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5) Car
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Series
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A photo essay about the history, development, and impact of automobiles from horseless carriages and Model T Fords to modern high-performance racing cars; featuring detailed cutaway photos showing how the moving parts of a car work.
8) Rosa Parks
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Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Introduces readers to Rosa Parks and describes how she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus and became an icon of the American civil rights movement.
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Series
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106 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."
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vii, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Transportation dominates our daily existence. Thousands, even millions, of miles are embedded in everything we do and touch. We live in a door-to-door universe that works so well most Americans are scarcely aware of it. The grand ballet in which we move ourselves and our stuff is equivalent to building the Great Pyramid, the Hoover Dam, and the Empire State Building all in a day. Every day. And yet, in the one highly visible part of the transportation...
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268 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Paula Grey explores how creative thinkers--sometimes collaborating, sometimes competing, and always building on the work of their predecessors--have envisioned new ways to move about in the world. From the first foot migration out of Africa to the Model T Ford, hot air balloons, submarines, rickshaws, and moon rockets, humans have combined imagination, daring, and scientific and technical knowledge to improve existing vehicles or create new ones....
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