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Perfect Vehicle
What It Is About Motorcycles
Häftad, 1998
296 kr
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In a book that is "a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of motorcycling. She sifts through myth and hyperbole: misrepresentations about danger, about the type of people who ride and why they do so. …
Secret History of Kindness
Learning from How Dogs Learn
Inbunden, 2015
260 kr
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Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose immediate rapport with Mercy seemed magical, Pierson began delving into the techniques of positive reinforcement. She made her way to B. F. …
Dark Horses and Black Beauties
Animals, Women, a Passion
Häftad, 2001
279 kr
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In a phenomenon too prevalent to be mere chance, little girls all over the Western world wake one day to find themselves completely taken over by the love of all things equine. Melissa Holbrook Pierson was one of those horse-crazy girls who later returned to riding with a new appreciation for the …
Place You Love Is Gone
Progress Hits Home
Häftad, 2007
266 kr
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Has the futureever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawlbeen wrecking your past? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home. In the past twenty years, like countless towns it resembles, Akron, Ohio, has lost its …
Man Who Would Stop at Nothing
Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road
Häftad, 2012
166 kr
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“World’s Toughest Motorcycle Riders”—long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. In this candid, eloquent, sharply observed book, Melissa Holbrook Pierson introduces us to this strange endeavor and the men and women who live to ride impossibly long distances, eating up road, …
Man Who Would Stop at Nothing
Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road
Inbunden, 2011
241 kr
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For the 50,000 members of the Iron Butt Association—also known as the "World's Toughest Motorcyclists"—long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. These men and women push the limits of human endurance, often in rides of more than one thousand miles a day. Perhaps the most …
