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David Vizard's How to Port and Flow Test Cylinder Heads

By: David Vizard

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David Vizard's How to Port and Flow Test Cylinder Heads

By: David Vizard

Porting heads is an art and science. It takes a craftsman's touch to shape the surfaces of the head for the optimal flow characteristics and the best performance. Porting demands the right tools, skills, and application of knowledge. Few other engine builders have the same level of knowledge and skill porting engine heads as David Vizard. All the aspects of porting stock as well as aftermarket heads in aluminum and cast-iron constructions are covered. Vizard goes into great depth and detail on porting aftermarket heads. Starting with the basic techniques up to more advanced techniques, you are shown how to port iron and aluminum heads as well as benefits of hand and CNC porting. You are also shown how to build a high-quality flow bench at home so you can test your work and obtain professional results. Vizard shows how to optimize flow paths through the heads, past the valves, and into the combustion chamber. The book covers blending the bowls, a basic porting procedure, and also covers pocket porting, porting the intake runners, and many advanced procedures. These advanced procedures include unshrouding valves, porting a shortside turn from the floor of the port down toward the valve seat, and developing the ideal port area and angle. All of these changes combine to produce optimal flow velocity through the engine for maximum power.

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CarTech Inc

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1934709646

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9781934709641

David Vizard's How to Build Horsepower

By: David Vizard

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David Vizard's How to Build Horsepower

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Extracting maximum torque and horsepower from engines is an art as well as a science. David Vizard is an engineer and more aptly an engine building artist who guides the reader through all the aspects of power production and high-performance engine building. His proven high-performance engine building methods and techniques are revealed in this all-new edition of How to Build Horsepower. Vizard goes into extreme depth and detail for drawing maximum performance from any automotive engine. The production of power is covered from the most logical point from the air entering the engine all the way to spent gasses leaving through the exhaust. Explained is how to optimize all the components in between, such as selecting heads for maximum flow or port heads for superior power output, ideal valvetrain components, realizing the ideal rocker arm ratios for a particular application, secrets for selecting the best cam, and giving unique insight into all facets of cam performance. In addition, he covers how to select and setup superchargers, nitrous oxide, ignition and other vital aspects of high-performance engine building.

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146

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CarTech Inc

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1934709174

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9781934709177

David Vizard's Chevy Big Blocks

How to Build Max Performance on a Budget

By: David Vizard

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David Vizard's Chevy Big Blocks

How to Build Max Performance on a Budget

By: David Vizard

The Chevy big-block has been installed in millions of cars and trucks over the past 50 years, including Camaros, Chevelles, Corvettes, Impalas, and a multitude of trucks. Extracting maximum performance has been the pursuit of engine builders ever since this engine was new in 1964. As a follow-up title to his How to Build Max-Performance Chevy Big-Blocks on a Budget, master engine builder David Vizard takes big-block Chevy engine building to the next level and shows how to build these extreme high-performance engines without breaking the bank. It goes well beyond the basic performance techniques and delves into exceptional detail on each component group of the engine. Vizard shows you how to build the ultimate big-blocks for the street: engines that are up to 850 hp on 91-octane pump gas, which is a monumental achievement. The Chevy big-block has been substantially under-valved, and the key to getting the best performance from this engine is to deal effectively with this design limitation. Vizard explains how to minimize intake-valve shrouding, reveals the science behind all cam-timing events, and explains how to arrive at the correct valve overlap for maximum efficiency. Vizard also covers the nuances of piston ports, rings, and connecting rods so the rotating assembly is strong and working at its peak. Finally, a special section presents a number of max-performance big-block sample builds. This volume includes a huge range of cutting-edge aftermarket parts and advanced tuning techniques. If you're serious about building a max-performance Chevy big-block engine for the street or track, you owe it to your engine and yourself to include this book in your automotive library.

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CarTech Inc

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1613251629

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David Vizard's How to Port and Flow Test Cylinder Heads

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David Vizard's How to Port and Flow Test Cylinder Heads

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The Sleep of Reason

The James Bulger Case

By: David James Smith

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The Sleep of Reason

The James Bulger Case

By: David James Smith

Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing truant and ended it running an errand for the local video shop. In between they abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Bulger. In search of an explanation, award-winning journalist David James Smith looks behind the misinformation, misunderstanding and sensational reporting to an exact account of the events of that day. A sensitive and definitive account, The Sleep of Reason achieves a unique understanding of the James Bulger case, and comes as close as may ever be possible to explaining how two ten-year-olds could kill.

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Faber & Faber

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0571340571

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9780571340576

The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation

By: David Crystal

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The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation

By: David Crystal

This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio, transcribed using IPA, and the accompanying website hosts sound files as a further aid to pronunciation. It also includes the main sources of evidence in the texts, notably all spelling variants (along with a frequency count for each variant) and all rhymes (including those occurring elsewhere in the canon, such as the Sonnets and long poems). An extensive introduction provides a full account of the aims, evidence, history, and current use of OP in relation to Shakespeare productions, as well as indicating the wider use of OP in relation to other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, composers from the period, the King James Bible, and those involved in reconstructing heritage centres. It will be an invaluable resource for producers, directors, actors, and others wishing to mount a Shakespeare production or present Shakespeare's poetry in original pronunciation, as well as for students and academics in the fields of literary criticism and Shakespeare studies more generally.

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Oxford University Press

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0191645443

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9780191645440

Lifting the Cup

The Story of Battling Barnsley, 1910-12

By: Mark Metcalf,David Wood

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Lifting the Cup

The Story of Battling Barnsley, 1910-12

By: Mark Metcalf,David Wood

This is the first detailed account of Barnsley Football Club's most illustrious and successful period. Between 1910 and 1912 'Battling Barnsley' won their way through to the FA Cup Final, then the most prestigious football tournament in the world, on not one but two occasions and capped things off by beating West Bromwich Albion in the 1912 final replay at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, when Arthur Fairclough 'lifted the Cup' for the only time, so far, in the Club's long history. This centenary celebration brings the 1910-12 era back to life through match reports, and a wealth of photographs (some never seen before) and memorabilia. It also pays tribute to the extraordinary support of thousands of Barnsley fans. Against a background of major social and political change, this book also examines the careers of legendary players such as Dickie Downs, Bob Glendenning, Wilf Bartrop, Tommy Boyle, George Utley, George Lillycrop - and of course the goal-scoring hero of 1912: the great Harry Tufnell.

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Casemate Publishers

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1845631366

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9781845631369

Asia Pacific and Human Rights

A Global Political Economy Perspective

By: Paul Close,David Askew

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Asia Pacific and Human Rights

A Global Political Economy Perspective

By: Paul Close,David Askew

Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. Interest in, concern about and action on human rights are widespread and rising, albeit in a far from globally even, uniform and untroubled fashion. Human rights have generated a booming global industry while having become, not unconnectedly, highly controversial and deeply contested. Human rights matters have emerged as a major source of disagreement, dispute and discord at and between the local, regional and global levels of social, cultural, political and economic life. These developments are addressed in the book by an examination of the links between the evolving global human rights regime (GHRR) and the character and course of human rights in the world's most dynamic, complex and problematic region, that of the Asia Pacific. The authors argue that although the Asia Pacific and human rights nexus is influenced by cultural clashes, it is largely shaped by power distributions and struggles rooted in the global political economy (GPE). The prevailing GHRR reflects the way in which globalization processes have been Western led, but its future is far from certain given the current shift in the balance of GPE power towards the Asia Pacific, and especially East Asia.

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Routledge

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1351956833

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Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Frameworks for Practice

By: David Skuse,Helen Bruce,Linda Dowdney,David Mrazek

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Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Frameworks for Practice

By: David Skuse,Helen Bruce,Linda Dowdney,David Mrazek

Written by leading clinicians and research experts in the fields of child development and psychopathology, this book is an authoritative and up to date guide for psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians and other professionals working with vulnerable children. The opening chapters outline neurobiological, genetic, familial and cultural influences upon child development, especially those fostering children's resilience and emotional wellbeing. Discussion of the acquisition of social and emotional developmental competencies leads on to reviews of child psychopathology, clinical diagnoses, assessment and intervention. Developed with busy professionals and trainees in mind, it is comprehensively yet concisely written, using visual aids to help the reader absorb information rapidly and easily. This book is an essential purchase for those working or training in all clinical and community child settings.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119995744

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9781119995746

Corporate Security in the Asia-Pacific Region

Crisis, Crime, Fraud, and Misconduct

By: Christopher J. Cubbage, CPP,David J. Brooks, PhD

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Corporate Security in the Asia-Pacific Region

Crisis, Crime, Fraud, and Misconduct

By: Christopher J. Cubbage, CPP,David J. Brooks, PhD

As corporations and governments become more litigious and risk averse, international risk management becomes more complex. Corporate Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Crisis, Crime, Fraud, and Misconduct examines real cases of corporate crisis, crime, fraud, and other misconduct that corporate security professionals need to be aware of to effect

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CRC Press

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1466578858

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9781466578852

Studying Health Inequalities

An Applied Approach

By: Wistow, Jonathan,Tim Blackman,David S. Byrne,Gerald Wistow

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Studying Health Inequalities

An Applied Approach

By: Wistow, Jonathan,Tim Blackman,David S. Byrne,Gerald Wistow

Addressing the implications of current British public health policies on the equal delivery of health services, this book--part of the Evidence for Public Health Practice series--explicitly identifies inequalities in health service practices. It offers an applied approach to researching, understanding, and dealing with this issue. Drawing on complexity theory, the authors use case studies to illustrate the problems, to discuss them in real-life terms, and to illuminate their complexities for students and practitioners of public health, health promotion, and health policy.

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Policy Press

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1447305280

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9781447305286

The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton

By: David Parry

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The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton

By: David Parry

This rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly living. Examining works from a diverse range of preacher-writers such as William Perkins, Richard Sibbes, Richard Baxter and John Bunyan, this book maps out continuities and contrasts in the theory and practice of persuasion. Tracing the emergence of Puritan allegory as an alternative, imaginative mode of rhetoric, it sheds new light on the paradoxical question of how allegories such as John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress came to be among the most significant contributions of Puritanism to the English literary canon, despite the suspicions of allegory and imagination that were endemic in Puritan culture. Concluding with reflections on how Milton deploys similar strategies to persuade his readers towards his idiosyncratic brand of godly faith, this book makes an original contribution to current scholarly conversations around the textual culture of Puritanism, the history of rhetoric, and the rhetorical character of theology.

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288

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350165158

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9781350165151

Rednock School

By: David Evans,Barbara Skal

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Rednock School

By: David Evans,Barbara Skal

The fascinating history of Rednock School from its beginnings to being Gloucestershire's only Pathfinder School.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445625350

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9781445625355

How to Build Max Performance Chevy Small Blocks on a Budget

By: David Vizard

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How to Build Max Performance Chevy Small Blocks on a Budget

By: David Vizard

10 best engine combos." "Short block preparation; cranks, rods & pistons; cams & valvetrain; intakes & exhausts; cylinder heads; nitrous oxide; ignitions; setup & tuning; power theory"--Cover.

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S-A Design

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1884089348

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9781884089343

How to Rebuild Your Small-Block Chevy

Troubleshooting, Removal, Disassembly, Reconditioning, Assembly, Installation & Tune-Ups

By: David Vizard

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How to Rebuild Your Small-Block Chevy

Troubleshooting, Removal, Disassembly, Reconditioning, Assembly, Installation & Tune-Ups

By: David Vizard

Hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams guide readers through the rebuilding process of their small-block Chevy engine. Each step, from disassembly and inspection through final assembly and tuning, is presented in an easy-to-read, user-friendly format.

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Penguin

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1557880298

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9781557880291

How to Build Max-Performance Chevy Small Blocks on a Budjet

By: David Vizard

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How to Build Max-Performance Chevy Small Blocks on a Budjet

By: David Vizard

Renowned engine builder and technical writer David Vizard turns his attention to extracting serious horsepower from small-block Chevy engines while doing it on a budget. Included are details of the desirable factory part numbers, easy do-it-yourself cylinder head modifications, inexpensive but effective aftermarket parts, the best blocks, rotating assembly (cranks, rods, and pistons), camshaft selection, lubrication, induction, ignition, exhaust systems, and more.

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CarTech Inc

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1932494847

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9781932494846

How to Build and Modify Chevrolet Small-Block V-8 Cylinder Heads

By: David Vizard

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How to Build and Modify Chevrolet Small-Block V-8 Cylinder Heads

By: David Vizard

Turn your mouse engine into a hi-performance power factory with tips and secrets from David Vizard. In this volume you'll learn port mods, compression ratios, head preparation, offsetting and more head-work to get the most from your mouse.

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1610609816

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