Summary: Tour Navistar International Truck to see how a large truck is made from beginning to end, using robots as well as people, that will be used in loading, hauling, and delivering supplies and products.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: The 'forgotten space' of Allan Sekula and Noel Burch's essay film is the sea, the oceans through which 90% of the world's cargo now passes. At the heart of this space is the container box, which, since its invention in the 1950s, has become one of the most important mechanisms for the global spread of capitalism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FORGeorge, Rose
Summary: Revealing the workings and dangers of freight shipping, the author sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore to present an eye-opening glimpse into an overlooked world filled with suspect practices, dubious operators, and pirates.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.044 GEOMcPhee, John
Summary: John McPhee watches what an interstate truck driver, a railroad engineer, a towboat captain, and shipmasters do to conduct safely tens of thousands of tons of conveyance and cargo to their destinations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson/Gale 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 388.044 MCPMcPhee, John
Summary: Fascinating story of an often overlooked, yet vitally important part of America. This first-hand account of the transportation sector features evocative portraits of the men and women who deliver our consumer and industrial goods.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 389.044 MCPStacey, Lyndon.
Summary: When ex-police dog handler Daniel Whelan is asked by his former boss to help a friend who is struggling to run her husband's haulage company while he is recovering from a vicious attack, he and his German shepherd, Taz, rapidly find themselves attracting the wrong sort of attention. Daniel investigates, and soon finds evidence of some very nasty business indeed--but after several violent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012