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Best book on Oliver Tractors

A Guide to Hart-Parr, Oliver and White Farm Tractors 1901-1996
Larry Gay
Manufacturer: American Society of Agricultural & Biological
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Oliver Tractors (Enthusiast Color)

Oliver Tractor Data Book

Oliver Hart-Parr

ASIN: 0929355873

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When two young men, Charles W. Hart and Charles H. Parr, began a stationary gasoline engine company in the late 1800s, they probably never imagined how the industry would grow and evolve throughout the next century. Now is your opportunity to follow their company, Hart-Parr, from the beginning with the building of the first gasoline traction engine, the No. 1, through the merger which created the Oliver Farm Equipment Company in 1929, and then the purchase of the company by White Motor Company in 1960. All of the related farm tractors are featured in this book from Hart-Parr to Oliver to White. This is the definitive guide to the incredible tractors that helped define farming during the 20th century. Author Larry Gay has taken each model and researched it providing all the pertinent information and photographs, even Nebraska Tractor Test results. For the first time, Oliver, Hart-Parr, and White enthusiasts can see for themselves the evolution of this incredible tractor line. With the turn of a page, watch the models change and improve. Behind-the-scenes stories give you the entire picture. The appendix features Nebraska Tractor Test results and serial numbers. This book, with over 200 black-and-white photographs, will provide hours of enjoyment and will become a treasured reference tool.

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Best book on Oliver Tractors.......2001-02-17

The best book I have found on Oliver tractors. The most complete with specifications and pictures. Goes through complete line and history of Oliver tractors. I have bought several of this book to give a gifts. If you want a book on Oliver tractors, start with this one.

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Impressions of Wendel's reprinted Oliver book
The history of Oliver/Hart-Parr from beginning to end!

Oliver Hart-Parr
C. H. Wendel
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0873499298

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The unmistakable dark green of Oliver and Hart-Parr tractors, with their yellow grilles and red wheels, have dotted the American landscape from the early 1900s to 1960, when the companies were acquired by White. Now tractor enthusiasts can own a comprehensive photographic history tracing the evolution of two of the most successful tractor and farm equipment manufacturers of all time.

Every model Oliver produced is shown, including the Hart-Parr tractors Oliver purchased in 1929, as well as Cletrac, Nichols & Shepard and Cockshut, for a total of 1,500 detailed photographs. Each tractor is shown with extended captions highlighting important features and changes. Detailed company histories follow the changes and mergers of the companies tied to Oliver, as well as Oliver and Hart-Parr. This unparalleled photo reference resource is a must for any tractor enthusiast.

-1,500 detailed photographs of every model Oliver and Hart-Parr produced -Company histories for Oliver, Hart-Parr and connected manufacturers -Captions highlight features and changes of each model shown

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Impressions of Wendel's reprinted Oliver book.......2007-01-12

I ordered this book from Amazon, unseen. It had a good reputation as an early compresensive work on Oliver and Hart-Parr tractors, well illustrated. Unfortunately, this is a very poorly executed reprint. Had I seen it first, I would never have spent the money. All photographs and illustrations are dark and muddy. Evidently, "kp books," chose to cut costs on production. I also understand that while Wendel did a good job for his time and in the original printing, new information has since come to light; so I don't think this book is the thorough coverage it could once claim. This is basically a, "$9.95 clearance item."

The history of Oliver/Hart-Parr from beginning to end!.......2000-04-05

If you want to find out more about the beginning of the Oliver & Hart Parr tractors, I recommend this book. It gives detailed information on all the tractors released and some that weren't released. This is a must have for Oliver/Hart-Parr tractor collectors. I don't have much else to say but that this book is worth the money!

Oliver Tractors/History of Oliver, Hart-Parr, Cockshutt & Cletrac Tractors Model Development, Variations, Specifications (Motorbooks International Fa)

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No Cletrac info.

Oliver Tractors/History of Oliver, Hart-Parr, Cockshutt & Cletrac Tractors Model Development, Variations, Specifications (Motorbooks International Fa)
Robert N. Pripps
Manufacturer: Motorbooks International
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ASIN: 0879388536

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No Cletrac info........2000-07-27

I bought this book because I thought it would contain information about Cletrac tractors. From the title you would think so. I was very disapointed to find that there were only two pictures of one Cletrac tractor (Actually an Oliver as the tractor pictured was made after the oliver take over) There was only one page of text (of the most superficial sort). From my point of view this purchess was a total loss. The book title is not at all representative of its content, at least as far as Cletrac tractors are conscerned

The Tractor Builders the People Behind the Production of Hart-parr/oliver/white (Signed By Author)

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The Tractor Builders the People Behind the Production of Hart-parr/oliver/white (Signed By Author)
JOHN D CULBERTSON
Manufacturer: SUNRISE HILL
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The Tractor Builders. Hart-Parr/Oliver/White

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The Tractor Builders. Hart-Parr/Oliver/White
John D. Culbertson
Manufacturer: Stoyles Graphic Services
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Hart-Parr, Oliver serial numbers & years of manufacture

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Hart-Parr, Oliver serial numbers & years of manufacture
Alan C King
Manufacturer: Alan and Janet King
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The "streamline baby" in Tom Wolfe's 1965 debut book is a hot rod, but the car's candy colors and wild lines can't match the prose style Wolfe devised to describe them. The title essay--Wolfe's first magazine article--launched the New Journalism, partly because its original title was "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)..." His voice was more shocking than any subculture he uncovered. Until Wolfe (Ph.D., Yale), nobody struck gold by applying Ph.D.-speak to lowbrow subjects. Kurt Vonnegut famously called this an "excellent book by a genius who will do anything to get attention."

Now that everybody does what Wolfe did, his early essays smack less of genius. But attention must be paid to this pioneering peek into King Pop's tomb. The most startling thing is how soberly sensible most of the prose now appears, except for the title of the first essay, "Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't Hear You! Too Noisy) Las Vegas!!!" which anticipates the far superior Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Mostly, these articles seem like straightforward introductions to some of the signal figures of the early '60s: hot-rod designer Big Daddy Roth, surf guitarist Dick Dale, teen recording tycoon Phil Spector, Andy Warhol debutante Baby Jane Holzer, the Cassius Clay-era Muhammad Ali. We even glimpse the Beatles in a profile of the yappy DJ Murray the K in "The Fifth Beatle."

The last half of the book focuses more on New York and its denizens' endless combat for social status. The last piece, "The Big League Complex," is like a 1964 warm-up exercise for The Bonfire of the Vanities. --Tim Appelo

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In this book, his first, Tom Wolfe took a fresh look at the American scene of the early 1960s and zeroed in on the more exotic forms of status-seeking then in vogue from New York to Los Angeles.

In the Twist, bouffant hairdos, stock-car racing and rock concerts Wolfe found a unique American energy. In the title piece he eulogizes the flamboyant kustomized kars California teens constructed with artistic dedication.

"New forces excited the old guard, and Wolfe takes special pleasure in stories of these encounters. Whether in fashion, nightlife, child rearing or art worship, the old guard fought to preserve its status." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

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One of the best ever!.......2007-08-14

If you have an interest about our "car culture" and want to know where it sprouted from, this is your book. Maybr Wolfe's best book, right up there with the "Kool Aid Acid Test". Remebering, laughing and learning, all at the same time is pretty cool.

Mesmerizing.......2006-12-27

Tom Wolfe is an astonishing writer and a scarily perceptive cultural observer. There is a reason why Wolfe has created so many enduring images in the modern vernacular - he writes from the pulse of American culture, capturing its peculiarities in rare brilliance and condensing it all into wonderfully apt brevity - hence "good ol' boy," "the right stuff," and "radical chic."

In American Studies, Wolfe sits among the best. And it all started with "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby."

The Ultimate Bathroom Book.......2006-06-01

This is a collection of short tales about contemporary New York and America written in the early 1960s. As you might expect, Wolfe is a little more rough around the edges here, and so there is a little hit and miss. However, The Last American Hero, about driver Junior Johnson and the early beginnings of NASCAR, is breathtaking - here are the true buds of Wolfe's ideas on American Masculinity that were to flower in The Right Stuff.

Get It If You Can Find It - Fantastic Read!.......2004-11-21

Tom Wolfe began his career as a "New Journalist" with this book back in 1965, and when I discovered it some thirty years later I instantly became a fan of what this man is sellin'. The articles collected in here range a wide variety of topics, and even the duller pieces are punctuated with traces of brilliance.

The most memorable for me (seeing as I haven't read it in a few years) deal with some interesting and illuminating topics, both of their time and somehow relevant today:

The title piece dealing with custom cars (what's the hottest reality show staple besides weddings and home decor?)

Phil Spector's oddness (chilling in light of his recent legal troubles)

The beginnings of what would become NASCAR (now the biggest sport in the South)

Cassius Clay AKA Muhammed Ali (the role of the black athelete in American society is still being worked out)

Vegas' rise from the desert

There are countless others, products of their time and yet transcending eras to speak to us today. Again, not every piece works, but it's a credit to the book as a whole that I can't recall which ones were failures.

If you can find this, get it. You'll look at thinks differently afterwords...

This book may be better than I felt it to be .......2004-11-02

These essays were the debut of a truly new voice. I not only did not know what to make of most of them when I first read them I really did not understand what the writer was getting at. But at the same time I saw they were filled with brilliant social observation, great wit, a certain humor and an effort at putting the phonys of this world down a peg. Like all really sharp social criticism these works have an element of cruelty in them. So let's say it is really a matter of taste that I did not like them so much. But as I said before it was clear to me then that the writer was tremendously inventive and that he was hitting many real targets in a strong and effective way.

The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby

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The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby
Tom WOLFE
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tom WOLFE
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4 Titles by Tom Wolfe - The Pump House Gang - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby - A Man in Full - Bonfires of the Vanities

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4 Titles by Tom Wolfe - The Pump House Gang - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby - A Man in Full - Bonfires of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
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The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test; The Kandy-kolored Tangerine-flake Streamline Baby; Radical Chic & Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers

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The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test; The Kandy-kolored Tangerine-flake Streamline Baby; Radical Chic & Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers
Tom Wolfe
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The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby

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the Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby
Tom Wolfe
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The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby
Wolfe
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THE KANDY-KOLORED TANGERINE-FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY
TOM WOLFE
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THE KANDY-KOLORED TANGERINE-FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY
TOM WOLFE
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This digital document is an article from E, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1358 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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All Animals Are Equal (Gamma World Adventure GWQ2)

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All Animals Are Equal (Gamma World Adventure GWQ2)
Dale Henson
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Enlightening, Useful Guide to and Overview of Mentoring

User Friendly Learning

The Pioneers of Mentoring

Today's Challenges

A Mentor's Companion
Larry Ambrose
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The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

ASIN: 0967008301

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A Mentor's Companion is a book written for the active or prospective mentor. Its goal is to be a focused, practical guide into the texture of the mentoring interaction between mentor and protg. Combining a unique recipe of live dialogues between a mentor and her protg, with guidelines that glean the key learning from the dialogues, the book teaches the "moves" the mentor should consider in maximizing the learning possibilities for the protg. Each dialogue and summary is followed by a third course - menus of questions and statements from which the mentor can sample when preparing a mentoring conversation. . As a part of their mission, mentors give advice, but this book is not a "how to give advice" book. The concentration, instead, is on using oneself as a catalyst with the mentee (who is also referred to as "protege" or "partner"). The mission of this book is to distinguish and dramatize the skills of the mentor-those probes, those challenges, those inquiries and provocative questions that will inspire thought, stimulate reflection, tap discovery, and generate a new intelligence in the protg.

The early chapters describe the mentoring process, the purpose of mentoring, what it is and what it isn't, and the kinds of skills necessary to develop as a mentor. The purpose of later chapters is to carry the mentor through the mentoring action itself, dramatizing it with examples, guidelines, and specific menus of questions and inputs for interacting with the mentee. Each chapter features a different major activity one can expect to engage in with a protg: making contact and getting acquainted, working on problems, giving performance and behavioral feedback, making developmental assignments, and conducting after-action reviews.

This is probably not a "beach" book. It's also not a book the mentor will likely read from beginning to end-in fact, skipping around is recommended, using what is most relevant at the appropriate moment. It is, however, a valuable reference and guide for any aspect of the mentoring charge. A Mentor's Companion's vision is to accompany the mentor as he or she takes on the important challenge of helping others unlock their true potential.

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Enlightening, Useful Guide to and Overview of Mentoring.......2000-01-24

In the introduction Larry Ambrose said that he wrote this book as a reference book and did not intend it to be read from cover to cover. In reading the entire book, though, I found it to be very enlightening. I'm sure that I will refer to it as a reference book many times.

A Mentor's Companion is written in a conversational manner -- with Chapters 2-6 beginning with an on-going mentoring scenario that unfolds throughout the chapters. After each scenario, a short chapter follows that delves deeper into the mentoring attributes touched on in the story. Larry Ambrose then shows notepads for the mentor's use and practical checklists that are incredibly helpful for anyone preparing to serve as a mentor. These notepads and checklists, I am sure, are the reference materials to which Mr. Ambrose refers in the Introduction. Each chapter's title page also has an insightful quote that sets the mood for the chapter.

Three of the main points of this book are the following:

1. The goal of true mentoring is the development of the mentee -- not necessarily the solution of specific problems. Larry Ambrose gives detailed examples of how to accomplish this task throughout the book.

2. True mentoring is a partnership -- in which both parties learn, grow, and discover more about themselves and their potential.

3. Honest feedback is extremely important. A mnemonic device shared in this book with regard to feedback is S.E.A.T. -- feedback should be Specific, Explicit, Achievable, and Timely. Larry Ambrose gives general guidelines to assist the mentor in framing feedback properly to benefit the mentee's (and the mentor's) development.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is looking at the mentoring process -- especially if looking into becoming a first-time mentor.

User Friendly Learning.......1999-03-05

The 'Companion' is a valuable , user friendly tool. I was sold on the book after the introduction, foreword and Chapters 1 and 2, and immediately ordered a copy for all the senior managers in our business unit.

The Pioneers of Mentoring.......1999-03-05

Individuals have the opportunity to learn from the pioneers, Perrone-Ambrose Associates, through 'A Mentor's Companion'. This book is a must for all those concerned with creating a dignified and inclusive work environment.

Today's Challenges.......1999-03-05

A Mentor's Companion offers a solution to two of the greatest challenges faced by organizations today - the cultivating of future leaders and the on-going, rapid development of the workforce.

Spirit Guides: Companions & Mentors For Your Inner Journey

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Spirit Guides: Companions & Mentors For Your Inner Journey
Hal Zina Bennett , and Susan J. Sparrow
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Expanded Edition! Two Brand New Chapters.

Spirit Helpers for the Inner Journey. After five printings in three languages, this book has established itself as a classic in the field. Complete, straight forward instructions and anecdotes make it easy to access the wisdom of the inner world.

There are two new chapters: one telling how to deal creatively with inner critics, who often disguise themselves as helpers, the other telling how to access spirit guides through "journeying," a powerful and sacred way based on Native American and Celtic teachings.

This is a cherished book in the libraries of seekers throughout the world.

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Santosha Adidam (The Essential Summary Of The Divine Way Of Adidam) (The Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse)
Avatar Adi Da Samraj , and Adi Da Samraj
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Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj has created a series of twenty-three books that He has designated as His "Source-Texts". Of these twenty-three books, there is a sub-series of seventeen volumes (called The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse), each of which offers His Wisdom relative to a fundamental aspect of true Spiritual life.

Santosha Adidam (Book Fourteen of the "Seventeen Companions") contains Avatar Adi Da's Summary Instruction relative to the entire course of the Way of Adidam--approached from the point of view of the inherent esoteric anatomy of the human being.

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Mentor;: An exercise book and companion to 'Civis Romanus'
Ronald Colebourn
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Sanft Peer Mentor Companion: Used With Downing on Course
Marni Sanft , Mike Jensen , and Eldon McMurray
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Los Angeles mentors: Local guides or educational companions? (Research report)
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
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