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A crash course in the exciting world of professional motor racing
Formula One Racing For Dummies has all the information you need to
start following this exciting motor sport. You’ll learn the basic
dynamics and rules of F1, and you’ll get a primer on the drama,
strategies, politics, and rivalries that have turned the sport into
a global sensation. Written by an industry expert, this book is
full of fun anecdotes that will get beginners and die-hards alike
excited for the next race. Get to know the contemporary F1 scene,
with profiles of current team managers and drivers, info on the
best media coverage and F1 news sources, and the latest rules and
technical regulations. For fans who watch F1 on TV and those who
attend the races in person, this fast-paced Dummies guide is a
perfect way to bolster your enjoyment of the sport. Discover the
anatomy of Formula One racecars, including hybrid engines and
modern safety systems Learn what goes on behind the scenes, so you
know what’s at stake when you watch races Get to know the most
popular drivers, their racing styles, and their backstories
Familiarize yourself with the championships, pit stops, and new
tracks Following F1 is a lot more exciting when you have a little
knowledge about the sport. Formula One Racing For Dummies, the
Grand Prix of racing guides, will teach you the ins and outs.
Internationally renowned, Peter Rich's career represents a lifelong
attempt to find a contemporary, yet uniquely African mode of
design. This book follows the chronology of his work which emerges
from a fascination with African indigenous settlements, including
his documentation, publication and exhibition of Ndebele art and
architecture, and his friendship with sculptor Jackson Hlungwani.
It explores what Rich calls 'African Space Making' and its forms of
complex symmetry; various collaborative community oriented designs
of the Apartheid and post-Apartheid period, especially Mandela's
Yard in Alexandra township; and finally, his more recent timbrel
vaulted structures, constructed from low-tech hand-pressed soil
tiles derived from his highly innovative and award winning work at
Mapungubwe. The book shows how Rich combines African influences
with an environmental awareness aligned to Modernist principles.
Choose Charming Small Hotels Spain guide to discover your dream
place to stay. With this Charming Small Hotels Spain guide, you'll
discover dream places to stay that are worth planning your visit
around. Here you'll discover a huge selection of truly special
places to stay with character, charm and the personal touch from
budget to luxury. Charming Small Hotels Spain offers a calm,
reasoned evaluation. We go to great pains to try to get under the
skin of each hotel; to draw a word-sketch of what the hotel really
is and we're not afraid to offer the negative as well as the
positive points! Inside our hotel guide you'll find: *Colour
photographs and a thoughtful description for each entry. *A
genuinely independent review - no hotel pays to be included in our
guide. *A unique focus on places with charm and character. We
favour places that can offer a genuinely personal welcome. *Every
entry is more than just a bed for the night: it's an experience
worth going out of your way for. From chic stylish city hotels to
contemporary inns, from outstanding B&Bs to captivating country
houses we're sure you'll find just the place you're looking for.
With each hotel hand-picked by Fiona Duncan, arguably Britain's
most respected hotel critic, your visit starts here.
An intellectual, multi-disciplined journey exploring what it means
to be human by one very ordinary man, who was deeply interested in
answering this question for himself, and possibly at least
beginning to answer this very ancient, perplexing question for
others. Also, an excellent resource book for those interested in
beginning their own journey into the meaning of human "being."
Despite much triumph in adversity, illness fuelling composition is
a misconception. The health - and especially deaths - of composers
excite controversy. Was Mozart really poisoned? Did Tchaikovsky
commit suicide? How did Beethoven lose his hearing? Much good
previous scholarship has been sullied by unsubstantiated views, and
many composers' reputations have been unfairly tarnished by
scandalous commentary, often involving alcoholism or syphilis. This
book, by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, charts the
disturbed physical and mental health of 70 great composers. It
attempts to unpick the evidence forensically and to define the
cause of death based on the legal paradigm of a balance of
probabilities. The author reviews where the composer was when
thefinal illness or death overtook him and considers how many of
them would have fared with modern treatment. Chapters are organised
thematically, by illness; and numerous misconceptions, such as
madness fuelling creativity, are challenged. The book relates the
nature of composition to composers' suffering, showcasing much
triumph in adversity, and, importantly, rehabilitates reputations.
JONATHAN NOBLE is a retired surgeon, who has spent many years
researching the illnesses and deaths of composers. He is a Fellow
of the Royal College of Surgeons and was President of the British
Association of Knee Surgeons as well as the British Orthopaedic
Sports Trauma Association. He looked after Test cricketers,
Manchester United, and dancers and musicians in the North of
England.
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