The Race Track

The Race Track

Author: Kimberlé Crenshaw

Publisher:

Published: 2025-12-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781595588821

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Despite the watershed election of Barack Obama and the claims that racial history ended that day, the painful reality of racism in America has been thrust into the headlines over the past year. The Race Track dispenses with the myth of post-racial America, explaining not only why race matters more than ever but also how we can fashion 21st-century solutions to combating racial injustice. The Race Track champions an intersectional path - pioneered by Kimberle Crenshaw - one that will appeal to people of all races who want to know how to speak the language of racial justice.


Beat the Racetrack

Beat the Racetrack

Author: William T. Ziemba

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media

Published: 2019-02-04

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9781635617443

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Discover the irresistible allure of horse racing and the thrill of winning. This invaluable book shares a proven, easy to learn system that you can use to beat the odds and win big at the racetrack. It helps you determine which horse to pick and what size your wager should be based on tote board data, and it reveals strategies for maximizing your winnings. With clear writing and entertaining real-world examples, authors William Ziemba and Donald Hausch explain the fundamentals of track racing and show how patterns of public inefficiency in betting pools can lead to you reaping big payoffs. Rather than focusing on the complicated details of thoroughbred handicapping, the groundbreaking "Dr. Z" system offers mathematical models based on stock-market analysis. After their initial scientific analysis of historical data from past races, the authors verified their betting method by testing it with real bets--and it worked. It teaches you when to bet and what a good bet is, and advises how much to wager based on your betting stake. When properly applied, the method's average profit per dollar wagered is about 10%. Using it, you will be able to minimize risk and increase your winnings. "This book is for people who want to win. The gambling system it presents is one of the few I have ever seen that I think really works. I am convinced enough to bet my own money on it." Edward O. Thorp, from the book's introduction


Fast Forward

Fast Forward

Author: Adam Skinner

Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1786036290

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Travel back through time to experience 18 iconic moments in motor racing history in this lavishly illustrated book, which gives you the inside track on classic cars, routes, and racers. Race 'The Green Hell’ in a Porsche 911, complete the course at Le Mans in a Ford GT40, compete in the Festival of Speed at Goodwood in a Jaguar E-type, and take on the Nascar drivers at Daytona’s Speedway. Bursting with facts, figures, stats, and racing stars, this is a racing book of dreams.


Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 0520905210

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For years, many of Twain’s philosophical, religious, and historical fantasies concerning the nature and condition of humanity remained unpublished. Thirty-six of these writings make their first appearance here.


Horseplayers

Horseplayers

Author: Ted McClelland

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2007-05

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 155652675X

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This fun and witty exposé of horse racing in America goes behind the scenes at the track, providing a serious gambler's-eye view of the action. Ted McClelland spent a year at tracks and off-track betting facilities in Chicago and across the country, profiling the people who make a career of gambling on horses. This account follows his personal journey of what it means to be a horseplayer as he gambles with his book advance using various betting and handicapping strategies along the way. A colourful cast of characters is introduced, including the intensely disciplined Scott McMannis, "The Professor," a one-time college instructor who now teaches a course in handicapping, and Mary Schoenfeldt, a former nun and gifted handicapper who donates all of her winnings to charity. This moving account of wins, losses, and personal turmoil provides a realistic look at gamblers, gambling, and life at the track.


Lost Race Tracks

Lost Race Tracks

Author: Gordon Eliot White

Publisher: Enthusiast Books

Published: 2003-06-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781583880845

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Americans have raced on more than 6,000 racetracks, road courses and drag strips, at home and abroad, since an American Duryea and a German Benz met in the snow in Chicago in 1895. A few more than 1,200 still exist or are still used today. The rest have disappeared under shopping centers, airports and housing developments - or simply into the mists of time.Included here are the best remembered, the most important and the most interesting of those tracks, along with some that are remembered only by local historians. Come along for the ride and rediscover the heritage of automobile racing.


Wind-up Race Cars

Wind-up Race Cars

Author: Sam Taplin

Publisher: Usborne Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780794526573

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Wind up the cars and watch them zoom around the tracks in this exciting interactive book. You can race the cars against each other on three different tracks.


The Legend of the First Super Speedway

The Legend of the First Super Speedway

Author: Mark Dill

Publisher: BookBaby

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1098335163

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"The Legend of the First Super Speedway," is a gritty tale punctuated by humor that chronicles the hero's journey through the pioneering age of American auto racing. It is a factual, previously untold story that must be read for a thorough understanding of auto racing history.


Race Horse Men

Race Horse Men

Author: Katherine C. Mooney

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-05-19

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 067428142X

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Katherine C. Mooney recaptures the sights, sensations, and illusions of America’s first mass spectator sport. Her central characters are not the elite white owners of slaves and thoroughbreds but the black jockeys, grooms, and horse trainers who called themselves race horse men and made the racetrack run—until Jim Crow drove them from their jobs.