TY - BOOK AU - Conover,Ted TI - The routes of man: how roads are changing the world and the way we live today SN - 9781400042449 (alk. paper) AV - HE341 .C66 2010 U1 - 388.1 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Conover, Ted KW - Roads KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Forest primeval to Park Avenue -- Road, or not a road? -- Slipping from Shangri-La -- Road ecology -- The road is very unfair -- Double-edged roads -- A war you can commute to -- Speed up! -- Capitalist roaders -- Growing Broadway -- Drive soft : life no get duplicate N2 - A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected--how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back ER -