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How to Live Well Without Owning a Car
Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life
Written by Chris Balish
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $12.95
You don'¬?t need to own a car to live well in America. In fact, you'¬?d probably be better off without one. In this groundbreaking guide, award-winning journalist Chris Balish exposes the true costs of car ownership and shows how car-free living can put anyone on the path to financial freedom. Using... Read more >
Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life
Written by Chris Balish
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $12.95
You don'¬?t need to own a car to live well in America. In fact, you'¬?d probably be better off without one. In this groundbreaking guide, award-winning journalist Chris Balish exposes the true costs of car ownership and shows how car-free living can put anyone on the path to financial freedom. Using... Read more >
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Transatlantic Liners
1899-2004
Written by J. Layton
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $11.95
Prior to air travel there was only one way to cross the Atlantic: by ship. By the late nineteenth century, steam ships dominated the transatlantic passenger trade, growing exponentially in size as maritime technology improved and as more immigrants poured from Europe into the New World. As the liners got bigger... Read more >
1899-2004
Written by J. Layton
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $11.95
Prior to air travel there was only one way to cross the Atlantic: by ship. By the late nineteenth century, steam ships dominated the transatlantic passenger trade, growing exponentially in size as maritime technology improved and as more immigrants poured from Europe into the New World. As the liners got bigger... Read more >
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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). Read more >
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). Read more >
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trade paperback.
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Written by David Cordingly
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $13.99
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went... Read more >
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Written by David Cordingly
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $13.99
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went... Read more >
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Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $14.95
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along... Read more >
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $14.95
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along... Read more >
Also available as an
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The Tube
Station to Station on the London Underground
Written by Oliver Green
Format: eBook, 120 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $7.95
From Norman Foster’s remarkable station at Canary Wharf to the Yellow-brick vaults of Baker street to the Art Deco exuberance of Arnos Grove, London’s tube stations are among its most distinctive and iconic buildings. This beautiful hardback edition is a fantastic gift-book, publishing in the run up to Christmas, and sales... Read more >
Station to Station on the London Underground
Written by Oliver Green
Format: eBook, 120 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $7.95
From Norman Foster’s remarkable station at Canary Wharf to the Yellow-brick vaults of Baker street to the Art Deco exuberance of Arnos Grove, London’s tube stations are among its most distinctive and iconic buildings. This beautiful hardback edition is a fantastic gift-book, publishing in the run up to Christmas, and sales... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
British Motorcycles of the 1960s and '70s
Written by Mick Walker
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $7.95
For the first half of the 20th century Great Britain led the world in motorcycle design and production, exporting its products to countries in every section of the globe. However, as the second half of the century began in 1960 this once great industry commenced what was to be a terminal... Read more >
Written by Mick Walker
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $7.95
For the first half of the 20th century Great Britain led the world in motorcycle design and production, exporting its products to countries in every section of the globe. However, as the second half of the century began in 1960 this once great industry commenced what was to be a terminal... Read more >
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Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers
Wingsuits and the Pioneers Who Flew in Them, Fell in Them, and Perfected Them
Written by Michael Abrams
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $13.95
The Wright Brothers were wimps.
Or so you might think after reading this account of their unsung but even more daring rivals—the men and women who strapped wings to their backs and took to the sky. If only for a few seconds.
People have been dying to fly, quite literally, since the... Read more >
Wingsuits and the Pioneers Who Flew in Them, Fell in Them, and Perfected Them
Written by Michael Abrams
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $13.95
The Wright Brothers were wimps.
Or so you might think after reading this account of their unsung but even more daring rivals—the men and women who strapped wings to their backs and took to the sky. If only for a few seconds.
People have been dying to fly, quite literally, since the... Read more >
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The London Underground
Written by Andrew Emmerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $12.95
The London Underground is the heart of London life, used by millions of commuters and shoppers every year, its tentacles extending into the suburbs it has helped to create. Its turbulent life has been determined by the trials and tribulations endured by the people it carries: it provided an network of... Read more >
Written by Andrew Emmerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $12.95
The London Underground is the heart of London life, used by millions of commuters and shoppers every year, its tentacles extending into the suburbs it has helped to create. Its turbulent life has been determined by the trials and tribulations endured by the people it carries: it provided an network of... Read more >
