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Smooth is Fast Autocross Performance a high-performance driving series providing readers a complete, one-stop source for autocross information.

Vol 6, "The Car" takes a look at the autocrosser's primary piece of equipment, the car itself. In this volume, the focus is on handling adjustments, including how to use tire pressure, chalk, damper settings, alignment, and other simple. "free" adjustments to improve the handling of your car.

The "Smooth is Fast: Autocross Performance" series covers the nuts-and-bolts of autocross--from handling adjustments and choosing an apex, to course-walking and corner working. Further, there is an emphasis on the driving strategies that translate to all areas of high-performance driving (circuit and road-course lapping, rally, and even your daily commute. There is also an extensive glossary defining much of the jargon that is can be a barrier to novice drivers.

By focusing on driver inputs--namely the concept of grip, and the relationship between driver inputs via the steering wheel, throttle, brakes, and gearchange--both novice and experienced racers will find value in Smooth is Fast: Autocross Performance.

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Smooth is Fast Autocross Performance a high-performance driving series providing readers a complete, one-stop source for autocross information.

Vol 2, "Grip" explores the concept of, well, grip. This occurs through discussion of the grip circle, defining what "handling" really means, and analyzing the phenomenon of weight transfer.

The "Smooth is Fast: Autocross Performance" series covers the nuts-and-bolts of autocross--from handling adjustments and choosing an apex, to course-walking and corner working. Further, there is an emphasis on the driving strategies that translate to all areas of high-performance driving (circuit and road-course lapping, rally, and even your daily commute. There is also an extensive glossary defining much of the jargon that is can be a barrier to novice drivers.

By focusing on driver inputs--namely the concept of grip, and the relationship between driver inputs via the steering wheel, throttle, brakes, and gearchange--both novice and experienced racers will find value in Smooth is Fast: Autocross Performance.

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Editorial Review :: The Honda Civic--it's been called the '55 Chevy of the Nineties and recognized as the leader of the import sport compact car phenomena that is sweeping the country. If you dream of owning a tricked out Honda or already have a Honda Civic, CR-X, or del Sol and want to make it fly or just look like it can, Civic Duty is for you!

Civic Duty covers every aspect of Honda Civic modification from the mechanical to the artistic with chapters on: -Suspension modifications for street, strip, or track-springs, shocks, bushings, anti-roll bars, strut tower bars, wheels and tires. -Bolt-on performance-air induction systems, cam timing and overdrive pulleys, headers, exhaust systems, ignition, and ECU technology. -Hard core engine modification-complete engine swap information that tells you which are the best and easiest swaps and which are the ones to avoid, pistons, head work, cams, engine building tricks, supercharging vs. turbocharging, and nitrous. -Exterior/ interior styling - exterior styling components (including rear deck wings), a chapter on exterior graphics and interior design-seats, door panels, gauges, and cages. -Performance driving-road racing and autocross, drag racing, and driving schools.

Written by Alan Paradise, the import performance pioneer and creator and original editor of Sport Compact Car magazine, Civic Duty gives you all the answers! In addition to providing the specs and costs involved in building the ultimate sport compact, Alan lays out his unique "build by subtraction" method of intelligently deciding how to select and build the right Honda for you-the one that will give you the most satisfaction with the least amount of pain to your bank account.

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Smooth is Fast Autocross Performance a high-performance driving series providing readers a complete, one-stop source for autocross information.

Vol 3, "Driver Input" explores the role of the driver in exacting automotive high-performance. This is done by identifying best practices for inputs at the throttle, steering, braking, and gearchange controls that will promote smoothness, and thus precision and speed.

The "Smooth is Fast: Autocross Performance" series covers the nuts-and-bolts of autocross--from handling adjustments and choosing an apex, to course-walking and corner working. Further, there is an emphasis on the driving strategies that translate to all areas of high-performance driving (circuit and road-course lapping, rally, and even your daily commute. There is also an extensive glossary defining much of the jargon that is can be a barrier to novice drivers.

By focusing on driver inputs--namely the concept of grip, and the relationship between driver inputs via the steering wheel, throttle, brakes, and gearchange--both novice and experienced racers will find value in Smooth is Fast: Autocross Performance.

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Smooth is Fast Autocross Performance a high-performance driving series providing readers a complete, one-stop source for autocross information.

Vol 5, "The Course" examines the components that comprise a typical autocross course. By identifying these traditional course components such as cones, gates, decreasing radius turns, apexes, and slaloms, the reader will better understand these pieces, and how they connect to form make-shift "race tracks" in parking lots and airport runways in local regions everywhere.

The "Smooth is Fast: Autocross Performance" series covers the nuts-and-bolts of autocross--from handling adjustments and choosing an apex, to course-walking and corner working. Further, there is an emphasis on the driving strategies that translate to all areas of high-performance driving (circuit and road-course lapping, rally, and even your daily commute. There is also an extensive glossary defining much of the jargon that is can be a barrier to novice drivers.

By focusing on driver inputs--namely the concept of grip, and the relationship between driver inputs via the steering wheel, throttle, brakes, and gearchange--both novice and experienced racers will find value in Smooth is Fast: Autocross Performance.

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Editorial Review ::

On summer nights on downtown Los Angeles's Bunker Hill, Grand Performances presents free public concerts for the people of the city. A hip hop orchestra, a mariachi musician, an Afropop singer, and a Chinese modern dance company are just a few examples of the eclectic range of artists employed to reflect the diversity of LA itself. At these concerts, shared experiences of listening and dancing to the music become sites for the recognition of some of the general aspirations for the performances, for Los Angeles, and for contemporary public life.

In Sound, Space, and the City, Marina Peterson explores the processes—from urban renewal to the performance of ethnicity and the experiences of audiences—through which civic space is created at downtown performances. Along with archival materials on urban planning and policy, Peterson draws extensively on her own participation with Grand Performances, ranging from working in an information booth answering questions about the artists and the venue, to observing concerts and concert-goers as an audience member, to performing onstage herself as a cellist with the daKAH Hip Hop orchestra. The book offers an exploration of intersecting concerns of urban residents and scholars today that include social relations and diversity, public space and civic life, privatization and suburbanization and economic and cultural globalization.

At a moment when cities around the world are undertaking similar efforts to revitalize their centers, Sound, Space, and the City conveys the underlying tensions of such projects and their relevance for understanding urban futures.

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