The Dancing Chain
The Dancing Chain

Author: Frank J. Berto

Publisher: Van Der Plas Publications

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781892495419

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Expanded and updated 2nd edition of the book that covers the history and development of the modern derailleur bicycle-and the gadget that makes it tick: the derailleur gearing mechanism. The Dancing Chain picks up where other bicycle history books leave off: at the introduction of multiple-speed gearing mechanisms at the beginning of the 20th century. 384 pages of text with 1,200 black & white illustrations, including many new Daniel Rebour drawings never before published in any English-language publications.

The Brief History of the Dead
The Brief History of the Dead

Author: Kevin Brockmeier

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2006-02-14

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0375424237

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From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.

Raleigh
Raleigh

Author: Tony Hadland

Publisher: Cycle Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781892495686

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The aim of this book is simple yet ambitious: to produce, in a single volume, a detailed and complete history of the Raleigh cycle company of Nottingham, from its founding to the present. It covers not only bicycles but also motorcycles, cars, vans, munitions, motorcycle engines, and bicycle and motorcycle gears. The story of Raleigh is fascinating in many different respects - the people, the products, the production methods, and more. The personalities involved were many and various, ranging from the founder's ambition to make the best bicycles money could buy to anonymous "suits" almost running the company into the ground from fancy offices in New York. But Raleigh also deeply touched the lives of tens of thousands of other people who depended on it, directly or indirectly, particularly in and around the city of Nottingham.

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0199536171

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The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

American Gothic Tales
American Gothic Tales

Author: Various

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1996-12-01

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0452274893

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This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes for great literature in the works of forty-six exceptional writers. Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King. In showing us the gothic vision—a world askew where mankind’s forbidden impulses are set free from the repressions of the psyche, and nature turns malevolent and lawless—Joyce Carol Oates includes Henry James’s “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” Herman Melville’s horrific tale of factory women, “The Tartarus of Maids,” and Edith Wharton’s “Afterward,” which are rarely collected and appear together here for the first time. Added to these stories of the past are new ones that explore the wounded worlds of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Raymond Carver, and more than twenty other wonderful contemporary writers. This impressive collection reveals the astonishing scope of the gothic writer’s subject matter, style, and incomparable genius for manipulating our emotions and penetrating our dreams. With Joyce Carol Oates’s superb introduction, American Gothic Tales is destined to become the standard one-volume edition of the genre that American writers, if they didn’t create it outright, have brought to its chilling zenith.

Bicycle Design
Bicycle Design

Author: Tony Hadland

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2016-10-07

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 026252970X

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An authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's two-hundred-year evolution. The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during a shortage of oats) to modern racing bikes, mountain bikes, and recumbents. It traces the bicycle's development in terms of materials, ergonomics, and vehicle physics, as carried out by inventors, entrepreneurs, and manufacturers. Written by two leading bicycle historians and generously illustrated with historic drawings, designs, and photographs, Bicycle Design describes the key stages in the evolution of the bicycle, beginning with the counterintuitive idea of balancing on two wheels in line, through the development of tension-spoked wheels, indirect drives (employing levers, pulleys, chains, and chainwheels), and pneumatic tires. The authors examine the further development of the bicycle for such specific purposes as racing, portability, and all-terrain use; and they describe the evolution of bicycle components including seats, transmission, brakes, lights (at first candle-based), and carriers (racks, panniers, saddlebags, child seats, and sidecars). They consider not only commercially successful designs but also commercial failures that pointed the way to future technological developments. And they debunk some myths about bicycles—for example, the mistaken but often-cited idea that Leonardo sketched a chain-drive bike in his notebooks. Despite the bicycle's long history and mass appeal, its technological history has been neglected. This volume, with its engaging and wide-ranging coverage, fills that gap. It will be the starting point for all future histories of the bicycle.

Bad Teeth No Bar
Bad Teeth No Bar

Author: Colin Kirsch

Publisher: Uniform

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910500927

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Everybody in the 21st century has a pet subject. Withthe rise of the internet it's easier to share our passion- Vintage collectors have benfited greatly from this.Vintage car and motorcycle enthusiasts experience theessence of 'time travel' when riding in or on a vehiclefrom 30, 50, 70 years ago. However, vintage bicycle enthusiasts can travel backeven further, to a time before cars and motorcycle wereinvented, or to 1914 when the Great War called uponcyclists to flight. Bad Teeth No Bartakes you and your bicycle to themost challenging cycling environment of all - War.100,000 British soldiers used bicycles in the Great war.Even more French and Belgians rode bikes, and theGermans used even more than anyone else. See thebikes, read the stories, and imagine how you wouldhave coped if you were one of the many patriots whoenlisted to fight for King and Country.