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Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $24.95
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $24.95
Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? That our minds can trick us into thinking the next lane is moving faster? Or that you can gauge a nation’s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are...
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Written by Gary Kinder
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.95
"White knuckle reading...with generous portions of adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
This enthralling true story of maritime tragedy and visionary science begins with a disaster to rival the sinking of the Titanic.
In September 1857, the S.S. Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the... Read more >
Written by Gary Kinder
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.95
"White knuckle reading...with generous portions of adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
This enthralling true story of maritime tragedy and visionary science begins with a disaster to rival the sinking of the Titanic.
In September 1857, the S.S. Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the... Read more >
National Geographic Traveler: France, 2d Ed.
Written by Rosemary Bailey
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $27.95
From central Paris to the farthest reaches of the provinces, this new edition points you to the country's best sites. Here's up-to-date guidance for visiting the Loire Valley, Mont St.-Michel, Normandy's battlefields, and other popular destinations, along with lesser known attractions such as the charming vine-striped Var region of Provence and... Read more >
Written by Rosemary Bailey
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $27.95
From central Paris to the farthest reaches of the provinces, this new edition points you to the country's best sites. Here's up-to-date guidance for visiting the Loire Valley, Mont St.-Michel, Normandy's battlefields, and other popular destinations, along with lesser known attractions such as the charming vine-striped Var region of Provence and... Read more >
The God Machine
From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
Written by James R. Chiles
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who... Read more >
From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
Written by James R. Chiles
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who... Read more >
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Ferrari
The Road from Maranello
Written by Dennis Adler
Foreword by Luigi Chinetti, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 344 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $45.00
In 1945, Enzo Ferrari, the onetime director of Scuderia Ferrari, Alfa Romeo’s fabled racing program, emerged from Alfa’s shadow to create his own legend. Out of the rubble of World War II, Ferrari established an auto works whose products would surpass anything before seen. Demand for handcrafted racing cars in postwar... Read more >
The Road from Maranello
Written by Dennis Adler
Foreword by Luigi Chinetti, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 344 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $45.00
In 1945, Enzo Ferrari, the onetime director of Scuderia Ferrari, Alfa Romeo’s fabled racing program, emerged from Alfa’s shadow to create his own legend. Out of the rubble of World War II, Ferrari established an auto works whose products would surpass anything before seen. Demand for handcrafted racing cars in postwar... Read more >
One Helluva Ride
How NASCAR Swept the Nation
Written by Liz Clarke
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $25.00
From its raw beginnings on Southern dirt tracks, NASCAR smacked of a slightly depraved spectacle, as if nothing but trouble could come from the unbridled locomotion of a V8 engine. By the time NASCAR roared into the twenty-first century, it had grown into a billion-dollar sports and marketing colossus, its races... Read more >
How NASCAR Swept the Nation
Written by Liz Clarke
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $25.00
From its raw beginnings on Southern dirt tracks, NASCAR smacked of a slightly depraved spectacle, as if nothing but trouble could come from the unbridled locomotion of a V8 engine. By the time NASCAR roared into the twenty-first century, it had grown into a billion-dollar sports and marketing colossus, its races... 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.
Porsche
The Road from Zuffenhausen
Written by Dennis Adler
Format: Hardcover, 348 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $75.00
A lavishly illustrated history of the most recognized sports-car maker in the world—Porsche—a story that began more than a century ago.
Porsche: The Road from Zuffenhausen is the first book in more than twenty-five years to chronicle in such meticulous detail the early years of the renowned automobile company. Perfect for the... Read more >
The Road from Zuffenhausen
Written by Dennis Adler
Format: Hardcover, 348 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $75.00
A lavishly illustrated history of the most recognized sports-car maker in the world—Porsche—a story that began more than a century ago.
Porsche: The Road from Zuffenhausen is the first book in more than twenty-five years to chronicle in such meticulous detail the early years of the renowned automobile company. Perfect for the... Read more >
Return to Titanic
Written by Robert D. Ballard and Michael Sweeney
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2004
Price: $30.00
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Written by Robert D. Ballard and Michael Sweeney
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2004
Price: $30.00
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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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