1,750円 At last a book that concentrates solely on the Mercedes six-cylinder Ponton cars. Updated in April 2017, this 220-page guide shows you the cars’ development and history, explains in detail chassis number and data card and comes with a comprehensive buyer’s guide. Superb recent non-Daimler AG colo...

297円 Biographical profile of one of America's iconic automobile pioneers, Walter Chrysler, a man Time magazine described as a "doctor of sick automobile companies." The Chrysler Building in New York, topped by its world-famous art deco tower, an enduring symbol of America's industrial evolut...

2,765円 "This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."ーThe New Yorker In a book that is "a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid...

11,440円 Discussion about educational provision for children with learning difficulties has largely ignored the voices of those for whom that provision is intended. Experiences of Special Education argues that these 'insider perspectives' are of central importance for a fuller understanding of special edu...

2,653円 "Catnip to the ship’s dedicated buffs." ーPublishers Weekly In Titanic Tragedy maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham documents the vessel’s design, construction, and departure from Southampton, her passengers’ lifeboat ordeal, their Carpathia rescue, the role of new technologies, and memorials t...

1,192円 The Yonge Street as conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe is celebrated, from its beginning as a First Nation’s Trail, to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto to Innisfil. Augustus Jones, the surveyor assigned by Simcoe, the French, the German pioneers, the Loyalis...

11,772円 This volume contains both text and contemporary document which together look at the history of education from the French Revolution to the late twentieth century. The connection between text and documents is closely preserved so that the volume both explains and illustrates the important issues a...

1,921円 Pan American World Airways could be considered a corporate Cinderella�a rags-to-riches-and-back-again phenomenon. From its founding in 1927 and its relatively obscure inauguration as a mail carrier on a 90-mile mail run from Florida�s Key West to Cuba, Pan Am�s route system grew to span the globe...

1,911円 Reviews: "Tom Cotter's sequel to last year's best-selling The Cobra in the Barn relays one great tale after another, with players unearthing rare cars to die for. The treasures include an armored Mercedes-Benz Aktion P command car discovered in pieces in Russia, a desirable Dodge Daytona Hemi vir...

3,895円 An illustrated collection of essays about the various people, events, and experiments from Henry Ford's lifetime. The 55 chapters of Friends, Families & Forays are bursting with details about the people and the pursuits that colored the life of Henry Ford. Here the reader will meet prominent and ...

5,765円 An illuminating photographic tour of Henry Ford's famous Rouge plantーan industrial site that signifies an era's triumph in integrated manufacturing and economic progress. When Ford Motor Company was formed in 1903, its primary assembly plant was a wooden one-story wagon shop, but as the auto man...

2,122円 How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western Front At the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their enemies, as each side struggled to keep control o...