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  • Aircraft Wrecks of the Pacific Northwest
    Cye Laramie / David L. McCurry / David LMcCurry
    In the past decade, the role of aircraft wreck hunting as a hobby has changed more toward protecting crash sites as memorials, honoring those whom were lost, bringing closure to families, and placing memorial plaques in honor of those who were lost in these tragic accidents. For those of us who are offspring from the World War II generation, we feel an ever stronger sense of...
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    41,63 €

  • Road Works
    Brian Bold
    Leaving London in 1964, Brian Bold hitchhikes to Geneva to find his fourth girlfriend and so begins a journey of over forty years.u2029Driving more than twenty cars, nearly every one he’s owned, he travels along the minor roads of personal fortune and the motorways of social and technological change. Travelling but never quite arriving, Brian breaks down on the way to the Caver...
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    18,65 €

  • The Comet Racers Uncovered
    Guy Inchbald
    The story of the iconic winner of the greatest air race ever at a pivotal moment in aviation history has never been fully told, those of its stablemates even less so. Only five de Havilland DH.88 Comets were ever built. With one restored to flying condition and another on the way, the ever-growing community of enthusiasts have, bit by bit, been unearthing the astonishing truth....
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    26,86 €

  • Props and Jets
    Quentin L. Hartwig / Quentin LHartwig
    The June 25, 1925, inauguration of Rodgers Field marked the beginning of Allegheny County Commissioners’ investment into commercial aviation. A modest acquisition of 40 acres that has with time evolved to the presence of the 1500 acre Pittsburgh International Airport across town. This book chronicles the dreams, successes, failures, promises, and fatalities in the intervening e...
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    24,74 €

  • Premonitions of the Titanic Disaster
    Terry Keefe
    Passengers cancelling their tickets for Titanic’s maiden voyage out of apprehension; a famous social reformer who died on Titanic, warned in 1911 that he would be in danger from water in April 1912; inhabitants of the remote islands of Fiji aware of the sinking before reports of the collision reached the Pacific; a dying girl who, on 14 April 1912, ’sees’ a big ship sinking in ...
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    15,24 €

  • Roads, Runways and Resistance
    Steve Melia
    From the anti-roads protests of the 1990s to HS2 and Extinction Rebellion, conflict and protest have shaped the politics of transport. In 1989, Margaret Thatcher’s government announced ’the biggest road-building programme since the Romans.’ This is the inside story of the thirty tumultuous years that have followed. Roads, Runways and Resistance draws on over 50 interviews with ...
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    126,99 €

  • In Their Own Words
    Fred Erisman
    Amelia Earhart’s prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women’s causes, producing an absorb...
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    57,72 €

  • HIGH-SPEED RAIL
    GAO BAI
    High-speed railway system is interdisciplinary subject that covers infrastructure, mobile equipment, traction power supply, communication signal, operation and maintenance, and transportation organization. The purpose of this book is to give readers a basic understanding of the technology behind of China’s high-speed rail network.In this book, the author mainly focusses on the ...
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    190,82 €

  • Rise Above
    Hunter S. Gaylor / Hunter SGaylor
    From the authors of Planes, Plants, and PoliticsA Look into the Power of American Exceptionalism and Entrepreneurial Drive Rise Above:The creation of America’s premier airline amidst the global coronavirus pandemic.The authors take us on an real time in-depth journey which documents how novel businesses can be forged under the most adverse conditions. In early 2020, the World H...
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    22,13 €

  • Noise, Vibration and Harshness of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
    Dejian Meng / Gang Chen / Lijun Zhang
    The noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH), also known as noise and vibration (N&V), is a critical feature for customers to assess the performance and quality of vehicles. NVH characteristics are higher among factors that customers use to judge the vehicle’s quality.This book sets out to introduce the basic concepts, principles, and applications of the NVH development and refi n...
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    148,35 €

  • 50 Years Ago.... A look Back at Two Great Railroad Towns
    Jay Winn
    I have been a serious railfan since the early 1960’s and over the last 6 decades I have traveled to a lot of places and had numerous memorable experiences while following my passion for trains. This book is a collection of my railroading memories of Binghamton, NY and Altoona, PA that looks back to a time roughly 50 years ago. This book is all about the places, the incide...
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    12,63 €

  • Energy Efficiency of Vehicles
    Doug Carroll
    Energy Efficiency of Vehicles educates readers about energy and the environment and the relationship between the energy we use and the environment. The world is at a point in time when people need to make very important decisions about energy in the next few decades. This book enables readers to utilize our scientific knowledge to make good rational decisions.Energy Efficiency ...
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    144,49 €

  • Unsettled Issues Regarding Communication of Automated Vehicles with Other Road Users
    Sven Beiker
    The impending deployment of automated vehicles (AVs) represents a major shift in the traditional approach to ground transportation; its effects will inevitably be felt by parties directly involved with the vehicle manufacturing and use (e.g., automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), public transportation systems, heavy goods transportation providers) and those that p...
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    155,45 €

  • Urban Transport XXVI
    S Syngellakis
    A continuous requirement for better urban transport systems and the need for a healthier environment has resulted in an increasing demand for new solutions. Innovative systems, new approaches and original ideas need to be thoroughly tested and critically evaluated before they can be implemented in practice. Moreover, there is a growing need for integration with telecommunicatio...
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    180,86 €

  • Urban Mobility and Social Equity in Latin America
    This volume of Transport and Sustainability focuses on how spatial and social mobilities are intertwined in the reproduction of spatial and social inequities in Latin American cities. ...
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    182,78 €

  • INSIDE THE COCKPIT and THE TRADING ROOM
    KOK KEAN LIM / PUI SEE PONG
    How and why accidents happened ?How pilots handle emergencies ?How cabin crew deal with various challenges ?Written by an AirAsia captain and investment adviser at Kenanga Investor Berhad, and a former Singapore Airlines cabin crew during Covid 19 lock down period, the book shares their experiences in both the aviation industry and the world of investing, the various emergencie...
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    16,06 €

  • THE TRAIN ON THE BEACH
    William Lieberman
    During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, little known steam railroads competed to serve--and sometimes to initiate--real estate ventures along the beaches and marshlands northeast of Boston. These railroads, of both narrow and standard gauge, also exploited the newfound leisure time of the working and middle classes. Trains provided cheap transportation to the seashor...
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    42,69 €

  • Railway Ecology
    Luís Borda-de-Água / Pedro Beja / Rafael Barrientos
    This book provides a unique overview of the impacts of railways on biodiversity, integrating the existing knowledge on the ecological effects of railways on wildlife, identifying major knowledge gaps and research directions and presenting the emerging field of railway ecology.The book is divided into two major parts: Part one offers a general review of the major conceptual and ...
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    73,32 €

  • Railway Ecology
    Luís Borda-de-Água / Pedro Beja / Rafael Barrientos
    This book provides a unique overview of the impacts of railways on biodiversity, integrating the existing knowledge on the ecological effects of railways on wildlife, identifying major knowledge gaps and research directions and presenting the emerging field of railway ecology.The book is divided into two major parts: Part one offers a general review of the major conceptual and ...
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    87,68 €

  • THE TRAIN ON THE BEACH
    William Lieberman
    During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, little known steam railroads competed to serve--and sometimes to initiate--real estate ventures along the beaches and marshlands northeast of Boston. These railroads, of both narrow and standard gauge, also exploited the newfound leisure time of the working and middle classes. Trains provided cheap transportation to the seashor...
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    38,37 €

  • A Mighty Fine Road
    H Roger Grant
    The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What fol...
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    27,67 €

  • Opportunities and Challenges for Blockchain Technology in Autonomous Vehicles
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    268,43 €

  • The Story of Flight
    Colin Holcombe / Darren Harbar
    The story of flight is a comprehensive introduction to the world of aviation and starts with a detailed explanation of exactly how an aeroplane is able to fly. It then gives an account of the full history of heavier than air flight, both military and civil, from the early experimental gliders to the first powered flights. It explains how the Wright brothers were able to succe...
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    69,97 €

  • Flight Lessons 5
    James Albright
    This is volume five of a five volume collection that chronicles the author’s journey from novice pilot to professional pilot, while adding technical lessons learned along the way. The author has a following through his website, www.code7700.com, which receives nearly 6 million hits every month. The website is used by airline, business, corporate, and military pilots for referen...
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    37,71 €

  • Independent American EVs
    Don Narus
    This book covers three Independent American Auto Makers. One is established (Tesla) and the other two (Fisker and Rivian) are start-ups. All three have one thing in common: Electric Vehicles. The established builder has a track record. Both start-ups have accumulated sufficient capital to be taken seriously. They differ in design and marketing. All will be taking us into the n...
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    17,09 €

  • Automotive Emissions Regulations and Exhaust Aftertreatment Systems
    Andrea Strzelec / John Kasab / TBD
    The objective of this book is to present a fundamental development of the science and engineering underlying the design of exhaust aftertreatment systems for automotive internal combustion engines.No pre-requisite knowledge of the field is required: our objective is to acquaint the reader, whom we expect to be new to the field of emissions control, with the underlying principle...
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    176,57 €

  • Aircraft Wrecks of the Western States
    David L. McCurry / David LMcCurry
    The author, an aircraft wreckologist, together with several other like-minded friends, has investigated 30 crash sites in the Western States, both military and civilian, covering the period from World War II to the recent present. Together with hundreds of photos of the sites and wreckage found at them, the author records their findings as well as the story of the crash and any...
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    49,43 €

  • Star of Greece - For Profit and Glory
    Paul W Simpson
    IRELAND’S GREATEST CLIPPER SHIP - Built at Belfast in 1868 the Star of Greece was an iron clipper ship built by Harland & Wolff of Ireland for merchants JP Corry & Co. For 20 years she plied the waters between Britain, India and Australia before coming to grief on Friday, July 13th 1888, at Port Willunga. Her destruction and the loss of 18 lives left many unanswered questions. ...
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    24,08 €

  • Computers in Railways XVII
    It is important to continue to update the use of advanced systems by promoting general awareness throughout the management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other emerging passenger, freight and transit systems.Originating from presentations at the 17th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation, this volume contains selected research ...
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    323,55 €

  • Dare To Repair Your Car
    Julie Sussman
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    19,62 €


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