(Part 3) Top products from r/Seattle

Rail-Trails Washington and Oregon Rails-to-Trails-Conservancy

75 Classic Rides Washington Mike McQuaide


Biking Puget Sound: 50 Rides from Olympia to the San Juans Bill Thorness


Bicycling the Backroads of Northwest Washington Bill Woods, Erin Woods


Bicycling the Backroads Around Puget Sound Erin & Bill Woods


Bicycling the backroads of southwest Washington (OOP) Erin Woods


Bicycling The Pacific Coast Vicky Spring, Tom Kirkendall


Bakeries by bicycle: A guide to Puget Sound's Best Bakeries (OOP) Fred Wert


Biking the Great Northwest: 20 Tours in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana (OOP) Jean Henderson


Cycling Sojourner: A Guide to the Best Multi-Day Tours in WashingtonEllee Thalheimer

Best Bike Rides Seattle: Great Recreational Rides in the Metro Area Gene Bisbee

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, the book Fast Food Nation addresses this topic with some good examples of why the common fast-food business model sucks (e.g., Taco Bell, McDonalds) but other fast-food business models have done well (e.g., In-and-Out). One of the core tenants of the successful model is paying workers a living wage and making their work experience a positive, viable career.

"The canoe and the saddle" is a story written about the pre seattle puget sound area. 1853. well before there was much in this area.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Canoe-Saddle-Critical-Edition/dp/0803298633

"The Good Rain" is also one of my favorites. Kind of a history of sorts, it actually uses some of the above book a bit. http://www.amazon.com/The-Good-Rain-Northwest-Departures/dp/0679734856

Not quite seattle specific, but good reads about the area.

There is also much research that shows that the more rules you give someone, the less they think logically. This creates a problem when things happen that do not have prescribed rules as the driver/biker is used to a operating in an environment on "auto-pilot."

The book "Traffic" is a fantastic read and details a couple of studies, a really great read, highly recommended:
http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307277194/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334102136&sr=1-1

Saw Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle at work one day and it piqued my curiosity. It's quite good IMO, if it's what you're looking for. A bit drier than some others, focuses a lot on some of the planning aspects, but I enjoyed it.

Actually after all that typing I realized there's a better option: linking 14th Ave and the park with the historic Harvard-Belmont area. That's walk #13 in "Seattle Walks" by David Williams. Worth getting if you like going for walks, u/mowaway293.

http://www.amazon.com/Society-Against-State-Political-Anthropology/dp/0942299019

http://www.amazon.com/People-without-Government-Anthropology-Anarchy/dp/1871082161

http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Age-Economics-Marshall-Sahlins/dp/0202010996

Also, check out pretty much anything by David Graeber.

This is nice too.

I think you'll love the book "Language in Thought and Action"

Unfortunately the best histories written about Seattle are getting so old they are becoming a part of history themselves. Here are a couple of more recent additions:

Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name

Too High Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography

> Bringing it up does nothing at all

He's the president. He can't write spending bills. He can only ask Congress to write bills that he will then approve. This might help you.

No, a not guilty verdict is not the same as "innocent," but you are claiming that she is "guilty as fuck," and you are disregarding the evidence that she was not the killer as being inconsequential because it doesn't support your conclusion.

I have a book recommendation for you (and unlike yours, it is not a condescending asshole recommendation): http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Criminal-Law-6th-Edition/dp/0769848931

It is one of the best criminal law supplements on the market, and it is very easy to understand, even for non-lawyers.

There's actually a lot of scholarship on how racial tensions are stoked by economic and social status worries.

This is a very good, academic look at the 2nd Klan and would help contextualize things for you https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Mask-Chivalry-Making-Second/dp/0195098366

Cultural resistance can be overcome, and has before in many many places including many cities in the US.

Hmm, where have I read that before?

The fact is, social engineering just doesn't scale all that well, unless it happens to coincide with popular sentiment. You can rant on about how GM "social engineered" us into becoming a car-centric society by buying up transit lines and shutting them down, but the fact is, when they pushed us in that direction, we went along willingly. Individual mobility is a hell of an empowering thing. It must be, or drivers wouldn't put up with the consequences they already have to deal with.

My own belief is that the way to solve the dilemma is by forcing motor-vehicle drivers to pay something closer to the true costs of a car-centric society. If gas were $8/gallon, people wouldn't insist on living 15 miles from their workplaces, and we wouldn't be debating how to "force" people onto the trains. Right now, though, we have this ridiculous schizoid approach that satisfies almost nobody except for Sound Transit employees.

The other thing you have to keep in mind is that the US is not Europe. Re-engineering our transportation system properly would literally require us to nuke our cities and rebuild them from scratch, often in completely different locations.

Sadly I want it to go outdoors 150 ft to my garage - this is the cheapest one I can find - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QGY3416/ref=ox_sc_act_title_7?smid=A1TXVDHLFA30DN&psc=1

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Seems wasteful to throw the other one away, hence the question! Thx.

I'm reading some Bill Bryston...At Home A short history of Private Life http://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Short-History-Private/dp/0767919386/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

I have a book for you: https://www.amazon.com/Pantsdrunk-Kalsarikanni-Finnish-Path-Relaxation/dp/0062855891

Read this.

The late merge that you talk about actually isn't so bad. At least, according to this book: http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307264785

http://www.amazon.com/The-Mythical-Man-Month-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959

People were way more chill. I had a crappy car back then that would occasionally stall at a red light, and sometimes the light would go through an entire cycle before I could get it started again. No one ever honked.

Everyone seemed to have half a job and not really care -- they were just here for the hiking or to make giant puppets for the Solstice Parade or whatever.

A good book on this period is Seattle and the Demons of Ambition.