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From Here to There: Designing Transportation
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A look at the engineering processes that go into designing transportation methods.
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Robin Koontz
Robin Koontz is a freelance author/illustrator/designer of a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction books. Raised in Maryland and Alabama, Robin now lives with her husband in the Coast Range of western Oregon.
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