Author: Margaret Eustace Publisher: Dutton Juvenile ISBN: 9780721419947 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 32
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The Little Mechanic is sure he knows what's wrong with Mr Grenville Granville's great big shiny red car. But the other mechanics won't let him help. Just go anmd make us all a drink, they keep saying.
Author: Cathy Mankin Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781448676194 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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Introducing Boxy. Learn your ABC's with Boxy. Find out what certain car parts do.A = AutomobileB = BrakesC = CarburetorD = DriveshaftE = EngineF = Fuel PumpG = GrilleH = HeadlightAnd much more.
Author: Virginia D'Amico Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781987793802 Category : Languages : en Pages : 112
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Ten year old Ginny Greasy-The Little Mechanic, inspired by her dad, Frank a " Certified Mechanic".Experience a Summer of Suspense! Ginny is TOUGH! Full of "Mechanic bright ideas." Not afraid of getting her hands Greasy or getting Bullied. Scary challenges at the Junkyard! Accidents throughout the book! Very Cool Characters such as, Mrs. Seatbelt, known for her brownies. Mrs. Tire, a candy giver. A Spunky Old Bearded man. Is he Santa? Officer Crash and many more.Expect the Unexpected!
Author: Marc 'Elvis' Priestley Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1473548896 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 256
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Meet Marc 'Elvis' Priestley: the former number-one McLaren mechanic, and the brains behind some of Formula One's greatest ever drivers. Revealing the most outrageous secrets and fiercest rivalries, The Mechanic follows Priestley as he travels the world working in the high-octane atmosphere of the F1 pit lane. While the spotlight is most often on the superstar drivers, the mechanics are the guys who make every World Champion, and any mistakes can have critical consequences. However, these highly skilled engineers don't just fine-tune machinery and crunch data through high-spec computers. These boys can seriously let their hair down. Whether it's partying on luxury yachts or gravity-defying photos aboard aeroplanes, this is a world which thrills on and off the track. This is Formula One, but not like you've seen it before.
Author: Michael Mechanic Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982127236 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 416
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A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies, surviving war and peace, expansions and recessions, economic meltdowns and global pandemics. We dream of the jackpot, the big exit, the life-altering payday, in whatever form that takes. (Americans spent $81 billion on lottery tickets in 2019, more than the GDPs of most nations.) We would escape “essential” day jobs and cramped living spaces, bury our debts, buy that sweet spread, and bail out struggling friends and relations. But rarely do we follow the fantasy to its conclusion—to ponder the social, psychological, and societal downsides of great affluence and the fact that so few possess it. What is it actually like to be blessed with riches in an era of plagues, political rancor, and near-Dickensian economic differences? How mind-boggling are the opportunities and access, how problematic the downsides? Does the experience differ depending on whether the money is earned or unearned, where it comes from, and whether you are male or female, white or black? Finally, how does our collective lust for affluence, and our stubborn belief in social mobility, explain how we got to the point where forty percent of Americans have literally no wealth at all? These are all questions that Jackpot sets out to explore. The result of deep reporting and dozens of interviews with fortunate citizens—company founders and executives, superstar coders, investors, inheritors, lottery winners, lobbyists, lawmakers, academics, sports agents, wealth and philanthropy professionals, concierges, luxury realtors, Bentley dealers, and even a woman who trains billionaires’ nannies in physical combat, Jackpot is a compassionate, character-rich, perversely humorous, and ultimately troubling journey into the American wealth fantasy and where it has taken us.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 242
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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.
Author: Kevin L. Borg Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801886065 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
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The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study—for the first time—by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession. Kevin L. Borg's study spans a century of automotive technology—from the horseless carriage of the late nineteenth century to the "check engine" light of the late twentieth. Drawing from a diverse body of source material, Borg explores how the mechanic’s occupation formed and evolved within the context of broad American fault lines of class, race, and gender and how vocational education entwined these tensions around the mechanic’s unique expertise. He further shows how aspects of the consumer rights and environmental movements, as well as the design of automotive electronics, reflected and challenged the social identity and expertise of the mechanic. In the history of the American auto mechanic, Borg finds the origins of a persistent anxiety that even today accompanies the prospect of taking one's car in for repair.
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