Questions and answers explore various aspects of transportation, including railroads, automobiles, ships, aircraft, and special purpose vehicles.

"How to Paint Your Car reveals the techniques, tricks, and technology behind automotive painting through 400 color photos, clear captions, detailed text, and step-by-step how-to sequences. You'll learn the latest information about paint chemistry, waterborne paints, spray guns, body fillers, surface prep, site prep, as well as respirators and other safety gear that every automotive painter must know. With step-by-step detail, you'll learn how to properly...

"Beep, beep! Honk, honk! Busytown's residents are on the go! Richard Scarry's wacky introduction to vehicles both realistic and fanciful brims with his trademark humor. Every one of these colorful cars, trucks, and cycles-from the Cat family's bright red convertible and Postman Pig's mail van to Banana Gorilla's yellow bananamobile, Wilbur Rabbit's drivable 'hot dog', and Lowly Worm's bugdozer-will delight car-loving kids"--Provided by publisher.

Coco the chicken takes all manner of transportation, including a taxi, train, camel, plane, spaceship, skateboard, and parachute, to get to Grandma's house.

Drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience and a background of more than 1,000 magazine articles on the subject, engine control expert Jeff Hartman explains everything from the basics of engine management to the building of complicated project cars. Hartman has substantially updated the material from his 1993 MBI book Fuel Injection to address the incredible developments in automotive fuel injection technology from the past decade, including...

An account of the most widely-used delivery systems in the nineteenth-century United States, stagecoaches and the Pony Express, discussing their development and challenges faced during their growth.

Trains grumble, roar, and squeak their way through this board book.

Welding is a skill that any do-it-yourself enthusiast needs in his or her arsenal. How to Weld is the perfect introduction for newbies and an excellent refresher for veteran welders-a work so comprehensive that most readers won't need any further instruction. In How to Weld, a bestselling installment in the Motorbooks Workshop series, AWS-certified welding instructor Todd Bridigum thoroughly describes process and art of fusing metals, including: •...

Presents an illustrated account of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, and the subsequent bus boycott by the black community.

Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.