Driving Ambitions

Author : H. F. Moorhouse
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719029165
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driving Ambitions written by H. F. Moorhouse and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moorhouse (sociology, U.of Glasgow) interprets the post-war American passion for hot rods and drag racing as an extreme example of the country's attitude toward automobiles. Of interest to social scientists and to teenagers who want to see what they missed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Doug Nye
Publisher : Virgin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781852278410
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driving Ambition written by Doug Nye and published by Virgin Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the McLaren F1 explains how the McLaren Cars' team pursued their quest for perfection to create the fastest road car in the world - setting the record at 240.1mph in 1998. The book has been created with the full support and involvement of McLaren Cars.

Author : Mark D. Howell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442230975
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motorsports and American Culture written by Mark D. Howell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after the first automobiles were introduced in the United States, auto racing became a reality. Since that time, motorsports have expanded to include drag racing, open wheel racing, rallying, demolition derbies, stock car racing, and more. Motorsports have grown to such an extent that NASCAR is now the second most watched professional sport in America, behind only football. But motorsports are about much more than going fast and finishing first. These events also reflect our culture, our society, our values, and our history. In Motorsports and American Culture: From Demolition Derbies to NASCAR, Mark D. Howell and John D. Miller bring together essays that examine the relevancy of motorsports to American culture and history, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Addressing a wide spectrum of motorsports—such as stock car racing, demolition derbies, land speed record pursuits, and even staged train wrecks—the essays highlight the social and cultural implications of contemporary and historical moments in these sports. Topics covered include gender roles in motorsports, hot rods and the creation of fan and participant identities, the appeal of demolition derbies, the globalization of motorsports, the role of moonshine in stock car history, the economic relationship between NASCAR and its corporate sponsors, and more. Offering the most thorough study of motorsports to date from a diverse pool of disciplines and subjects, Motorsports and American Culture will appeal to motorsports and automobile enthusiasts, as well as those interested in American history, popular culture, sports history, and gender studies.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0215035259
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novice drivers written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novice Drivers : Seventh report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence

Author : Christopher Laszlo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136389253
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Large-Scale Organizational Change written by Christopher Laszlo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Scale Organizational Change provides the principles by which large scale organizations reinvent themselves not once, but on an ongoing basis. Continual reinvention allows leading companies to learn, adapt, and innovate faster than competitors in complex and fast changing environments. These action principles are based on first-hand experience at the world's leading Fortune 500 companies using emergent models of living systems. The context for large scale organizations is one of information overload, complexity and constant change. This book reduces the sense of vulnerability felt by managers. It provides a guide to piloting change in ways that lead to constant renewal and a capacity to survive frequent and often brutal changes in the operating environment. It describes a leadership concerned with the capacity to learn, inflection points, emergent strategies, knowledge management, the ability to anticipate, and tapping into the distributed intelligence resident in the organization. Large Scale Organizational Change provides managers with a framework for making their organizations highly adaptive in the complex market systems in which they operate, thereby reducing or eliminating the need for periodic episodes of traumatic restructuring and sometimes fatal reengineering processes.

Author : David Blanke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell on Wheels written by David Blanke and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the rise and growing popularity of the automobile during the first half of twentieth-century America, which brought with it a dark undercurrent. On the one hand, Americans embraced the newfound sense of freedom and mobility embodied by the automobile; on the other, they grew increasingly anxious about and fearful of the enormous threat that cars--and car accidents--posed to public safety.

Author : Peter Merriman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415593565
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobility, Space, and Culture written by Peter Merriman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 10 to 15 years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. Here, Peter Merriman provides a contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to rethink the relationship between movement, embodied practices, space and place.

Author : Janet Zollinger Giele
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080545149
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Life Patterns in Western Industrial Societies written by Janet Zollinger Giele and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Life Patterns in Western Industrial Societies

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Author : Barbara Czarniawska
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839100958
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robotization of Work? written by Barbara Czarniawska and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely book, Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges examine the hopes and fears around work and job security inspired by automation, from the original coining of the term ‘robot’ to the present day media fascination. Have these hopes and fears changed or do they remain the same? This discerning book investigates whether these changes in perception correlate to actual changes taking place in the field of robotics.