Traffic
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: $16.95
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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Airstream
The Silver RV
Written by Tara Cox
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $9.95
The Airstream is an eye-catching vintage classic. First appearing on American highways in the mid-1930s, these sleek aluminum icons were compact, cozy spaces that could hitched to the family car and taken out on the open road – and nearly a century later, their timeless design has lost none of its...
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China Airborne
Written by James Fallows
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China...
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Where the Suckers Moon
The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign
Written by Randall Rothenberg
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2013
Price: $11.99
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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The Concorde Story
Seventh Edition
Written by Christopher Orlebar
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $35.00
This fully revised edition of
The Concorde Story, published to coincide with the anniversary of the aircraft's first landing at Heathrow, is a complete history of Concorde. When commercial air services were launched in 1976, Concorde was hailed as one of the wonders of the technological world.
Lavishly illustrated throughout, this...
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