More than 30 years after his death, Mark Donohue's name still stands for the ultimate in speed and sophistication in motor racing. To a generation of fans in the 1960s and 1970s, Donohue embodied a new, uniquely American spirit. He wasn't just fasthe was also smart, with a background in engineering and a unique talent for studying and setting up a race car. Now David Bull Publishing has released the first full biography of racing's greatest driver-engineer, one who set the standard for generations to come. In Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed, author Michael Argetsinger covers Donohue's entire life and career, staring with his childhood and climaxing with his tragic death a practice accident at the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix. Drawing upon years of research and interviews, Argetsinger re-creates the full scope of Mark Donohue's experience and achievements, from his early days as an amateur sports-car racer to his last years as an Indy champion and Formula One hopeful.

In 1974, Donohue took a year off from driving at the height of his racing career and wrote an account of his journey from amateur to Indy 500 winner. Twenty five years later, his original text has been revived and augmented with a new Foreword, a chronology of his life and career, and 60 new photos.

This work recaptures Donohue's career through revealing photographs from his childhood, his early amateur-racing days, and his busy and diverse professional life.

Semantic alignment refers to a type of language that has two means of morphosyntactically encoding the arguments of intransitive predicates, typically treating these as an agent or as a patient of a transitive predicate, or else by a means of a treatment that varies according to lexical aspect. This collection of new typological and case studies is the first book-length investigation of semantically aligned languages for three decades. Leading international typologists explore thedifferences and commonalities of languages with semantic alignment systems and compare the structure of these languages to languages without them. They look at how such systems arise or disappear and provide areal overviews of Eurasia, the Americas, and the south-west Pacific, the areas wheresemantically aligned languages are concentrated. This book will interest typological and historical linguists at graduate level and above.

Many call Cincinnati Reds player Dylan Michael the greatest of all time. But at 25 years old he dies in a plane crash on his way to prison. Three years later an unknown player named Matt Wolf arrives in Cincinnati. He's slower than Dylan, his face is different, his body thicker and more muscular. But two competing baseball writers see a similarity between Dylan and Matt; they share the sweetest, most powerful swing they've ever seen. The writers smell a story. That swing is also seen by Dylan's grieving widow who lives in a fantasy world where Dylan somehow survives the crash. Her friends say he did not survive...no one could have.

Look who’s making dinner! Twenty-one of our favorite writers and chefs expound upon the joys—and perils—of feeding their families. Mario Batali’s kids gobble up monkfish liver and foie gras. Peter Kaminsky’s youngest daughter won’t eat anything at all. Mark Bittman reveals the four stages of learning to cook. Stephen King offers tips about what to cook when you don’t feel like cooking. And Jim Harrison shows how good food and wine trump expensive cars and houses. This book celebrates those who toil behind the stove, trying to nourish and please. Their tales are accompanied by more than sixty family-tested recipes, time-saving tips, and cookbook recommendations, as well as New Yorker cartoons. Plus there are interviews with homestyle heroes from all across America—a fireman in Brooklyn, a football coach in Atlanta, and a bond trader in Los Angeles, among others. What emerges is a book not just about food but about our changing families. It offers a newfound community for any man who proudly dons an apron and inspiration for those who have yet to pick up the spatula.

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