Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
A Postcard History of Japanese Aviation: 1910–1945
by Edward M. Young
Japan adopted Western technologies late but then with a vigor unmatched by other Asian nations. Several hundred postcards tell that story here.
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!
by Jared Zaugg
Bonhams is an auction house through whose doors hundreds of delectable cars pass each year. This book showcases a few dozen that best embody the emotional impact that separate sports and race cars from more prosaic transport.
Some of the prices will have an emotional impact too . . .
Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and the Forgotten Heroes of Malta’s War
by Paul McDonald
The RAF did tremendously important reconnaissance work on Malta, and the women and girls who worked as plotters and cipherenes helped. Obviously, they had private lives, and Ratcliffe’s in particular is way out there.
Carlo Demand In Motion and Color: Automobile Racing 1895–1956
by Gary D Doyle
The German artist Carlo Demand (1921–2000) illustrated more books than any other artist, yet his name is not nearly as well known as that of many of his contemporaries or as the quality of his work would indicate.
Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design
by Chris Lefteri
The world as you know it is not quite as you know it—the finished products you handle every day are full of surprises as to how they’re made.
Project Terminated
by Erik Simonsen
“Too many cooks spoil the broth” . . . this book puts the blame for pulling the plug on seemingly viable aviation projects on hapless bureaucrats who keep the military from doing its thing. But it ain’t that easy . . .
MOMO Italy, 50 Years 1964–2014
by Mario Donnini
You don’t have to have a space age $40,000 F1 steering wheel in your car to appreciate that Momo must be something big. They are, and in ways that may surprise. This anniversary tribute looks to the past and to the future.
Jim McGee, Crew Chief of Champions
by Gordon Kirby
He cut his teeth working on a private Indy entry cobbled together in a backyard garage and rose to run some of the big-league outfits of his day. An important book about an important man.
Flying Saucer Technology
by Bill Rose
Never mind the names—Flapjack, Foo Fighter, Flying Top, Umbrellaplane—this interesting book is not about space aliens but actual man-made stuff that flew, or might have.
Mezek a Turbina: Messerschmitts in Czechoslovakia
by Bohumír Kudlička
The Czechs built German aircraft. Surprised? There’s much to be surprised at in this interesting little book!
Rudolf Uhlenhaut
by Wolfgang Scheller and Thomas Pollak
The legendary Mercedes engineer was a hands-on wrencher and a good enough driver to embarrass professional shoes. He valued teamwork and hated blowing his own horn—which is why this is the first-ever comprehensive biography.
Brooklands, The Sports Car Endurance Races
by David Blumlein
Who’d have thunk that this category of Brooklands racing had never before been fully written up? This small book is remarkable in every way.
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