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Author :Evelyn Clarke Mott Publisher :Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN 13 :9780679832584 Total Pages :36 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (325 download)
Book Synopsis A Day at the Races with Austin and Kyle Petty by : Evelyn Clarke Mott
Download or read book A Day at the Races with Austin and Kyle Petty written by Evelyn Clarke Mott and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs follow champion driver Kyle Petty and his son during a day at the stock car races.
Book Synopsis A Year at the Races by : Jane Smiley
Download or read book A Year at the Races written by Jane Smiley and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of a novelist's lifelong obsession with horses. • "Exuberant...witty, completely delightful.... A kind of National Velvet for adults." —San Francisco Chronicle “Every horse story is a love story,” writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this In particular she follows a sexy filly named Waterwheel and a grey named Wowie (he “tells” a horse communicator that he wants it changed from Hornblower) as they begin careers at the racetrack. Filled with humor and suspense, and with discourses on equine intelligence, affection, and character, A Year at the Races is a winner.
Book Synopsis A Day at the Races/Night Vision by : Frank Berrios
Download or read book A Day at the Races/Night Vision written by Frank Berrios and published by RH/Disney. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: Disney Pixar, the world of Cars.
Book Synopsis A Day at the Races by : Geoffrey Peyton
Download or read book A Day at the Races written by Geoffrey Peyton and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short memoir of a trip to the wonderful racecourse of Cartmel in the Southern Lakes of Cumbria. Also a day out at the most picturesque reservoir of Thirlmere, a lake that is very rarely visited by tourists. Also I visit the various homes and workplaces of the poet William Wordsworth, amongst others.
Book Synopsis Hollywood at the Races by : Alan Shuback
Download or read book Hollywood at the Races written by Alan Shuback and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horse racing was so popular and influential between 1930 and 1960 that nearly 150 racing themed films were released, including A Day at the Races, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, and National Velvet. This fast-paced, gossipy history explores the relationship between the Hollywood film industry, the horse racing industry, and the extraordinary participation of producers, directors, and actors in the Sport of Kings. Alan Shuback details how all three of Southern California's major racetracks were founded by Hollywood luminaries: Hal Roach was cofounder of Santa Anita Park, Bing Crosby founded Del Mar with help from Pat O'Brien, and Jack and Harry Warner founded Hollywood Park with help from dozens of people in the film community. The races also provided a social and sporting outlet for the film community -- studios encouraged film stars to spend a day at the races, especially when a new film was being released. The stars' presence at the track generated a bevy of attention from eager photographers and movie columnists, as well as free publicity for their new films. Moreover, Louis B. Mayer, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Betty Grable, and Don Ameche were all major Thoroughbred owners, while Mickey Rooney, Chico Marx, and John Huston were notorious for their unsuccessful forays to the betting windows.
Download or read book Black for a Day written by Alisha Gaines and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously "became" black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of "empathetic racial impersonation--white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy. At the end of their experiments in "blackness," Gaines argues, these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness. Complicating the histories of black-to-white passing and blackface minstrelsy, Gaines uses an interdisciplinary approach rooted in literary studies, race theory, and cultural studies to reveal these sometimes maddening, and often absurd, experiments of racial impersonation. By examining this history of modern racial impersonation, Gaines shows that there was, and still is, a faulty cultural logic that places enormous faith in the idea that empathy is all that white Americans need to make a significant difference in how to racially navigate our society.
Book Synopsis A Day at the Races by : Robert Pirosh
Download or read book A Day at the Races written by Robert Pirosh and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1972 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Year at the Races by : Robert B. Parker
Download or read book A Year at the Races written by Robert B. Parker and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best-selling novelist and an award-winning photographer provide an insider's look at the sport of thoroughbred horse racing, from morning walks to the owner's box
Book Synopsis My $50,000 Year at the Races by : Andrew Beyer
Download or read book My $50,000 Year at the Races written by Andrew Beyer and published by HMH. This book was released on 1980-04-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harvard dropout’s memoir of playing the horses—a great read for handicappers or those who enjoyed Ben Mezrich’s Bringing Down the House. In 1977, before he was known as the creator of “The Beyer Speed Figure,” Andrew Beyer set out on a gambling odyssey, determined to prove himself as a horseplayer. He would marshal all his handicapping skills for assaults on four racetracks: Gulfstream Park, Pimlico, Saratoga, and the Barrington Fair. The then thirty-three-year-old Harvard dropout had the credentials for this undertaking: two years earlier, his book Picking Winners had won a claim from bettors and critics alike. But the theory of handicapping and the practice of it are two very different things, and Beyer did all he could to prepare himself for this new challenge. He consulted with other professional horseplayers. He undertook detailed analyses of trainers and their methods. He refined his speed-handicapping techniques. He developed a revolutionary method for evaluating horses shipped from one track to another. He formulated a bold betting strategy. During the year, he experienced the dizzying thrill of winning more than $10,000 in an afternoon, and agonizing frustration that drove him to bash a hole in the wall of the Gulfstream Park press box. When it was over, Beyer had amassed a profit of $50,664. His account of the year offers a rare, unromanticized look at the world of professional gambling. For horseplayers who have dreamed of beating the races, he proves that the dream is, sometimes, attainable. And he explains, in specific detail, how it can be done. There are no gimmicks in My $50,000 Year at the Races. Instead, there is a proven method of beating the races—and Andrew Beyer’s marvelously entertaining story of how he put it in practice.
Download or read book A Day at the Races written by Matt Dray and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flea envied Doom. Not for what he had or what he was. Just his vision. He knew what he wanted to do and he was on his way. Perhaps it was more admiration than envy.Doom, Tragic, Scoop and The Flea treat their whole lives like a day at the races - only in it for the ride. When it really matters, they just can't help mucking up the opportunities life gives them.But Doom wants to break the mould and escape his small-town existence, where chasing girls, getting drunk and picking fights is the best a Saturday night has to offer. He's got visions of greatness, and it's time to take a chance.
Book Synopsis The Spectacle of the Races by : Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Download or read book The Spectacle of the Races written by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 1999-09-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schwarcz illustrates how the work of these "men of science" was crucial to Brazil's modernization and to the development of its sense of national destiny."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Off to the Races written by Elsie Silver and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis So You Want to Talk About Race by : Ijeoma Oluo
Download or read book So You Want to Talk About Race written by Ijeoma Oluo and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America Protests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world. The stakes for transformative conversations about race could not be higher. Still, the task ahead seems daunting, and it’s hard to know where to start. How do you tell your boss her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law hang up on you when you had questions about police reform? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend? In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race, and about how racism infects every aspect of American life. "Simply put: Ijeoma Oluo is a necessary voice and intellectual for these times, and any time, truth be told." ―Phoebe Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of You Can't Touch My Hair
Download or read book A Day at the Races written by Peter May and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II, via the introduction of the Classics, a duel at Ascot, the first steeplechase, a Derby Day fraud, a huge Cambridgeshire gamble, the desolation of Fred Archer, a thousand-mile walk around Newmarket Heath, the greatness of Ormonde and Sceptre, Man o' War's record-breaking runs, National Velvet and Emily Davison, to the brilliance of Lester Piggott, Tony McCoy and Frankel, Peter May has selected over one hundred days that encapsulate five hundred years of the Sport of Kings. His short, informative, easy-to-read essays bring to life racing's milestone events that set the nation on a different path, such as the 1913 Derby, and the sacrifices horseracing made to support the British military campaigns overseas. A host of anecdotes tell of the exploits of the racing fraternity and cast light on the psyche of those who were prepared to take on bets which, at today's rates, would stretch into millions. Sure to rekindle fond, and maybe distant, memories of the races and horses that once dominated the sporting section of the daily newspapers.
Download or read book The Racing Tribe written by Kate Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally assumed that anthropologists do their research in remote and uncomfortable parts of the world--places with monsoons, mud huts, and malaria. In this volume, social anthropologist Kate Fox has taken on an altogether more enjoyable assignment, the study of the arcane world of British horseracing. For Fox, field research meant wandering around racetracks in a pink hat and high heels (standard tribal costume) rather than braving killer insects and primitive sanitation. Instead of an amorphous racing crowd, the author finds a complete subculture with its own distinctive customs, rituals, language and etiquette. Among the spectators, she identifies Horseys, Addicts, Anoraks, Pair-Bonders, Day-Outers, Suits, and Be-Seens--all united by remarkable friendliness and courtesy. Among the racing professionals, the tribal structure includes Warriors (jockeys), Shamans (trainers), Scribes (journalists), Elders (officials and stewards) and Sin-Eaters (bookies). Fox includes witty and incisive descriptions of the many strange ceremonies and rituals observed by racegoers--the Circuit Ritual, Ritual Conversations ("What do you fancy in the next?") , Celebration Rituals, the Catwalk Ritual, and Post-Mortem Rituals (naturally, a horse never loses a race because it's too slow)--and their special codes of behavior such as the Modesty Rule, the Collective Amnesia Rule, and the Code of Chivalry. The Racing Tribe is also a refreshingly candid account of anthropological fieldwork, including all the embarrassing mistakes, hiccups, short-cuts and guesswork that most social scientists keep very quiet about.
Book Synopsis A Day at the Slot Car Races by : Carlo Tonalezzi
Download or read book A Day at the Slot Car Races written by Carlo Tonalezzi and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Slot Car Evolution - COVERED! 1960's Golden Years of Model Racing - COVERED! American Model Car Racing Congress - INVESTIGATED! Bowling Killed Slot Car Racing - DEBUNKED! Exclusive Interviews with slot car companies - EXCITING & INFORMATIVE!
Book Synopsis A day at the races by : Robert Pirosh
Download or read book A day at the races written by Robert Pirosh and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veternarian mistakenly put in charge of a sanitarium for rich neurotics gets involved with a race-track tout and a demented jokey.
