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Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.00
A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain NewsIn this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why...
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National Geographic Traveler: France, 2d Ed.
Written by Rosemary Bailey
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $27.95
From central Paris to the farthest reaches of the provinces, this new edition points you to the country's best sites. Here's up-to-date guidance for visiting the Loire Valley, Mont St.-Michel, Normandy's battlefields, and other popular destinations, along with lesser known attractions such as the charming vine-striped Var region of Provence and...
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Where the Suckers Moon
The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign
Written by Randall Rothenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $16.00
Rothenberg chronicles the brief, turbulent marriage between a recession-plagued auto company and an aggressively hip ad agency (whose creative director despised cars), capturing both the ad world's tantalizing gossip and the broader significance of its creations. "Simply the best book about advertising I have ever read."--Neil Postman (Technopoly).
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Ferrari
The Road from Maranello
Written by Dennis Adler
Foreword by Luigi Chinetti, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 344 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $45.00
In 1945, Enzo Ferrari, the onetime director of Scuderia Ferrari, Alfa Romeo’s fabled racing program, emerged from Alfa’s shadow to create his own legend. Out of the rubble of World War II, Ferrari established an auto works whose products would surpass anything before seen. Demand for handcrafted racing cars in postwar...
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Inside the Sky
A Meditation on Flight
Written by Willia Langewiesche
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $14.00
William Langewiesche's life has been deeply intertwined with the idea and act of flying. Fifty years ago his father, a test pilot, wrote
Stick and Rudder, a text still considered by many to be the bible of aerial navigation. Langewiesche himself learned to fly while still a child. Now he shares his pilot's-eye view...
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The God Machine
From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
Written by James R. Chiles
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many
helicoptrians who...
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Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $24.95
Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? That our minds can trick us into thinking the next lane is moving faster? Or that you can gauge a nation’s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are...
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Porsche
The Road from Zuffenhausen
Written by Dennis Adler
Format: Hardcover, 348 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $75.00
A lavishly illustrated history of the most recognized sports-car maker in the world—Porsche—a story that began more than a century ago.
Porsche: The Road from Zuffenhausen is the first book in more than twenty-five years to chronicle in such meticulous detail the early years of the renowned automobile company. Perfect for the...
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The End of Detroit
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market
Written by Micheline Maynard
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $23.00
An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry.In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely believed that Detroit had miraculously overcome the threat of...
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