Car Ownership for Women
Car Ownership for Women

Author: Dani Ben-Ari

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2010-05-04

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1452015287

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"CAR OWNERSHIP for Women" helps you buy right, stay safe, and extend the life of your car. In the first chapter, "Car Buying," assessing needs, wants, and means sets the stage for more effectively negotiating with dealers, at auctions, and on the Internet. Financing tips include selecting the best terms, lenders, and making the right ownership choices. In the second chapter, "Car Safety," etiquette when signalling, parking, and driving are demonstrated in a way that enables smartly managing the hazards associated with today's driving conditions. Handling breakdowns resulting from failure of the car's wheels, engine, and transmission save lives and money. In the third chapter, "Car Maintenance," care of the car's interior, exterior, and its engine are explained. A wise maintenance care program can easily extend the life of the car. Materials, storage space, devices, body, tires, windows, fluids, fuel, and engine performance are highlighted in ways you might have otherwise ignored.

Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide
Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide

Author: Patrice Banks

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1501144111

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"Maintain your ride, think like a mechanic, get down and dirty under the hood"--from cover.

The Geography of Transport Systems
The Geography of Transport Systems

Author: Jean-Paul Rodrigue

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1136777326

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Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this book. The third edition of The Geography of Transport Systems has been revised and updated to provide an overview of the spatial aspects of transportation. This text provides greater discussion of security, energy, green logistics, as well as new and updated case studies, a revised content structure, and new figures. Each chapter covers a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. A final chapter contains core methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation (GIS-T). This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. The website can be accessed at: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interest in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.

Invisible Women
Invisible Women

Author: Caroline Criado Perez

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1683353145

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The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women. #1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias: in time, in money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women’s lives. Product designers use a “one-size-fits-all” approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men’s needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women’s safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated, and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.

CAR OWNERSHIP for Mommies
CAR OWNERSHIP for Mommies

Author: Mommies Line

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-11-19

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0557013232

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"CAR OWNERSHIP for Mommies" helps you to buy right, stay safe, and extend the life of your car. In the first chapter, "Car Buying," assessing needs, wants, and means sets the stage for more effectively negotiating with dealers, at auctions, and on the Internet. Financing tips include selecting the best terms, lenders, and making the right ownership choices. In the second chapter, "Car Safety," etiquette when signaling, parking, and driving are demonstrated in a way that enables smartly managing the hazards associated with today's driving conditions. Handling breakdowns resulting from failure of the car's wheels, engine, and transmission save lives and money. In the third chapter, "Car Maintenance," care of the car's interior, exterior, and its engine are explained. A wise maintenance care program can easily extend the life of the car. Materials, storage space, devices, body, tires, windows, fluids, fuel, and engine performance are highlighted in ways you might have otherwise ignored.

Daring to Drive
Daring to Drive

Author: Manal Sharif

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1476793026

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A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed her perspectives.

The People’s Car
The People’s Car

Author: Bernhard Rieger

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0674075757

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At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could enjoy. Decades later, that automobile—the Volkswagen Beetle—was one of the most beloved in the world. Bernhard Rieger examines culture and technology, politics and economics, and industrial design and advertising genius to reveal how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became an exceptional global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. Beyond its quality and low cost, the Beetle’s success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of people across nations and cultures. In West Germany, it came to stand for the postwar “economic miracle” and helped propel Europe into the age of mass motorization. In the United States, it was embraced in the suburbs, and then prized by the hippie counterculture as an antidote to suburban conformity. As its popularity waned in the First World, the Beetle crawled across Mexico and Latin America, where it symbolized a sturdy toughness necessary to thrive amid economic instability. Drawing from a wealth of sources in multiple languages, The People’s Car presents an international cast of characters—executives and engineers, journalists and advertisers, assembly line workers and car collectors, and everyday drivers—who made the Beetle into a global icon. The Beetle’s improbable story as a failed prestige project of the Third Reich which became a world-renowned brand illuminates the multiple origins, creative adaptations, and persisting inequalities that characterized twentieth-century globalization.

EBOOK: Gender And Ageing: Changing Roles and Relationships
EBOOK: Gender And Ageing: Changing Roles and Relationships

Author: Sara Arber

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2003-11-16

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0335224067

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This book is a follow-up to Arber and Ginn's award winning Connecting Gender and Ageing (1995). It contains original chapters from eminent writers on gender and ageing, addressing newly emergent areas within gender and ageing, including gender identity and masculinity in later life. Early work on gender and ageing was dominated by a focus on older women. The present collection breaks with this tradition by emphasizing changing gender roles and relationships, gender identity and an examination of masculinities in midlife and later life. A key theme running through the book is the need to reconceptualize partnership status, in order to understand the implications for women and men of widowhood, divorce and new forms of relationships, such as Living Apart Together (LAT-relationships). Another is the influence of socio-economic circumstances on how ageing is experienced and transitions are negotiated. The book illustrates new ways of thinking about old age and indicates policy implications, especially concerning the nature of service provision for older people. It will change the ways in which social scientists conceptualize later life. Written with undergraduate students and researchers in mind, Gender and Ageing: Changing Roles and Relationships will be an invaluable text for those studying social gerontology, sociology of later life, gender studies, health and community care and social policy.

The Socialist Car
The Socialist Car

Author: Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0801463211

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Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile space that challenged the most basic assumptions of the collectivity. The "socialist car"-and the car culture that built up around it-was the result of an always unstable compromise between official ideology, available resources, and the desires of an increasingly restless citizenry. In The Socialist Car, eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore in vivid detail the interface between the motorcar and the state socialist countries of Eastern Europe, including the USSR. In addition to the metal, glass, upholstery, and plastic from which the Ladas, Dacias, Trabants, and other still extant but aging models were fabricated, the socialist car embodied East Europeans' longings and compromises, hopes and disappointments. The socialist car represented both aspirations of overcoming the technological gap between the capitalist first and socialist second worlds and dreams of enhancing personal mobility and status. Certain features of automobility-shortages and privileges, waiting lists and lack of readily available credit, the inadequacy of streets and highways-prevailed across the Soviet Bloc. In this collective history, the authors put aside both ridicule and nostalgia in the interest of trying to understand the socialist car in its own context.