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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
vii, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Transportation dominates our daily existence. Thousands, even millions, of miles are embedded in everything we do and touch. We live in a door-to-door universe that works so well most Americans are scarcely aware of it. The grand ballet in which we move ourselves and our stuff is equivalent to building the Great Pyramid, the Hoover Dam, and the Empire State Building all in a day. Every day. And yet, in the one highly visible part of the transportation...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Transit expert Steven Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reformsuch as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight, Boston making room on its streets to put buses first, and Indianapolis winning better bus service on Election Day. Higashide shows how to marshal the public in support of better buses and how new technologies can keep buses on time and make complex transit systems understandable. Higashide...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meryl is a lonely artist who literally envisions disaster around every corner. Nick is a photojournalist whose work keeps him emotionally distanced from the tragedies he documents. When the two meet in the aftermath of a real train accident, their lives, and the lives of a handful of other witnesses and victims, are revealed and transformed.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Description
An alphabet book provides a presentation of the common structures one sees and uses while getting from place to place, using such images as an "O" for a looped overpass and a "B" to denote the arches of a bridge.
11) Wake up engines
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Rhyming verses describe the sights and sounds of morning traffic as cars, trucks, and airplanes rev up their engines and go!
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Formats
Description
"Award-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter John Fialka brings to life this thrilling and important story about American's rejection and second obsession with the electric car. Starting with the early days of the electric car, Fialka documents the M.I.T./Caltech race between prototypes in the summer of 1968 and takes readers up to visionaries like Elon Musk and the upstart young Tesla Motors. Today, the electric has captured the imagination...
13) Delivery
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
Description
In this nearly wordless picture book, a grandmother uses every creative means of transportation necessary to deliver cookies to her grandson on his birthday.
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
192 pages cm
Description
"When the first commercial Concordes zoomed off the runways in Paris and London in the late 1960s, crossing the Atlantic in just under three hours, they established a new standard for luxury flight. Powered by 38,000 pounds of thrust and easily recognizable with its delta wing and drooping nose, the Concorde jet embodied the pinnacle of aviation technology and industrial design. It quickly became the preferred mode of transatlantic flight for superstars...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
438 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
In this narrative account, Hessler investigates China's lurch into modernity as he survives the advent of the nation's uniquely terrifying car culture, probes the transformation of village life, and explores China's frantic industrialization.
17) Let's go!
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Information about vehicles and other forms of transportation for young children learning to read."--Provided by publisher.
19) 3:10 to Yuma
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this beautifully shot and acted, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford, to the train that will take him to prison. This apparently simple plan turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that will test each man's particular brand of honor.
20) Bus drivers
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Description
"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces bus drivers to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
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