books about: highway

books about: highway

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Highway

Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 700 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, ...

Jane Stern, Michael Stern

Broadway, 2008

What a great guide to hard to find gems!
Although I am a serious home cook I tend to eat out a lot due to my busy travel schedule. I am always looking for the out-of-the-way places that only the locals know about. This book is my inside guide to those hidden treasures. First I checked out the cities that ...

The Devil's Highway: A True Story

Luis Alberto Urrea

Back Bay Books, 2005

A MUST read for every American
Definitely worth reading. This is in my top-five of all time. Well written. Great research. Easy to read. Compelling story. Read it.

Traffic Engineering (3rd Edition)

Roger P. Roess, Elena S. Prassas, ...

Prentice Hall, 2004

Probably the best traffic engineering textbook out there
From sight distance to freeway flow characteristics to signal coordination for arterials, this is the most comprehensive textbook I've seen on traffic engineering. The topics follow a very logical progression and many examples are given throughout. This book could ...

National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways, 3d Ed. (National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways ...

National Geographic

National Geographic, 2007

A simply excellent travel guide for America
Even with exorbitant fuel prices, America is still the best bargain for travel bargain. This book proves it, over and over. The photography is simply superb, all in color, and gives the reader a wonderful opportunity to anticipate what might be found along each route ...

Route 66: EZ66 Guide for Travelers

Jerry McClanahan

National Historic Route 66 Federation, 2005

EZ Guide, EZ Ride
This guide worked great. If you email the author (email address in the guide), he'll send you updates. Came with detailed maps, turn-by-turn directions for both eastbound and westbound driving, and points of interest. Guide has a spiral binding and just the right ...

Isralestine: The Ancient Blueprints of the Future Middle East

Bill Salus

HighWay, 2008

Isralestine...
If you are a student of Eschatology, then this is one you'll want to have for your library. Bill has done an excellent job in explaining what he feels is the proper sequence of End Time events, which centers on a verse from Psalms which has gotten very little ...

Highway to Hell: Dispatches from a Mercenary in Iraq

John Geddes

Broadway, 2008

iraq guns for hire
I Tried to get this book for at least a year and wasnt dissapointed. Well written gunns for hire, feel like your there , rideing in the seat with the gun pointing at the door!!

the Next EXIT (The Next Exit)

Mark Watson

the Next EXIT, Inc., 2007

A must for every road trip!
We travel between Minnesota and S.W. Florida twice a year and there is nothing to compare with the "Next Exit" book. We pulled a camper a couple years and located the campgrounds along the way. Very helpful now with the RV friendly gas stations, restaurants, etc. ...

Blue Highways: A Journey into America

William Least Heat-Moon

Back Bay Books, 1999

A Lot of Good Remains in America
I have written many reviews for Amazon.com. Blue Highways is the only book to which I've given five stars. I would recommend it to anyone. Blue Highways is William Least Heat-Moon's account of his 1978 low-budget car ride across America. Heat-Moon's reporting ...

It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music
Amanda Petrusich

Faber & Faber, 2008

"Where lies the boundary between meaning and sentiment? Between memory and nostalgia? America and Americana? What is and what was? Does it move?" --Donovon Hohn, A Romance of Rust Part travelogue, part cultural criticism, part music appreciation, It Still Moves does for today’s avant folk scene what Greil Marcus did for Dylan and ...

Route 66: The Mother Road 75th Anniversary Edition

Michael Wallis

St. Martin's Griffin, 2001

Route 66
As we get older we appreciate memories from our youth more and more. I can remember riding in my parents car on trips along Route 66. This book is full of memories and interesting information about this historic road. We plan to take the Lincoln Highway from ...

Route 66 Adventure Handbook: Updated and Expanded Third Edition (Route 66 Series)

Drew Knowles

Santa Monica Press, 2006

Route 66 Adventure Handbook
I have read this book along with reading Route 66: EZ66 Guide for Travelers simultaneously. I find reading them together you get a little more information out of them. We are leaving for our trip in May and will bring both books with us. This book has a wealth of ...

Pavement Analysis and Design (2nd Edition)

Yang H. Huang

Prentice Hall, 2003

pavement analysis and design
o livro faz uma abordagem de forma racional e científica dos métodos mecanísticos para dimensionamento e análise de pavimentos flexíveis e rígidos, representado um guia para o engenheiro estrutural que pensa em abordar os pavimentos pelo método mecanístico. Ainda é um ...

Design of Highway Bridges: An LRFD Approach

Richard M. Barker, Jay A. Puckett

Wiley, 2006

Vilaysak SAYAKOUMMANE
Excellent book for a fundamental and intermidate knowledge of Bridge Design for Small & Middle Spans. Very suitable for both Junior and Senior Students, and Practical Engineers as well.

Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis

Fred L. Mannering, Walter P. Kilareski, ...

Wiley, 2004

excellent undergraduate book
In my own point of view this text book is the best among other text books in this fiels. Very organized, very clear and very useful. Great reference for undergradute studies. Excellent examples. Great job. It is perfect. I am doing my Master and many times I go to this ...