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  • Aptitude, Learning, and Instruction

    Volume 3: Conative and Affective Process Analyses

    Series series Aptitude, Learning and Instruction
    Originally published in 1987, this book reports the proceedings of a conference held in 1983 at Stanford, California. The purpose of the conference was to bring together individuals whose research reflected advanced theoretical thinking and empirical evidence on the combined analysis of cognitive, conative, and affective processes, the role of these processes in learning from instruction, and the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Improving Inquiry in Social Science

    A Volume in Honor of Lee J. Cronbach

    This volume celebrates Lee J. Cronbach's considerable contributions to the methodology of social and behavioral science. Comprised of chapters written by colleagues and contemporaries of the highly influential scholar, it offers a range of ideas, perspectives, and new approaches to improving social science inquiry. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Aptitude, Learning, and Instruction

    Volume 2: Cognitive Process Analyses of Learning and Problem Solving

    Series series Aptitude, Learning and Instruction
    For the previous 6 years before publication, Office of Naval Research (ONR) had been conducting a thematically oriented contract research program aimed, in large part, at developing the kind of broad theoretical framework necessary for a workable process interpretation of aptitude, learning, and performance. Originally published in 1980, the papers in this collection are generally addressed to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Aptitude, Learning, and Instruction

    Volume 1: Cognitive Process Analyses of Aptitude

    Series series Aptitude, Learning and Instruction
    For the previous 6 years before publication, Office of Naval Research (ONR) had been conducting a thematically oriented contract research program aimed, in large part, at developing the kind of broad theoretical framework necessary for a workable process interpretation of aptitude, learning, and performance. Originally published in 1980, the papers in this collection are generally addressed to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sailing the Graveyard Sea

    The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

    by Richard Snow ...
    A “compelling” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their lives—part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling novels of Patrick O’Brian.On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in the New York Harbor at the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Disney's Land

    Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

    by Richard Snow ...
    A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • I Invented the Modern Age

    The Rise of Henry Ford

    by Richard Snow ...
    From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T—the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America.Every century or so, our republic has been remade by a new technology: 170 years ago the railroad changed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Iron Dawn

    The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle That Changed History

    by Richard Snow ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow comes the thrilling story of the naval battle that changed the Civil War and the future of all sea power.No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built an iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Satire of Airline Travel

    by Richard Snow ...
    Do you want to get your revenge on the airlines?If you are like most people- you hate the airlines. Now, for the first time in the history of civilian air travel, you can fight back.Richard Snow's A Satire of Airline Travel points out nearly every single stupid thing the airlines have told you and make you do for the past 50 years.He reminds us how we're not on the airplane for more than five ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Measureless Peril

    America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II

    by Richard Snow ...
    An exciting history told with a novelist's eye and filled with intimate details of the longest and largest battle of WWII—the fight for the Atlantic Ocean.Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him—what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign.In that global conflagration, only one battle—the struggle for the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Guide Book of Flying Eagle and Indian Head Cents

    by Richard Snow ...
    Series series The Official Red Book
    Award-winning author Richard Snow examines the Flying Eagle and Indian Head cents of 1856 to 1909, exploring mintages, challenges for the collector, and interesting varieties. His date-by-date research is enhanced by historical essays as well as an engaging overview of the series by the “dean of American numismatics,” Q. David Bowers. This expanded second edition includes an illustrated biography ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Iron Dawn

    The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History

    by Richard Snow ...
    “An utterly absorbing account of one of history’s most momentous battles” (Forbes) that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power—from acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review).No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1862. The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD