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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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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The Victorians and Edwardians on the Move
Written by John Hannavy
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2011
Price: $16.95
The Victorians and Edwardians on the Move reveals how the Victorians and Edwardians moved around their towns, their cities and their country. From Shanks's pony to the dawn of the motor car, it explores the relationship between developing transport systems and the working and social lives of Britons between 1840 and...
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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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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 Model T Ford
Written by Jonathan Wood
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $11.95
With 16.5 million built between 1908 and 1927, the Model T Ford was, until overtaken in the 1970s by the Volkswagen Beetle, the most popular car in automotive history. Mass-produced in America and around the globe, such was the Model T's market penetration and value-for-money that in 1921 Henry Ford's deceptively...
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The London Bus
Written by James Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $12.95
The red double decker bus is one of the enduring images of London. Although now increasingly replaced by modern bendy buses, the classic rear-entrance double-decker still appears on postcards, keyrings, t-shirts and other tourist souvenirs. Successor to the horse-drawn London buses of the nineteenth century, the B-type double-decker first appeared in...
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