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The book titled The Port of Leith by the author Sue Mowat. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Was R.J. Mitchell truly a genius? Delving into the projects that remained stuck on the drawing board. Popular history has a tendency to simplify, and accounts of the life and...

The story of wool covers 4,000 years of human history the first written record of dying wool for cloth was found on a Mesopotamian papyrus c. 2000 BCE. In this...

Building transportation routes through the Rockies is dangerous. It always has been. It is also expensive, labour-intensive, and highly political. But railway and highway construction through the western cordillera succeeded...

A "sharp and entertaining" ( The Wall Street Journal ) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society. Dress codes are...

The book titled The London Underground: Diagrammatic History: Map by the author Douglas Rose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Underground Official Handbook by the author Bob Bayman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the history of Britain's munitions industry in the First World War. It begins with the shortages caused by an expanding army required to fight in trenches, then shows...

Although London has inherited a complex and comprehensive railway network, there are a large number of l ines which have disappeared. This book examines the history of many of these...

The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In "Jet Age," journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of...

Opened in 1931 as Yeadon Aerodrome, Leeds-Bradford Airport is the largest in Yorkshire. Regular flights began from the airport in 1935 with a service to Newcastle, Edinburgh and London (Heston)....

With an insightful global approach, Paul Roberts investigates the startling truth about the way we make, market, consume, and even think about food, and how this system is no longer...

Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes-these are some of the most recent episodes in...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the hidden and costly wonders of our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of transportation, revealing the surprising truths, mounting challenges, and logistical magic...

Our recipe for success- pure, fresh and unadulterated We started making smoothies in 1999. On that first day we sold twenty-four bottles, and now we sell over 2 million a...

She was the first female to graduate from a U.S. maritime or military academy and the first to be licensed as a master mariner. This lively memoir reveals why Dempsey...

This new publication from Michael Belafi offers some truly intriguing content. Photographs of the mighty Zeppelin at all stages of development feature in a publication that aims to chart the...

Tugs and their development over the past 150 years are described in this book and it particularly looks at the past 20 years with emphasis on the use of tugs...

Elon Musk, the South Africanborn entrepreneur who made his first fortune with Internet companies such as PayPal, has risen to global prominence as the visionary CEO of both Tesla Motors...

Written by experts in the field and illustrated with over 1500 photographs, this is an exhaustive reference work to the world''s most remarkable locomotive engines and railways, and is a...

On March 27, 1977, 583 people died when KLM and Pan Am 747s collided on a crowded, foggy runway in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. The cause, a miscommunication between the...

First paperback edition of Reidy's comedic memoir, describing his successful career as a drugs salesman during the launching of Viagra"

This impressive collection is arranged in thematic chapters ranging from launch pad through the launch sequence, to the missions themselves and the dramatic conclusion of the return flight. It pays...

Foundation work is not the glamorous side of home building. It is hard, dirty work. But it's also the work upon which all other work rests, so a good foundation...

The 40-year story of the creation and demise of one of the pioneering companies of the computer age, explaining in detail how a particular culture can become so embedded that...

A visual history of high-speed trains. Hop aboard this fascinating journey through the early days of railway trains to the modern day superfast Maglevs which can reach speeds of 600km/h....

This essential guide shows aspiring entrepreneurs how to bring a fashion business idea to life from forming a legal entity and writing a business plan, to organizing a structure, scaling...

Our romance with cars, begun with enthusiasm more than 100 years ago, has in fact become a very troubled entanglement. Today's relationship with the automobile inflicts upon us pollution, noise,...

This second edition of John Forester's handbook for transportation policy makers and bicycling advocates has been rewritten to reflect changes of the last decade. It includes new chapters on European...

In 1982, David Kearns became CEO of Xerox and learned shortly afterward that if something radical wasn't done, this legendary company--pioneer of the single most successful commercial product in history--might...

That is the essence of Danny Seo's Conscious Style philosophy. As a leading environmentalist, Seo believes it doesn't take much time, effort or money to make a difference in the...