In 'Fighting Traffic', Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change, but also a social one - before the city could be restructured for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as a place where motorists belonged.

A nontraditional occupation (NTO) is a career in which women make up less than 25 percent of the workforce. Using first-person narrative stories, based upon extensive interviews, this series presents oral histories of a wide range of vocations in a concise way. They can stand alone or be used with their 114-page resource guides as an effective program. -- Information from the www.NontraditionalCareers.com website.

Offering a behind-the-scenes look into the world of automotive research and development in the 1960s, this engaging narrative traces the birth of Chrysler's alternative jet car and reveals the story behind its sudden and mysterious demise. Relying on extensive research and firsthand accounts from surviving members of the turbine car program including the metallurgist who created the exotic metals for the engine and the test driver who drove it at...

Welcome to Cuba's automotive time capsule, filled with classic cars. The story of how Cuba came to be trapped in automotive time is a fascinating one. For decades, the island country had enjoyed healthy tourism trade and American outpost status, and by the 1950s it had the highest per capita automotive purchasing of any Latin American country - its middle class ensured an interesting variety of vehicles plying the roads. But when Cuba fell to communist...