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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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!!
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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 ...
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Sam & Max Surfin the Highway Anniversary Edition
Telltale, 2008
Surreal absurdist humor
I'd been looking for this for years used, but it was always too expensive. The book is a set of comic books (mostly in black and white)and some new panels the author put together. The humor is along the lines of "Zippy the Pinhead" and "The Far Side" and "Invader Zim" ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Traffic & Highway Engineering
Nicholas J. Garber, Lester A. Hoel
Cengage-Engineering, 2008
Very comprehensive and well written
As the transportation professor at West Virginia University, I take issue with the review from Braxton Lewis (one of my former students). This book does not have errors and we have been using it at West Virginia University for 12 years and will continue to do so.
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Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways.
Jamie Jensen
Avalon Travel Publishing, 2006
An Indispensable Guide
I recently completed a series of road trips around the U.S. with one of my children. We found Road Trip USA to be an indispensable guide to each section of the country we visited. The book was full of accurate recommendations and suggestions of what to see and what to ...
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