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  • Auto Mechanics

    Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America

    by Kevin L. Borg ...
    Series series Studies in Industry and Society
    The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study—for the first time—by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession.Kevin L. Borg's study spans a century of automotive technology—from the horseless carriage of the late nineteenth century to the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Destiny of Choice?

    New Directions in American Consumer History

    by Kristin Hoganson, Susan J. Matt, Alexis McCrossen, Jeffrey Tang, Kevin Borg, Joseph Haker, Lary May ...
    In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however especially during the Cold War, many Americans clung to the patriotic conviction that America was the land of the free. At the same time, another national ideal emerged that was far less contentious, that ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Even Toto Is Afraid Of Lightning

    by Kevin Borges ...
    Meet Toto, A Military Working Dog who's faced danger, adventures, and years of military service. But when a thunderstorm rolls in... even the bravest pup can get scared. In this story, young readers will discover that it's okay to feel afraid sometimes. With comforting moments and gentle words, "Even Toto Is Afraid of Lightning" reminds children that emotion are very natural, and courage isn't ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Blood Chronicles

    by Kevin Borges ...
    The Blood Chronicles is a dark epic fantasy that follows a kingdom struggling to protect itself after a chilling prophecy foretells the death of a newborn prince and the rise of an ancient evil. Hoping to prevent disaster, the kingdom sends three of its finest warriors on a dangerous expedition beyond the borders of Varkozna to uncover the truth about a rival empire and the growing darkness ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth

    The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

    by Robert J. Gordon, Robert J. Gordon ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Pacific Circuit

    A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City

    by Alexis Madrigal ...
    Alexis Madrigal reveals how understanding Oakland explains the modern world.In The Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history, and a vivid rendering of the defining themes of the twenty-first century.Oakland’s stories ... Read more

    Was $16.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

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  • The HP Way

    How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company

    by David Packard ...
    Series series Collins Business Essentials
    In the fall of 1930, David Packard left his hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, to enroll at Stanford University, where he befriended another freshman, Bill Hewlett. After graduation, Hewlett and Packard decided to throw their lots in together. They tossed a coin to decide whose name should go first on the notice of incorporation, then cast about in search of products to sell.Today, the one-car garage ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Driving Honda

    Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company

    by Jeffrey Rothfeder ...
    Since its birth as a motorcycle company in 1949, Honda has steadily grown into one of the world’s largest automakers and engine manufacturers, as well as one of the most beloved, most profitable, and most consistently innovative multinational corporations. What drives the company that keeps creating and improving award-winning and bestselling models like the Civic, Accord, Odyssey, CR-V, and Pilot ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper

    How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong

    by Robert Bryce ...
    In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others

    by John A. Daly ...

    $21.99 USD

  • They Made America

    From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators

    by Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer ...
    An illustrated history of American innovators—some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating—by the author of the bestselling The American Century.The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who invented modern banking. The creator of the computer operating system. These and scores of others are the characters who populate Harold Evans's rollicking, brilliant history ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • A Road Well Traveled: Profiles Of America's Great Automobile Pioneers

    by Daniel Alef ...
    The great American automotive pioneers were entrepreneurial inventors and visionaries who changed the American landscape and brought us a new national culture. These pioneers lifted the veil of isolation that enveloped most pre-twentieth century Americans and made it possible for the average person to travel whenever and wherever he or she pleased. Automobiles changed the concept of transportation ... Read more

    $11.99 USD