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How To Use Plastic Sextants - With Applications to Metal Sextants and a Review of Sextant Piloting by David Burch Publisher Comments Sextants are used to measure angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon to find the latitude and longitude of the observer. They can also be used on land with artificial horizons. Sextants can also be used to find the correct Universal Time by... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $5.50 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic 
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Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoe Publisher Comments Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution I am proud to call myself a straphanger, writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939-45 (2) by Gordon Williamson Publisher Comments This title follows from New Vanguard 51: Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939-45 (1) and charts the continuing development of the U-boat in German service, including the evolution of the Type IX as a long range 'cruiser' intended for solo operations in distant... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Secrets of the Viking Navigators - How the Vikings used their amazing sunstones and other techniques to cross the open ocean by Leif K. Karlsen Publisher Comments "Most navigators have heard of Viking sunstones, but few realize they are more than legend. Leif Karlsen has brought them to life. He shows us how they work—now, and a thousand years ago—and what it was that led the Viking navigators to develop this... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $5.50 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean by Ruthy Gertwagen Publisher Comments The cutting-edge papers in this collection come from some of the most distinguished practitioners world-wide in the fields of Crusading history and the maritime history of the medieval Mediterranean. Issues covered include ship construction, navigation... (read more) List Price $144.95 Your price: $139.51 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Ferrari Daytona Buyers' Guide by Chris Mellor Publisher Comments This Ferrari Daytona (1968-1974) Buyers' Guide has a full description of this absolutely classic Ferrari and contains: - A guide to performance, features, and equipment - Manufacturing dates - Many illustrations - Overall choice points between models... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $9.62 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Public Transport: Its Planning, Management and Operation by Peter White Publisher Comments Public Transport is a comprehensive textbook covering the planning of all public transport systems (bus, coach, rail, taxi and domestic air travel) in Britain and other countries with similar systems. The term 'planning' is used both in the context of... (read more) List Price $53.95 Your price: $51.93 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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International Handbook on the Economics of Integration: Factor Mobility, Agriculture, Environment and Quantitative Studies by Miroslav N. Jovanović Publisher Comments International Handbook of Economic Integration edited by Miroslav Jovanovi provides timely and rich academic contributions to considerations of the widest array of integration-related issues. European integration has been providing an inspiration to a... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $57.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Complete On-Board Celestial Navigation 2011-2015 by George G Bennett Publisher Comments Your All-in-One Navigation Tool KitCelestial navigation remains an essential skill for every mariner who venturesout of sight of land. In this era of electronic navigation, it is the perfectbackup system, enabling you to determine your position when the... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $9.62 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Port Economics by Wayne K. Talley Publisher Comments Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the users and providers of port services. A port is an "engine" for economic development by providing employment, worker incomes, business earnings and taxes for its region.... (read more) Your price: $70.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Legendary Farmall Tractors by Lee Klancher Publisher Comments The first general-purpose tractor with narrowly spaced front wheels, the original Farmall was designed to do fine-tuned field cultivation as well as anything a team of farm horses could do—in short, to “farm all.” The rest is history, even legend... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.18 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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GNSS Markets and Applications by Len Jacobson Publisher Comments Most known for GPS products, the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) industry is poised for dramatic growth. Many GNSS business experts are predicting ten-fold growth over the next decade to make GNSS a $300-billion industry. This book provides a... (read more) List Price $79.00 Your price: $76.04 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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A Decade of Action in Transport: Evaluation of World Bank Support to Transportation Infrastructure 1995 - 2005 by Peter Freeman, Publisher Comments Throughout the past decade transport projects have played a pivotal role in economic development and poverty alleviation. This review finds that the World Bank's strategy in this area has been well managed and effective. The strong support for intercity... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Measuring the Marginal Social Cost of Transport by Christopher Nash Publisher Comments Transport economists have long argued for the use of marginal social cost as the basis of transport pricing. However, its measurement involving measuring the marginal wear and tear on the infrastructure, congestion, accidents and environmental costs - is... (read more) List Price $94.95 Your price: $91.39 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Paying the Toll by Louise Dyble Publisher Comments Since its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge has become an icon for the beauty and prosperity of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a symbol of engineering achievement. Constructing the bridge posed political and financial challenges that were... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $43.31 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Mobilities and Inequality by Timo Ohnmacht Publisher Comments This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality. Based on the premise that the dynamics caused by modernization, globalization, migration and social change affect... (read more) List Price $89.95 Your price: $86.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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ADR, Applicable as from 1 January 2011: European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road by United Nations Publisher Comments "United Nations publication, sales no.: E.10.VIII.4"--T.p. verso.... (read more) List Price $93.07 Your price: $82.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Multisensory Driver, The: Implications for Ergonomic Car Interface Design Human Factors in Road and Rail Transport by Cristy Ho Publisher Comments This book is dedicated to furthering the design of ergonomic multisensory interfaces by highlighting recent evidence in this area emerging from the fast-growing field of cognitive neuroscience. It focuses primarily on two aspects of driver information... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price: $96.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Global Positioning System: Theory and Applications by Bradford W. Parkinson Publisher Comments This two-volume set explains the technology, performance, and applications of the Global Positioning System (GPS). It is the only one of its kind.... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $88.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing by John F. McDonald Publisher Comments Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing offers the most extensive examination to date of the relationship between congestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run. This study breaks new ground in the economic theory of optimal road... (read more) List Price $179.00 Your price: $172.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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