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Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that explain how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving says about us. Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Language
English
Description
"How the radical disruption of the auto industry affects you-and how you can prepare for the soon-to-be "new normal" The combined effect of autonomous driving, electric vehicles, and the sharing economy is on the verge of changing the auto industry-all within the next decade. And this tech/economics revolution will touch virtually every industry. What exactly will change? Jobs: Demand for commercial vehicle drivers, car dealers, mechanics, doctors,...
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Mitchell never wants to go to bed until, at the age of three years, nine months, and five days he gets his license so that he can drive there--at least until he and the car have a disagreement about what fuel goes in the tank.
9) Moo!
Author
Publisher
Walker Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
When Cow gets her hooves on the farmer's car, she takes it for a wild ride through the country.
10) Vroom!
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Follows a young girl's imaginary journey as she zooms in a race car past fields and forests to faraway lands before returning home to her own safe bed.
11) OK go
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this almost wordless picture book, car drivers stuck in traffic under smoggy skies seek "greener" alternatives to driving, including riding bicycles, walking, and playing.
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers. Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads,...
Author
Publisher
Putman's
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a spectacular success, attracting seventy exhibitors and nearly...
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 6
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Cal learns a lot about teasing and standing up for others when a weird new student joins his class, while Stella, the tenth-grader who lives with Cal's family to help his mother, practices for her driving test.
20) The lost & found
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Fannie and Louis both belong to an online support group for trauma survivors. They both also have a strange tendency to lose things. But when they embark on a road trip to finally meet each other, they stat to realize that the things you lose might be things you weren't meant to have at all, and that you never know what you might find if you just take a chance"--
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