Hailing Taxi
Author: Frank Lovece
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780133721034
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Taxi (English edition)
Author: Khaled Al Khamissi
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9992194316
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A best-selling modern masterpiece in the author's home country of Egypt, Taxi consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with Cairo taxi drivers that have been recreated from the author's own experience, taking the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as the city's potholed and chaotic streets. Described as an urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history - and a work of poetry in motion - it tells Herculean tales of the struggle for survival and dignity among Greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers.
Taxi!
Author: Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1421437805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy. 2007 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Hailed in its first edition as a classic study of New York City's history and people, Graham Russell Gao Hodges's Taxi! is a remarkable evocation of the forgotten history of the taxi driver. This deftly woven narrative captures the spirit of New York City cabdrivers and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream. From labor unrest and racial strife to ruthless competition and political machinations, Hodges recounts this history through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, and the words of the cabbies themselves. A new preface recalls the author's five years of hacking in New York City in the early 1970s, and a new concluding chapter explores the rise of app-based ridesharing services with the arrival of companies like Uber and Lyft. Sharply criticizing the use of the independent contractor model that is the cornerstone of Uber and the gig economy, Hodges argues that the explosion of for-hire vehicles in Manhattan reversed decades of environmental anti-congestion efforts. He calls for a return to the careful regulations that governed taxicabs for decades and provided a modest yet secure living for cabbies. Whether or not you've ever hailed a cab on Broadway, Taxi! provides a fascinating perspective on New York's most colorful emissaries.
Maxi the Little Taxi
Author: Elizabeth Upton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-03-29
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0545798612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →He's little! He's cute! But he's getting all dirty! This warm, charming story perfectly captures all the ups and downs of a busy little taxi's first day on the job! It's Maxi the Taxi's first day of work. What fun it is to zip and zoom all around the town!SPLASH go the mud puddles!PLIPPITY-PLOP drips the ice cream and mustard from sticky little fingers!Soon Maxi becomes so grimy and gooey that no one wants to ride with him.Who will help this dirty little taxi discover what he needs most? It's a smart little boy who takes Maxi for a noisy, tickly bath in the car wash!
My Little Yellow Taxi
Author: Stephen T. Johnson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 9780152164652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kids must fasten their seatbelts as they prepare, by checking the mirrors, checking the oil, and starting the engine, to take their little yellow taxi for a wild ride, in this vibrant, interactive book that introduces the concept of telling time.
Taxi Driver Wisdom
Author: Risa Mickenberg
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2016-07-19
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1452158207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Insights on love, pleasure, fate, and other topics” collected from conversations with New York City cabbies (AM New York). The worse a town’s economy is, the better looking the guys who work at the local gas station are. I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place. There is no chivalry. For that you have to go upstate. Real taxi drivers know more than how to get you there without a GPS—often, they know how to get you there in life. This twentieth anniversary edition of the wise and hilarious classic, as true now as ever, is a celebration of the witty, philosophical perspective on human nature culled from real quotations from real cab drivers who’ve been around the block.
The Turned-Around Taxi
Author: Margaret Holland
Publisher: Pages Publishing Group
Published: 1985-11
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780874060256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A confused taxicab mixes up its right and left directions and delivers passengers to the wrong places.
Taxi! Taxi!
Author: Cari Best
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
Published: 1997-03-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780531070840
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Taxi
Author: Joseph Rodriguez
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Published: 2020-12-22
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781576879313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New York City in the late '70s was a collection of villages with its downtown scene, midtown workers, and uptown elegance. It was also a city that was more integrated than ever before or ever would be again. All of the city's humanity met in its streets with layered soundtracks of salsa, rock, disco, reggae, and soon hip-hop booming for all to groove to. But, NYC was also a place of chaos and mayhem. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy with rampant crime it was the city's drug users, dealers, and pimps and prostitutes who ruled the streets of Manhattan. The grittiness of the city was a beacon and a promise to many outsiders, those who didn't quite fit into any mold, and a vibrant LGBTQ community became the nexus of an underworld of sex workers who liked to party. For a NYC cabbie such as Joseph Rodriguez, the hot spots to pick up fares were clubs like the Hellfire, Mineshaft, The Anvil, The Vault, and Show World. Losing his first camera and lens in a classic '70s New York stabbing and mugging, Rodriguez's wounds healed and he armed himself with a new camera to document what he saw on the job: hookers getting off their shifts, transvestites and S&M partiers doin' it in the back seat or somehow pulling off an unlikely costume change from bondage gear to emerge from the cab clean-cut in an oxford and khakis ready to face unwitting family and friends. A humanist at heart, his photographs speak of the dignity of the city's working class from all the boroughs and those struggling to get by. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project provided funding to support Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987.
Taxi
Author: Peter M. Coan
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780806521916
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