The definitive guide for driving instructors - packed with practical tips, tools, techniques, questions and scenarios to implement in your driving lessons straight away. Written specifically for driving instructors who want to gain a better understanding of coaching and client-centred learning techniques, Who's In The Driving Seat? is written by industry experts and coaching specialists, Ged Wilmot and Claire Wilmot. Written for trainee and fully-qualified driving instructors in an easy-to-follow format Fully explains the concepts of coaching and client-centred learning Step-by-step guide to structuring a fully client-centred driving lesson Packed with practical examples of coaching conversations in action Personal anecdotes help bring all the concepts to life Packed with practical tools and techniques, questions, scenarios and guidance Exclusive interactive features - access additional online content, downloads and extra resources related to the section you are reading Readers also have access to an exclusive 'members only' Facebook readers group, where they can interact directly with the authors and fellow driving instructors if they need further advice or guidance Husband and wife team, Ged Wilmot and Claire Wilmot have combined their 40+ years of driver training experience and backgrounds in Psychology, NLP and coaching, to devise a deep-dive, practical guide to becoming a more effective driving instructor. Taking the mystery out of client-centred learning and coaching, Who's In the Driving Seat? is an invaluable resource for all trainee and qualified driving instructors, regardless of age or experience. By the end of this book, you will have an excellent understanding of coaching and client-centred learning and you will be equipped with dozens of techniques to help your learner drivers become safe and responsible drivers - for LIFE. ------------------------------------------------ "A must-read, easy-to-follow masterpiece on client-centred learning and its application to the driver training industry. I can't recommend it highly enough. This will be essential reading for my PDIs and ADIs in the future. Brilliant!" -- Phil Hirst MCIPD (ADI Trainer) ------------------------------------------------ "This book is a step by step guide to client-centred learning. With easy to implement tools and techniques, example lesson scenarios and comprehensive references, this book will be a firm favourite on any conscientious driving instructor's reading list." -- Lou Walsh (ADI Trainer) ------------------------------------------------ "This book demystifies the art of client-centred learning and is invaluable if you wish to learn how to do it properly as a PDI or to make the switch if you are already an ADI. A great read!" -- Bob Morton (Training Director - Learner Driving Centre) ------------------------------------------------ "An invaluable resource for any ADI or PDI. The interactive element is useful, and I like the way it challenges the reader to self-reflect. An interesting and thought-provoking read." -- Lynne Barrie MA Driver Training (ADINJC Chairman) ------------------------------------------------

Rev your engines and get ready for this exciting look at how Dale Earnhardt Jr. lived up to his family legacy and became one of the greatest professional stock car racing drivers in the world. No one was surpised when Dale Earnhardt Jr. began his racing career at age seventeen. His father and grandfather were professional racers, and he spent most of his childhood servicing cars at his dad's dealership. Now Dale was ready for his own turn in the driver's seat. He started out racing in the Street Stock division but would go on to win several NASCAR championships before retiring from driving fulltime in 2017. Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s passion and dedication to the sport he loves is why he is considered the most popular professional driver in the world.

Recognized by the Driver and Vehicle Stands Agency (DVSA) as recommended reading for the Approved Driving Instructor (ADI) exams, this bestselling guide is the authoritative guide for both trainee and qualified driving instructors. The Driving Instructor's Handbook covers every aspect of being a driving instructor, from the role itself, to the characteristics needed to the job effectively, through to preparation for the ADI exams. Now in its 22nd edition, the book includes detailed guidance on issues such as licences, training, teaching and coaching skills and road traffic law. Fully updated to cover all changes including updates to the ADI theory and practical tests, new rules in the Highway Code, revised motorway legislation, different rules and procedures in Northern Ireland and updated advice on disabilities, this book is essential reading for anyone involved in the training of drivers or driving instructors.

Growing up in a small Redneck Cowboy town in California, this guy managed to live quite an unexpected life—tromping cotton in winter, branding cattle in the summer, a stint in the US Army, and with wheels moving all the time. Join this veteran as he rubs elbows (and more) with some of the world's most recognized, famous, and infamous. Hop alongside this veteran limo driver and take a ride. Some trips stranger than fiction. At times you may be laughing out loud; other stories might have you wishing to grab the door and run. Even the "not" famous is just as offbeat/colorful in their behavior and lifestyle. This collection of stories is part memoir and part documentary, always with a keen eye on the varied state of human disarray. Hop on in for the ride of your life, and as always, seat belts are optional.

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With its focus on dangerous, determined femmes fatales, hardboiled detectives, and crimes that almost-but-never-quite succeed, film noir has long been popular with moviegoers and film critics alike. Film noir was a staple of classical Hollywood filmmaking during the years 1941-1958 and has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity since the 1990s. Dames in the Driver's Seat offers new views of both classical-era and contemporary noirs through the lenses of gender, class, and race. Jans Wager analyzes how changes in film noir's representation of women's and men's roles, class status, and racial identities mirror changes in a culture that is now often referred to as postmodern and postfeminist. Following introductory chapters that establish the theoretical basis of her arguments, Wager engages in close readings of the classic noirs The Killers, Out of the Past, and Kiss Me Deadly and the contemporary noirs L. A. Confidential, Mulholland Falls, Fight Club, Twilight, Fargo, and Jackie Brown. Wager divides recent films into retro-noirs (made in the present, but set in the 1940s and 1950s) and neo-noirs (made and set in the present but referring to classic noir narratively or stylistically). Going beyond previous studies of noir, her perceptive readings of these films reveal that retro-noirs fulfill a reactionary social function, looking back nostalgically to outdated gender roles and racial relations, while neo-noirs often offer more revisionary representations of women, though not necessarily of people of color.

As a top correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, Amy Fine Collins leads a glamorous life, a charmed whirlwind of gala parties, couture clothing, and five-star travel. In Manhattan, where she is whisked around in taxis and limousines, she has been able to disregard her long-standing fear of driving, a legacy handed down from her accident-plagued family. But when the brilliant and determined Amy finally decides to confront her driving phobia, she does not foresee how far from her elegant turf this resolution will take her. A mysterious, good-looking Turk named Attila is dispatched to her doorstep in a dual-brake Acura, and in him Amy discovers not only a superhumanly skilled instructor but also a wise, patient, and capable man who, inexplicably and irresistibly, over the course of their yearlong lessons, begins to transform and transport her. Both a compelling portrait of an elusive, charismatic hero and an inspiring adventure story, The God of Driving recounts the evolving relationship of Amy and Attila as they zoom in and out of urban interstates and country byways, as close to home as Park Avenue and as far away as Hamburg -- in muscle cars, turbocharged Bentleys, and hang-on-for-your-life motorcycles. And while Attila is completely changing her life, Amy is entirely remaking his, prompting him to uncover -- and redeem -- his shadowy past. Vibrant and funny, The God of Driving is an offbeat, romantic odyssey -- a true-life tale of unlikely soul mates who bump into each other at the crossroads of high gears and high style.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.