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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: $11.99
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: $11.99
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 >
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Jaguar
Written by Graham Robson
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $7.95
Sir William Lyons enjoyed a seemingly unstoppable rise to fame and fortune in the motor industry, and the Jaguar brand which he introduced became world-famous. Yet it did not happen overnight. In the 1920s he was in Blackpool, styling motorcycle sidecars, in the 1930s he was in Coventry developing the SS... Read more >
Written by Graham Robson
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $7.95
Sir William Lyons enjoyed a seemingly unstoppable rise to fame and fortune in the motor industry, and the Jaguar brand which he introduced became world-famous. Yet it did not happen overnight. In the 1920s he was in Blackpool, styling motorcycle sidecars, in the 1930s he was in Coventry developing the SS... 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 >
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In the Blink of an Eye
Written by Pat Milton
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 18, 1999
Price: $19.00
Like the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of TWA Flight 800 just off Long Island, New York, in the early evening of July 17, 1996, captured the world's imagination. Associated Press reporter Pat Milton has covered the story from day one and was granted unprecedented access to the FBI investigation--the... Read more >
Written by Pat Milton
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 18, 1999
Price: $19.00
Like the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of TWA Flight 800 just off Long Island, New York, in the early evening of July 17, 1996, captured the world's imagination. Associated Press reporter Pat Milton has covered the story from day one and was granted unprecedented access to the FBI investigation--the... Read more >
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Discovering Horse-Drawn Carriages
Written by D.J. Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $11.95
There is more than a touch of romance about a coach and horses, whether it be the splendid state coach in a royal procession drawn by a team of ornately harnessed greys, or the mail-coach clattering over the cobbles of an inn's courtyard, pausing to replace its steaming horses with a... Read more >
Written by D.J. Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $11.95
There is more than a touch of romance about a coach and horses, whether it be the splendid state coach in a royal procession drawn by a team of ornately harnessed greys, or the mail-coach clattering over the cobbles of an inn's courtyard, pausing to replace its steaming horses with a... Read more >
WALL TO WALL
Written by Mary Morris
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
Following her celebrated Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, Mary Morris, still alone, still graced with her extraordinary gifts of narrative and observation, presents an unforgettable account of her 1986 trip through China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. As in Nothing to Declare, she combines vivid portrayals of people... Read more >
Written by Mary Morris
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
Following her celebrated Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, Mary Morris, still alone, still graced with her extraordinary gifts of narrative and observation, presents an unforgettable account of her 1986 trip through China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. As in Nothing to Declare, she combines vivid portrayals of people... Read more >
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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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Muscle Cars
Written by Colin Romanick
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $9.95
In 2010, a 1970 Plymouth Superbird fetched $286,000 at an auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. In 2009, a 1970 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda sold for $2.16 million. Auctions of classic cars in general and muscle cars in particular routinely garner upwards of $39 million annually. Since their debut in the early 1960s, Americans... Read more >
Written by Colin Romanick
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $9.95
In 2010, a 1970 Plymouth Superbird fetched $286,000 at an auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. In 2009, a 1970 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda sold for $2.16 million. Auctions of classic cars in general and muscle cars in particular routinely garner upwards of $39 million annually. Since their debut in the early 1960s, Americans... Read more >
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Three-Wheelers
Written by Ken Hill
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $11.95
It is generally accepted that Karl Benz was the inventor of the motor car in 1885 but it is less well known that his car was a three-wheeler. Starting with the developments in the early years, this book puts three-wheelers in their historical context and describes the companies which produced them... Read more >
Written by Ken Hill
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $11.95
It is generally accepted that Karl Benz was the inventor of the motor car in 1885 but it is less well known that his car was a three-wheeler. Starting with the developments in the early years, this book puts three-wheelers in their historical context and describes the companies which produced them... Read more >
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Stephenson's Rocket and the Rainhill Trials
Written by Richard Gibbon
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $12.95
The iconic shape of George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, as unveiled to the world in 1829, is arguably the most enduring silhouette in railway history. But why was Rocket that special, curious, shape? And why does the surviving locomotive, a star exhibit at London's Science Museum, look so unlike the striking... Read more >
Written by Richard Gibbon
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $12.95
The iconic shape of George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, as unveiled to the world in 1829, is arguably the most enduring silhouette in railway history. But why was Rocket that special, curious, shape? And why does the surviving locomotive, a star exhibit at London's Science Museum, look so unlike the striking... Read more >
