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  • Psychology and Fallibilism
    Dennis Ford
    People assume that scientific knowledge is the top dog in the epistemological kennel. But contrary to its exalted reputation, scientific knowledge is, like all knowledge, fallible. The stories we tell ourselves about the world and the people in it are incomplete and in constant need of correction.The fallibility of knowledge is explored in the following topics in the science of...
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    18,94 €

  • Eight Generations Revisited
    Dennis Ford
    Eight Generations Revisited continues thestory of our family published in 2011 inEight Generations and adds more thantwo centuries of details in the lives of ourancestors in Erin, Lietuva and America.Eight Generations Revisited leads fromnineteenth-century huts built of woodand thatch to the teeming tenementsof twentieth-century New Jersey andfrom turf fires and lime kilns to h...
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    23,25 €

  • World Without End
    Dennis Ford
    Nothing could have been different.Laurence Mahler returns to Petersburg after five years in the North.He never felt he belonged in the places where he was away from home. And he never felt he belonged in the place that’s home. Adrift and directionless, he’s a freethinker troubled by Virginia’s secession. He feels loyalty neither to the Confederacy or to the Union.He meets Shary...
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    16,24 €

  • Genealogical Troves
    Dennis Ford
    Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Two provides Nineteenth Century records of baptisms, marriages and deaths pertaining to the-Griffin familiesConnell (O’Connell) families-who resided in the vicinity of Ballybunion and Listowel in Northwest County Kerry.Volume Two relies on a number of sources to assemble the family records. These records include:Roman Catholic parish registersCivil ...
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    10,91 €

  • Tracks That Lead to Joy
    Dennis Ford
    Sometimes the lives we lead don’t fit our natures.Ross Rowen, heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, deserts the velvet life of wealth and haute culture to live in poverty among blue-collar laborers. Shannon Flavin deserts a troubled family to take her place in the great Manhattan. They meet in the diner where Shannon waitresses and instantly fall in love.When Ross accosts a Vietnam...
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    16,58 €

  • My Favorite Words
    Dennis Ford
    Words. What would we be without them?Without words, we could hardly be said to be human-fully human. Without words, there would be no poems. No novels. No scientific treatises. No textbooks. No chapter books. No children’s books. Without words, there would be no discussions. No arguments. No guidance. No praise. No reproof-maybe the absence of reproof is a good thing. Without w...
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    11,06 €

  • Lectures on Theories of Learning
    Dennis Ford
    Lectures on Theories of Learning explores the maze of conditioning principles and concepts that guided research in American experimental psychology in the twentieth century.The main trails on our journey are the historical theories of learning:-Edward Thorndike and the laws of learning-Ivan Pavlov and classical conditioning-John Watson and the first behaviorism-Edwin Guthrie an...
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    10,80 €

  • Genealogical Musings
    Dennis Ford
    For a quarter century, I’ve pursued genealogical minutiae-the particulars of family compositions in the townlands of Eastern County Mayo and nineteenth century records of the Juchnewicz families of Girdziunai village in Lithuania. But genealogy is more than the obsessive collection of baptisms, marriages, and deaths. The study of family history is also the study of history. Mus...
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    10,97 €

  • The Watchman
    Dennis Ford
    Dennis Bright is an imaginative six-foot-four freckled and bespectacled redhead who lives in two worlds. In the public world he works as a watchman in the Scepter Roast Coffee Factory in Somesuch, New Jersey. In that world he avoids catching thieves and he makes the rounds, carrying a clock that doesn’t keep time. In the private world of the mind he accompanies Robert Derrick, ...
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    10,87 €

  • Lectures on General Psychology ~ Volume Two
    Dennis Ford
    The voyage of discovery that commenced in Volume One continues in Lectures on General Psychology ~ Volume Two. In Volume Two we sail to different destinations and explore new and wonderful topics. Sleep, motivation, emotions, health psychology and stress, social psychology and psychological disorders-these topics are explored in a comprehensive and critical manner. Among many t...
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    13,47 €

  • Lectures on General Psychology ~ Volume One
    Dennis Ford
    Lectures on General Psychology ~ Volume One circumnavigates the world of psychology in a comprehensive and critical manner. It offers students a leisurely cruise that sails with rational flags unfurled. The itinerary commences with a consideration of the diversity and methods of psychology and proceeds to put in at the ports of memory, learning, personality and neuroscience.Vol...
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    14,25 €

  • A Theology for a Mediated God
    Dennis Ford
    A Theology for a Mediated God introduces a new way to examine the shaping effects of media on our notions of God and divinity. In contrast to more conventional social-scientific methodologies and conversations about the relationship between religion and media, Dennis Ford argues that the characteristics we ascribe to a medium can be extended and applied metaphorically to the ch...
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    77,91 €

  • Things Don’t Add Up
    Dennis Ford
    On November 22, 1963, curtain rod salesman Sam Vincent takes lunch in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, and awaits the arrival of President Kennedy. Sam eats his lunch while standing on a sewer grate, with no idea the president’s true assassin crouches below, gun at the ready. This coincidence earns Sam a place in the 'Outfit That Has No Name' and a new identity as Professor Vincent Samuel...
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    17,39 €

  • Miles of Thoughts
    Dennis Ford
    In the whimsical tradition he is known for, humorist Dennis Ford once again embarks on an amusing exploration into the captivating worlds of science, literature, history, and popular culture-all without ever leaving the comfy air-conditioned interior of his Saturn Ion.In the style of his previous work, Thinking About Everything, Ford shares a medley of new musings on the worrie...
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    15,66 €

  • Eight Generations
    Dennis Ford
    Mom-and Dad-lived through a tumultuous age. Th e Great Depression.The World War against totalitarianism. Th e Korean War. The Vietnam War. Men walking on the moon. Robots walking on Mars. The home computer. The Internet. Antibiotics. Google. Mom has seen enormous changes in technology and in social-cultural life-she thinks children grow up too fast and are exposed to too much m...
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    15,68 €

  • Landsman
    Dennis Ford / Ford Dennis Ford
    The land cannot restrain nineteen-year-old Jamie Drake who is nurturing a love affair with the sea. While this untamed beach kid lives on Chesapeake Bay, the blue-green waters constantly beckon beyond the dunes, summoning him to experience unforgettable nautical adventures.Jamie’s mother is concerned that he has grown into an angry and querulous young man who shows no respect f...
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    14,77 €

  • Genealogical Jaunts
    Dennis Ford
    It was wonderful to fulfi ll the dream of touring the ancestral village of Girdziunai. I now know what is at the end of the road. It was alsoa strange experience. Girdziunai is a poor place, something out of the nineteenth century. It was easy to imagine my grandparents and their grandparents making the same trek from their homes to the clearing at the river. There’s a real sen...
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    13,53 €

  • Thinking About Everything
    Dennis Ford
    Humorist Dennis Ford has seen it all. After all, he lives in New Jersey. As a teacher and bookseller, Ford contemplates some of life’s great questions-all without leaving his car. These include: • What’s the funniest word in the English language? • How plastic surgery can turn devils into hotties. • The case of the perfectly fitting police uniform. But Ford doesn’t stop there. ...
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    15,11 €

  • Red Star
    Dennis Ford
    Blair Bottoms journeys home after a tour of duty in Vietnam to discover the town he once knew is different. The Jersey Shore that bathed his childhood thoughts now appears corrupt and guilty. He never dreamed that through a tangled set of circumstances he would become an active participant in a web of lies, deceit, and murder.When he meets the captivating Melissa Noon, Blair in...
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    19,28 €