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The Complete Book of Porsche 911

Every Model Since 1964

By: Randy Leffingwell

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The Complete Book of Porsche 911

Every Model Since 1964

By: Randy Leffingwell

Porsche's fabled 911 represents the ultimate expression of Ferdinand Porsche's original vision of the perfect sports car. In The Complete Book of Porsche 911, author and photographer Randy Leffingwell provides a year-by-year overview of Stuttgart's most famous car, from the original 901 prototype to today's technologically advanced GT2 and GT3 derivatives and the latest 992-generation 911. Along the way, he highlights the racing, prototype, and limited-production cars—offering the most complete reference available to these top-tier sports cars. In this book, you'll find the air-cooled cars of 1963 to 1998, then the water-cooled 911s of 1998 to present day. With behind-the-scenes info on the evolution of this iconic sports car, this book offers the detail craved by Porsche enthusiasts. Illustrated throughout with images from Porsche's own historical archive and complemented by the author’s stunning photos, along with detailed technical specification tables, The Complete Book of Porsche 911 offers a thorough account of one of the most beloved enthusiast cars ever produced.

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0760365032

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Porsche 911: 50 Years

By: Randy Leffingwell

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Porsche 911: 50 Years

By: Randy Leffingwell

In Porsche 911: 50 Years, bestselling author Randy Leffingwell celebrates a half-century of one of the world's premiere sports cars, focusing on the major themes that have defined Porsche's rear-engined wonder. Randy tells the whole story--design and development, racing and competition, engineering and technology, style and culture. All the iconic 911 models are included: the original 901 prototype that set the standard; the legendary RS models that made the little Porsche a dominant force on the world's racetracks; the infamous Turbo, the car that kept the performance flame alight during the dark, dismal decade of the 1970s; the fabled 959, the model that redefined the term "sports car"; the 993, last of the original air-cooled models; and the 996, 997, and 991, the liquid-cooled cars that brought the 911 into a new millennium. Beyond telling the story of the cars, Porsche 911: 50 years also spotlights the people behind them: Ferdinand "Butzi" Porsche, the son of legendary Porsche founder Ferdinand "Ferry" Porsche, who co-designed the instantly recognizable 911 shape; Peter W. Schutz, the Porsche CEO who saved the 911 from extinction; and Dr. Helmuth Bott, the engineering genius behind many of the groundbreaking technologies that have defined the 911, including fuel injection, turbocharging, and all-wheel-drive. Leffingwell also tells the story of the 911 community--the clubs and culture that surround the car. Together, all of these facets make Porsche 911: 50 Years the most essential book in any Porsche owner or fan's library.

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0760344019

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Porsche 911 60 Years

By: Randy Leffingwell

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Porsche 911 60 Years

By: Randy Leffingwell

Celebrate six decades of rear-engine excellence with this beautifully illustrated exploration of 60 milestone Porsche 911s. Porsche’s 911 is the quintessential sports car—focused, purposeful, race-proven, and exciting. Since its prototype debut in 1963, the 911 has defied expectations while never losing its form or its giant-slaying heart. In Porsche 911 60 Years, best-selling Porsche author Randy Leffingwell delves into the stories of sixty 911s—one from each year from 1964 to 2024. The 911’s entire history—engineering, design, development, racing, and culture—is revealed one fantastic car at a time. This unique approach to the 911’s legacy includes such icons as: 1964 901 Cabriolet prototype Bruce Jennings 1967 911 S 1971 911 S Safari Louise Piech 1975 930 Turbo Le Mans-winning 1980 935 K3 1987 Ruf CTR Yellowbird 1991 964 Carrera RS 1997 Ruf Turbo R 1998 996 GT1 Le Mans winner 2006 50th Anniversary Porsche Club of America 911 coupe 2010 911 Sport Classic 2018 Turbo S Exclusive 2023 Dakar And many more Porsche 911 60 Years is also the story of the people behind the cars: Ferdinand “Butzi” Porsche, who co-designed the 911’s timeless shape and his successors, Anatole Lapine, Harm Laggaaij, and Michael Mauer; Peter W. Schutz, the Porsche CEO who saved the 911 from the cutting-room floor and the Porsche leaders who carried on, most notably Wendelin Wiedeking; engineering geniuses such as Dr. Helmuth Bott, Hans Mezger, and Valentin Schaeffer; and stylists and modelers Gerhard Schroeder, Heinrich Klie, Peter Reisinger, Anthony Hatter, and Grant Larson. Each profiled car is accompanied by historic photography from Porsche’s own archive, and beautiful, contemporary photography features throughout. Porsche 911 60 Years is an essential volume for any Porsche owner or fan’s collection.

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0760382662

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Porsche 911

Perfection by Design

By: Randy Leffingwell

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Porsche 911

Perfection by Design

By: Randy Leffingwell

For over 40 years, Porsche’s legendary 911 has ruled the realm of sports cars. The Porsche 911 is the benchmark. The 911 recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, making it one of the longest-running models currently in production from any manufacturer. A leader on the race track as well as the street, it posted an outright, overall victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2003, beating Corvettes, Ferraris, and even purpose-built Daytona Prototype race cars. This, despite the fact the 911’s rear-engine configuration was long ago rejected by rivals. Why does it hold such a coveted spot at the pinnacle of the sports car world? In Porsche 911: Perfection by Design, best-selling author/photographer and noted Porsche historian Randy Leffingwell adeptly answers this question, tracing the amazing story of its development and rise to international success, from the 1963 Type 901 through 2005 models. In tandem, he weaves the racing 911’s rich history, where it reigned victorious at Le Mans, Daytona and many more of the world’s most prestigious races. With more than 350 pages and 300 vivid color and black and white photographs, this amazing hard-cover book showcases why the 911 continues to impress enthusiasts and engineers alike. Leffingwell interviewed dozens of former and current Porsche engineers, designers and executives – including Ferdinand “Butzi” Porsche, the father of the 911 – as well as Porsche competitors (who used the 911 as a benchmark for their own designs) to create a true, hands-on anecdotal history of the 911. Straight from the key players and decision-makers, he explains: “This book is an inside story of how the 911 came to be what it was, what it is now and how it moved through 40-plus years of evolution, growth and improvement.” A jaw-dropping and unprecedented collection of 911s between two covers (Leffingwell and David Newhardt’s stunning, full-page, color photography features more than 80 Porsche 911s) complements the text, enticing readers to an up-close-and-personal view of these exotic, wish-list cars.

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0760320926

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Porsche 75th Anniversary

Expect the Unexpected

By: Randy Leffingwell

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Porsche 75th Anniversary

Expect the Unexpected

By: Randy Leffingwell

Porsche 75th Anniversary: Expect the Unexpected covers the key moments, moves, and cars that make Porsche among the world’s greatest and most storied auto manufacturers.

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0760372667

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Laughing Till It Hurts

The Complete Life and Career of Carol Burnett

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

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Laughing Till It Hurts

The Complete Life and Career of Carol Burnett

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Carol Burnett is one of the few American comediennes to establish herself as an icon. Laughing Till It Hurts is the ultimate Carol Burnett biography. For eleven years The Carol Burnett Show proved a showcase for Burnett’s comic genius. Though extensive interviews with Carol’s friends, family, and co-workers, Taraborrelli traces her career from her formative years through her first marriage to fellow actor Don Saroyan, and her breakthrough role starring as the princess in George Abbott’s Once Upon a Mattress. Laughing Till It Hurts explores the darker side of the fame and pressures that it placed on Carol. As a result of her outspoken battles with the media and her personal ordeal with her daughters drug problems, Carol Burnett has metamorphized into a new woman—someone who not only knows how to be funny but is also uncompromisingly herself.

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Graymalkin Media

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1631683187

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Porsche 70 Years

There Is No Substitute

By: Randy Leffingwell

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Porsche 70 Years

There Is No Substitute

By: Randy Leffingwell

This richly illustrated book offers a complete history of Porsche, Germany's premium sports-car maker. Porsche 70 Years focuses on engineering and design stories, while also paying homage to key players.

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0760347255

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Porsche Turbo

The Inside Story of Stuttgart's Turbocharged Road and Race Cars

By: Randy Leffingwell

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Porsche Turbo

The Inside Story of Stuttgart's Turbocharged Road and Race Cars

By: Randy Leffingwell

Celebrate the rebirth of the world's most stunning high-performance automobile. Porsche made history when it brought turbocharging to the racing world in the form of the 917. When strict regulations regarding engine displacement took away the option of bigger engines, manufacturers turned to forced induction. In its wildest trim, the original 12-cylinder turbocharged Porsche racing engine yielded as much as 1,400 horsepower! Porsche's official philosophy was that racing cars must have a connection to street cars, so it was preordained that Porsche would eventually produce a turbocharged version of its air-cooled flat-six cylinder engine. The resulting 930 Turbo appeared in the spring of 1975 in Europe. Acceleration from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour took a scant 5.5 seconds, and its top speed was 155 miles per hour. The Turbo's distinctive rear wing let the world know that this was something very special. It was nothing less than the rebirth of the high-performance automobile. At a time when the big-block engines in America's so-called "muscle cars" were putting out 180 horsepower and the engines in exotic supercars weren't much more ambitious, the lightweight Porsche was a genuine rocket. Porsche Turbo: The Inside Story of Stuttgart's Turbocharged Road and Race Cars celebrates Porsche's five decades of turbocharged supercar performance, both on the track and on the street. It covers all of the major racing cars as well as the turbocharged street cars, including the 930, 935, 924, 944, 968, 911, and Cayenne Panamera. Don't let this one fly past you!

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0760347581

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The Local Structure of Algebraic K-Theory

By: Bjørn Ian Dundas,Thomas G. Goodwillie,Randy McCarthy

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The Local Structure of Algebraic K-Theory

By: Bjørn Ian Dundas,Thomas G. Goodwillie,Randy McCarthy

Algebraic K-theory encodes important invariants for several mathematical disciplines, spanning from geometric topology and functional analysis to number theory and algebraic geometry. As is commonly encountered, this powerful mathematical object is very hard to calculate. Apart from Quillen's calculations of finite fields and Suslin's calculation of algebraically closed fields, few complete calculations were available before the discovery of homological invariants offered by motivic cohomology and topological cyclic homology. This book covers the connection between algebraic K-theory and Bökstedt, Hsiang and Madsen's topological cyclic homology and proves that the difference between the theories are ‘locally constant’. The usefulness of this theorem stems from being more accessible for calculations than K-theory, and hence a single calculation of K-theory can be used with homological calculations to obtain a host of ‘nearby’ calculations in K-theory. For instance, Quillen's calculation of the K-theory of finite fields gives rise to Hesselholt and Madsen's calculations for local fields, and Voevodsky's calculations for the integers give insight into the diffeomorphisms of manifolds. In addition to the proof of the full integral version of the local correspondence between K-theory and topological cyclic homology, the book provides an introduction to the necessary background in algebraic K-theory and highly structured homotopy theory; collecting all necessary tools into one common framework. It relies on simplicial techniques, and contains an appendix summarizing the methods widely used in the field. The book is intended for graduate students and scientists interested in algebraic K-theory, and presupposes a basic knowledge of algebraic topology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447143930

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9781447143932

Quantum Topology And Global Anomalies

By: Randy A Baadhio,Michael P Thorman

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Quantum Topology And Global Anomalies

By: Randy A Baadhio,Michael P Thorman

Anomalies are ubiquitous features in quantum field theories. They can ruin the consistency of such theories and put significant restrictions on their viability, especially in dimensions higher than four. Global gauge and gravitational anomalies are to date, one of the scant powerful and probing tools available to physicists in the pursuit of uniqueness.This monograph is one of the very few that specializes in the study of global anomalies in quantum field theories. A discussion of various issues associated to three dimensional physics — the Chern-Simons-Witten theories — widen the scope of this book. Topics discussed here comprises: the ongoing quest for three-manifolds invariant, the role of the mapping class groups in (a) the detection and cancellation of global anomalies, (b) formulating three-manifolds invariant; the geometric quantization of Chern-Simons-Witten theories; deformation quantization; study of chiral and gravitational anomalies; anomalies and the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer Index theorem; exotic spheres; global gravitational anomalies in some six and ten dimensional supergravity and superstring theories, with an additional case study of Witten SU(2) Global Gauge Anomalies.In addition, five chapters lay out the mathematical basis for a thorough use of the topics above. One chapter focuses on the relationship between Teichmüller spaces, moduli spaces and mapping class groups. Another chapter is devoted to mapping class groups and arithmetic groups. Gauge theories on Riemann surfaces are studies in well over two chapters, the first one centered on the theory of bundles and the second on connections.Many readers will find this a useful book, especially theoretical physicists and mathematicians. The material presented here will be of interest to both the experts who will find complete, detailed and precise descriptions of important topics of current interest in mathematical physics, and to students and newcomers to the field, who will appreciate the vast amount of information provided here, especially on global anomalies.

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World Scientific

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9814498777

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9789814498777

Prepare with Honor

Helps for Future Missionaries

By: Randy L. Bott

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Prepare with Honor

Helps for Future Missionaries

By: Randy L. Bott

Provides practical advice for young men and women, ages twelve and older, planning to serve full-time missions in the future for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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Shadow Mountain

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087579954X

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9780875799544

Illustrated Buyer's Guide Porsche

5th edition

By: Dean Batchelor,Randy Leffingwell

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Illustrated Buyer's Guide Porsche

5th edition

By: Dean Batchelor,Randy Leffingwell

The Illustrated Buyer’s Guide Porsche provides enthusiasts with information and insight helpful to identifying desirable models and avoiding problems as they search for their ideal Porsche. Adding new material and revising previous information, this book covers all the Porsche models through 2010, including the last of the air-cooled 911s, the water-cooled 911s, Cayenne, Cayman, Boxster, and Panamera.

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1610590449

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9781610590440

God's Formula for Success: As Revealed in the Scriptures by the Lord

By: Randy Bott

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God's Formula for Success: As Revealed in the Scriptures by the Lord

By: Randy Bott

There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated-And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated. Doctrine & Covenants 130:20-21 The Lord has promised that when we desire a blessing, we must obey the law upon which it is predicated. We might feel confident in obeying it, but how do we discover which law predicates our desired blessing? This book contains 25 blessings and the laws upon which they depend. Some of these include: wealth; answers to prayers; happiness; marriage; parenting; good health; peace; handling adversity; overcoming addictions; and avoiding deception. Latter-day Saints are a faithful, scripture-loving people. Like everyone on earth, we want the blessings that make for a happy life. Perhaps now is a good time to prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it (Malachi 3:10).

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1462138705

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God's Formula for Success

By: Randy Bott

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The Complete Book of Porsche 911

The Complete Book of Porsche 911

Porsche 911: 50 Years

Porsche 911: 50 Years

Porsche 911 60 Years

Porsche 911 60 Years

Porsche 911

Porsche 911

Porsche 75th Anniversary

Porsche 75th Anniversary

Laughing Till It Hurts

Laughing Till It Hurts

Porsche 70 Years

Porsche 70 Years

Porsche Turbo

Porsche Turbo

The Local Structure of Algebraic K-Theory

The Local Structure of Algebraic K-Theory

Quantum Topology And Global Anomalies

Quantum Topology And Global Anomalies

Prepare with Honor

Prepare with Honor

Illustrated Buyer's Guide Porsche

Illustrated Buyer's Guide Porsche

God's Formula for Success: As Revealed in the Scriptures by the Lord

God's Formula for Success: As Revealed in the Scriptures by the Lord

God's Formula for Success

God's Formula for Success

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