Impossible Road Trip - An Unforgettable Journey to Past and Present Roadside Attractions in All 50 States, Eric Dregni
Автор: Eric Dregni| Michael Dregni Название: Scooter Bible - The Ultimate History and Encyclopedia ISBN: 0760375569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780760375563 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 27110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Scooter Bible is an entertaining, colorful, and authoritative history of the little motorbikes that could. Beginning with the first motor scooter in 1902, Michael and Eric Dregni are your guides to everything from the postwar American scooter boom to the golden age of Italian and European scooters, the rise of Mod scooter culture in England...right up to modern electric scooters. Today, nostalgia for vintage Vespas, Piaggios, Cushmans, Lambrettas, and other top brands drive a new thirst for retro-inspired scooters in showrooms around the world. This revised and updated edition of The Scooter Bible brings the story up to date with the drive for zero emissions via electric vehicles. Throughout, the authors offer you a wealth of imagery: historic black-and-white photos, evocative period advertisements, manufacturer photos, and more--over 300 images! Along the way, they show you scooter evolution, changing technologies, and scooter appearances in popular culture. And as the most comprehensive scooter book to ever grace the altar, The Scooter Bible also includes the world's most exhaustive encyclopedia of scooter brands, from Puddlejumper to Piaggio, Ducati to Doodlebug, and Zьndapp Bella to Genuine Stella. The Scooter Bible is all you need before kick-starting your scooter engine to life and praying for ever more speed. Indeed, scooters are mechanical marvels on two wheels. Streamlined spuds. Mutant oddballs of Jet Age styling gone berserk. Innovative inventions shoehorned like sardines into miniaturized monocoque bodies. Engineering and styling enigmas (the stranger the better). They are the weird and the wonderful. And they are all here in The Scooter Bible.
A journey to find Norway’s supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate?
Norway is usually near or at the top of the World Happiness Report. But is it really one of the happiest countries on Earth? Eric Dregni had his doubts. Years ago he and his wife had lived in this country his great-great-grandfather once fled. When their son Eilif was born there, the Norwegian government paid for the birth, gave them $5,000, and deposited $500 into their bank account every month, but surely happiness was more than a generous health care system. What about all those grim months without sun? When Eilif turned fifteen, father and son decided to go back together and investigate. For the Love of Cod is their droll report on the state of purported Norwegian bliss.
Arriving in May, a month of festivals and eternal sun, the Dregnis are thrust into Norway at its merriest—and into the reality of the astronomical cost of living, which forces them to find lodging with friends and relatives. But this gives them an inside look at the secrets to a better life. It’s not the massive amounts of money flowing from the North Sea oil fields but how these funds are distributed that fuels the Norwegian version of democratic socialism—resulting in miniscule differences between rich and poor. Locals introduce them to the principles underlying their avowed contentment, from an active environmentalism that translates into flyskam (flight shame), which keeps Norwegians in the family cabin for the long vacations prescribed by law and charges a 150 percent tax on gas guzzlers (which, Eilif observes, means more Teslas seen in one hour than in a year in Minnesota!).
From a passion for dugnad or community volunteerism and sakte or “slow,” a rejection of the mad pace of modernity, to the commodification of Viking history and the dark side of Black Metal music that turns the idea of quaint, traditional Norway upside down, this idiosyncratic father and son tour lets readers, free of flyskam, see how, or whether, Norwegian happiness translates.
Автор: Dregni Michael Название: The All-American Hot Rod: The Cars. the Legends. the Passion. ISBN: 0785838007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780785838005 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16550.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The All-American Hot Rod is your personally guided tour through the saga of one of the most popular icons in American history, brought to life in the stories of well-known and respected automotive historians and celebrities, automotive journalists, and other hot rodders with their own tales to share--with more than 350 illustrations to add to your appreciation of these remarkable machines.
The hot rod--each one unique, fierce, loud, and bold--has been an American icon and a symbol of performance, freedom, and creativity for decades, influencing everything from movies to music. The All-American Hot Rod is a history by those who lived it, the numerous voices and images of people who know and love the hot rod like nothing else. Relive the thrills with their great stories, complemented by fabulous period artwork and current photographs of original T-buckets, Deuces, coupes, roadsters, custom cars, street rods, rat rods, and more.
It's truly an all-American tale with an exhaust note heard 'round the world. Now, step on the gas and go
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