Books, Nonfiction, Transportation

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Tom Vanderbilt
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-07-29)

Robert Pirsig
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Bantam (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1984-03-01)

Paul Theroux
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
by Houghton Mifflin (Hardcover)

E. B. Sledge
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Classics of Naval Literature)
by US Naval Institute Press (Hardcover)

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, "The Good War." What has made E.B. Sledge's memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion. Now including a new introduction by Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923 and raised on riding, hunting, fishing, and a respect for history and legendary heroes such as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene Bondurant Sledge (later called "Sledgehammer" by his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the ...

Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback) (Release Date: 2001-05-01)

Brad Matsen
Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)
by Thorndike Press (Hardcover)

After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of history's most notorious shipwreck: Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did?To answer the question, Chatterton and Kohler assemble a team of experts to explore Titanic, study its engineering, and dive to the wreck of its sister ship, Brittanic, where Titanic's last secrets may be revealed.Titanic's Last Secrets is a rollercoaster ride through the shipbuilding history, the transatlantic luxury liner business, and shipwreck forensics. Chatterton and Kohler weave their way through a labyrinth of clues to discover that Titanic was not the strong, heroic ship the world thought she was and that the men who built her covered up her flaws when disaster struck. If Titanic had remained afloat for just two hours longer than she did, more than two thousand people would have lived instead of died, ...

David L. Hough
Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well
by BowTie Press (Paperback)

This fresh update of the world's best introduction to safe street-riding techniques now marries color imagery and contemporary road scenes with expanded content and more real road hazard strategies written in clear, concise,easy-to follow instruction that has made the book #1.

Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods
by Broadway (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1998-05-04)

Federal Aviation Administration
FAR/AIM 2009: Federal Aviation Regulations/Aeronautical Information Manual (FAR/AIM series)
by Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (Paperback)

Adhering to a reputation for excellence, this definitive manual of the latest civil aviation directives has been fully updated and indexed to clearly reflect all the changes in the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) and the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) over the past year. In addition to the regulations, AIM procedures, and redrawn AIM illustrations, this retypeset edition also includes a study guide for specific pilot certifications and ratings, a pilot/controller glossary, the NASA Aviation Safety reporting form, important FAA contact information, and a free e-mail service that accounts for regulation changes throughout the publication year. Updates are provided to account for FAA regulation changes throughout the publication year via the Aviation Supplies & Academics website.

Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conaway, George A. Borden
Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries
by Bob Adams, Inc. (Paperback)

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