Phil Ford: 7 books

Hipness has been an indelible part of America's intellectual and cultural landscape since the 1940s. But the question What is hip? remains a kind of cultural koan, equally intriguing and elusive. In Dig, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang...

The unexamined life is not worth living. Ford and Blisko share Socrates quote in their offering of The Root Cause Analysis of A Balanced Leader. I believe the timing is right, in our business world, for this treatise which guides the Leader through a Root Cause Analysis process designed for discovery...

Gamble with the Sun is a collection of short stories and stage and screen plays. Fords earlier works of the Changes trilogy, The Root Cause Analysis of a Balanced Leader, and Cool Blue Emotion: Rhymes and Reason, show us the broad spectrum of Fords imagination. Gamble with the Sun takes us there again....

Ford has offered rhymespoetry and song lyricsand reasonshort points to consider, plus a thought-provoking essayin this collection of works to stir emotions within those who crack the cover. Nothing is intended to be pretentious; it is just a sharing of actual and fictional moments in time where emotion...

'If you're going to be anyone in Cardiff, you're going to be at SkyPoint!' SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It's the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it's where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself...

Changes abound for the McPhersons: lifestyle and life-altering changes. Adventure nurtured by danger becomes commonplace for the former Midwest family. Their new Cayman Island home has provided them with life abundantand more challenges than they bargained for. From Alaska to Malta, England to Texas,...

Whitey Ford, a Hall of Fame pitcher with the Yankees for 16 seasons, gives unique insight and takes on the challenge of selecting the five best players at each position in the franchise's history, which includes 26 World Series championships and 36 American League pennants—a legacy no other team...