Transportation
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Ride Alchemy
Not Just an Ordinary Bike Ride by Hana Weinwurm
Ride Alchemy is the ultimate resource guide. It provides a detailed tool kit for indoor cycling teachers and enthusiasts, complete with 26 fully laidout work-outs that are endlessly challenging, satisfying and varied, and that include QR links to ...
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Driving the Line
A Novel View of Trucking from the Left Seat by Buck Hammer
Since she was a young child, the beautiful Laura Halsey has wanted two things in life: to raise a family and to drive a truck like her father. Her father insists, “Women don’t drive trucks,” but she’s determined to prove him wrong — until he dies in ...
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Slowing for the Rough Stuff
Trucking in War-Torn Yugoslavia by Jonathan Jones
The complexities of war are only truly known when you’ve experienced it. From 1992 to 1994, Jonathan Jones, an ex-serviceman of the Gloucestershire Regiment, found himself in the depths of chaos while providing humanitarian aid as a civilian truck ...
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The Georgian Bay Ship Canal
Canada's Abandoned National Dream by Ray Love
The Georgian Bay Ship Canal was a river and lake canalization scheme designed to create a commercial waterway along the route of the voyageurs. It was the dream of Canadian businessmen and entrepreneurs for centuries. Originally a trade route for ...
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Ace McCool
by Jack Desmarais
Ace McCool is an over-the-top spoof of the airline industry. It relates the hilarious misadventures of a fly-by-night, corner-cutting airline called Down East International, based in Moncton, New Brunswick. The stories start with Ace McCool, a ...
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Bicycle Snowplow!
Why and How to Plow Pathways by David G. Coldwell
A New Kind of Cycling Advocacy. In Calgary Alberta, bicycle snowplowing was born at a time when pathways weren't plowed at all. Early snowplowing pioneers convinced City Hall that pathways needed to be plowed, not just for cyclists and pedestrians, ...
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Commercial Drivers Licensure Handbook
A Supplementary Guide to the CDL manual by Rick Foster
If you are seeking to attain your Commercial Drivers License (CDL) and pursuit a successful career in the Transportation Industry this book will give you insight to better understand the regulations governing the industry. I have over 20 years in ...
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The Red Knight
by John Charles Corrigan
The Red Knight is the product of 25 years of meticulous research. It is, arguably, the most comprehensive account ever written about the Canadian Air Force’s legendary solo jet-aerobatics performer. An important part of Canadian aviation history, ...
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Life Actually
My Memoirs by Nargis Gercke-Bhatia
Who knew the eyes of a young girl from the East coast of Africa would see the far corners of the world? Indian-African Nargis Gercke was born in the Kenyan town of Mombasa before her family moved to Dar-es-Salaam (“the haven of peace) in ...
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Advanced Fatigue Management
Going Beyond The Gates of Micro Sleeps by Stephen Monk
Advanced Fatigue Management is a book about how to preset your mind so you can gain better control over the very human business of sleep. This book takes a particular focus on teaching this skill to drivers, for whom a strong handle on sleeping ...
