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...
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P&O
Written by Ruth Artmonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $12.95
All the romance of travel at sea is captured in the long history of P&O. From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the 19th, and a good deal of the 20th, centuries. Initially the company's paddle...
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Terror on the Highway
Rage on America's Roads
Written by Paul Eberle
Format: Trade Paperback, 285 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2006
Price: $19.99
A doctor chases, then assaults an elderly woman after she cuts in front of his BMW; a teenager shoots another driver because the driver "looked at him with disrespect"; one man kills another because "he was driving too slow." These are a few of the many examples of extreme road rage...
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P&O
A History
Written by Ruth Artmonsky
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
All the romance of travel at sea is captured in the long history of P&O. From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the 19th, and a good deal of the 20th, centuries. Initially the company's paddle...
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Air Rage
Crisis in the Skies
Written by Andrew R. Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2001
Price: $22.99
In the last few years, several planes have almost gone down because of the aberrant or abusive behavior of one or more individuals. Unfortunately, such outbursts are becoming increasingly common. These dangerous actions -known as air rage - are by far the greatest threat to the safety and security of the...
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Railway Posters
Written by Lorna Frost
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
Railway posters have a huge appeal to the modern audience, but just what is it that appeals to us? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament to the persuasive power of the railway company marketing departments established in the late nineteenth century...
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Mail Trains
Written by Julian Stray
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
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...
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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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The Flying Scotsman
Written by Bob Gwynne
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $12.95
Flying Scotsman is probably the most famous railway locomotive in the world. When it was new in 1923 it caused a sensation for its beauty and its speed, and the engine found itself at the center of media attention that continued throughout the decade and made it a household name -...
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