Vroom with a View

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553816373
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Readers will fall for a side of Italy rarely seen with the just-turned-forty Peter Moore rattling around the country on the back of an ageing Vespa scooter — like himself, a little rough around the edges, and a bit slow in the mornings perhaps, but basically still OK.

Vroom with a View

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
He was an Australian author approaching 40. She was a fading Italian beauty from the sixties. They spent one unforgettable summer together, a magical road trip from Milan to Rome. Only one thing stood in the way of perfect love. Sophia was a motor scooter. After a late night Tai Bo fitness commercial warns him that his life will be over after 40, Peter Moore decides to pursue a boyhood dream sparked by watching old black and white movies of Sophia Loren - to tour Italy on a Vespa, in pursuit of la dolce vita. From picnicking in the Italian alps to exploring tumbledown seaside villages, gate-crashing Frances Mayes's villa and re-enacting Roman Holiday, this is as much a romance as a travel adventure. Not only does Peter sweep the woman of his dreams off her feet, he falls in love with a side of Italy others rarely see, along with Sophia of course...

Vroom by the Sea

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840247374
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
It was a 1972 Rally 200 in the same shade of orange as Donatella Versace with white, go-fast stripes down each side. It was bright and brash and made every other Vespa in the workshop look dull. Even sitting on its stand it had a swagger.Best-selling writer and traveller Peter Moore decides to go on an adventure through Sicily,Sardinia and the Amalfi Coast as a last fling before the onset of fatherhood.Riding his bright orange Vespa, Marcello, through some of the world’s most stunning scenery, Peter meets a multitude of interesting characters and discovers a side of Italy that tourists rarely see. Eliciting free beers from barmen, swoons from young women and beeps and whistles from other drivers, Peter finds that this most Italian of machines draws him deep into the heart of this fascinating and fun-loving country.

Honk! Splat! Vroom!

Author: Barry Gott
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 1512441406
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Narrated in onomatopoeia, five mice in race cars compete in an off-road race, but surviving course obstacles will require teamwork--and a goose.

The Wrong Way Home

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553817000
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
This hip, hilarious travelogue, which takes the author on the Sixties hippie trail — from the UK to Australia without flying — will strike a chord with all those travelers who have stood where Moore stood, and entertain and alarm lovers of off-the-beaten-track travel adventures with his characteristically quirky descriptions of places and people.

Vroom!

Author: Barbara McClintock
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 162672217X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
Join a little girl as she zooms— past fields and forests, up mountains, over rivers, through deserts, home again, and into bed in this playful picture book about the power of imagination, from award-winning author and artist Barbara McClintock.

Animals Go Vroom!

Author: Abi Cushman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984836668
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
With a nod to Richard Scarry, this inventive picture book surprises readers with every turn of the page! Hiss! Screech! Roar! It's a noisy day in Bumperville! But are the sounds what you think they are? That Honk! must surely be a goose. But turn the page and it's the taxi that a goose is driving! Using cleverly placed die-cuts, this inventive book hints at what is making the sound, but with each turn of the page, it's an eye-opening surprise and part of an unfolding story that is part guessing game and part giggle-inducing caper. Abi Cushman is the master of surprise and silliness in this absolutely delightful picture book.

Vroom with a View

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
As his fortieth birthday approaches, the author decides to pursue his dream of exploring Italy on a 1961 Vespa. Once the perfect motor scooter is found and made road worthy, he travels the back roads from Milan to Rome.

Leadership and Decision-Making

Author: Victor Vroom
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974142
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
It has become a truism that "leadership depends upon the situation," but few behavioral scientists have attempted to go beyond that statement to examine the specific ways in which leaders should and do vary their behavior with situational demands. Vroom and Yetton select a critical aspect of leadership style-the extent to which the leader encourages the participation of his subordinates in decision-making. They describe a normative model which shows the specific leadership style called for in different classes of situations. The model is expressed in terms of a "decision tree" and requires the leader to analyze the dimensions of the particular problem or decision with which he is confronted in order to determine how much and in what way to share his decision-making power with his subordinates. Other chapters discuss how leaders behave in different situations. They look at differences in leadership styles, and what situations induce people to display autocratic or participative behavior.

The Full Montezuma

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553817019
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Peter Moore’s wicked sense of humour and eye for the bizarre add to the pleasure of this cautionary tale for anyone planning to cross a continent with their significant other. From Mexico to Jamaica, Honduras to ancient Mayan sites and golden beaches, follow the highs and lows of one couple’s journey.