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Every time you get on an airplane, take a railway train to visit family, or drive down the highway to go on an adventure, you're putting your safety in the hands of the Department of Transportation. The Cabinet department determines how the country's various public transit systems operate and connect, what the rules are for airline flight, and how highways and roadways are constructed and maintained. Readers will learn about the various rules and...
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Explores the history, benefits and disadvantages, and future of gig jobs in the transportation and delivery industry, and describes gig jobs like rideshare jobs, food delivery jobs, package delivery jobs, and moving, shipping, and freight jobs. Includes color photographs, sidebars, a glossary, and additional resources.
10) Car
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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.
15) Cars in America
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Contains twenty-four essays that offer differing perspectives on issues concerning America's use of the automobile, including the effect of cars on American culture, improvements that have made driving safer, the future of the American auto industry, and related topics.
16) Transportation
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Using a countdown format, describes the world's most memorable failures in transportation devices. Also details what was learned and gained from each failure.
17) The race underground: Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway
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"In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers--Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City--pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to have a subway and the great race was on. The competition...
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On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child. But instead of being celebrated, as Rosa Parks would be when she took the same stand nine months later,...
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Presents the ins and outs of rust and metalwork projects, with information on how to select the proper tools for the job, common-sense approaches, preparation, fabrication, patching, welding options, and metal work and finishing. Also includes a resource guide.