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Jackson, Robert W ., Highway Under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel, New York University Press, 2011.

Macy, Sue, Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), National Geographic Society, 2011. (Written for ages 12 and up, this book tells how the Bicycle Craze of the late 18th century allowed women to break through the many restrictions on their lives to "ride into a new world full of all sorts of freedoms," as the book jacket puts it.)

Swift, Earl, The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. (The story of the Interstates with emphasis on the lives of Carl Fisher (Lincoln Highway), BPR's Thomas H. MacDonald, BPR/FHWA's Frank Turner, and urban critic Lewis Mumford.)

Norell, Mark; Leidy, Denise Patry, and the American Museum of Natural History with Rose, Laura, Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World, Sterling Signature, 2011.

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