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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 >
Also available as a
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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: $16.00
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... Read more >
A Meditation on Flight
Written by Willia Langewiesche
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $16.00
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... 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.
Mini
Written by Gillan Bardsley
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $7.95
The Mini was born in an age of austerity and shortage, intended to widen the base of motoring by making it more affordable for the average family. Ironically it would become something very different, a modern classless car which appealed across the boundaries of social status, age, gender, affluence or affordability... Read more >
Written by Gillan Bardsley
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $7.95
The Mini was born in an age of austerity and shortage, intended to widen the base of motoring by making it more affordable for the average family. Ironically it would become something very different, a modern classless car which appealed across the boundaries of social status, age, gender, affluence or affordability... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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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 >
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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: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2003
Price: $17.99
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: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2003
Price: $17.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II
Written by Michael Walling
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $26.95
Written by Michael Walling
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $26.95
Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United States supplied Stalin’s Soviet Russia with critical equipment and foodstuffs during the darkest days of the German invasion.
The words "Murmansk Run" conjure visions of ice-laden ships and thoughts of freezing to death in...
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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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Steamboats
Icons of America's Rivers
Written by Sara Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $9.95
Paddlewheel riverboat, showboat, sternwheeler, steamboat: call it what you will, but the steamboat revolutionized travel in the 1800s, an era in which young boys dreamed of becoming river pilots and Mark Twain forever memorialized the "Delta Queens" that travelled up and down the Mississippi River. Steamboat enthusiast Sara Wright provides a... Read more >
Icons of America's Rivers
Written by Sara Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $9.95
Paddlewheel riverboat, showboat, sternwheeler, steamboat: call it what you will, but the steamboat revolutionized travel in the 1800s, an era in which young boys dreamed of becoming river pilots and Mark Twain forever memorialized the "Delta Queens" that travelled up and down the Mississippi River. Steamboat enthusiast Sara Wright provides a... Read more >
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Mini
Written by Gillan Bardsley
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $12.95
The Mini was born in an age of austerity and shortage, intended to widen the base of motoring by making it more affordable for the average family. Ironically it would become something very different, a modern classless car which appealed across the boundaries of social status, age, gender, affluence or affordability... Read more >
Written by Gillan Bardsley
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $12.95
The Mini was born in an age of austerity and shortage, intended to widen the base of motoring by making it more affordable for the average family. Ironically it would become something very different, a modern classless car which appealed across the boundaries of social status, age, gender, affluence or affordability... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
