Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Ship Decoration 1630–1780
by Andrew Peters
Such intricate work on a seagoing vessel that gets banged around and shot at and all the while needs to make a “statement” about power and influence and religion and worldviews. This is political art as much as Advanced Woodworking.
Built to Better the Best: The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation History
by Jack Mueller
Cars pretty much sold themselves in the years following WWII. K-F, the new kid on the block, had the ideas, the product, the manufacturing capability, motivated workers, government loans—and still failed. This book takes a stab at laying out the complex reasons why.
French Flying Boats of WWII
by Gérard Bousquet
The topic may not grab you right away but just look at the photo on the cover: one engine pointing backwards, three levels of workstations . . . you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Those French . . . always doing things differently. Good book!
Avro Lancaster: The Survivors
by Glenn White
Only 17 known complete survivors of the iconic WWII bomber exist worldwide and this thoroughly illustrated book takes you to and inside them.
Hurst Equipped: More Than 50 Years of High Performance
by Mark Fletcher & Richard Truesdell
Don’t pass this book by just because it has muscle cars on the cover! Hurst was so much more than performance parts and racecars. This is the first-ever look at the company and its many products and, at least a little bit, the man himself.
Roadside Relics: America’s Abandoned Automobiles
by Will Shiers
This look at scrapped American cars lain to rest in field and stream (yes, literally) not only documents relics of yesteryear but also a phenomenon that won’t exist much longer.
GM’s Motorama: The Glamorous Show Cars of a Cultural Phenomenon
by David W Temple
Lower, longer, wider. Often outrageously designed—and often enough outrageously impractical for real-word use (David Davis calls them “comic book fantasies” in his Introduction)—these show cars were the most American of American cars and American lifestyle.
Type VII: Germany’s Most Successful U-Boats
by Marek Krzysztalowicz
Never given subs a second thought? Using Germany’s WW II workhorse as an example this thorough book shows how they work and what it’s like to sail and live on one—and how the FBI in Long Island managed to arrest a crew and another ended up in the Tower of London!
De Dion Bouton, An Illustrated Guide to Type & Specification 1905–1914
by Michael Edwards
They were the world’s largest automobile manufacturer in the early days. This book shows how trying to be everything to everyone is a heavy cross to bear—and can ruin you.
Remember Those Great Volkswagen Ads?
by Alfredo Marcantonio, David Abbott, John O’Driscoll
Hindsight is everything. What is now considered one of the greatest ad campaigns EVER was dismissed at the time by the very man who hatched it as a total mistake!
Auto-Mobilität – Wie der Mensch das Laufen verlernte
by Roland Löwisch
The history of the car and all the various bits that made it possible, from the taming of fire to the taming of animals to the invention of the wheel.
A formidable, illustrated reference book you’ll be picking up again and again. Even if you don’t speak German!
Il Cavallino Nel Cuore, Autobiography of a Designer
by Leonardo Fioravanti
From junior stylist to Managing Director at Pininfarina, high-level positions at Fiat and Ferrari, his own design-engineering-architecture firm—this fabulously illustrated book offers rich detail of a rich life.
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