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The routes of man : how roads are changing the world and the way we live today / Ted Conover.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010Edition: First editionDescription: 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9781400042449 (alk. paper)
  • 1400042445 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 388.1 22
LOC classification:
  • HE341 .C66 2010
Contents:
Forest primeval to Park Avenue -- Road, or not a road? -- Slipping from Shangri-La -- Road ecology -- The road is very unfair -- Double-edged roads -- A war you can commute to -- Speed up! -- Capitalist roaders -- Growing Broadway -- Drive soft : life no get duplicate.
Summary: A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected--how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.
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Books John Tomay Memorial Library ANF 388.1 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3GTPL00080047R

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forest primeval to Park Avenue -- Road, or not a road? -- Slipping from Shangri-La -- Road ecology -- The road is very unfair -- Double-edged roads -- A war you can commute to -- Speed up! -- Capitalist roaders -- Growing Broadway -- Drive soft : life no get duplicate.

A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected--how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.

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