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AFAS - A Celebration of Automotive Art
Come meet the world's top echelon of automotive artists in Automobile Quarterly's newest book, “A Celebration of Automotive Art,” a masterful compendium of the fine art and artists of the Automotive Fine Art Society (AFAS). Articles capturing the unique personalities of all 32 artists of the AFAS are complemented by striking reproductions of their work, including the latest paintings and sculptures.
Step into the world of artistic elegance and top-shelf talent, where behind-the-canvas interviews reveal artists' impressions and philosophies. See for yourself what makes these masters tick, what stirs the passion that translates into powerful expression. This ultimate coffee-table book also covers the work and biographies of deceased luminaries such as Peter Helck, Walter Gotschke and Carlo Demand. |
$99.95
Sundance Publications
By Don Robertson, Morris Cafky, E.J. Haley |
Denver's Street Railways
This volume begins with the horsecar era; these colorful little cars, with their tinkling bells, were a much-needed alternative to the horse and carriage for commuting. As expected, the horsecar line became profitable and stayed that way for years to come. Between 1885 and 1887, the Denver Tramway Company made history by operating the first electric streetcars via a conduit beneath its trackage on 15th Street in downtown Denver. The company later consolidated all of the competition to establish a single unified transit system in the city.
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352 pages, 60 detailed streetcar route maps, 282 photographs, hardcover.
Books on Amelia Earhart
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Twenty Hours Forty Minutes
By Amelia Earhart
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of her first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, 20 Hrs., 40 Min. reintroduces Amelia Earhart—one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century—to a new generation of readers.
Through her candid voice and fresh prose, Earhart recalls the events that led to her passion for flight. Moved by the tragedy of World War I, Earhart left high school to work in an army hospital in Canada. It was the golden age of aviation—a time when people still stopped on the street at the sight of an airplane gliding overhead, and Earhart was captivated by the goings-on at a local airfield. Her fascination quickly escalated; she took her first flying lesson in 1920 and by 1928, just one year after Charles Lindbergh made his famous transatlantic flight, Earhart boarded the Friendship with Will Stultz to become the first woman to accomplish the feat. Their achievement catapulted Earhart to international celebrity.
Using expanded entries from her flight book—written in pencil in the dark—Earhart relates the story of how she became connected with the Friendship flight and what she wanted to accomplish, which included earning recognition for women aviators. With a new National Geographic flight map, historic photos from the crossing, and Earhart’s irrepressible voice, 20 Hrs., 40 Min. is a refreshing glimpse into this icon’s remarkable spirit of adventure..
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The Sound of Wings:
The Life of Amelia Earhart
by Mary S. Lovell
This definitive biography of aviation legend Amelia Earhart delivers a brilliantly researched report on Earhart's life--from her tomboy childhood and early fascination with flying, her peculiar business/matrimonial relationship with publisher G.P. Putnam, to her consuming quest for aviation fame. |
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Amelia Earhart: Image and Icon
by Sue Butler
Amelia Earhart remains nearly as famous today as she was in 1937, the year her plane disappeared over the Pacific. What roles did photography and the media play in constructing her iconography? In an era when aviators were glamorous symbols of adventure and modernity, she launched herself into instant celebrity by becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, her celebrity aided considerably by the flight promoter and publisher George Palmer Putnam, whom she later married. For nearly 10 years, from the late 20s to the late 30s, newspapers and magazines profiled Earhart's record-breaking flights, her forays into clothing designs and her endorsements for everything from cigarettes to luggage. Earhart, in turn, capitalized on the fame that her accomplishments brought her to champion the advancement of women and other causes about which she was passionate. In her unconventional pants and leather jacket, she became the embodiment of the new roles that began to seem possible for American women in the 1920s and 30s. Through magazines, newspapers, original press photos and advertisements, Image and Icon, published on the occasion of the exhibition at New York's International Center of Photography, traces the construction of Earhart's iconic image and its continued resonance today. |
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Amelia Earhart: A Biography
by Doris L. Rich
Rich's portrait reveals a determined, independent woman, brave enough "to go where no one had gone and to do what no one had done" . . . [and] illuminates the public and private life of a legendary flier, bringing her back to earth as a courageous woman who dreamed and dared all.
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Amelia Earhart's Shoes: Is the Mystery Solved?
by Karen Burns
"Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart?" has been an enduring question since she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared somewhere in the Pacific on July 2, 1937. Since then, the mystery has been "solved" by people who claim, among other things, that she was flying as a U.S. agent against the Japanese, that she died in a prisoner-of-war camp and that she was abducted by aliens. This book posits that due to bad weather, Earhart and Noonan missed their refueling stop on Howland Island in the mid-Pacific and landed on Nikumaroro, a small island south of their target. While most Earhart quests are based on imaginative, usually untested hypotheses, this volume is scrupulous in not making any unevidenced assertions. Working from a wide range of fields its authors are an archeological consultant, a geophysicist, a forensic anthropologist and an army engineer this book claims that human bones and a shoe found on Nikumaroro indicate that Earhart possibly landed and died there. Unlike other Earhart detectives, the authors repeatedly emphasize that their conclusions are tentative and conjectural. While their judgments are tantalizing and plausible, the fun of the book is being in on the excitement of the discoveries and the scientific testing of the hypothesis. Written in a colloquial, good-humored style that takes itself seriously but is not above cracking a joke to make a point, this is a must for "what happened to Amelia" fanatics, and also those who are interested in how science can be used to test the veracity of theories about historical mysteries. |
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I Was Amelia Earhart: A Novel
by Jane Mendelsohn
In an evocative and imaginative novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one windy day in 1937.
Past and present, fact and fiction, first-person and third blend into a life of the celebrated aviatrix-both before and after her famed disappearance in 1937, at age 39-that unfolds with the surreal precision of a dream and that marks first novelist Mendelsohn as a writer to watch.
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Still Missing:
Amelia Earhart and the
Search for Modern Feminism
by Susan Ware
Ware has written a biography of the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. While the facts of Earhart's life have been told both by herself and numerous others, this book's unique approach emphasizes their significant impact on women's history. This is a scholarly portrait of a person who was not only America's best-known woman aviator but also a nurse, settlement worker, author, lecturer, and even clothing designer--a woman whose life and ideas epitomized liberal feminism before the philosophy was fully articulated. Recommended for women's studies collections.
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Last Flight
by Amelia Earhart, George Putnam
Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time. Compiled here are dispatches, letters, diary entries and charts she sent to her husband at each stage of her trip. |
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The Fun of It
Random Records of My Own Flying
and of Women in Aviation
by Amelia Earhart
The first woman to solo across the Atlantic recalls her youth, early encounters with flying, career as a pilot, and feminine pioneers in aviation.
"Her pages are full of the experiences, the information, the little things and the big things the public likes to know about." - NY Times
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East to the Dawn:
The Life of Amelia Earhart
by Susan Butler
This expansive biography unearths new material on Earhart, including a diary from Earhart's cousin Lucy Challiss, an unpublished biography by journalist Janet Mabie, and letters sent to a woman friend by Noonan...Rich with detail, "East to the Dawn" is an important book...certainly the most comprehensive Earhart biography in recent years. It stirs Earhart, who would have turned 100 this year, from the mists of myth, and finds the flesh-and-blood humanity within the alabaster icon.
-The Boston Globe, Renee Graham
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Amelia Earhart:
The Mystery Solved
by Elgen M. Long, Marie K. Long
For more than sixty years people have wondered what happened to Amelia Earhart. Here at last is the answer.
In 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared into the Pacific Ocean only days from completing her famous around-the-world flight. Her plane was never found. Now, with the recent discovery of long-lost radio messages, combined with authors Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long's twenty-five years of research, the mystery surrounding Earhart has been solved.
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Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography
of Amelia Earhart
by Corrine Szabo, Linda Finch
Instead of the usual obsession with Earhart's disappearance, this gloriously upbeat biography celebrates her drive and skill and daring as a record-breaking pilot at a time when women were expected to stay home. The spaciously designed large-size book, with big type, 60 duotone photos, and long, informative captions, is great for group sharing and personal browsing. Best of all are the italicized quotes throughout from Earhart's own writings, which express her determination and her spirit of adventure.
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Railroad Books
A Little Look at the Big Boy
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Union Pacific Across Sherman Hill:
Big Boys, Challengers and Streamliners
(Golden Years of Railroading)
In its golden years, UP's "horsepower" line used huge steam locomotives to move long freights and passenger consists across the prairie. Here, Sherman Hill, Wyoming provides a fitting backdrop for the hardworking Big Boys and Challengers. UP fans around the world will feel the raw power presented in this dynamic collection of historical photographs.
*Includes a route map of the railway
*Features vintage photos from the David P. Morgan Memorial Library
*Provides railfans, historians, and railroad modelers with prototype details |
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American Steam Locomotives Illustrated
by Brian Soloman
A powerful collection of yesterdays iron workhorses captured in a variety of nostalgic photographs. Solomon's thoroughly-researched text details the origins, development and growth of the steam locomotive from its earliest days right up to its final futile battles to compete with the diesel. Witness the intimate workings of old steam engines that used 20,000 gallons of water per hour! And look inside fireboxes large enough to host a dinner for 12! See these iron behemoths inside and out, in photographs of them on the tracks, as well as in shots of them being rebuilt. An action-packed profile of the mighty steam trains that once ruled the tracks. |
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Model Railroader Cyclopedia: Steam Locomotives
by Linn Westcott
Presents details and measurements of steam locomotives from their first appearance to their final days. Includes nearly 1,000 rare photographs and over 127 HO scale plans, notes, and specifications for almost all steam locomotives in North America. |
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Steam Locomotives
Projects & Ideas
Compiled from the pages of Model Railroader. Learn to detail, kitbash, paint, and maintain a steam locomotive of any scale. Includes information about the history of steam locomotive power and components of the prototype, all in an easy-to-understand, illustrated manner. |
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