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  • Structures

    Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

    by J. E. Gordon ...
    In a book that Business Insider noted as one of the "14 Books that inspired Elon Musk," J.E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back-or give way under-thousands of gallons of water, or what ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The New Science of Strong Materials

    Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor

    by J E Gordon ...
    Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems. During the 250 years up to the 1920s and 1930s they had been answered ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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    Row the Boat

    A Never-Give-Up Approach to Lead with Enthusiasm and Optimism and Improve Your Team and Culture

    by P. J. Fleck, Jon Gordon ...
    Narrated by P. J. Fleck ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 18 min

    In Row the Boat, Minnesota Golden Gophers head coach P. J. Fleck and bestselling author Jon Gordon deliver an inspiring message about what you can achieve when you approach life with a never-give-up philosophy. The book shows you how to choose enthusiasm and optimism as your guiding lights instead of being defined by circumstances and events outside of your control.Discover how to put the three ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Twinkie Squad

    by Gordon Korman ...
    Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    Once again Douglas Fairchild is starting a new school in Washington, D.C. The teachers in the private schools he has attended didn’t understand him—maybe because he is from Pefkakia. Now he will make a fresh start in sixth grade at Thaddeus G. Little, a public middle school.After telling the bus driver how to drive and refusing to do his homework, Doug finds himself in the worst possible situation ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth

    The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

    by Robert J. Gordon, Robert J. Gordon ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Country Life Omnibus Collection: 47 Captivating Books

    47 Pastoral Tales of Village Life, Nature, Family, and Rural Adventure

    by Renee Richmond Huntley Ormsbee, Thomas H. Ormsbee, Will Levington Comfort, G. J. Whyte-Melville, Edward Eggleston, Berthold Auerbach, S. R. Crockett, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Harriet S. Caswell, Archibald Marshall, Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr, Charles Battell Loomis, M. E. Francis, Arthur Christopher Benson, George Walter Fiske, Randolph Caldecott, Martha Foote Crow, William Howitt, David Grayson, Dallas Lore Sharp, Warren H. Wilson, W. J. Dawson, Tickner Edwardes, Ernest R. Groves, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Lillian Elizabeth Roy, George Manville Fenn, Charlotte M. Vaile, Mary Grant Bruce, Edward Payson Roe, William O. Stoddard, Amy Walton, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Amy Brooks, Laura Lee Hope, Johanna Spyri, Elizabeth Gordon, Clara Ingram Judson, Josephine Franklin, Sophie Fox Sea, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, L. T. Meade, Albert Bigelow Paine, Jacob Abbott, William John Hopkins, Howard Roger Garis ...
    The Country Life Omnibus Collection gathers forty-seven works into a capacious literary portrait of rural experience: village custom, farming, childhood, domesticity, animal life, landscape, and the moral pressures of community. Its range is unusually broad, moving among pastoral fiction, social observation, nature writing, juvenile adventure, household narrative, and reflective essay. Tales of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foundations of Health Professions Education Research

    Principles, Perspectives and Practices

    Edited by Charlotte E. Rees, Lynn V. Monrouxe, Bridget C. O'Brien, Lisi J. Gordon, Claire Palermo ...
    Foundations of Health Professions Education ResearchUnderstand the principles, perspectives, and practices for researching health professions education with this accessible introductionEducating healthcare students and professionals is critical to the long-term improvement of human health. Health professions education research (HPER) is a growing field with enormous potential to enrich the ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Quaternary of Scotland

    Edited by J.E. Gordon, D.G. Sutherland ...
    Series series Geological Conservation Review Series
    In describing the geomorphological heritage of Scotland, this volume offers a remarkable account of how the natural environment responded in terms of landforms, processes and plant communities, to severe climatic change as the Quaternary era progressed over the last two million years.This legacy, as preserved in the 138 nationally important GCR sites described, documents a remarkable diversity of ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens

    by J. Gordon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores three crucial stages in Dickens' on-going voyage of discovery into what has been called the 'hidden springs' of his fiction; arguing that in three of Dickens best known novels, we witness Dickens responding to some identifiable force represented as coming from underneath the ground plan of the book in question. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Structures

    Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

    by J. E. Gordon ...
    Narrated by Bethan Dixon Bate ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 32 min

    J.E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back--or give way under--thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper, a bias-cut dress, or a kangaroo, this book ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Thanksgiving Story Book

    Classic Holiday Tales of Gratitude, Family, Charity, and Community

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lang, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eugene Field, Edward Everett Hale, Phila Butler Bowman, Katherine Grace Hulbert, Isabel Gordon Curtis, Eleanor L. Skinner, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, P. J. Stahl, Sheldon C. Stoddard, Kate Upson Clark ...
    Thanksgiving Story Book gathers fiction, legend, reminiscence, and moral tale around the American holiday's intertwined languages of gratitude, domesticity, charity, memory, and communal obligation. Its range moves from realistic village and family scenes to historical imagination, children's literature, sentiment, humor, and romance, revealing Thanksgiving as both a seasonal ritual and a flexible ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mr. Punch with the Children

    A Rich Tapestry of British Humor and Victorian Childhood

    by Phil May, Charles Keene, John Leech, L. Raven-Hill, David Wilson, George du Maurier, Gordon Browne, C. E. Brock, Tom Browne, J. Bernard Partridge, Lewis Baumer, Tom Wilkinson, Charles Pears, Hilda Cowham ...
    Mr. Punch with the Children is a captivating anthology that delves into the whimsical yet poignant realm of childhood through the lens of classic illustration and narrative. This collection showcases an extensive array of literary and artistic styles, ranging from satirical caricatures to tender depictions of youthful innocence. Highlighting the societal nuances and cultural norms surrounding ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus