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  • Integer Fractions: Hamilton Education Guides Manual 5 - Over 390 Solved Problems

    Dan Hamilton

    language (Hamilton Education Guides, Nov. 9, 2018)
    Why choose this eManual?• Most definitive text and student reference available on integer fractions• Learn how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide integer fractions• Over 390 problems with step-by-step solutions and detailed solution checking• Self-teaching design effective for 6th grade through college level and adults• Provides a strong foundation for students moving on to high school algebra• Unique step-by-step approach makes math easy to learn and stimulates desire to learn• Provides a lifetime methodology for problem solving and eliminates fear of math• Student-tested methods found only in Hamilton Education GuidesAbout the Author: Dan Hamilton received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Master’s degree, also in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught a number of math and engineering courses as a visiting lecturer at the University of Oklahoma, Department of Mathematics, and as a faculty member at Rose State College, Department of Engineering Technology, at Midwest City, Oklahoma. He is currently working in the field of aerospace technology and has published numerous technical papers.The author's main objective in writing the Hamilton Education Guides manual series is to provide students with specific subjects on mathematics. The author hopes that this simplified teaching method stimulates the interest of math students of all ages as math becomes increasingly important in our high technology world.
  • Sequences and Series: Hamilton Education Guides Manual 12 - Over 440 Solved Problems

    Dan Hamilton

    (Hamilton Education Guides, July 24, 2020)
    Why choose this eManual?• Most definitive text and student reference available on sequences and series• Learn topics that include the computation of arithmetic and geometric sequences and series; limits of sequences and series; and the expansion and simplification of fractional notation• Over 440 problems with step-by-step solutions and detailed solution checking• Self-teaching design effective for 11th grade through college level and adults• Provides a strong foundation for students moving on to college calculus• Unique step-by-step approach makes math easy to learn and stimulates desire to learn• Provides a lifetime methodology for problem solving and eliminates fear of math• Student-tested methods found only in Hamilton Education GuidesAbout the Author: Dan Hamilton received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Master’s degree, also in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught a number of math and engineering courses as a visiting lecturer at the University of Oklahoma, Department of Mathematics, and as a faculty member at Rose State College, Department of Engineering Technology, at Midwest City, Oklahoma. He is currently working in the field of aerospace technology and has published numerous technical papers.The author's main objective in writing the Hamilton Education Guides manual series is to provide students with specific subjects on mathematics. The author hopes that this simplified teaching method stimulates the interest of math students of all ages as math becomes increasingly important in our high technology world.
  • The Man Without a Head

    Jo Hamilton

    (Hazelwood Press, Jan. 25, 2020)
    Coming Soon!Please note# This book can be read as a standalone.1981The head of Herb, a homeless man, was discovered in a hatbox in a fleapit called Danny's Hotel in Chicago. The room Herb's head was left in, a young woman was staying there, under a pseudonym, and has now vanished. A waitress who knew Herb, frustrated with the lack of progress from police, hires PI John Malone to find out who killed him and locate his family, if he has any, to have them notified of his demise. But Malone already has a connection to this case and is eager to have it put to rest. Finding out who Herb really is and tracking down the young woman, takes Malone on a journey of dangerous twists and turns to an unexpected outcome.
  • Chasing the Demon: A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It

    Dan Hampton

    Hardcover (William Morrow, July 24, 2018)
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barrier–nicknamed "The Demon" by pilots. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told. Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between victory and annihilation. After Hiroshima, the ability to deliver a nuclear device to its target faster than one’s enemy became the singular obsession of American war planners. And so, in the earliest days of the Cold War, a highly classified program was conducted on a desolate air base in California’s Mojave Desert. Its aim: to push the envelope of flight to new frontiers. There gathered an extraordinary band of pilots, including Second World War aces Chuck Yeager and George Welch, who risked their lives flying experimental aircraft to reach Mach 1, the so-called sound barrier, which pilots called “the demon.” Shrouding the program in secrecy, the US military reluctantly revealed that the “barrier” had been broken two months later, after the story was leaked to the press. The full truth has never been fully revealed—until now. Chasing the Demon, from decorated fighter pilot and acclaimed aviation historian Dan Hampton, tells, for the first time, the extraordinary true story of mankind’s quest for Mach 1. Here, of course, is twenty-four-year-old Captain Chuck Yeager, who made history flying the futuristic Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947. Officially Yeager was the first to achieve supersonic flight, but drawing on new interviews with survivors of the program, including Yeager’s former commander, as well as declassified files, Hampton presents evidence that a fellow American—George Welch, a daring fighter pilot who shot down a remarkable sixteen enemy aircraft during the Pacific War—met the demon first, though he was not favored to wear the laurels, as he was now a civilian test pilot and was not flying the Bell X-1.Chasing the Demon sets the race between Yeager and Welch in the context of aviation history, so that the reader can learn and appreciate their accomplishments as never before.
  • Mastering Algebra: An Introduction

    Dan Hamilton

    Paperback (Hamilton Education Guides, Sept. 1, 1997)
    Why choose this Book? * Most definitive text and student reference available on introductory algebra * Learn about operations with signed numbers, fractions, exponents, radicals, fractional exponents, polynomials, and more * Over 2,000 problems with step-by-step solutions and detailed solution checking * Self-teaching design effective for 8th grade through college level and adults * Provides a strong foundation for students moving on to college calculus * Unique step-by-step approach makes math easy to learn and stimulates desire to learn * Provides a lifetime methodology for problem solving and eliminates fear of math * Student-tested methods found only in Hamilton Education Guides
  • Mastering Algebra: Advanced Level - Getting Ready for Calculus

    Dan Hamilton

    Paperback (Hamilton Education Guides, Feb. 1, 2000)
    Why choose this Book? * Most definitive text and student reference available on advanced algebra * Learn about operations involving functions of real and complex variables, matrices, sequences, series, limits, factorials, differentiation, and more * Over 2,300 problems with step-by-step solutions and detailed solution checking * Self-teaching design effective for 11th grade through college level and adults * Provides a strong foundation for students moving on to college calculus * Unique step-by-step approach makes math easy to learn and stimulates desire to learn * Provides a lifetime methodology for problem solving and eliminates fear of math * Student-tested methods found only in Hamilton Education Guides
  • Jorundyr's Path: Wolf of the North Book 2

    Duncan M. Hamilton

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 10, 2017)
    Jorundyr’s Path is walked only by the brave. It is survived only by the strong. As Wulfric pursues Adalhaid’s Blood Debt, he soon learns that the path to revenge is never easy, and the desires of men and the will of gods rarely meet. Aethelman seeks answers to questions long ignored. Rodulf chases power and wealth. From the streets of Elzburg to the dry plains of Darvaros, Wulfric walks Jorundyr’s Path and encounters a world larger than he could ever have dreamed of: filled with friends, enemies, and danger—the crucible from which heroes are forged.
  • The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

    Dan Hampton

    eBook (William Morrow, May 16, 2017)
    "GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." — WALL STREET JOURNAL • From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh’s death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, and prepared to take off from a small airfield on Long Island, New York. Despite his inexperience—the twenty-five-year-old Lindbergh had never before flown over open water—he was determined to win the $25,000 Orteig Prize promised since 1919 to the first pilot to fly nonstop between New York and Paris, a terrifying adventure that had already claimed six men’s lives. Ahead of him lay a 3,600-mile solo journey across the vast north Atlantic and into the unknown; his survival rested on his skill, courage, and an unassuming little aircraft with no front window. Only 500 people showed up to see him off. Thirty-three and a half hours later, a crowd of more than 100,000 mobbed Spirit as the audacious young American touched down in Paris, having acheived the seemingly impossible. Overnight, as he navigated by the stars through storms across the featureless ocean, news of his attempt had circled the globe, making him an international celebrity by the time he reached Europe. He returned to the United States a national hero, feted with ticker-tape parades that drew millions, bestowed every possible award from the Medal of Honor to Time’s "Man of the Year" (the first to be so named), commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp within months, and celebrated as the embodiment of the twentieth century and America’s place in it. Acclaimed aviation historian Dan Hampton’s The Flight is a long-overdue, flyer’s-eye narrative of Lindbergh’s legendary journey. A decorated fighter pilot who flew more than 150 combat missions in an F-16 and made numerous transatlantic crossings, Hampton draws on his unique perspective to bring alive the danger, uncertainty, and heroic accomplishment of Lindbergh’s crossing. Hampton’s deeply researched telling also incorporates a trove of primary sources, including Lindbergh’s own personal diary and writings, as well as family letters and untapped aviation archives that fill out this legendary story as never before.
  • Chasing the Demon: A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It

    Dan Hampton

    eBook (William Morrow, July 24, 2018)
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barrier–nicknamed "The Demon" by pilots. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told. Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between victory and annihilation. After Hiroshima, the ability to deliver a nuclear device to its target faster than one’s enemy became the singular obsession of American war planners. And so, in the earliest days of the Cold War, a highly classified program was conducted on a desolate air base in California’s Mojave Desert. Its aim: to push the envelope of flight to new frontiers. There gathered an extraordinary band of pilots, including Second World War aces Chuck Yeager and George Welch, who risked their lives flying experimental aircraft to reach Mach 1, the so-called sound barrier, which pilots called “the demon.” Shrouding the program in secrecy, the US military reluctantly revealed that the “barrier” had been broken two months later, after the story was leaked to the press. The full truth has never been fully revealed—until now. Chasing the Demon, from decorated fighter pilot and acclaimed aviation historian Dan Hampton, tells, for the first time, the extraordinary true story of mankind’s quest for Mach 1. Here, of course, is twenty-four-year-old Captain Chuck Yeager, who made history flying the futuristic Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947. Officially Yeager was the first to achieve supersonic flight, but drawing on new interviews with survivors of the program, including Yeager’s former commander, as well as declassified files, Hampton presents evidence that a fellow American—George Welch, a daring fighter pilot who shot down a remarkable sixteen enemy aircraft during the Pacific War—met the demon first, though he was not favored to wear the laurels, as he was now a civilian test pilot and was not flying the Bell X-1.Chasing the Demon sets the race between Yeager and Welch in the context of aviation history, so that the reader can learn and appreciate their accomplishments as never before.
  • Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16

    Dan Hampton

    eBook (William Morrow, June 24, 2014)
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to present INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPSLords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-paced, and definitive" (Michael Korda) history of fighter pilots and aircraft and their extraordinary influence on modern warfare, masterfully written by "one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history” (New York Post). A twenty-year USAF veteran who flew more than 150 combat missions and received multiple Distinguished Flying Crosses, Lt. Colonel Dan Hampton draws on his singular firsthand knowledge, as well as groundbreaking research in aviation archives and rare personal interviews with little-known heroes, including veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Hampton (the New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot) reveals the stories behind history's most iconic aircraft and the aviators who piloted them: from the Sopwith Camel and Fokker Triplane to the Mitsubishi Zero, Supermarine Spitfire, German Bf 109, P-51 Mustang, Grumman Hellcat, F-4 Phantom, F-105 Thunderchief, F-16 Falcon, F/A-18 Super Hornet, and beyond. In a seamless, sweeping narrative, Lords of the Sky is an extraordinary account of the most famous fighter planes and the brave and daring heroes who made them legend.
  • Writing Meditations: 36 Prompts to Inspire Meditative Writing

    CM Hamilton

    eBook
    Would you like to learn how to use writing as a meditation technique? “Writing Meditations” combines writing and meditation to encourage creativity and mindful concentration. Many of history’s greatest minds spent countless hours writing things that were never meant to be seen by anyone. Scientists like Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, politicians like Benjamin Franklin and Winston Churchill, artists like Leonardo Da Vinci and Ernest Hemingway, and historical figures like Marcus Aurelius and Abraham Lincoln all spent considerable time writing to no one but themselves. They understood that the deliberate practice of writing had significant benefits to their creativity, self-awareness, memory, productivity and well-being.Writing meditations are short, 5- to 20-minute focused writing sessions that encourage creativity through mindful, diligent concentration. Writing meditations are an effective form of meditation and deliberate practice to reflect on important matters and improve decision making. Research has shown that writing exercises can have significant health benefits and increase productivity. The writing prompts described in the book include simple instructions for:creating listsgenerating creative ideas and solutionsmaking plansreflection and personal improvementWriting meditation prompts described in the book include: 10 Bad Ideas, Stream of Consciousness, Time Capsule, Gratitude Journal, Proust Questionnaire, Limerick, Letter from a Space Ship, Decision Tree, Stoic Virtues, Mind Map, New Year's Resolutions, Worry About It Later, Elevator Pitch, Predictive Journaling, and many more.Contents:IntroductionBasics of Writing MeditationTypes of Writing Meditation PromptsSection I - Creative ThinkingSection II - Reflect and DecideSection III - Plans and Getting Things DoneTips for More Effective Writing MeditationsVery Short Writing MeditationsAbout the AuthorThis amazingly practical reference book is packed with writing techniques to expand and improve your meditation practice. Buy your copy now and start using writing meditation techniques today!
  • The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

    Dan Hampton

    Hardcover (William Morrow, May 16, 2017)
    "GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." — WALL STREET JOURNAL • From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh’s death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, and prepared to take off from a small airfield on Long Island, New York. Despite his inexperience—the twenty-five-year-old Lindbergh had never before flown over open water—he was determined to win the $25,000 Orteig Prize promised since 1919 to the first pilot to fly nonstop between New York and Paris, a terrifying adventure that had already claimed six men’s lives. Ahead of him lay a 3,600-mile solo journey across the vast north Atlantic and into the unknown; his survival rested on his skill, courage, and an unassuming little aircraft with no front window. Only 500 people showed up to see him off. Thirty-three and a half hours later, a crowd of more than 100,000 mobbed Spirit as the audacious young American touched down in Paris, having acheived the seemingly impossible. Overnight, as he navigated by the stars through storms across the featureless ocean, news of his attempt had circled the globe, making him an international celebrity by the time he reached Europe. He returned to the United States a national hero, feted with ticker-tape parades that drew millions, bestowed every possible award from the Medal of Honor to Time’s "Man of the Year" (the first to be so named), commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp within months, and celebrated as the embodiment of the twentieth century and America’s place in it. Acclaimed aviation historian Dan Hampton’s The Flight is a long-overdue, flyer’s-eye narrative of Lindbergh’s legendary journey. A decorated fighter pilot who flew more than 150 combat missions in an F-16 and made numerous transatlantic crossings, Hampton draws on his unique perspective to bring alive the danger, uncertainty, and heroic accomplishment of Lindbergh’s crossing. Hampton’s deeply researched telling also incorporates a trove of primary sources, including Lindbergh’s own personal diary and writings, as well as family letters and untapped aviation archives that fill out this legendary story as never before.