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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! It digs up dirt. It packs earth down hard. This earthmover is on the move! How do earthmovers work? And what kinds of jobs do earthmovers do? Read this book to find out! Learn all about mighty machines in the Vroom-Vroom series-part of the Lightning Bolt Books™ collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning...

Would you like to start your business and finally be in control of how much you earn? Here comes the secret to making good profits and becoming successful at your own trucking company business. If you have been considering starting your own trucking company but do not know the exact way to start or the basic requirements needed, then this book is for you. Many people conceive ideas of starting a business but chicken out at the point of execution,...

Offers readers a close-up look at dirt bikes. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, labeled diagrams, and a "How It Works" feature, the book provides a thrilling overview of this exciting vehicle.

Take a ride in a San Francisco Trolleybus to the Painted Ladies and the Ferry Plaza with Driver Doug, a 21 year transit operator. Doug enjoys giving directions to get around the city in public transportation, and shares stories and tips on taking MUNI when you visit.**Editor's Note: Since the writing of this book, in June of 2018, our nation, our world, experienced a pandemic which radically changed the nature of public transit in large urban areas...

"What a variety are pictured here! Double deck 'balloon' cars, single deckers including open topped cars and various illuminated cars, a specialty of the town." -York Model Engineers newsletter In the early 1930s the tramcar in Blackpool was at a crossroads, the system needed investment in both new track and new trams while there was a serious threat that the "town" routes might be converted to bus operation. The appointment of Walter Luff as the...

Los Angeles transportation's epic scale--its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores--has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes's Ground Link buspool have existed alongside such flops as the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane and the Oxnard-Los Angeles Caltrain commuter rail. The City of Angels lacks a propeller-driven...

In April 1941, Britain's first jet left the ground at a grass airfield 4 miles from Gloucester Cathedral. It was the start of a revolution in air travel, military and civilian. During the 1940s Britain's first-ever jet aircraft, the world's first jet fighter in squadron service and the first jet to hold the world air-speed record were all designed, built and flown in the Gloucester and Cheltenham area. The story of Frank Whittle's invention and dogged...

Mark Christensen grew up with a simple dream-to build a 600 horsepower suicide machine able to accelerate from zero to sixty in less time than it takes to read this sentence. When a friend offers him $100,000 to realize that dream, Christensen enlists Nick Pugh, the best young auto designer in the country. An idealistic, charismatic, twenty-two year old star student from the celebrated Art Center for Design in Pasadena, Pugh shows Christensen his...

These poems are about riding the subway and it is the author's way of acknowledging commuters everywhere; exploring and observing human behavior so that the reader is delighted with the fact that she understands them and what they experience each day. Commuters want to be understood. Only fellow commuters appreciate the poetic dance that is commuting from point A to point B. The emotions that we feel and the things that we observe along the way during...