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Hell of a Ride

A First Person Biography of the 'Gutsy' Test Pilot, Richard G. 'Dick' Thomas, Notorious for His Bold, Daring and Dashing Flight Test Escapades

By: Cynda Thomas,Velvet Thomas

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Hell of a Ride

A First Person Biography of the 'Gutsy' Test Pilot, Richard G. 'Dick' Thomas, Notorious for His Bold, Daring and Dashing Flight Test Escapades

By: Cynda Thomas,Velvet Thomas

This biography brings to life the many struggles 'Dick' encountered on his way to success; and the power plays and politics of the corporate involvement regarding his test pilot's career. Not all of Dick's airplane incidents are mentioned, but his significant stories come to life such as: his fiery crash in the T-33; his ejection over Mount Whitney; his spin tests in the F-5's; and his final assignment in the 'black world' as chief project pilot on the highly classified Tacit Blue. From his early childhood in up-state New York, to the difficulties of growing up in a harsh environment, he overcame illness and injury. He kept his determination to do something special, be a test pilot. In his senior years, it describes the tragedy of his pallidotomy surgery for Parkinson's disease that left him disabled and brought about early dementia. To say 'Dick' was a controversial figure in the aerospace industry would be an understatement. To say 'Dick' made his mark and contributed to his aerospace world would be accurate. However, both of these statements would be true. How was he bold, daring and dashing? You will find those answers as you read about him.

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Hell of a Ride

A First Person Biography of the 'Gutsy' Test Pilot, Richard G. 'Dick' Thomas, Notorious for His Bold, Daring and Dashing Flight Test Escapades

By: Cynda Thomas,Velvet Thomas

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Hell of a Ride

A First Person Biography of the 'Gutsy' Test Pilot, Richard G. 'Dick' Thomas, Notorious for His Bold, Daring and Dashing Flight Test Escapades

By: Cynda Thomas,Velvet Thomas

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Moral Resilience, Second Edition

Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare

By: Cynda H. Rushton

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Moral Resilience, Second Edition

Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare

By: Cynda H. Rushton

Suffering is an unavoidable reality in health care. Not only are patients and families suffering but also the clinicians who care for them. Commonly the suffering experienced by clinicians is moral in nature, reflecting the increasing complexity of health care, their roles within it, and the expanding range of available interventions. Moral suffering is the anguish experienced in response to various forms of moral adversity including moral harms, wrongs or failures, or unrelieved moral stress. Confronting moral adversity challenges clinicians' integrity: the inner harmony that arises when their essential values and commitments are aligned with their choices and actions. The most studied response to moral adversity is moral distress. The sources and sequelae of moral distress, one type of moral suffering, have been documented among clinicians across specialties. Recent interest has expanded to include a more corrosive form of moral suffering, moral injury. Moral resilience, the capacity to restore or sustain integrity in response to moral adversity, offers a path designing individual and system solutions to address moral suffering. It encompasses capacities aimed at developing self- regulation and self-awareness, buoyancy, moral efficacy, self-stewardship and ultimately personal and relational integrity. Moral resilience has been shown to be a protective resource that reduces the detrimental impact of moral suffering. Clinicians and healthcare organizations must work together to transform moral suffering by cultivating the individual capacities for moral resilience and designing a new architecture to support ethical practice. Used worldwide for scalable and sustainable change, the Conscious Full Spectrum Response, offers a method to solve problems to support integrity, shift patterns that undermine moral resilience and ethical practice, and source the inner potential of clinicians and leaders to produce meaningful and sustainable results that benefit all"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197667147

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9780197667149

For Michael, Love Cynda

By: Cynda Yeasting

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For Michael, Love Cynda

By: Cynda Yeasting

A unique love story between a terminally ill man and the woman who found him on a dating website. He put his heart out there and she was lucky enough to find him. This book is their love story, from a first date to dealing with the challenges that Michael’s terminal cancer diagnosis brought them. Living life with the intense joy and happiness of finding the love of your life, countered by the despair and hopelessness of a terminal cancer diagnosis. Living life to the fullest and hoping for a miracle. A percentage of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the BC Cancer Foundation. Proceeds will also be donated to other cancer charities in other locations worldwide.

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FriesenPress

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1460267494

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9781460267493

He Came from the Sky

The Heart-Warming Adventures of an American Spy Pilot

By: Cynda Thomas

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He Came from the Sky

The Heart-Warming Adventures of an American Spy Pilot

By: Cynda Thomas

Steven Taylor Bradford, known as Colonel Steven Taylor, spy pilot for the CIA finds himself in a predicament when he is forced to eject from his crippled plane over Russia. His dream of going into the 'black world' of his flying career-something he has been wanting for so long-is jeopardized when what was to be his last U-2 mission ends in catastrophe. Once Steven hits the eject button, all hell breaks loose and he is badly injured. After being rescued and nursed back to health by Azera, a Russian peasant woman in the highlands of the Caucasus Mountains, he is finally able to get back to the United States. Upon his return, he finds friends from home who welcome him with open arms, meets the love of his life, and finds that job is still there for him. A tragedy shortly after his retirement plunges him into depression. With the help of an old friend, Steven Taylor Bradford learns how to get back in the groove of life and begins working again. Taylor, as he was called by his old friends and family, travels to and from Washington, D.C. These trips prove to be helpful in his recovery. And piece-by-piece, the past revisits, bringing him a surprise that gives his life new meaning

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0595399541

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Hell of a Ride

Hell of a Ride

Hell of a Ride

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Moral Resilience, Second Edition

Moral Resilience, Second Edition

For Michael, Love Cynda

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He Came from the Sky

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