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Chevrolet created the Camaro in response to the runaway sales
success of the Ford Mustang, the first pony car. The Mustang went
on sale in April 1964, and by August that same year, General Motors
launched an intensive program to bring its own pony car to market.
In September 1966, the Camaro went on sale. Chevrolet wanted the
Camaro to be better than the Mustang in every area, including
style, ride-quality, and performance. To that end, with the Mustang
having already achieved so much racing success, Chevrolet wanted to
beat it on the track also. Racing Camaros: An International
Photographic History 1966 - 1986 is a photographic celebration of
road racing Camaros throughout the world. It focuses on
production-based cars, rather than the heavily modified tube-frame
silhouette machines that began appearing in the late 1970s.
Included are images of big-budget factory-supported cars competing
in the Trans-Am series, right through to low-buck independents, and
cars competing throughout the world. For the first time, the
international road racing representation of the Camaro is featured
in a book, which includes countless photos that have never been
published. Technical detail is provided throughout, from concept
and design, right through its racing career, and the challenges and
developments that took place to make it a winner. Only period
images have been used. This is a true photographic history
depicting the global popularity of the Chevrolet Camaro as a road
racing car.
The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical
reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical
considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and
philosophical conceptions of "habit" offer a critical resource for
describing the interplay between thinking (writing and rhetoric)
and embodiment. The book demonstrates how Aristotle's understanding
of character (ethos), habit (hexis), and nature (phusis) can
productively connect rhetoric to what Holmes calls "procedural
habits": the ways in which rhetoric emerges from its interactions
with the dynamic accumulation of conscious and nonconscious
embodied experiences that consequently give rise to meaning,
procedural subjectivity, control, and communicative agency both in
digital game design discourse and the activity of play.
Virtually from the moment of its launch in April, 1964, the Ford
Mustang has been a favorite among road racers. From the Tour de
France, to production sports car racing, the SCCA Trans-Am series,
regional and national A/Sedan competitions, and international and
domestic sedan championships in Great Britain, Europe, Australia,
and New Zealand, the Mustang has enjoyed a following like few other
models. This book is a photographic celebration of road racing
Mustangs throughout the world. It focuses on production-based cars,
rather than the heavily modified tube-frame silhouette machines
that began appearing in the late 1970s. Included are images of
big-budget factory-supported cars competing in the Trans-Am series,
right through to low-buck independents, and cars competing
throughout the world. Using only period images, including countless
photos that have never before been published, this is a true
photographic history, depicting the global popularity of the Ford
Mustang as a road racing car.
John Holmes was a schoolboy when World War II broke out in 1939,
but even then he knew his destiny lay in the skies. 'Boys from
these parts don't join the RAF', he was told on more than one
occasion. But they were wrong. After many months undergoing
selection and training he eventually made it into the air crew of
196 Squadron. It was there he embarked on a love affair with the
Stirling Bomber, and it was there that he met up with his crew -
his brothers in arms. With in-depth research, Steve Holmes'
inspirational, harrowing and at times humorous book charts the
wartime exploits of his father, John 'Sherlock' Holmes, and his
flight crew. Through many hours of research and contact with living
relatives of 'Sherlock's Squadron' Steve has pulled together a
unique and personal insight into the most brutal and devastating
armed conflict in history. Verified and independently confirmed by
the MOD, War Office Bomber Command and preserved navigator's
records and pilots' log books of the time, this is a comprehensive
and compelling account of World War II from the eyes of a group of
young RAF men from distant corners of the globe.
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