Customer Review: Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic is an engaging, fun, humbling and instructive book that I purchased for some light reading. The dimensions of the human activity called "driving" and its resultant "traffic" are, as described in this book, more complex than rocket science. There is a bit of something... more info
Customer Review: The "Ruins" of the Cold War are fading fast. Time, weather, and man's inattention to preserving history are everyday factors leading to the eventual disappearance of the relics of the cold war infastructure. Survival City is a facinating look at some of these relics and how and why they were... more info
Customer Review: "The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and An Icon" is well-written and excellently researched. The badly-placed black-and-white sneaker photos and its academic tone, however, offer the book as an informative but slightly boring term paper on the sneaker industry. Casual readers will probably... more info