Bombay Cat
In 1908, when Henry Ford, the American automotive pioneer said that his fellow Americans could have any colour as long as it was black, he was of course talking about the black model T Ford, the first affordable mass produced automobile. Some ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Caroline Adderson
It only takes a moment for your life to be changed forever-as the characters of this darkly comic novel discover early on. The fateful moment for the newlyweds Ross and Iliana comes with the freak automobile accident that leaves Iliana paralyzed, ... [... more]
Random House |
Margaret Crawford
is Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Architecture of American Company Towns and editor of The Car and the City: The Automobile and ... [... more]
Random House |
Diane Heller
Trauma following automobile accidents can persist for weeks, months, or longer. Symptoms include nervousness, sleep disorders, loss of appetite, and sexual dysfunction. In Crash Course, Diane Poole Heller and Laurence Heller take readers through ... [... more]
Random House |
Curt Sampson
Ben Hogan won four U.S. Opens in six years, three of them after a near-fatal head-on automobile collision. Driven by an obsessive dedication to the game, legend has it, he practiced until his hands bled. The concentration and precision he ... [... more]
Random House |
Brian Selznick
Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels, wrote only one children's book-and it is a classic! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the name of the flying, floating, driving-by-itself automobile that takes the Pott family on a riotous series of ... [... more]
Random House |
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels, wrote only one children's book-and it is a classic! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the name of the flying, floating, driving-by-itself automobile that takes the Pott family on a riotous series of ... [... more]
Random House |
Micheline Maynard
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market In the 1990s, Detroit's Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely believed that ... [... more]
Random House |
Julie M. Fenster
Julie M. Fenster is an author and historian who began her career at Automobile Quarterly, where her book Packard: The Pride won the Best Book award from the National Automotive Journalism Conference. She is also the author of the award-winning ... [... more]
Random House |
French Riviera Carport
Whether we like it or not, the automobile is an important part of our busy, everyday lives. When it comes to the problem of where to keep the car, we can either go for the traditional garage, or perhaps something a bit more stylish. Don looked at ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
L. J. Hunt
L.J. Hunt, who lives in Chicago, has a stepgrandfather with a 1908 Brush automobile. Though the old Brush can barely get to the bottom of the driveway these days, its existence led the author all the way to the Abernathy boys, who went for a long ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
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