Transportation

Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilised or disproportionately allocated to the movement of private motor vehicles. Excess impervious surface contributes to stormwater runoff, posing a...

It was a railway just waiting to be made. The capital, London, was in the east; Bristol, second city in the land, 110 miles to the west or a sea journey of 672 miles. By the late 1820s, technology had improved to a state where the very latest form of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892399090Author Nancy Schwalbe ZydlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Seaworthy Publications, Inc.Publisher Seaworthy Publications, Inc...

The railways of Spain and Portugal saw steam locomotives working on the main lines until the late 1970s, although in Spain several mining companies still employed steam into the 1980s. Iberian railways were unusual in that they used a wider gauge of 5...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791854Author Ken EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and geological studies. John Cooper...

Lavington & Devizes Motor Services (L&DMS) was not a typical West Country rural independent bus operator. Across Britain, many village-based concerns made the gradual transition from carrier to running buses and coaches, with many of those originally...

Classic superbikes are at the pinnacle of two-wheeled production engineering. Designed for adrenalin-inducing speed, breath-taking handling and head-turning good looks, these superb machines are the most glamorous and desirable bikes on the road. Classic...

"World's Toughest Motorcycle Riders"-long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. In this candid, eloquent, sharply observed book, Melissa Holbrook Pierson introduces us to this strange endeavor and the men and women who live to ride...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945249Author Phil HortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Transit and cities grow together. As cities work to become more compact, sustainable, and healthy, their work is paying dividends: in 2014, Americans took 10.8 billion trips on public transit, the highest since the dawn of the highway era. But most of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorOle Crumlin-Pedersen ( 2011) spent the greater part of his life in charge of Denmark's maritime heritage as a curator of maritime archaeology and ships at the...

Model flying is a challenging and exciting hobby as well as a recognized international sport. The broad principles of flight as applied in full-size aviation are just as important to flying models, but these principles are not always recognized or...

How many times have we heard the phrase 'they don't make them like they used to'? Whatever the merits or otherwise of applying such a comment to UK railway locomotives, the fact remains that there are many longstanding survivors from our railway past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042293Author Adrian HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Turkey, the country that straddles Europe and Asia, reflects this in the mix of cultures from both continents to be found there. The western and southern coastal areas are the most familiar to Western holidaymakers but the interior, Black Sea coast and...

Every manual is written from hands-on experience gained from stripping down and rebuilding each vehicle in the Haynes Project Workshop. The practical step-by-step instructions and clear photos are easy to follow and provide information on maintenance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906294741Author Hugh HowesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Twelveheads PressPublisher Twelveheads PressDimensions(mm) 245mm * 170mm * 18mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837601403Author Philip H SmithPage Count 544Imprint Bentley (Robert) Inc.,USPublisher Bentley (Robert) Inc.,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933492575Author Daniel SimonFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Brunel and London. It might not seem an obvious association, but John Christopher puts the case that it was London, not Bristol, that was the most important centre of Brunel's activities. It was here that he lived, worked and died. The city is dotted...

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Continuing the Steam Days Remembered series with Eastern Steam Days Remembered, Kevin Derrick takes us on a leisurely ramble back around both the Eastern and North Eastern regions during the 1950s and 1960s in this volume. Journeying towards the eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908916938Author Brig Gen Gerald E. McIlmoyle (Ret.)Format PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951365656Author Nicholas LeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Foxglove MediaPublisher Foxglove Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316159357Author Dean KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

The complete navigation reference for beginners and experts including electronic simulators for GPS, chartplotting, radar and AIS. The modern sailor needs a back up plan if the electrics on board fail, and Pat Manley delivers the tools to make this...

Sixties Spotting Days Around London & the Home Counties is a full-colour photographic album, depicting the capital's once-great terminus stations and engine sheds throughout the 1960s and covering the variety of locomotive types from that great period of...

The McKindless bus company started off as a small operation of a few buses, a lorry and two coaches in 1987, and traded under the name of Chartered Coaches. Its aim was to provide school contracts and private hires, but it quickly moved into local bus...

A new photo chronicle of the Horten Flying Wing featuring new photographic material and information.Book InformationISBN 9780887408861Author H.P. DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing...

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Between the two world wars there was a golden era of industrial design when the benefits of streamlining were realised, allowing for reduced wind resistance, faster transportation and a more efficient economy. The Art Deco-influenced style was also a...

Competition from rail and later road forced many canals into closure, and a large section of the old system seemed doomed to crumble away into terminal decay. Then came a new industry: the canal leisure industry, and with it the birth of the restoration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982913123Author Lee KlancherFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Octane PressPublisher Octane Press

Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. None were seen again until nearly a decade later, when their bleached bones, broken instruments, books, papers...

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Chart scale 1:325 000Plans included:Scarlino to Punta Ala (1:85 000)Approaches to Giglio Marina (1:10 000)Approaches to Civitavecchia (1:40 000)Approaches to Fiumicino and Fiuma Grande (1:50 000)Approaches to Anzio (1:50 000)On this 2017 the latest known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620921951Author Haynes PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes Manuals IncWeight(grams) 483gDimensions(mm)...

Following the First World War, some railway and tramway companies began selling the bodies of their railway carriages and tramcars, with many finding new uses as houses or bungalows, workshops, chicken houses, bus shelters or animal shelters. During...