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Six-time Bathurst 1000 winner Garth Tander sits among exalted company in the history of Australian motorsport, as a dominant figure in the modern era of the annual 'Great Race' at Mount Panorama. A lanky kid from Perth obsessed by going fast, Garth achieved skill and speed in a race car that...

Six-time Bathurst 1000 winner Garth Tander sits among exalted company in the history of Australian motorsport, as a dominant figure in the modern era of the annual 'Great Race' at Mount Panorama. A lanky kid from Perth obsessed by going fast, Garth achieved skill and speed in a race car that...

Some roads carry traffic. Others carry a nation. Across America, a small number of highways and transportation corridors do far more than connect communities. They move energy, support military readiness, provide access to critical minerals, sustain remote economies, carry telecommunications infrastructure, and connect the nation to places of strategic importance. Yet the way America funds its highways does not always recognize that difference. Roads That Matter examines the growing gap between how the United States builds nationally important infrastructure and how it maintains it.

Bloomsbury presents Hunt the Bismarck: The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship by Angus Konstam, read by David Monteath Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent pursuit...

*GLIBA Regional Bestseller* “Narrative history at its best.” —Air Mail The gripping, definitive history of the Hindenburg disaster, the rise of the Nazis, and the road to World War II as never before told On the evening of May 6, 1937, the majestic German zeppelin Hindenburg arrived before...

In 2008 Peter F. Bowers bought the WACO Aircraft Company—the only modern maker of FAA-certified open-cockpit biplanes—and discovered how expensive ignorance can be. He had manufacturing in his bones and almost no experience selling airplanes. The first year’s statements showed a loss of more than a million dollars. The accountant’s job was to report the number. His job was to face it. What followed was not a romance about flying.

Transformeer van onzekere leek naar een zelfverzekerde doe-het-zelver die moeiteloos elke dieselmotor onderhoudt. Terwijl je in het weekend op de oprit sleutelt of onderweg bent, ontdek je de verborgen logica onder de motorkap. Geen ingewikkeld technisch jargon, maar glasheldere uitleg die...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. ¿Qué pasa si una marca de automóviles no solo construye vehículos, sino que encarna el Sueño Americano sobre ruedas? Eso es Chevrolet. En Detroit, 1911, comenzó el viaje – una pequeña marca cuyos modelos pronto cautivaron a generaciones y...

なぜ近鉄は、日本最大の私鉄になれたのか――。 その答えは、501キロに及ぶ路線の長さや車両数だけでは見えてこない。 本書を語るのは、駅員・車掌・運転士を経て、広報として近鉄の"顔"を担い続けた元名物広報マン・福原稔浩。

SUBMERGED STORIES FROM THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC Over the past 350 years, an untold number of ships have met their end along the northern Oregon and southern Washington coasts. Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest investigates some of the most compelling historic shipwrecks—from the infamous...

Along North Carolina's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships met their doom, the brave surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service braved raging seas, defied death itself, and saved countless lives from certain disaster. This gripping book chronicles the extraordinary men of the U.S. Life-Saving...

I Cockpittets hemmeligheder løfter pilot og flyinstruktør Morten Knoth sløret for hvad der foregår bag den skudsikre cockpitdør. Han giver læseren et fascinerende indblik i det maskinrum, man ellers aldrig får adgang til, men som han selv har tilbragt de sidste 25 år i som både pilot og...

Two innovations in weaponry appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century and revolutionized warfare, turning it into a multidimensional contest: the modern diesel-powered submarine and the fixed-wing aircraft. Both saw extensive use during World War I, and the nations of the world soon...

Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You already know the feeling. Someone cuts you off, and in half a second your knuckles are white, your jaw is tight, and some part of you is ready to chase a stranger down a highway to prove a point you couldn't even explain. This isn't a book that...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Master Incoterms 2020 Scenarios in Under 60 Seconds Eliminate confusion and protect your global trade margins with a customized, rapid-response reference guide designed for modern logistics. Hesitation in logistics directly erodes profitability and...

In Stone Age Astronaut, award-winning author Liam Callanan uncovers the astonishing life of Lester Maitland—the Milwaukee-born aviator who, in 1927, became the first person to fly to Hawaii, earning national acclaim on par with Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic triumph. For a brief moment, the two men shared headlines, White House invitations, and fame. But while Lindbergh’s legacy grew, Maitland’s all but vanished.

Crash and Burn is an insider's tale of the South African airline industry over the past thirty years and the dramatic collapse of Comair in 2022, as told by Glenn Orsmond, twice CEO of Comair and the founder CEO of 1time. Orsmond takes the listener on a wild ride through the ultra-competitive sector of low-cost airlines that boomed after South African Airways' stranglehold on the skies was loosened in the 1990s.

Two catastrophes. One unshakable truth: the moment humanity declares something invincible is the moment disaster starts writing its opening line. Great Disasters 2-in-1 brings together Dominic Haynes's gripping accounts of the Titanic and Chernobyl — two of history's most devastating reminders that confidence is not the same as safety.

For every car tragic out there - this is the one laugh-out-loud book you'll want to read this year... Australia's favourite motoring journalist, Stephen Corby is our Jeremy Clarkson - just a bit younger, funnier and less pompous. Drives a Bit Funny is part-memoir, part stories from a...