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The Yugo

Author : Jason Vuic
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429945397
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Yugo written by Jason Vuic and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s. Mix one rabid entrepreneur, several thousand "good" communists, a willing U.S. State Department, the shortsighted Detroit auto industry, and improvident bankers, shake vigorously, and you've got The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. Brilliantly re-creating the amazing confluence of events that produced the Yugo, Yugoslav expert Jason Vuic uproariously tells the story of the car that became an international joke: The American CEO who happens upon a Yugo right when his company needs to find a new import or go under. A State Department eager to aid Yugoslavia's nonaligned communist government. Zastava Automobiles, which overhauls its factory to produce an American-ready Yugo in six months. And a hole left by Detroit in the cheap subcompact market that creates a race to the bottom that leaves the Yugo . . . at the bottom.

SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ - Once upon a time in Yugoslavia

Author : Adam YAMEY
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291457593
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ - Once upon a time in Yugoslavia written by Adam YAMEY and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Yamey visited Yugoslavia frequently over a period of more than 20 years. He criss-crossed the country from north to south and east to west. During his travels, he stood in the footsteps of Archduke Ferdinand's assassin in Sarajevo and those of Emperor Diocletian in Split, ate Chinese food in Novi Sad and offal at Rtanj, and also played Scrabble with Yugoslavs all over Serbia. In this profusely illustrated, trail of memories, the author describes the friendships that he made with Yugoslavs all over the country, and how these led to his deeper understanding of, and love for their country. As the years passed, the author began noticing small things, which made little sense at the time, but later turned out to be portentous. These were early signs of the troubles that were to lead to the disintegration of Yugoslavia soon after the author's last visit to the country in 1990. Join the author in the exploration of a country that no longer exists.

Miss Ex-Yugoslavia

Author : Sofija Stefanovic
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501165763
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Miss Ex-Yugoslavia written by Sofija Stefanovic and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sofija Stefanovic’s beautiful memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia depicts the elegant transit of a girl becoming an artist. This is a story we yearn to know: How does a girl lose her childhood, family, and nation, yet nurture her memories, dreams, and art? Stefanovic hits all her marks, and she keeps us in her thrall.” —Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist “Funny and tragic and beautiful in all the right places. I loved it.” —Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy A funny, dark, and tender memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water, from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian storyteller. Sofija Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in 1982, when she is born in Belgrade, the capital of socialist Yugoslavia. The circumstances of her birth (a blackout, gasoline shortages, bickering parents) don’t exactly get her off to a running start. While around her, ethnic tensions are stoked by totalitarian leaders with violent agendas, Stefanovic's early life is filled with Yugo rock, inadvisable crushes, and the quirky ups and downs of life in a socialist state. As the political situation grows more dire, the Stefanovics travel back and forth between faraway, peaceful Australia, where they can’t seem to fit in, and their turbulent homeland, which they can’t seem to shake. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia collapses into the bloodiest European conflict in recent history. Featuring warlords and beauty queens, tiger cubs and Baby-Sitters Clubs, Sofija Stefanovic’s memoir is a window to a complicated culture that she both cherishes and resents. Revealing war and immigration from the crucial viewpoint of women and children, Stefanovic chronicles her own coming-of-age, both as a woman and as an artist who yearns to take control of her own story. Refreshingly candid, poignant, and illuminating, Miss Ex-Yugoslavia introduces a vital new voice to the immigrant narrative.

Wonderland Vol. 4

Author : Yugo Ishikawa
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1642757322
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Wonderland Vol. 4 written by Yugo Ishikawa and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON THE RUN Alice and Yukko have been reunited! They’re fleeing again, the SDF hot on their heels. Can they make it to safety before Iosif catches up to them?

The Swamp Peddlers

Author : Jason Vuic
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469663163
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Swamp Peddlers written by Jason Vuic and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded home site that would be waiting for them in a planned community when they were ready to build. The result was Cape Coral, Port St. Lucie, Deltona, Port Charlotte, Palm Coast, and Spring Hill, among many others—sprawling communities with no downtowns, little industry, and millions of residential lots. In The Swamp Peddlers, Jason Vuic tells the raucous tale of the sale of residential lots in postwar Florida. Initially selling cheap homes to retirees with disposable income, by the mid-1950s developers realized that they could make more money selling parcels of land on installment to their customers. These "swamp peddlers" completely transformed the landscape and demographics of Florida, devastating the state environmentally by felling forests, draining wetlands, digging canals, and chopping up at least one million acres into grid-like subdivisions crisscrossed by thousands of miles of roads. Generations of northerners moved to Florida cheaply, but at a huge price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; poorly-regulated development begat environmental destruction, culminating in the perfect storm of the 21st-century subprime mortgage crisis.

Yugo/Zastava Owners Workshop Manual

Author : Colin Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781850107132
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Yugo/Zastava Owners Workshop Manual written by Colin Brown and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Press Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Press Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wonderland Vol. 5

Author : Yugo Ishikawa
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1645052273
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Wonderland Vol. 5 written by Yugo Ishikawa and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNEXPECTED MEETING A figure from the past has appeared! What is Taki doing in the dark woods Alice and Yukko have escaped to? Can he offer them sanctuary as they flee from the Wonder Twins?

Press Review, Second Section, General Staff, General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces

Author : United States. Army. A.E.F., 1917-1919. General staff, G-2
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Press Review, Second Section, General Staff, General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces written by United States. Army. A.E.F., 1917-1919. General staff, G-2 and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twilight of the Idols

Author : Aleš Debeljak
Publisher : White Pine Press
ISBN 13 : 9781877727511
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of the Idols written by Aleš Debeljak and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long, two-part essay raises disturbing questions about our intellectual commitment to the concept of multiculturalism and paints a haunting portrait of a place that no longer exists. The striking photographs show us what remains of a culturally rich and diverse place, where as Debeljak states, the people "until yesterday had lived in a single state, but who today have different countries. The guns of the Balkans have silenced those good vibrations. The stars have set, And of all seasons, the lands south of my own country know but a single one -- the deep, dark winter of death."

Crap Cars

Author : Richard Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582346380
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Crap Cars written by Richard Porter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a window into the vanity and silliness of almost every decade as expressed by the ultimate status symbol of the car, showcasing the cheapest, tackiest, and most mechanically inept vehicles built from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Impossible Histories

Author : Dubravka Djurić
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262042161
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Impossible Histories written by Dubravka Djurić and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical survey of the largely unknown avant-garde movements of the former Yugoslavia.

A Short Course in International Marketing Blunders

Author : Michael White
Publisher : Librix.eu
ISBN 13 : 8073997517
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book A Short Course in International Marketing Blunders written by Michael White and published by Librix.eu. This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Yucks

Author : Jason Vuic
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476772266
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Yucks written by Jason Vuic and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chronicling the first two seasons of the worst team in NFL history, an entertaining sports story follows the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 1976 and 1977 seasons in which they cemented their place in football history as having the longest losing streak in the history of the league,"--NoveList.

Girl at War

Author : Sara Novic
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812986393
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Girl at War written by Sara Novic and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of The Tiger’s Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about a girl’s coming of age—and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE, BOOKLIST, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE • ALEX AWARD WINNER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION Zagreb, 1991. Ana Jurić is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia’s capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana’s idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana’s sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world. New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though she’s tried to move on from her past, she can’t escape her memories of war—secrets she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country’s difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before. Moving back and forth through time, Girl at War is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Sara Nović fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girl—and its legacy on all of us. It’s a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate today. Praise for Girl at War “Outstanding . . . Girl at War performs the miracle of making the stories of broken lives in a distant country feel as large and universal as myth.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice) “[An] old-fashioned page-turner that will demand all of the reader’s attention, happily given. A debut novel that astonishes.”—Vanity Fair “Shattering . . . The book begins with what deserves to become one of contemporary literature’s more memorable opening lines. The sentences that follow are equally as lyrical as a folk lament and as taut as metal wire wrapped through an electrified fence.”—USA Today

Modern Italy

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Modern Italy written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Serbian and Yugoslav Mauser Rifles

Author : Branko Bogdanovic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882391356
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Serbian and Yugoslav Mauser Rifles written by Branko Bogdanovic and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: