“Spanning forty years and more than three hundred victories, the contributions of countless people have built Hendrick Motorsports into the greatest team in NASCAR history. This book is made up of their stories.” —Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, from the forewordCelebrate the NASCAR-champion team’s 40th anniversary with this officially licensed history featuring stunning photography, including rare images from the Hendrick Motorsports archive.

* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2012*Since its release in 2009 Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide has become an essential primer for undergraduate students and activists getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction.This new updated and expanded edition includes information on the Israeli blockade and attacks on the G...

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet the Palestinian minimum, or the standards of international law.But while the situation on the ground is bleak, Ben White argues that there are widening cracks in Israel's traditional pillars of support. Opposition to Israeli policie...

This is a book about educational fads, why they arise, and how we might learn to live with them.Those working in schools are subject to perpetual waves of novelty in the name of school improvement. And yet, in the long term very little actually changes. Big ideas come and go, leaving only faint clues as to their existence. The trouble is that the appealing stories that take hold will never solve the fundamental problems of modern schooling. The school system is too complex, too dive...

The NASCAR drivers featured in these pages are the drivers who make stock car racing one of the fastest, and fastest-growing, sports around. They come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, from all corners of the country. Some of NASCAR’s top racers bear an impressive racing pedigree, with names like Earnhardt, Gordon and Andretti, names that have been part of stock car racing history for decades. Others have worked their way through anonymity to reach the top, possibly to begin a...

In this unique gallery book, historical shots of people, cars, events, tracks, shops, and other NASCAR landmarks are paired with comparable modern shots to present a fascinating review of America's top motorsport. See what Darlington looked like when it was built in 1950 compared to what it looks like now. Get a real sense of how pit stops have changed between 1949 and today. Compare a Ford stock car from 1962 with one from 2009. Nowhere else can NASCAR fans so graphically trace the evolut...

Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official 'peace process' and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.What the Israeli right-wing calls 'the demographic problem' Ben White identifies as 'the democratic problem' which goes to the heart of the conflict. Israel defines itself not as a state of its citizens, but as a Jewish state, despite the substantial and increasing Palestinian population. White ...

John Overstreet Is a father and a husband as he watches the west fade away.They're even pulling up the tracks that brought him to the Rockies.All is going well, but there is still one more battle to fight. *

The mysterious town doesn't seem to have a name. That's part of what makes it mysterious, maybe. I mean I don't know. I'm just guessing. None of the Treasure Guardians have thought to name it, although Candy Stocking has whole notebooks full of observations about the town, and Liquorice Cupcake has drawn hundreds of pictures of the streets and views and monsters and everything, and Trouble Fox has explored pretty much everywhere even if getting her to talk about anything is a chore and a h...

Six men ride into the little town of Rook, in the Texas panhandle, and stopped in front of the bank. Six men known to be members of the vicious Lawrence gang. Moments later, all six lie dead in the street, the air filled with the smell of gunpowder and their blood oozing from multiple gunshot wounds apiece to mingle in the dirt.Into town a few days later rides Texas Ranger Ira 'Doc' Pearson. No one in the government or the rangers denies that the Lawrence Gang got what they deserved...

He guessed he was about nine years old when he woke up by that dusty road in far west Texas, beaten, bruised and bloodied. He didn't remember where he came from or even what his name was.He found his way to a saloon in the New Mexico territory and there he learned how to swamp out a bar and watch for a bottom deal. On a cattle drive to Wyoming in his fourteenth year, he was finally given a name, and the world discovered that he was lightning-fast with a six-gun.Still, he ha...

When Portly Ben Rousterman tried to hold up the Third National Bank, he paid for the mistake with his life, and roiled the far west Texas town of Gunfighter's Gulch.Into the story with a fierce indifference ride the principals:· Raccoon Jack Carter, big game hunter with an oversized personality and a powerful thirst for avenging his fallen brother.· Sheriff Darren, the overweight, poor-on-the shoot sheriff with the massive wife must contain the trouble before it get...