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1.		Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World from Atlantic Books Price: $28.90 Customer Review: Like most people, I had no idea how important railroads were to the history of the world. This over-all story of the contributions made by the Iron Horse to civilization and the industrial revolution is fascinating even to somebody like myself who really doesn't know much about trains, but who has... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) from Vintage Canada Price: $20.99 Customer Review: Traffic is a well-reseached and easily-read book which I would recommend to everybody who participates in "traffic" not only as a car-driver, but also a motor cyclist, bicyclist or even pedestrian. It will make of you a safer participant in traffic because of the knowledge you will acquire about why... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Building Agreement from Random House Uk Ltd Customer Review: Enjoying reading, but as much as it talks about "emotions" that much you understand that's it's a thing which really hard to control.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger from Princeton University Press Price: $10.47 Customer Review: Not everything that drives international connectivity and the global economy is as high-tech or as talked-about as information technology and ubiquitous jet travel. Case in point: the rectangular metal shipping container, and all the un-sexy infrastructure to support its use, such as specially... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Build Your Own Electric Vehicle from McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Price: $15.76 Customer Review: I picked up this book because I was curious. I am a car guy who loves working on his cars, and loves motor sports, especially dirt track racing. I am probably not the target audience for this book. Still, my thinking on ecology has been seriously challenged by my Church (I am Catholic, and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Six-Minute Solutions for Civil PE Exam Transportation Problems from Professional Publications, Inc. Price: $52.50 Customer Review: I thought this book was great. The problems were realistic to the length of test problems and the solutions were straight forward and easy to follow.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art from Ten Speed Press Price: $4.98 Customer Review: More than you need to know about being environmentally sensitive about the woods. I'm hoping someone will post a video review showing how they made use of this information.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Flight: 100 Years of Aviation from Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd Price: $152.25 Customer Review: I love this book! This is one of those books that's hard to put down once I pick it up and start browsing it's wonderfully rich pages. I'm no pilot, but I love aircraft, their history, and their beauty. This book satisfies my interest in aviation like no other book I've seen. The photos... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Bike, Scooter, and Chopper Projects for the Evil Genius from McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Price: $12.99 Customer Review: I don't know why genius has to be evil. And there ain't much genius in the projects described. However, this was just what we were looking for- a practical guide to create very interesting projects. I bought the book for my oldest son (he's 14), yet I had just as much fun deciding which of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.	[no image]	MY YEARS WITH GENERAL MOTORS (LIBRARY OF MANAGEMENT CLASSICS) from SIDGWICK & JACKSON LTD Customer Review: Reading a memoir penned by a man who witnessed the transformation of American transportation is truly exciting. He lived through a time from the early 1900's when few cars existed to another time in the 1960's when many cars drove past on streets. Sloan remembers, "I recall that both sides of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Black Sheep One: The Life of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington from Presidio Press Price: $1.00 Customer Review: VERY INTERSTING LECTURE ABOUT GREGG BOYINGTON AND HOW HE BECAME A WW2 AVIATIOR HERO. COVERS THE TRUE ASPECTS OF THIS PART OF HIS LIFE, HIS UPS AND DOWNFALLS NEVER IGNORING WHAT THE ABUSE OF DRINKING DID TO HIM. BESIDES THE STORIES OF HOW HE BECAME AN ACE FOR MORE THAT 5 TIMES, THE TRHUTH ABOUT THE... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Contemporary Urban Planning (8th Edition) from Prentice Hall Customer Review: The textbook arrived just in the condition as stated. The book gives very good detail about urban planning. Where it was in the past, and where it should be going in the future.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Transportation (with InfoTrac ) from South-Western College Pub Price: $135.54 Customer Review: The book was in excellent condition, I will return to the vendor next time I need a book.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Lightly on the Land: The Sca Trail-Building and Maintenance Manual from Mountaineers Books Price: $7.25 Customer Review: Great book for trail builders. One thing we'd question or wonder about is, we can't figure out why they try going without the use of fasteners on bridges.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Route 66 (Enthusiast Color) from MBI Price: $9.30 Customer Review: Such a neat book. Wonderful photos and heaps of ideas for places to visit. A very easy read and sooo inviting!! I wish I could afford the pink convertible cadilla to do it properly!!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		The Geography of Transport Systems from Routledge Price: $29.05 Customer Review: it's easy to read and has a compreensive exposition of the issues.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.	[no image]	Student Solutions Manual from Pearson Higher Education Price: $79.99 Customer Review: Way overpriced for a cheap thinly paperback 68 page solutions manual that only further explains what the already given answers in the back of the book. For the high price i expected getting all the solutions and explanations. lazy authors. WASTE OF MY MONEY!! Returning right away.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Scenic Driving New Mexico, 2nd (Scenic Driving Series) from Falcon Price: $3.86 Customer Review: I am so glad I received this book as a gift a few years ago. I have taken about 85% of the drives described and I never would have discovered many of these drives and I certainly would not have enjoyed them so much without this book. I give this book as a gift to friends now all the time. It is a... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Railroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey from The Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $25.08 Customer Review: The title of the book suggested a coffee table book, which it is not. An abundance of photographs brings to vivid life the African American experience during the times. The text brings out some of the painful and backbreaking efforts that went into the construction of these railroads. Then there are... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels: A Do-It-Yourself Manual from McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Price: $15.03	Click here for more information


21.		Start Your Own Car Wash (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up) from Entrepreneur Press Price: $4.99 Customer Review: Book great for the entry thinking person to learn the basics of how car washes work. Defenitly a great starting point. Dives a bit deaper than just basics and sets you up for understanding the biz.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Traffic & Highway Engineering from CL-Engineering Price: $69.45 Customer Review: Fantastic service. Book was in the actual condition mentioned on the website and I received it in a timely manner. Highly recommend this seller.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		How to Custom Paint Your Car (Motorbooks Workshop) from Motorbooks Price: $13.59 Customer Review: I have never painted a car, until I got this book. I bought it with another couple books on painting and it really helped. I had purchased an older MG that needed a paint job. So I used this book to help me with some idea and a little custom paint work. You won't become an expert just by... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		How Steam Locomotives Really Work from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $10.59 Customer Review: The most comprehensive outline of steam locomotive engineering that I have seen. Mainly concentrates on British practices, not too much on US practice.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management from Kogan Page Price: $60.82 Customer Review: Very basic book. Suitable if you don't know anything about the topic and want to get very broad view about area of logistics. Pages were thick, which made it harder to handle.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis from Wiley Price: $52.00 Customer Review: I agree with the reviewer who said that he was able to use the book without prior knowledge of physics or highway design. The book is one of the smallest text books i've had and probably the simplest. I honestly don't know much about the scope of highway design, but it is hard to believe that this... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) from Princeton University Press Price: $24.29 Customer Review: If anyone wants a better understanding of hour their "stuff" (food, electronics, furniture, etc.) gets from point A to B so fast and cheap today, they need to read this book. It is an outstanding history, from the Depression through the 1980's, of how products were moved in this country and the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Urban Transit : Operations, Planning and Economics from Wiley Price: $99.36 Customer Review: How to plan an urban transit system of buses and trains? Vuchic offers a text suitable to accompany an undergraduate course in urban planning. It describes many aspects of transit. Like the ability to have articulated buses that have capacities 50% greater than standard buses. By using these on... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Garage and Workshop Gear Guide (Motorbooks Workshop) from Motorbooks Price: $9.95 Customer Review: Very comprehensive as to what is needed in a garage workshop. It covers the essentials of preparing the garage (floor coating, lighting, heating, cooling, wiring, workbenches, storage, etc). It then covers various areas of tools - what they do and what is necessary and some advanced tools. Both... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		International Logistics (Chapman & Hall Materials Management / Logistics) from Springer Price: $62.99 Customer Review: A bit boring read, but definitely a good resource if I ever need to refer to the book.	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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