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Traffic, as any car-driving American can tell you, is a maddening aspect of modern life. One of the only good things to have come out of it is Tom Vanderbilt's fascinating, hilarious, and wonderfully researched book, TRAFFIC, which explores the unexpected, and unexpectedly interesting, psychological and social forces that leads to gridlock, accidents, rubber-necking, and the other quirks of car culture. TRAFFIC is filled with strange facts (drivers drive more recklessly around bikers with helmets, cars in a 15-block area of Los Angeles drove 3,600 extra miles a day while looking for parking), and, though the subject is exasperating, the writing is exhilarating. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.

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"Backed by an impressive array of psychological, sociological, historical, anecdotal and economic research, the author's presentation is always engaging and often sobering...."

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt

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Book desription: New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books, 2008. Hardback with DJ. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ unclipped; mylar-protected. As New. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 402pp. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ unclipped; mylar-protected. As New. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library.

Bookseller: Westside Stories (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 34974
Format/binding: Hardback with DJ.
Quantity available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0307264785
ISBN 13: 9780307264787
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books,
Place: New York, NY
Date published: 2008.
Pages: 402
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 x 1.25 inches
Weight: 1.55 pounds

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