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  • Strategy of Great Railroads, The
    Frank H. Spearman / Frank HSpearman
    CONTENTSThe Vanderbilt LinesThe Pennsylvania SystemThe Harriman LinesThe Hill LinesThe Fight for PittsburgThe Gould LinesThe Rock Island SystemThe AtchisonThe Chicago, Milwaukee and St. PaulThe Chicago and NorthwesternThe Rebuilding of an American RailroadThe First Transcontinental RailroadThe Early Day in Railroading ...
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    21,80 €

  • The Lost Fleet
    Barry Clifford / Kenneth Kinkor
    On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d’Estrées, The Lost Fleet portrays a dark age, when the outcasts of European soc...
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    15,46 €

  • The United States Discovers Panama
    Michael JLaRosa
    Marking the centennial of Panama’s separation from Colombia in 1903, this volume reprises U.S. images of the isthmus a century ago. The editors have collected a fascinating selection of articles from two of the most influential publications of the era, Harper’s Monthly Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly, to illustrate the prejudices and expansionistic rhetoric of the time. An ec...
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    62,12 €

  • Journey to Titanic
    Roger Bansemer
    Artist Roger Bansemer gets an unexpected invitation to dive two and a half miles down into the Atlantic to the site of one of the most famous shipwrecks in history. Armed with his artist’s eye and insight, he embarks on an expedition on a Russian research ship to the Titanic In this compelling journal, Bansemers writing and stunning visual work bring us into the adventure, rela...
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    24,63 €

  • The Physics of Sailing Explained
    Bryon D. Anderson / Bryon DAnderson
    Authoritative yet accessible, this work will enable readers to better grasp how sails, keels and hulls work together to keep sailboats moving--and will sharpen their skills with a more subtle and thorough appreciation of why various boat design features are present and why certain tactics work in certain situations. ...
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    17,68 €

  • Flying
    Machelle M. Seibel / Machelle MSeibel / Richard Bach
    Here for the first time in a single volume are three of Richard Bach’s most compelling works about flight.From his edgy days as a USAF Alert pilot above Europe in an armed F84-F Thunderstreak during the Cold War to a meander across America in a 1929 biplane, Bach explores the extreme edges of the air, his airplane, and himself in glorious writing about how it feels to climb int...
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    55,39 €

  • Hogger
    Richard APetersen
    A young lad, stands alongside the tracks in his small town, and dreams of becoming a steam locomotive engineer. Follow Smoky Dyer through 42 years in engine service for The Milwaukee Road and the Soo Line, where he rises from #225 on the seniority list to #1 by retirement. Author Richard Petersen paints portraits of the most unforgettable people he met along the way. ...
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    31,04 €

  • Hogger
    Richard A. Petersen
    A young lad, stands alongside the tracks in his small town, and dreams of becoming a steam locomotive engineer. Follow Richard Petersen through 42 years in engine service for The Milwaukee Road and the Soo Line, where he rises from #225 on the seniority list to #1 by retirement. Author Richard Petersen paints portraits of the most unforgettable people he met along the way. 3 ...
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    19,80 €

  • Unlocking the Sky
    Seth Shulman
    Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and in the courtrooms of America. While the Wright brothers threw a veil of secrecy over their flying machine, Glenn Hammond Curtiss -- perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time -- freel...
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    16,39 €

  • Government Birds
    Martin Staniland
    The first comparative study of the complicated history of relations between the state and the air transport industry in Europe, this book travels from the earliest scheduled flights down to the era of liberalization and privatization in the 1990s. Martin Staniland concentrates on four key countries-France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom-exploring both the sour...
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    95,54 €

  • Chrysler, Ford, Durant and Sloan
    H. Eugene Weiss
    The American automobile industry has been called the favorite child of capitalism. Four decades of exceptional earnings allowed Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler, William Durant and Alfred P. Sloan (both of General Motors), and their companies to make developments in production, design and marketing that have set the standard for consumer products and industrial firms. Four men ar...
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    43,86 €

  • High Performance Ford Focus Builder’s Handbook
    Richard Holdener
    The photos in this edition are black and white.The sport compact performance market is hot and getting hotter - and while the Honda Civic and Acura Integra have long been the dominant players in the market, a newcomer is emerging as a popular car for performance modifications - the Ford Focus. Well-built, inexpensive, good looking, and easy to modify, the Focus is quickly catch...
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    31,20 €

  • From Autogiro to Gyroplane
    Bruce H. Charnov / Bruce HCharnov
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    94,71 €

  • Art Smith
    Rachel Sherwood Roberts
    By 1915, pioneer aviator Art Smith was as celebrated as any movie star might be today. He thrilled audiences with his barnstorming feats, doing 'death spirals,' sky writing, 'loop-the-loops,' and night flights using phosphorus fireworks. He was a consummate showman and had he not died in 1926, his name probably would be familiar to most Americans. He glamorized and populari...
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    43,93 €

  • WEAVING THE WINDS, Emily Howell Warner
    Ann Lewis Cooper
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    27,40 €

  • WEAVING THE WINDS, Emily Howell Warner
    Ann Lewis Cooper
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    16,84 €

  • Just Wind
    William Armstrong
    Two pioneer balloonists, Tom Gatch in 1974 and Larry Newman in the early 1990s, led widely reported stratospheric expeditions that nearly earned them a place in aviation history. They both used pressurized balloons, a dangerous and sophisticated type of aircraft, and sought the swift wind of the jet stream to carry them forward.In the first story, a determined, self-financed a...
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    27,63 €

  • Marketing and Management in the High-Technology Sector
    Domenico Ferreri
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    120,90 €

  • The Shipyard
    Dave Drummond
    Senator Ted Kennedy said, 'My father worked here. The Fore River Shipyard will once again be a symbol of our leadership. And I will do all I can to insure that this leadership continues to thrive. The shipbuilding industry has been struggling in this country as a whole. Employment has dropped to a 40 year low. American-built ships carry less than one percent of world trade. Tha...
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    19,84 €

  • Wings of Madness
    Paul Hoffman
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    37,64 €

  • Sportster/Buell Engine Hop-Up Guide
    Kip Woodring
    From four-speed Evos to five-speed Buells, this book is the Bible for Sportster performance. Whether your intent is to improve the existing factory parts or install something from the aftermarket, author Kip Woodring explains not just which parts to buy, but why. Fourteen chapters cover: History, Planning, Exhaust, Induction, Ignition, Charging and Starting, Gearing, Valvetrain...
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    32,61 €

  • American Railroads in the Nineteenth Century
    Augustus Veenendaal
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    79,88 €

  • The Making of a Flight Surgeon
    Gregg Bendrick MD MPH
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    21,61 €

  • First to Fly
    Thomas C. Parramore / Thomas CParramore
    A remarkable story filled with dreamers, inventors, scoundrels, and pioneering pilots, First to Fly recounts North Carolina’s significant role in the early history of aviation. Beginning well before the Wright brothers’ first powered flight at Kill Devil Hill in 1903, North Carolinians labored at the cutting edge of aviation technology from the late 1800s through World War I. N...
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    45,48 €

  • Transport Survey Quality and Innovation
    PEtc Jones / Peter Jones / Peter Stopher
    This overview of developments in transport survey methods from around the world emphasises survey quality and innovation. It contains selected papers from the International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation. ...
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    327,54 €

  • Flexible Urban Transportation
    JGifford / Jonathan L. Gifford / Jonathan Lewis Gifford
    'Flexible Urban Transportation'. ...
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    238,15 €

  • The Network Reliability of Transport
    MGHBell / YLida
    These papers from INSTR 2001, cover aspects of transport network reliability, such as definitions and methodological developments for reliability indices, behavioural analysis under uncertainty, and evaluation methods for the disaster resistance of transport networks. ...
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    260,81 €

  • The Sea Shall Embrace Them
    David W. Shaw / David WShaw
    The 1854 collision at sea between the American ship Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the most harrowing events in maritime history. David W. Shaw has based this fascinating account on the firsthand testimony of the few who survived the wreck, including the Arctic’s heroic captain, James C. Luce, who was forced to fight his mutinous cre...
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    16,44 €

  • Flattop Fighting in World War II
    Patrick Degan
    World War II’s naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the subject of many books, popular movies, and documentaries, but the very important story of the fighting between United States and Japanese aircraft carriers is often lost in broader discussions of the Pacific naval war. This work concentrates exclusively on the fighting between the American and J...
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    42,45 €

  • Ridin’ High, Livin’ Free
    Sonny Barger
    An angel spreads his wings. . . . Sonny Barger is the number-one spokesman for the motorcycle experience. His New York Times bestseller, Hell’s Angel, was an exhilarating history of his adventures with the world’s most notorious motorcycle club. Now he brings us rousing, moving, and wildly entertaining true stories of his renegade brothers and sisters in the relentless pursuit...
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    17,25 €


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