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-This timely book will inspire many readers to change their habits and their views of the future.---Booklist

In this groundbreaking work, Ed Humes shows that we could have fast, reliable and incredibly safe transport, if we only had the political guts to choose it. Hopefully, this fascinating work will prompt long overdue changes. --Samuel Fromartz, editor in chief of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, and author of the award-winning In Search of the Perfect Loaf. Humes takes us inside the mammoth transportation systems that move things, and move us, around. Door to Door is an eye-opening account of the massive physical systems that support our increasingly digital world. --Richard Florida, author of the Rise of the Creative Class, University of Toronto & NYU professor Like Silent Spring and The Omnivore s Dilemma, Door to Door is a rallying point for culturewide change. Hume s tireless curation of figure and fact, his well-reasoned arguments and his uncluttered, well-ordered prose may turn the ship that s just begun to budge. --Mary Roach, the New York Times Book Review This timely book will inspire many readers to change their habits and their views of the future. --Booklist Humes takes us inside the mammoth transportation systems that move things, and move us, around. Door to Door is an eye-opening account of the massive physical systems that support our increasingly digital world. --Richard Florida, author of the Rise of the Creative Class, University of Toronto & NYU professor Like Silent Spring and The Omnivore's Dilemma, Door to Door is a rallying point for culturewide change. Hume's tireless curation of figure and fact, his well-reasoned arguments and his uncluttered, well-ordered prose may turn the ship that's just begun to budge. --Mary Roach, the New York Times Book Review In this groundbreaking work, Ed Humes shows that we could have fast, reliable and incredibly safe transport, if we only had the political guts to choose it. Hopefully, this fascinating work will prompt long overdue changes. --Samuel Fromartz, editor in chief of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, and author of the award-winning In Search of the Perfect Loaf. This timely book will inspire many readers to change their habits and their views of the future. --Booklist -Humes takes us inside the mammoth transportation systems that move things, and move us, around. Door to Door is an eye-opening account of the massive physical systems that support our increasingly digital world.---Richard Florida, author of the Rise of the Creative Class, University of Toronto & NYU professor -Like -Silent Spring- and -The Omnivore's Dilemma,- -Door to Door- is a rallying point for culturewide change. Hume's tireless curation of figure and fact, his well-reasoned arguments and his uncluttered, well-ordered prose may turn the ship that's just begun to budge.---Mary Roach, the New York Times Book Review -In this groundbreaking work, Ed Humes shows that we could have fast, reliable and incredibly safe transport, if we only had the political guts to choose it. Hopefully, this fascinating work will prompt long overdue changes. ---Samuel Fromartz, editor in chief of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, and author of the award-winning In Search of the Perfect Loaf. -This timely book will inspire many readers to change their habits and their views of the future.---Booklist -So much effort goes to moving our bodies and our stuff around. And as this book makes very clear, it could be done so much better! A fascinating read, from the center of the world's car culture---Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy So much effort goes to moving our bodies and our stuff around. And as this book makes very clear, it could be done so much better! A fascinating read, from the center of the world's car culture --Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy So much effort goes to moving our bodies and our stuff around. And as this book makes very clear, it could be done so much better! A fascinating read, from the center of the world s car culture --Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy

This timely book will inspire many readers to change their habits and their views of the future. --Booklist

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Edward Humes is the author of ten critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including Eco Barons, Monkey Girl, Over Here, School of Dreams, Baby E.R., Mean Justice, No Matter How Loud I Shout, and the bestseller Mississippi Mud. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for his journalism and numerous awards for his books. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, and Sierra. He lives in California.

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