Product Description: This book brings together the insight and experience of successful leaders from over 60 schools on the issue of improving school culture – in their very own words. It provides the tools, practices, and examples that will help you in your own effort to improve school culture.

Product Description: This work offers highlights from American automobile design of the 1950s.

Product Description: In 1931, Henry Ford famously announced that his company would produce an eight-cylinder car, if only because its competitors were building fours and sixes. The result, introduced in 1932, was Ford Motor Company’s first V8-powered car...read more

Product Description: A famously crazed presence in the hot rod movement of the 1950s, rediscovered in the 1980s when ’50s nostalgia swept pop culture, Kenneth “Von Dutch” Howard spent more than a decade essentially missing-in-action from the scene he’d helped to create and define...read more

Product Description: From the mind of Mr. Gasser himself, with behind-the-scenes pictures from his own files, comes the story of the life and times and art of this icon of hot rodding and visionary of Kustom Kulture. Since Ed "Big Daddy" Roth first told his tale, a whole new generation has discovered the creator of Rat Fink, Beatnik Bandit, and Mysterion-and this now-classic illustrated autobiography gives new and old fans alike a look into the shop and studio...read more

Gathers advertisements for American automobiles manufactured during the 1950s and briefly describes developments in the auto industry during the decade.

Hitting its stride in the 1950s, the underground hot rod culture spawned the likes of Rat Fink, Von Dutch, and George Barris. This collection of rare photographs and ephemera should be an essential for anyone who dreams of putting the pedal to the metal.

To many enthusiasts, Pete Chapouris and Jim "Jake" Jacobs rank among Boyd Coddington, Ed Roth, and George Barris as two of the world's most influential hot rod and custom car designers. Combined, the California-based duo can boast 80 years of experience building some of the world's most creative showstopping customs. This photo history celebrates the 25th anniversary of the opening of their shop, Pete and Jake's Hot Rod Parts, and depicts and describes their most celebrated creations from 1974 to the present.

Product Description: Book by Thacker, Tony

Photographs depict automobiles from the 1950s with customized details and original painted finishes

Product Description: The design of Chevrolet's Corvette was a break with the way Detroit was heading in the 1950s. From the earliest prototypes to today's ZRI, the Corvette's many changes are chronicled in this book.