Jeff Scott serves up yet another portion of methanol inspired lunacy to satisfy your speedway craving appetite with his latest book CONCRETE FOR BREAKFAST. Although some view speedway as little more than a fairground sideshow attraction, Scott continues to validate the sport's authenticity as he celebrates the romance of its racing, the bravery of its competitors, and the idiosyncrasies of its partisans on and off the track. An equal opportunity offender, motorcycle speedway thumbs its nose at the nanny-state bureaucrats of Health and Safety as well as the ubiquitous corporate media that enlists the drama and daring of the sport to validate its mission of spin, profit, and mediocrity. But, of course, any sport composed of individuals who willingly embrace the physical and mental challenges of speedway must by definition be considered daring, maverick and subversive. Consider the physical challenges of speedway: riding a high powered motorcycle without brakes or gears, steering only by balance, gravity, and gyroscopic luck four times round a shale covered track at speeds exceeding 60 miles per hour. The bike itself, a huge single piston 500cc machine, without suspension, powered by methanol, roars its sweet hymn to oblivion to those who ride and to those who watch. The mandated helmets and kevlars are the merest genuflection in the direction of self-preservation. In short, the entire enterprise constitutes a complete commitment to barking madness. Let Jeff Scott introduce you to this most anachronistic of sports in 21st Century Britain. If you do you will eventually succumb to the spectacle, the people, and the journey across its peculiar landscape and geographies. You will learn the rhythms of the unvarying repetitiousness of the team meeting format as well as the uniqueness of each individual race. With his gift for location, dialogue, and the human comedy, Jeff will escort you into his world of speedway. There you will accompany him as he watches every speedway team in Britain compete. He lends you his nose as he savors the aroma of methanol, burgers, chips, stressed toilets, and excitement. From his favorite vantage point in the lee of the stadium grandstand or lost in thought on the road to (or from) yet another event behind the wheel and the wipers of his much abused car, Jeff will help you begin your own pilgrimage to speedway. And even though there may well be CONCRETE FOR BREAKFAST for some unlucky riders whose quest for glory ends in a bruised heap of broken bones and bike, Jeff will cleave the chaos for you in a such a way that the event will be invariably portrayed with the charm, irreverence, humanity and compassion that informs the style of this most unique of sports' most unique diarist. This volume is the fifth book in a planned trilogy gone terribly, terribly wrong. It's a "must have" companion to Jeff's masterpiece Showered in Shale as well as his others: Shifting Shale, When Eagles Dared, or the poignantly photographed Shale Britannia.

Concrete for Breakfast: More Tales from the Shale

Engineering & Transportation

Scott, Jeff

Automotive

Methanol Pr

Quantum of Shale

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Shale Trek

Methanol Press

Bouquet of Shale

Strictly Shale: Circling British Speedway

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Speedway Grand Prix: One Man's Far-flung Summer Behind the Scenes

With the cooperation of Elvis’ estate, respectful of his legacy, and designed as an amazing pop-culture artifact itself, this is the ultimate Elvis collectible. Jeff Scott had unprecedented access to Elvis’ personal possessions and property, and the cooperation of Graceland, to create a complex portrait of the music legend beyond kitsch. He resurrects Elvis through his possessions, revealing the humanity behind the celebrity veneer, including: * Elvis’ gold bedside telephone * the TV with a bullet hole through the screen * his mobile phone

Elvis: The Personal Archives

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Channel Photographics

John Harvard, a supremely educated Cambridge University graduate, concludes that there is no future for him in England’s rapidly changing and oppressive environment. In order to fulfill his life’s ambition to teach and to see education thrive in the New World, he and his wife voyage to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 and start over in the fledgling New England settlements. Lacing together historical and fictional characters and events, HARVARD is an epic, heart-stirring tale that carries the reader back to the humble beginnings of the college that has become the world’s most famous institution of higher learning—Harvard University.

Harvard: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Viking Global

Deming told us "every system is perfectly designed to produce the results it gets." Intel's Andy Grove defined a point of inflection as "an event that changes the way we think and act." When that event occurs - most likely a change in your environment or ambition - change your system to change your impact and effect. This means changing your strategy, organization, and operations all together, in sync, all at the same time to avoid breaking the system as you accelerate results through a point of inflection.Whether your point of inflection is organizational, personal, or both, you should be excited about the possibilities - and concerned about the risks. 70% of transformations fail to deliver desired results. 40% of leaders fail in their first 18 months in a new role. This is why we wrote this book - to help jump-shift your own game, accelerate success, and mitigate risks all at the same time with BRAVE Leadership and Strategic Alignment

Point of Inflection: Frameworks and Tools to Accelerate Team Results

Business & Money

Bradt, George

Job Hunting & Careers

Independently published

Military life places unique demands on military families with children including frequent moves, disruptions in schooling, family separation, health care issues, loss of friends, financial hardships, underemployment of military spouses, and the ever present threat of risk of injury or death of loved ones deployed. But learning how to navigate these challenges can help prepare families for those events as they arise. Here, the authors have assembled information about common problem areas and have included detailed information about solutions and resources available. The information in this guide has been carefully gathered from hundreds of sources and resources and includes the most up to date information about child services and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs, allowing serving members of the military with children to quickly access information that they need regarding all aspects of child care, from raising a family to education, and from coping with constant moves to grief counseling. It also covers other critical issues such as wellness, family solidarity, benefits, insurance and problems such as addiction and domestic violence. Readers will gain a better understanding of what child services and benefits are available and how to obtain them as well as secrets for successful relationships and family bonding.

Raising Children in the Military (Military Life)

Philpott, Don

Lawhorne-Scott, Cheryl

Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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