Building the Pro Stock Late Model Sportsman

Building the Pro Stock Late Model Sportsman
Author: Steve Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 123
Release: 1991
Genre: Stock cars (Automobiles)
ISBN: 9780936834573

A complete step-by-step build-up of a pro stock/sportsman stock car. Car uses a Camaro front stub with fabricated perimeter frame. Includes complete chassis tuning information.

The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of the Leisure Class
Author: Thorstein Veblen
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1775411249

Considered the first in-depth critique of consumerism, economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class has come to be regarded as one of the great works of economic theory. Using contemporary and anthropological accounts, Veblen held that our economic and social norms are driven by traces of our early tribal life, rather than ideas of utility.

How to Build a Winning Drag Race Chassis and SuspensionHP1462

How to Build a Winning Drag Race Chassis and SuspensionHP1462
Author: Wayne Scraba
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2007-03-06
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1101097833

A guide to setting up your car for maximum handling performance on the street or strip. This instructional handbook shows readers how to set up their street machine chassis for high performance street or amateur drag strip racing. Not only are chassis and suspension the most popular types of modification, but their technology is constantly evolving. It offers the latest techniques for maximizing car performance on streets and strips. This definitive guide includes in-depth sections on chassis fabrication, rear axle selection and setup, rear and front suspension, shocks and springs, brakes, steering, and wheels and tires.

Introduction to Probability

Introduction to Probability
Author: Joseph K. Blitzstein
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1466575573

Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.

Overhills

Overhills
Author: Jeffrey D. Irwin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738554334

In the early 1900s, Overhills emerged as an exclusive hunt club hidden among the longleaf pine and wiregrass forest, sandy roads, and rural solitude of the North Carolina Sandhills. Soon becoming the Overhills Country Club, this rustic retreat featured a clubhouse, horse stables, dog kennels, train station, post office, and a golf course designed by the legendary Donald Ross. At its height, Overhills boasted fox hunting, bird hunting, polo, and golf with personal cottages on the property commissioned by William Averell Harriman and Percy Avery Rockefeller. By the era of the Great Depression, Overhills evolved from a country club to a country estate for the family of Percy and Isabel Rockefeller, lasting well into the latter decades of the 20th century. Throughout its history, the resident employees and tenant farmers of Overhills contributed to a unique community in this private southern arcadia.