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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Tom Vanderbilt:  book signing and discussion\nEvent
  Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/27695/Tom_Vanderbilt_book_sign
 ing_and_discussion\nEvent Date Begin: 2009-09-15\nEvent Date End: 2009-09-
 15\n\nBrazos Bookstore is pleased to present Tom Vanderbilt\, who signs an
 d discusses his book\, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Sa
 ys About Us).\nIn this brilliant\, lively\, and eye-opening investigation\
 , Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinning
 s that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why pla
 ns to protect pedestrians from cars often lead to more accidents. He uncov
 ers who is more likely to honk at whom\, and why. He explains why traffic 
 jams form\, outlines the unintended consequences of our quest for safety\,
  and even identifies the most common mistake drivers make in parking lots.
 \nTraffic\, a New York Times Notable Book and one of the Best Books of the
  Year according to The Washington Post\, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer\, and 
 Rocky Mountain News\, is about more than driving: it's about human nature.
  It will change the way we see ourselves and the world around us\, and it 
 may even make us better drivers.\nTom Vanderbilt writes on design\, techno
 logy\, science\, and culture\, among other subjects\, for many publication
 s\, including Wired\, Slate\, The London Review of Books\, Gourmet\, The W
 all Street Journal\, Men's Vogue\, Artforum\, The Wilson Quarterly\, Trave
 l and Leisure\, Rolling Stone\, The New York Times Magazine\,Cabinet\, Met
 ropolis\, and Popular Science. He is contributing editor to the design mag
 azines I.D. and Print\, and contributing writer of the popular blog Design
  Observer.\nHis most recent book is the New York Times bestseller Traffic:
 Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)\, published by Alfr
 ed A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada\, Penguin in the U.K. and territories\,
  and a number of other publishers in other countries. He is also the autho
 r of two previous books: Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atom
 ic America (Princeton Architectural Press\, 2002)\, an offbeat architectur
 al travelogue of the nation's secret Cold War past\; and The Sneaker Book 
 (The New Press\, 1998)\, a cultural history of the athletic shoe (publishe
 d in Italian and Swedish editions). His early writings for The Baffler hav
 e been collected in two anthologies\, Commodify Your Dissent and Boob Jubi
 lee (W.W. Norton\, eds. Thomas Frank and Matthew Weiland)\, and he has als
 o contributed essays to a number of books\, including New York Stories: Th
 e Best of the City Section of the New York Times (New York University Pres
 s)\; Supercade: The Visual History of the Video Game Age (The MIT Press)\,
  Else/Where: Mapping (The University of Minnesota Press\, 2006)\,Quonset H
 ut: Metal Living for a Modern Age (Princeton Architectural Press\, 2005)\,
  and The World and the Wild (The University of Arizona Press).\nHe has giv
 en lectures at colleges and business conferences\, and has appeared on a w
 ide variety of radio and television programs around the world\, including 
 NBC's Today Show\, ABC News'Nightline\, NPR's Morning Edition\, Fresh Air 
 with Teri Gross\, the BBC's World Service and The One Show\, Fox Business\
 , and CNN's Business Today\, among many others.\nHe lives in Brooklyn and 
 drives a 2001 Volvo V40. Check out his 'companion blog' to the book: How W
 e Drive.\n\nStart time: 7:00pm
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