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Fly Now!
The Poster Collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Written by Joanne Gernstein London
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $25.00
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws more visitors than any other museum in the world—90,000 a day in the summertime—and the highlight of summer 2007 at the NASM will be "Fly Now," the exhibit of air travel posters featured in this unique companion volume which combines arresting, colorful art... Read more >
The Poster Collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Written by Joanne Gernstein London
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $25.00
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws more visitors than any other museum in the world—90,000 a day in the summertime—and the highlight of summer 2007 at the NASM will be "Fly Now," the exhibit of air travel posters featured in this unique companion volume which combines arresting, colorful art... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The British Motor Industry
Written by Jonathan Wood
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $12.95
Austin, Hillman, Morris, Standard and Wolseley were a handful of the myriad marques that once constituted Britain's indigenous motor industry. Born in 1896 into the high summer of Victorian prosperity, the native British industry survived until the collapse of The Rover Group in 2005. Jonathan Wood chronicles this industry's 109-year life... Read more >
Written by Jonathan Wood
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $12.95
Austin, Hillman, Morris, Standard and Wolseley were a handful of the myriad marques that once constituted Britain's indigenous motor industry. Born in 1896 into the high summer of Victorian prosperity, the native British industry survived until the collapse of The Rover Group in 2005. Jonathan Wood chronicles this industry's 109-year life... Read more >
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Family Cars of the 1970s
Written by James Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.95
The 1970s and 1980s were critical years for the British motor industry. A downward spiral in industrial relations led to crippling strikes; two major oil crises made thirsty older designs virtually unsaleable; and foreign manufacturers moved in with products that were affordable, reliable and available on demand.
Yet, by and large, British... Read more >
Written by James Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.95
The 1970s and 1980s were critical years for the British motor industry. A downward spiral in industrial relations led to crippling strikes; two major oil crises made thirsty older designs virtually unsaleable; and foreign manufacturers moved in with products that were affordable, reliable and available on demand.
Yet, by and large, British... Read more >
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Tractors
1880s to 1980s
Written by Nick Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $12.95
Of all motor vehicles the farm tractor has proved to be among the most beneficial. It has freed hundreds of thousands of laborers and horses from backbreaking toil on the land in all weathers and it has stabilized the cost of food.
Starting with steam power in the middle of the nineteenth... Read more >
1880s to 1980s
Written by Nick Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $12.95
Of all motor vehicles the farm tractor has proved to be among the most beneficial. It has freed hundreds of thousands of laborers and horses from backbreaking toil on the land in all weathers and it has stabilized the cost of food.
Starting with steam power in the middle of the nineteenth... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Mail Trains
Written by Julian Stray
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $12.95
Central to the prompt delivery of the nation's mail is its efficient transit throughout the country. From 1830, the Post Office relied increasingly on the overland rail network to achieve this. Railway Post Offices, Sunday Sorting Tenders and District Sorting Carriages were amongst the services introduced.
More important lines carried the famous... Read more >
Written by Julian Stray
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $12.95
Central to the prompt delivery of the nation's mail is its efficient transit throughout the country. From 1830, the Post Office relied increasingly on the overland rail network to achieve this. Railway Post Offices, Sunday Sorting Tenders and District Sorting Carriages were amongst the services introduced.
More important lines carried the famous... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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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Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Read by David Slavin
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $29.95
Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light.
We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us... Read more >
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Read by David Slavin
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $29.95
Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light.
We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Transatlantic Liners
Written by J. Layton
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
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 >
Written by J. Layton
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
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: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
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 a
trade paperback.
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Early Railways
1569-1830
Written by Andy Guy and Jim Rees
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $12.95
To many people, the history of the railway begins with the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830. By that time, however, the concept of the railway in Britain was already over 250 years old, a fascinating but little-known period of experimentation, improvement and invention which included such remarkable... Read more >
1569-1830
Written by Andy Guy and Jim Rees
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $12.95
To many people, the history of the railway begins with the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830. By that time, however, the concept of the railway in Britain was already over 250 years old, a fascinating but little-known period of experimentation, improvement and invention which included such remarkable... Read more >
