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Junks of Central China: The Spencer Collection of Models at Texas A&M University

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Report copyright infringementby J. E. Spence (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Edwin Jr. Doran (Foreword by), Jim Bones (Photographer)Within the Yangtze River Basin of Central China are nearly twenty thousand miles of navigable waterways. Historically, overland transportation has been difficult, if not impossible, in many areas, and the Yangtze alone has long carried more boat traffic than any other of the world's great rivers. The collection of thirty-one model junks at Texas A&M University, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph E. Jarrells (Author)Americans love their automobiles, but it wasn't always so. When the first cars rolled off the assembly line, they were considered by many to be dangerous and a disruption of society. But by the 1920s, the automobile had moved from a luxury item and curiosity, to an essential part of the lives of millions of Middle Class Americans. Author Ralph E. Jarrells takes readers on a journey through the fascinating history of the development of ...

High-Wing Aircraft Visualized Flight Maneuvers Manual: For Pilots in Training - Spiral

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by ASA Test Prep Board (Author)This comprehensive maneuvers manual is an excellent visual aid for instructors and pilots in training, covering all the flight maneuvers required for Private, Sport, Commercial, and Flight Instructor certification. Each maneuver is depicted in detail according to the type of aircraft in which the lesson will take place, states the objective of the task, and lists the FAA Certification Standards required, serving as an effective learning and teaching tool. Fully ...

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by Dk (Author)This fun book in the shape of a sports car has wheels so little drivers can race them anywhere. The big, tough wheels actually grip, and the beautiful, full color photographs inside are captioned with names to make learning fun. Whether your little road-runners love school buses or sporty cars, hogs or 18-wheelers, there's a Wheelie book to take them speeding out of the store Vroom, vroom, vroooooooooomAuthor BiographyDK was founded in London in 1974 and is now the world's lead...

Where's the Train?: (An Interactive, Sensory Lift-The-Flap Book with Felt Flaps and a Mirror for Babies & Toddlers. Friendly Vehicles Include a Street - Board Book

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Report copyright infringementby Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illustrator)Part of Ingela Arrhenius's best-selling felt flap series, which has sold over 2 million copies. Perfect for babies and toddlers! Five beautifully illustrated spreads show a series of vehicles that include a streetcar, a ferry, a bus, and a train all hiding behind bright felt flaps. With a mirror on the final page, this is the perfect book to share with very little ones.Author BiographyIngela P. Arrhenius is a freelance illustra...

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by Fiona Watt (Author), Rachel Wells (Illustrator)Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages to discover different tractors chugging around the farm in this revamped edition from the best-selling touchy-feely That's not my... series. As well as new tactile textures, there's the familiar little white mouse to spot on every page! Number of Pages: 10 Dimensions: 0.65 x 6.5 x 6.5 IN Publication Date: July 02, 2024

Little Blue Truck's Valentine - Hardcover

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by Alice Schertle (Author), Jill McElmurry (Illustrator)Spread the love with Little Blue Truck--a perfect Valentine's Day read-aloud in this best-selling series!"Beep!" said Blue. "Happy Valentine's Day!" Join Little Blue Truck as he delivers Valentine's Day cards to all his farm animal friends. But as Blue beeps along, he starts to wonder: will he get any cards of his own? With brightly colored foil accents throughout and a large gatefold at the end, this book is the perfect Valentine's Day ...

Shapes, Colors, Counting & More! - Boxed Set

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by Random House Disney (Author), Random House Disney (Illustrator)A boxed set of four board books featuring Lightning McQueen and friends from Disney/Pixar Cars Children ages 1 to 4 who love Disney/Pixar's Cars will race into learning about colors, numbers, shapes, and opposites with Lightning McQueen, Mater, and all their friends This sturdy boxed set includes four colorful board books that each feature a different early learning concept. Plus, there's a plastic handle for learning fun on ...

Eyewitness Train: Discover the Story of the Railroads - Hardcover

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by DK (Author)A picture-packed guide to the fascinating story of trains and how they have transformed our world. Take a trip through the history of trains to discover how they have revolutionized not only travel but also our world. Discover how the vision of George Stephenson, the "father of the railroad," materialized into an age of steam around the world. Study the cut-out of a locomotive to understand how the movement of the piston turns the wheels. Learn how the American railroad contribu...

The Ultimate Construction Site Book - Hardcover

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by Anne-Sophie Baumann (Created by), Didier Balicevic (Illustrator)Experience the sounds, sights, and activity of a construction site: A crane lifts steel bars for a skyscraper, a tunnel boring machine digs underground... Best of all, lots of flaps, popups, pull-tabs, and rotating wheels bring trucks, bridges, and structures to life. Readers will learn how roller coasters are built, see a circus tent get transported and set up, and help construction workers complete huge engineering projects...

Wipe-Clean Things That Go Activities - Paperback

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by Kirsteen Robson (Author), Gareth Williams (Illustrator)Join the animal friends as they encounter all kinds of exciting vehicles. Use the special pen provided to solve mazes, trace the dotted lines, finish dot-to-dot pictures and spot differences, then wipe the pages clean and do them all again. This fun book is a perfect way for young children to develop vital counting, observation and pen control skills. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.7 x 10.7 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: February 04, 2025

How to Rebuild the Big-Block Chevrolet - Paperback

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by Tony E. Huntimer (Author)The photos in this edition are black and white.The Mark IV Chevrolet big-block, made from 1965 to 1976, produced legendary performance and is one of the greatest big-blocks of all time. This design was a giant performance leap ahead of the old Chevy wedge big-block. The Mark IV featured canted valves, large intake ports, and an efficient head design for vastly increased air/fuel flow, better combustion, and huge horsepower. With a big-block under the hood, the Cama...

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by Aaron Bonk (Author)The photos in this edition are black and white.When it comes to their personal transportation, today's youth have shunned the large, heavy performance cars of their parents' generation and instead embrace what has become known as the sport compact-- smaller, lightweight, modern sports cars of predominantly Japanese manufacture. These cars respond well to performance modifications due to their light weight and technology-laden, high-revving engines. And by far, the most s...

Lessons from Deregulation: Telecommunications and Airlines After the Crunch

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred E. Kahn (Author)" Over the last several years, the value of stocks in both the airline and the telecommunications industries have dropped catastrophically. Since these industries were among the most important--and most visible--to have been unleashed from regulation in recent decades (albeit in widely differing degree), their difficulties have raised the question of whether their deregulation should be reconsidered or even reversed. Alfred E. Kahn, one o...

On a Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic - Paperback

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by Tad Fitch (Author), J. Kent Layton (Author), Bill Wormstedt (Author)On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold waters of the North Atlantic. How could this 'unsinkable' vessel sink and why did so few of those aboard survive? The autho...

The Little Blue Book of Sailing Wisdom - Hardcover

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by Stephen Brennan (Editor)"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."--Mark Twain It's telling that Mark Twain chose sailing as a metaphor for living life to the fullest. Throughout history, humankind has been going to sea in boats and ships--for the purposes of trade, exploration, transport, fishing,...

The Pigeon Loves Things That Go! - Board Book

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by Mo Willems (Author)In Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus , the pigeon dreamed of driving the titular bus. In this board book, readers will see him deliriously emoting at the thought of driving a plane, a train, a car, and more, all in his uproariously over-the-top style.Author BiographyMo Willems, a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, has been awarded three Caldecott Honors for his picture books, two Theodor Seuss Geisel Medals, and five Geisel Honors for his cel...

Lonely Planet Kids How Ships Work - Hardcover

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by Clive Gifford (Author), James Gulliver Hancock (Illustrator)Coming about! From dinghies to freight liners, pirate ships to submarines, across oceans and up rivers, set sail on a fascinating journey through the world of ships in this new book from illustrator James Gulliver Hancock.In this companion to How Airports Work and How Trains Work, young readers travel through history and around the world to find out everything they ever wanted to know about ships. Lift the flaps to unfurl papyrus ...

A Treatise on Perfect Railway Signaling - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Henry W. Spang (Author)The Shelf2Life Trains & Railroads Collection provides a unique opportunity for researchers and railroad enthusiasts to easily access and explore pre-1923 titles focusing on the history, culture and experience of railroading. From the revolution of the steam engine to the thrill of early travel by rail, railroads opened up new opportunities for commerce, American westward expansion and travel. These books provide a unique view of the i...

Let's Go, Team! (Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go) - Hardcover

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by Golden Books (Author), Golden Books (Illustrator)An exciting Little Golden Book based on the new Thomas & Friends animated series Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go(TM)on Netflix and Cartoon Network! Thomas the Tank Engine's newest adventures take him to places he never dreamed he'd visit! Train-loving boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love this adorable Little Golden Book based on the new Thomas & Friends animated series Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go(TM) on Netflix!As the h...

Trade and Transport Corridor Management Toolkit

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Kunaka (Author), Robin Carruthers (Author)"Global trade moves along a few select high-density routes or corridors. Such routes have existed for several millennia, of which the Silk Road is the most famous. In fact, all regions of the world, developed and developing, have several trade and transport corridor initiatives. Such initiatives take even more importance for landlocked countries which depend on them to provide access to seaports in neighboring c...

Efficient Logistics: A Key to Vietnam's Competitiveness

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Report copyright infringementby Luis C. Blancas (Author), John Isbell (Author), Monica Isbell (Author)"Vietnam has attained a strong record of economic growth and poverty reduction since the adoption of market-based economic reforms and pro-poor policies starting in the mid-1980s. Much of this achievement was driven by an untapped, rapidly-growing labor force and the enablement of greater labor participation in higher-productivity sectors of the economy. Yet, as Vietnam has restructured its e...

Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway: Capital, Operations, and Maintenance Financing

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Report copyright infringementby Arturo Ardila-Gomez (Author), Adriana Ortegon-Sanchez (Author)"Urban transport systems are essential for economic development and improving citizens' quality of life. To establish high-quality and affordable transport systems, cities must ensure their financial sustainability to fund new investments in infrastructure while also funding maintenance and operation of existing facilities and services. However, many cities in developing countries are stuck in an ""u...

Competitiveness of South Asia's Container Ports: A Comprehensive Assessment of Performance, Drivers, and Costs

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Report copyright infringementby Matías Herrera Dappe (Author), Ancor Suárez-Alemán (Author) Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.9 x 6.9 IN Publication Date: June 28, 2016

Leveraging the Potential of Argentine Cities: A Framework for Policy Action

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Report copyright infringementby Elisa Muzzini (Author), Beatriz Eraso Puig (Author), Sebastian Anapolsky (Author)Argentina s path to economic prosperity is through efficient, sustainable and economically thriving cities. Not only are cities a spatial concentration of people, but also they generate agglomeration economies by concentrating ideas, talent, and knowledge. Argentina is one of the most urbanized countries in Latin America, with 90 percent of Argentine people currently living in citi...

Blue Routes for a New Era: Developing Inland Waterways Transportation in China

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard Aritua (Author), Lu Cheng (Author), Richard Van Liere (Author)Most policy makers readily acknowledge the economic, environmental, and social benefits of moving freight and passengers by waterways. However, why do many countries struggle to develop and revive their inland waterways transportation (IWT)? One reason is because of the dearth of successful examples of IWT revival. Besides the United States and Europe, which have been relatively successful, t...

Airport Enterprise Risk Management Model- A Study on Business Management and Airline Management

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Report copyright infringementby Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz (Author)Nowadays Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) becomes focus point in the successful airport and airline business across the world. In this book, the model suggestion is created of ERM about airport business as optimal framework to ERM implementation. Applicability assessment and current situation in the TAV Airports Holding at Turkey are reviewed about model suggestion with coordinated efforts. Enterprise risk optimization (ERO) is conside...

The New Age Urban Transportation Systems, Volume I: Cases from Asian Economies

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Report copyright infringementby Sundaravalli Narayanaswami (Author)Urbanization is a global phenomenon that hugely constrains existing transportation infrastructure in cities. Urban transportation (UT) challenges are more significant in developing countries with rapid development as the land occupation is dense.Limited urban space and infrastructure fail to meet the increasing traffic demands and to provide reasonable service quality. Therefore betterment of UT systems is more required than e...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Skiba (Author)Material handling equipment refers to a diverse array of machinery, tools, and systems used in the movement, storage, control, and protection of materials, goods, and products throughout the manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, and logistics processes. This equipment is designed to facilitate the efficient, safe, and organized handling of materials, reducing manual labour, minimizing product damage, and optimizing productivity. This b...

Understanding Decision-making Processes in Airline Operations Control

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Report copyright infringementby Peter J. Bruce (Author)Previous studies conducted within the aviation industry have examined a multitude of crucial aspects such as policy, airline service quality, and revenue management. An extensive body of literature has also recognised the importance of decision-making in aviation, with the focus predominantly on pilots and air traffic controllers. Understanding Decision-Making Processes in Airline Operations Control focuses instead on an area largely over...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew R. Goetz (Editor), Lucy Budd (Editor)Making a detailed contribution to geographies of air transport and aeromobility, this book examines the practices and processes that produce particular patterns of air transport provision both regionally and globally. In so doing, it updates the seminal contributions of Eva Taylor (1945), Kenneth Sealy (1957), Brian Graham (1995) to the study of air transport geography. Leading scholars in the field offer a unique ins...

4WD Driving Skills: A Manual for On- And Off-Road Travel

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Report copyright infringementby Vic Widman (Author)An essential guide to safe and responsible four-wheel driving.Modern four-wheel drive vehicles are powerful and sophisticated machines, able to travel almost anywhere. Given their growing popularity with recreational drivers, there is an even more pressing need for adequate training. Even on sealed roads these vehicles require a different set of driving skills; off-road, the demands are many times greater.This second edition of the bestsellin...