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“kenneth ford”

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  • In Love with Flying

    by Kenneth Ford ...
    Flying with and without an engine. In this engaging memoir, Kenneth Ford does more than provide tales from his fifty years of piloting light airplanes and gliders. He explains the kinds of lift that keep gliders aloft, the idiosyncrasies of "tail-draggers," the art of landing in a crosswind, and more. Adding to his own story, he crafts loving profiles of other aviators whom he met and admired. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quantum World

    Quantum Physics for Everyone

    by Kenneth W. Ford, Diane Goldstein ...
    As Kenneth W. Ford shows us in The Quantum World, the laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious. In order ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Building The H Bomb: A Personal History

    by Kenneth W Ford ...
    In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with — and relaxed with — scientific giants of that time such as Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi, Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and John Wheeler, and here offers illuminating insights into the personalities, the strengths, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Basic Physics

    by Kenneth W Ford ...
    This reissued version of the classic text Basic Physics will help teachers at both the high-school and college levels gain new insights into, and deeper understanding of, many topics in both classical and modern physics that are commonly taught in introductory physics courses. All of the original book is included with new content added. Short sections of the previous book (174 in number) are ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam

    A Life in Physics

    by John Archibald Wheeler ...
    **Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award"This delightful account is packed with insights…[Wheeler] is a consummately American physicist whose wide-ranging career spans much of a disturbing century." —Michael Riordan, New York Times Book Review**He studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • In Search of Humanity

    Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

    by Andrea Radasanu, Timothy W. Burns, Brent Edwin Cusher, Donald Forbes, Bryan-Paul Frost, Ran Halévi, Henry Higuera, Robert Howse, S. N. Jaffe, Michael S. Kochin0, Noah Lawrence1, Mark J. Lutz2, Arthur M. Melzer3, Jeffrey Metzger4, Miguel Morgado5, Waller R. Newell6, Michael Palmer7, Lorraine Smith Pangle8, Thomas L. Pangle9, Marc F. Plattner0, Linda R. Rabieh1, Michael Rosano2, Susan Meld Shell3, Ryan K. Balot4, Paul A. Cantor5, Steven Forde6, Kenneth Hart Green7, L. Joseph Hebert Jr.8, Christopher Kelly9, William B. Parsons0, Diana J. Schaub1, Nathan Tarcov2, Richard Velkley3 ...
    This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Understanding, Dismantling, and Disrupting the Prison-to-School Pipeline

    by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis, Jill Castek, Jahaan Chandler, Ramon B. Goings, Dari Green, Irvin Guerrero, Jim Hollar, Jesslyn Hollar, Melinda Jackson, Gloria E. Jacobs, Michael E. Jennings, Kelsey M. Jones, Runell J. King, Kerii Landry-Thomas, Brian D. Lozenski, Kasim Ortiz, Tifanie W. Pulley, Tracey M. Pyscher, Janessa Schilmoller, Michael J. Seaberry, George Sirrakos, Russell J. Skiba, Devon Wade, Tonya Walls, Gilman W. Whiting, Natasha Williams, Elizabeth Withers, Ahmad Washington, Christine Clark, Donna Y. Ford ...
    This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior, the police-like state found in many schools throughout the country, and the introduction of youth into ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • 101 Quantum Questions

    What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See

    by Kenneth William Ford ...
    This reader-friendly, richly illustrated book provides an engaging overview of quantum physics, from “big ideas” like probability and uncertainty and conservation laws to the behavior of quarks and photons and neutrinos, and on to explanations of how a laser works and why black holes evaporate. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Practical Patient Safety

    by Dr John Reynard, Mr Peter Stevenson, Prof Kenneth Catchpole, Mr Martin Forde, Dr Francesca Stedman, Ms Fran Ives, Prof James Walker, Dr Tim Kane ...
    Despite sustained efforts to improve patient safety, preventable harm remains a persistent challenge in healthcare. Panagioti's 2019 meta-analytic indicate a 6% prevalence of avoidable patient harm, with 12% of these events resulting in severe outcomes or mortality. Progress in general has been limited, and a paradigm shift is needed. This second edition of Practical Patient Safety shows frontline ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Romance Your Finance

    by Kenneth Ricardo Ford ...
    This book is intended to be utilized as if it were a coach guiding you through the maze of personal financial literacy options available. The romantic parallelism is intended as an extra point of reference. It is ironic that these are two elements of life, romance and finance, that virtually everyone will deal with at some point. Not only do they not have traditional means of practical education, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Good Soldier

    A Tale of Passion

    by Ford Madox Ford ...
    One of the most important works of twentieth-century British literature, The Good Soldier addresses the lives and interrelationships between two couples: one American, one British. A tragicomic novel of manners, in which John Dowell narrates the disintegration of both his own and another marriage, the work's depiction of passion and intrigue offers an ironic reading of Edwardian-era values. The ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    History Of The Civil War, 1861-1865 (Unabridged)

    by JAMES FORD RHODES ...
    Narrated by Kenneth Williamson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 18 min

    Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the generals of the war but gives us a good deal of insight into the politics, economics, international relations and the strategy/thinking of the times. When at times he brings forth an opinion it is clearly stated, so as not to be confused with the facts. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD