39 Best Driver's Education Books of All Time

We've researched and ranked the best driver's education books in the world, based on recommendations from world experts, sales data, and millions of reader ratings. Learn more

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Even after taking Driver's Ed and passing that dreaded road test, there are so many things new drivers need to learn about the practical aspects of driving that will only come from experience. Handing over the keys is a traumatic rite of passage for parents, and they will sleep better knowing that The Driving Book is in their teens' glove compartments. Covering virtually every scenario a new driver may face, from changing a tire to negotiating privileges with parents to handling a car in bad weather, Karen Gravelle helps teen drivers navigate through tricky new territory—on the road... more

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CDL Study Guide Book: Test Preparation & Training Manual for the Commercial Drivers License (CDL) Exam & All Endorsements: Air Brakes, Cargo and Transport Vehicles, Combination Vehicles (Doubles and Triples), Hazardous Materials, & Passenger and School Bus Endorsements
Developed for test takers trying to pass the CDL test this comprehensive study guide includes:
Quick Overview
Test-Taking Strategies
General Information
General Knowledge
Air Brakes Endorsement
Cargo and Transport Vehicles Endorsement
Combination Vehicles...
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Today's super high-performance bikes are the most potent vehicles ever sold to the public and they demand advanced riding skills. This is the perfect book for riders who want to take their street riding skills to a higher level. Total Control explains the ins and outs of high-performance street riding. Lee Parks, one of the most accomplished riders, racers, authors and instructors in the world, helps riders master the awe-inspiring performance potential of modern motorcycles.This book gives riders everything they need to develop the techniques and survival skills necessary to become a... more

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Proficient Motorcycling is hands down the best and most complete book ever written on how to ride a motorcycle safely and efficiently.--Fred Rau, Senior Editor, Motorcycle Consumer News. 100 photos, some in color. less

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DMV Test Practice Driving Questions

DMV-Test.com is happy to present a selection of 250 questions, answers and rationales in printed form. Questions pertain to national driving standards and are not specific to any single US state. Learn where your knowledge strengths and weaknesses are before you show up to the DMV to take your actual exam. less

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Performance and racing drivers constantly seek ways to sharpen their skills and lower their lap times. Ultimate Speed Secrets is the indispensable tool to help make you faster, whatever your driving goals.
 
Professional race driver and coach Ross Bentley has raced everything from Indycars to World Sports Cars to production sedans, on ovals, road courses, and street circuits around the world. His proven high-performance driving techniques benefit novice drivers as well as professional racers. Ultimate Speed Secrets covers everything you need to...
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Complex times call for streamlined solutions--and leaders to pull them together.

If initiative overload and fragmentation are keeping your best plans from becoming reality, it's time to lead with coherence. Using the right drivers as your foundation, you'll bring people and ideas together--and implement the kind of lasting change that maximizes results. The key to success is the Coherence Framework, a dynamic, customizable road map with four essential components:
Focused direction to build collective purpose
Cultivating collaborative...
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This complete racer's reference is the perfect resource for all drivers from novice to expert. The fundamentals of fast driving are revealed in this definitive how-to book for racers. You will find the competition-proven methods of instructors and of professional drivers that will give you the know-how to work up the track and stay at the front. Interested in the world of racing? Just think, you can have all of the lessons and insights from Skip Barber instructors and from professional racers compiled in one handbook. This racing reference reveals the secrets of mastering car control,... more

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Teach Your Teen to Drive

... and Stay Alive

Every year thousands of teens die when they make a single mistake or bad decision. Tragically, one in four teenagers gets into a collision by age 18. Driving is also the leading cause of teenage deaths. Our book "Teach Your Teen to Drive... and Stay Alive" is a fun and highly effective way for parents to teach their teens to drive while covering each states' parent-teen practice driving laws-typically an average of 50 hours. Leave the "driving" to us with our new and fascinating "how to" book that reads like a novel but with a powerful message on safe driving! It has been statistically proven... more

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This 2013 edition of CALIFORNIA DRIVERS TEST MADE EASY, written with permission from California Department of Motor Vehicles, contains several new traffic laws which are appearing on current DMV Class C written tests. Its several practice tests practically guarantee you a high score on an original, renewal or minors/provisional test. It shows you how to drive like a pro on a behind-the-wheel driving test, and contains many driving safety tips for new drivers, senior drivers, all drivers. CALIFORNIA DRIVERS TEST MADE EASY has been rated as the number one best seller of drivers test help books... more

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A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice


An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school stu-dents, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades.

Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have...
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Tractor-Trailer Truck Driver Training

When students need to learn from the resource even the pros trust, look no further than Delmar's Tractor-Trailer Truck Driver Training, 4E. Delmar is the only official education partner of the Professional Truck Driver Institute (PTDI). Our goal is to ensure that students are armed with the information needed to excel in their truck driver careers. The all-new fourth edition incorporates both customer and industry feedback to bring enhancements that truly capture the learning needs of the industry. One key improvement: the book's approach has been broadened to include all of North America, in... more

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In Speed Secrets: The Lost Art of High-Performance Driving, Ross Bentley explains in plain language how you can train yourself to become a true performance driver.

With the promise of autonomous vehicles in our near future, and current cars equipped with "driver aides," it's not hard to feel like the art (and science) of performance driving has been all but lost. Don't lose hope! For every device designed to take the act of driving out of your hands, the desire to actively participate in driving a car becomes even stronger for driving enthusiasts.
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Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? That our minds can trick us into thinking the next lane is moving faster? Or that you can gauge a nation s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are only a few of the remarkable dynamics that Tom Vanderbilt explores in this fascinating tour through the mysteries of the road.
Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the...
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REA’s Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Test Prep Puts You in the Driver’s Seat!

Updated 6th Edition

Looking to get your CDL and start a new and profitable career? REA can get you headed in the right direction! Commercial drivers are in high demand across the United States, and a high score on the CDL vastly improves your chances for landing the job you want.

This updated sixth edition of our top-selling test prep offers complete preparation for both the bus and truck driver licensing exams.

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Do you understand the true meaning of driving at the limit?

Learn how to identify and prioritize the different visual, auditory, and tactile car control cues, plus the optimal driver inputs needed to extract %100 from practically any vehicle.

We will also look in-depth at the Universal Cue. The driving cue that directly represents the physics of racing and provides the final layer of car control precision. Learn how world-class drivers use it to self-evaluate and perfect their on track performance.
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Shortform summaries help you learn 10x faster by:

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  • Cutting out the fluff: you focus your time on what's important to know
  • Interactive exercises: apply the book's ideas to your own life with our educators' guidance.
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Learn how the physics of racing can be applied to advanced track sections. We show you the rules needed for double apexes and chicanes, as well as how to link them in complex sequences. Plus you'll learn the surprising science of optimizing straights.

Finally, the last section will really put you to the test as we break down some of the most complex corner sequences in the world. If you can solve these puzzles, you will understand how to drive anything.

Learn how there is no such thing as a throwaway corner and how every single section of a track can be driven to...
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Updated and revised for 2019!

Do you know someone who will soon be getting or has recently obtained their driver's license that makes you think twice about going out on the road? Maybe a friend or family member who is a notoriously bad driver who is constantly getting into car accidents? This gag driver's education book is the perfect way to tell them that you care and secretly fear them.

In the New Driver's Guide to Things to NOT Crash Into, we focus on some very basic driving fundamentals, such as:
What is a car?
What are...
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Crashproof Your Kids


BEFORE YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT HANDING YOUR TEENS THE CAR KEYS, DO EVERYONE A BIG FAVOR: CRASHPROOF THEM!

Every year, six million sons and daughters will become first-time drivers. Fifty-eight percent of them will be involved in a car accident within a year of getting their license, and a significant portion of these crashes will be fatal. But here's the good news: research has shown that car crashes can be reduced by up to 30 percent when you, the parent, are actively involved in your teen's instruction and set certain limits.

In Crashproof Your Kids,...

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The Driver's Manual for Russian Drivers in USA translated to Russian less

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This three-level education / treatment program targets judicial clients who have been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs and includes the following components:



Provider's Guide: Offers guidelines for developing individualized treatment plans and implementing appropriate education and treatment curriculum protocol

Participant's Workbook: Level I Education: Six-session, 12-hour DWI education program designed for first-time offenders

Participant's Workbook: Level II Therapy: 21-session, 42-hour program...
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Drive Right

All New and Fully Loaded! New Keys to Teaching Success CD includes PowerPoint Presentations you can customize, Computer Test Bank, Teaching Resources, and more!All new Behind the Wheel Video Program with Activity Sheets the new videos engage students with real-life scenarios. From the new cover to larger font sizes and single column layout, the new design facilitates greater readability and helps differentiate instruction for all types of different learners and different classroom styles! less

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Don't have time to read the top Driver's Education books of all time? Read Shortform summaries.

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  • Being comprehensive: you learn the most important points in the book
  • Cutting out the fluff: you focus your time on what's important to know
  • Interactive exercises: apply the book's ideas to your own life with our educators' guidance.
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Developed with AAA

The Driver Education program that helps students manage the risks and responsibilities of driving.

This classroom-tested program has been updated to relfect the changes surrounding teen driving - from graduated driver licensing to zero tolerance laws to information about vehicle maintenence. There's even a brand-new chapter that emphasizes the facts about driving todya's larger, heavier sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and vans.

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Learn How to Drive and Survive

Every parent dreads the moment when his or her child gets behind the wheel for the first time. We wonder if they will make the right decisions, embrace safety rules, and look out for others. But with the right kind of driver's education comes knowledge that can last a lifetime.

Linda Azarela is a certified driving instructor who has taught thousands of teenagers and adults both in the classroom and behind the wheel for over twenty-five years. For petrified, stressed parents who wish they had a reference book and a dual-control brake while teaching their children how to drive, or...
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Grief Diaries

Through the Eyes of Men

Grief Diaries: Through the Eyes of Men offers a unique glimpse into the different styles of grieving as seen through the eyes of 14 men. From the very moment their lives were changed, real men share their hearts, their intimacy, and their families. The grief journey is followed all the way to where they have figured out what it means to them, and their lives, for their love to live on in and through them.

Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, Through the Eyes of Men gives readers an inside look at the aftermath of losing a loved one from the male...
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Don't have time to read the top Driver's Education books of all time? Read Shortform summaries.

Shortform summaries help you learn 10x faster by:

  • Being comprehensive: you learn the most important points in the book
  • Cutting out the fluff: you focus your time on what's important to know
  • Interactive exercises: apply the book's ideas to your own life with our educators' guidance.