Electric Motorcycles 2019

Author: Micah Toll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989906722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
Electric motorcycles and scooters are becoming increasingly popular. Learn about all of the best and most interesting electric two-wheelers from around the world. You'll find over 85 of the most popular electric motorbikes in this guide. Each comes with a breakdown of specifications, pricing and analysis on what makes each bikes unique.The latest book from acclaimed e-bike writer and journalist Micah Toll!

The Electric Bike Manifesto: How Electric Bicycles Can Save Our World (If We Let Them)

Author: Micah Toll
Publisher: Toll Publishing
ISBN: 9780989906739
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
We are destroying our climate, creating a collision course with disaster. But the humble electric bicycle may just hold the key to our survival. And the best part is that saving the world has never been so fun, cost effective or healthy!

From A to B

Author: Dave Walker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472976150
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
'Pure joy. Happy, generous, funny, kind, wise and full of fresh air. An absolutely wonderful book.' – Jeremy Vine 'Engaging, entertaining and enlightening' - Chris Boardman 'A glorious celebration of the wonder and absurdity of cycling' – Ned Boulting 'Hilarious' – Cycling Weekly More joyful cycling cartoons from the renowned Cycling Cartoonist. Inside you'll find over 100 full-page cartoons that cast an affectionate eye over the delights and challenges of cycling: from everyday commuting to cycling adventures, and everything in between. This cartoon manifesto for pedal-powered transport is a mixture of comedic insights and actually useful information, for everyone from beginners to seasoned cycling campaigners. These are funny, thoughtful and powerful cartoons from best-selling cartoonist Dave Walker, celebrating the simple pleasure of getting from A to B on two wheels. Topics addressed include: - Motivational sentiments for riding up hills - Ways to keep your saddle dry in the rain - Things you could carry on a cargo bike - A traffic report for the National Cycle Network

You Are Not a Gadget

Author: Jaron Lanier
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307593142
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse. Informed by Lanier’s experience and expertise as a computer scientist, You Are Not a Gadget discusses the technical and cultural problems that have unwittingly risen from programming choices—such as the nature of user identity—that were “locked-in” at the birth of digital media and considers what a future based on current design philosophies will bring. With the proliferation of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 designs that elevate the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and wisdom of individuals, his message has never been more urgent.

Bikenomics

Author: Elly Blue
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 1621069435
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Bikenomics provides a surprising and compelling new perspective on the way we get around and on how we spend our money, as families and as a society. The book starts with a look at Americans' real transportation costs, and moves on to examine the current civic costs of our transportation system. Blue tells the stories of people, businesses, organizations, and cities who are investing in two-wheeled transportation. The multifaceted North American bicycle movement is revealed, with its contradictions, challenges, successes, and visions.

Cyclist's Manifesto

Author: Robert Hurst
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762757671
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
The Cyclist’s Manifesto makes the most powerful case to date for a simple fact: America can no longer afford to ignore the bicycle as a tool for serious transportation. Robert Hurst takes off his gloves to lay out the case in favor of the bicycle as today’s superior mode of transport—and to voice a resounding call to action for people to use it. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the past to the present and into the future, the author visits a surprising variety of places and historical moments. Hurst argues that America’s aversion to bicycling for transportation is a unique historical-cultural absurdity based largely on false assumptions and bad information. Humorous but more than a little exasperated, and strikingly nonpartisan, The Cyclist’s Manifesto paints a tantalizing picture of just what the effects of substantially increased bicycle usage might be—the health care savings would be astronomical, for example—and the ways that individuals and governments can go about wresting back control over their energy destiny.

Wheels of Change

Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426328559
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Explore the role the bicycle played in the women's liberation movement.

Pedaling Revolution

Author: Jeff Mapes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
"From traffic-dodging-bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling. He rides with bicycle advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the everyday folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Chapters focused on big cities, college towns, and America's most successful bike city, Portland, show how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are claiming a share of the valuable streetscape."--BOOK JACKET.

Mudgirls Manifesto

Author: The Mudgirls Natural Building Collective
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550926705
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Building a Revolution, one handful at a time. In the face of widespread burnout and a world gone crazy, how do we find things to say "yes" to, rather than a resounding "no"? On North America's West Coast, there's a group of rebel women who ten years ago chose to break free from a rigged economic and social system. They didn't take to the streets to lobby banks and governments to change their ways - they didn't have time for that. They had babies to feed and house. They reckoned that if nobody else was going to change the rules to support basic human needs and respect the biosphere, then we are all free to make our own rules. They chose action. They decided to teach themselves how to build houses using the most abundant material on earth - mud. They'd learn by building, gathering skills and allies. They'd have fun, sharing whatever they learned with whoever wanted to come along for the ride. The Mudgirls revolution was born. Part story of rebel women, grassroots self-governance, and community-building, part incendiary political and economic tract, and part practical guide to building natural homes for real people. Mudgirls Manifesto is about respecting the earth, each other, and crafting meaningful lives. A powerful, positive antidote to troubled times.

The Cost of Living

Author: Deborah Levy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635571928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy. A New York Times Notable Book A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage? This vibrant memoir, a portrait of contemporary womanhood in flux, is an urgent quest to find an unwritten major female character who can exist more easily in the world. Levy considers what it means to live with meaning, value, and pleasure, to seize the ultimate freedom of writing our own lives, and reflects on the work of such artists and thinkers as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch, and Emily Dickinson. The Cost of Living, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction, is crucial testimony, as distinctive, witty, complex, and original as Levy's acclaimed novels.