Untold story of the 1990s explosion of touring car racing an unforgettable era of great races, high drama and unrivalled public interest.By former driver and commentator Ben Evans, author of 2022’s widely acclaimed Legend of the Formula Ford Festival.Revisiting a time when the British Touring Car Championship made household names of the likes of John Cleland, Alain Menu and Jason Plato, this riveting, high-octane book:? Gives you a comprehe...

For more than 50 years the Formula Ford Festival has been the proving ground for ambitious racing drivers looking to make their mark. The Brands Hatch meeting was where the likes of Johnny Herbert, Damon Hill and Jenson Button first made their names, while both Michael Schumacher and Nigel Mansell never made it out of their heats. Now a club meeting, in its heyday the Festival was one of the UK's biggest motor sport events, drawing tens of thousands of spectators, and enjoying more than a ...

On his 16th birthday, Charlie Masters wakes up on a beach with no memory, a USB stick, and a cryptic note from his parents: 'Stay hidden; trust nobody.' Desperate for answers, he breaks into a school to access the USB but is caught by Kirsty, a sharp-witted local girl living on the fringes of society. With Kirsty's help, Charlie deciphers the message, which reveals a rendezvous point 250 miles away in just one week. As they race across the country, fragments of Charlie's memory return, slo...

Between 1983 and 1998, Spacelab provided NASA with a vital short-term laboratory in space. Across more than a dozen missions, Spacelab’s pressurized research modules and science pallets supported hundreds of experiments from the life to microgravity sciences, from Earth science to astrophysics and from materials processing to fluid dynamics.For the first time, The Spacelab Story sheds light on all the Spacelab missions that served as pathfinders for the eventual Internatio...

2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches. Launched into space in 1977, these twin probes explored the farthest reaches of the Solar System before venturing on a one-way journey beyond, all the while testing the bounds of science, robotic exploration and our collective imagination. This heavily revised commemorative book takes a comprehensive look at their incredible achievements, future potential and overall legacy.Chronicled herein is an epic journey to unveil...

This book explains how the achievements of the Space Shuttle, the world’s first reusable manned spacecraft, were built on the foundation of countless technical challenges.Through thick and thin, the Space Shuttle remained the centerpiece of the American human spaceflight program for three decades. In addition to deploying satellites, planetary probes and, of course, the Hubble Space Telescope, it delivered astronauts to the Mir space station and assembled and sustained the Internat...

Un best-seller US enfin traduit en FranceCe livre est destiné à éléver l'expérience de tout programmeur Java 7 et 8 à un niveau d'excellence. Rempli d'exemples de programmes mettant en oeuvre les toutes dernières APIs Java et donnant des principes de programmation afin d'optimiser l'écriture et l'exécution du code Java, il deviendra vite indispensable à tout programmeur digne de ce nom.Au programme :Les changements apportés par Java 8

A Transatlantic Adventure Fueled by Tea and Hedgerow FruitWhen American Claire Craig Evans married a charming British man, there was a cost for the snappy banter and countless offers of tea: she had to uproot life as she knew it and relocate to the UK. Who wouldn’t want to move to an enchanted island where mysterious women with dewy complexions made jam in thatched cottages with millennia-old lichen attached?Sure, experienced American expats offered nuggets...

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are the most successful design partnership in fashion history.Since they burst on to the scene in Milan in the eighties, their multi-million-dollar women's line, menswear, underwear, shoes jewellery and swimwear empire has become one of the dominating forces in Italian – and world – fashion. Every year, the opulent and dramatic presentations, in ever-more spectacular locations, of their successful 21st-century haute couture line A...

Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories:WHAT’S HE DOING IN THERE? by Fritz LeiberTHE MARCHING MORONS, by C.M. KornbluthGHOST, by Darrell SchweitzerDEATH WISH, by Robert SheckleyTHE WAVERIES, by Fredric BrownADAM AND NO EVE, by Alfred BesterFOXY LADY, by Lawrence Watt-EvansTHIN EDGE, by Randall GarrettCOMPANDROID, by Nina...

There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this innovative book sheds light on the diasporic networks - 'home associations' - whose economic contributions are being used to develop home. Despite these networks being part of the flow of migrants' resources back to Africa that now outweighs official development assistance, the relationship between...

Der 11. Band von Pink Christmas ist der bisher umfangreichste und von den Themen her der Abwechslungsreichste! 13 Autoren haben ihre Geschichten geschrieben! Der Leser wird auf eine Zeitreise ins Jahr 1321, und in einem anderen Beitrag in die Zukunft, ins Jahr 2222 mitgenommen. Die weihnachtlichen Geschichten spielen in Italien, Norwegen, Bethlehem, Venedig Bochum, Köln und Tokio – eine bunte Regenbogenreise um die Welt! Die Geschichten erzählen von einem speziellen Hotelservice, einem jun...