPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345807197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
My Car in Managua
Author: Forrest D. ColburnPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789777
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Histories of revolutions often focus on military, political, or economic upheavals but sometimes neglect to connect these larger events to the daily lives of "ordinary" people. Yet the peoples' perception that "things are worse than before" can topple revolutionary governments, as shown by the recent defeat of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and the governments of Eastern Europe. Providing the kind of prosaic, revealing details that more formal histories have excluded, My Car in Managua offers an objective, often humorous description of the great difficulties and occasional pleasures of life in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution. During a year's work (1985-1986) at the Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE), Forrest Colburn purchased a dilapidated car—and with it an introduction to everyday life in Nicaragua. His discoveries of the length of time required to register the car (approximately six weeks), the impossibility of finding spare parts (except when U.S. dollars were applied to the search), and the fact that "anyone getting into a car in Managua can be charged a small fee [for car watching] by anyone else" all suggest the difficulties most Nicaraguans faced living in a devastated economy. Drawing on experiences from visits throughout the revolutionary period (1979-1989), Colburn also sheds light on how the Revolution affected social customs and language, gender roles and family relationships, equality and authority, the availability of goods and services, the status of ethnic minorities, and governmental and other institutions. Illustrations by Nicaragua's celebrated political cartoonist Róger Sánchez Flores enliven the lucid text.
Popular Mechanics
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.