Transportation
Explore the best books on transportation, featuring engaging reads on buses, trains, and cars for all ages, including top picks for preschoolers and captivating picture books. Find your next favorite transportation book at our online bookstore, showcasing bestsellers and highly recommended reads.
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Normalization of Deviance: A Threat to Aviation SafetyThe things that airlines, aircraft manufacturers, and the FAA arenot sharing with the public. This book is the result of the author'sdoctoral research--Safety Culture, Training, Understanding, AviationPassion: The Impact on Manual Flight and Operational Performance.While the intent of the research was to learn what...
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Tomcat Rio: A Topgun Instructor on the F-14 Tomcat and the Heroic Naval Aviators Who Flew ItFrom Topgun to Squadron Command You're in the cockpit of the legendary F-14 Tomcat fighter, blazing along at twice the speed of sound seven miles above the ocean and the carrier that hurled you off its deck. You're practicing dogfighting with "aggressors," guys on...
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Turbine PowerA bold railroading technology and its fate. Are there any other better words to describe it? Turbine Power by Walter Simpson is a new book that covers steam and gas turbine locomotives and trains, how they functioned, and the technology used from the 1939-2003...
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Milk Trains and TrafficMilk was once an important commodity for the railroads. Before refrigeration became mainstream, high-speed delivery was critical. Trains carried butter, milk and cheese from small town collecting stations and creameries to the production creameries in the big cities. In Milk Trains and Traffic, explore...
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Busy Numbers: Spin the Wheel to Learn Numbers!Kids love construction sites and they will also love learning their numbers by counting the diggers, bulldozers, and mixers on each spread of this fun and educational book. Each spread features construction vehicles and workers, and the simple text instructs kids to count different...
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Victory Motorcycles 1998-2017: The Complete History of an American OriginalWith the 1998 debut of its V92C, Victory Motorcycles became the New American Motorcycle. Victory's innovative, stylish heavyweight cruiser motorcycles attracted a loyal, hard-riding following, but now the market share needed to survive. This richly illustrated book covers the brand's history model-by-model and analyzes...
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Boat Modeling with Dynamite Payson: A Step-By-Step Guide to Building Models of Small CraftStep-by-step instruction, illustrated, beginning with the basics and working toward advanced hull shapes and techniques by a gentleman who knows his stuff. Table of Contents: Building the Maine Lobsterboat 12 - Foot Fisherman's Skiff The Gloucester Light Dory Bobcat - An Instant Catboat Cartopper...
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Boats, Planes and Trains: With Touch & Feel Trails and Lift-The-FlapsA perfect, interactive first concepts board book all about things that go! Follow the trails of trundling tractors, flashing fire engines and powerful planes. Follow touch-and-feel train tracks and chunky tire treads to meet all kinds of vehicles. With exciting touch & feel textures...
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Vroom!From beloved author and artist Barbara McClintock comes Vroom , a playful picture book following a little girl's imaginative journey in a race car. Join a little girl as she zooms--past fields and forests, up mountains, over rivers, through deserts, home again, and into...
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Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook: General (2023): Faa-H-8083-30aNew to this volume is a section addressing how successful aviation maintenance technicians incorporate knowledge and awareness of ethics, professionalism and human factors in the field.Author: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), U S Department of TransportationPublisher: Aviation Supplies & AcademicsPublished: 03/27/2018Pages: 696Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.45lbsSize:...
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Grumpy's Toys: The Authorized History of Grumpy Jenkins' CarsFew men have impacted the sport of drag racing like Bill Grumpy Jenkins. His storied history at the drag strip began in the late 1950s, and continues today. Throughout his career, both innovation and success have followed him closely, and this book documents the...
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Holley Carburetors: How to RebuildDelve into all aspects of Holley carburetors with knowledgeable instruction from this guide, which shows you how to disassemble, select new parts, rebuild, and calibrate all of the major models.Veteran engine-building expert and automotive author Mike Mavrigian guides you through each important stage of...
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Sailing Into History: Great Lakes Bulk Carriers of the Twentieth Century and the Crews Who Sailed ThemThe Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes...
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A History of the Boston & Maine Railroad: Exploring New Hampshire's Rugged Heart by RailOn June 27, 1835, New Hampshire chartered the Boston & Maine Railroad, and a juggernaut was born. By 1900, the B&M operated some 2,300 miles of track in northern New England, having taken over an astonishing forty-seven different railroads since its incepAuthor: Bruce D....
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P Is for Pirate: A Pirate AlphabetThe word pirate means one who plunders on the sea, and piracy has been around for as long as men and women have longed for adventure and lusted for riches. But it wasn't all fun and pillaging Being a pirate was not an easy...
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The Mopar Six-Pack Engine Handbook Hp1528: How to Rebuild and Modify the 440 6-Barrel and 340 6-Barrelor Convert Your La SM All-Block (318-360 C.I.),A step-by-step guide to rebuilding, restoring, and modifying the famous Mopar 'Six-Pack' engines that appeared in all of Chrysler's muscle cars from 1969 through 1971, as well as the late- model small-blocks and crate performance motors currently offered by Chrysler.Author: Larry ShepardPublisher: HP BooksPublished:...
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Off & AwayHow would you get mail if you lived in the middle of the sea? It's Jo's dad's job to deliver it, taking bottles wherever they need to go. He always comes home with exciting stories to tell--but Jo is far too afraid to go...
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Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship"A fascinating, fast-paced history...full of remarkable characters and incredible stories" about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award-winning author of In the Heart of the Sea). There was a time, back when...
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The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington MetroAs Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author.Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln...
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The Real History of the Transcontinental RailroadThere is more to the history of the railroads than connecting the eastern United States to the western ones. Most of the workers were of Chinese descent and were treated unfairly. Learn how workers protested for better treatment. Have you ever considered what's missing...
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