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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A photo essay about the history, development, and impact of automobiles from horseless carriages and Model T Fords to today's high-performance racing cars; featuring detailed cutaway photos showing how the moving parts of a car work.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 318 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A penetrating look at near-future disruption as truly autonomous vehicles arrive. For decades we have tried to build a car that will drive itself. Anthony M. Townsend's Ghost Road argues convincingly that the driverless car is a red herring. When self-driving technology infects buses, bikes, delivery vans, and even buildings, a wild, woollier, future awaits. Technology will transform life behind the wheel into a hi-def video game that makes our ride...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
438 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this penetrating 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.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
In Two Billion Cars, transportation experts Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon provide a concise history of America's love affair with cars and an overview of the global oil and auto industries. America is still the leading emissions culprit, and what is especially worrying is that developing nations are becoming car-centric cultures as well. The authors explain how we arrived in this dangerous state, and also what we can do about it. Sperling and...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
406 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A cultural history tracing the Volkswagen Beetle from its origins in Nazi Germany to its role in the postwar West German economic miracle to its popularity in midcentury Europe and the U.S., second career in Mexico and Latin America and revival in the late 1990s.
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xiii, 171 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Despite the many advances women have made since the internal combustion engine was invented, there is still one widely held belief that won't seem to go away: that when it comes to cars, women should just leave it to the men. In Essential Car Care for Women, ESPN NASCAR pit reporter Jamie Little and Discovery Channel "Turbo Expert" Danielle McCormick team up to dispel this myth once and for all--and to offer the indispensable, hard-won advice women...
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise of the American auto industry through the life of Harley Earl, an innovator who introduced the art of automobile styling into the auto-making industry, revolutionizing the way cars were made and marketed.
The bestselling author "turns to the American auto industry, chronicling its birth and rise to greatness through the remarkable lite of Harley Earl, the eccentric visionary who revolutionized the way cars were made, marketed,...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working on your vehicle can be intimidating with the complicated engines, sophisticated electrical systems and other high-tech components, but with this helpful guide by your side, you learn to fine-tune and identify common car problems and make your own repairs!
Author
Series
Publisher
Motorbooks International
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this long-awaited follow-up to the best-selling first edition of How to Draw Cars Like a Pro, renowned car designer Thom Taylor goes back to the drawing board to update his classic with all-new illustrations and to expand on such topics as the use of computers in design today.Taylor begins with advice on selecting the proper tools and equipment, then moves on to perspective and proportion, sketching and cartooning, various media, and light, shadow,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, ... [a] true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a spectacular success, attracting seventy exhibitors and nearly fifty thousand visitors. Among the spectators was an obscure would-be...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 437 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The car has shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention. Its manufacture introduced mass-production to the world, bringing with it tarmac, suburbs, and car culture. In this comprehensive world history of the most important transport innovation of the modern age, historian Dr. Steven Parissien examines the impact, development, and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colorful 130-year history. He tells the...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 272 pages: illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In January, 2015 at the Detroit Auto Show, Ford unveiled a new car and the automotive world lost its collective mind. This wasn't some new Explorer or Focus. Onto the stage rolled a supercar, a carbon-fiber GT powered by a mid-mounted six cylinder Ecoboost engine that churned out over 600 horsepower. It was sexy, jaw dropping, but more than that, it was historic, a callback to the legendary Ford GT40 Mk IIs that stuck it to Ferrari and finished 1-2-3...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1938, Mercedes-Benz began production of the largest, most luxurious limousine in the world. A machine of frightening power and sinister beauty, the Grosser 770K Model 150 Offener Tourenwagen was 20 feet long, seven feet wide, and tipped the scales at 5 tons. Its supercharged, 230-horsepower engine propelled the beast to speeds over 100 m.p.h. while its occupants reclined on glove-leather seats stuffed with goose down. Armor plated and equipped...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Touchstone trade paperback edition
Physical Desc
xiv, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A do-it-herself guide to auto maintenance, roadside emergencies, and the real scoop on how women can get honest car service at the garage, from engineer turned auto mechanic and award-winning entrepreneur Patrice Banks"--
Author
Publisher
Aurum Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xiv, 208 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was invented immediately after the war, in the factory a far-sighted English military man had set up to turn the German economy from making machines of warfare to more pacific products.
By the seventies that dream had been amply fulfilled, as the VW Campervan became the conveyance of choice for West Coast hippies, Australian surf bums and Europeans taking the overland route to find enlightenment and good karma in India. It had also become—indeed,...
Author
Publisher
Motorbooks
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It?s the fantasy of every car enthusiast: Pull a tarp off a pile in a barn, or hear a farmer say ""there's an old car out back"" and discover a classic collectible such as a Hemi 'Cuda, a rare Porsche, or a Jaguar E-Type racer. Many such tales told during enthusiasts' bench racing sessions are urban myths. But this book is full of true tales of rare gems pulled out of haystacks or junkyard--and there are before and after photos to prove it! Author...
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