"An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment...

Offers colored maps of the states, and includes maps of the major cities along with travel information.

A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road's construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher).

"Pack up the car and enjoy gorgeous drives through some of the most spectacular scenery New Hampshire has to offer. This pocket-size guide is an indispensable highway companion that maps out short trips for exploring scenic byways and back roads. Whetheryou embark on an adventure that winds along mountainsides or banks of picturesque rivers, the road trips in Scenic Driving New Hampshire transform your passenger seat into a front row seat to experience...

Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.

Book three of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: Max seeks to uncover the twisted truth behind an eighty-year-old triple homicide

In the 1920s, three of Mark Mayes’s ancestors left to help build the first road through the Everglades—backbreaking labor from which they never returned. Now, decades later, Mayes has discovered letters that point to murder as the cause of their disappearance, and he hires Max Freeman to...

"A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye. In 66 B.C., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. It was a way to curry favor from Roman citizens in villages along the route, built from Rome to Brindisi between 312-191 B.C. He...

"This software has been thoroughly inspected by the Department of the Real, and is known to contain: utility bills, barns, workplace injuries, airplanes, wage theft, television repair, art, paperwork, slide projectors, deja vu, disappointment, arguments among neighbors, muffled music, homelessness, moonlight, hypnotic states, intense ennui, aphasia, medical debt, moonlight, truck repair, silent films, frank discussions of stagecraft, lateness, radio,...