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Movement Science: Foundations for Physical Therapy in Rehabilitation; Neurological Strokes: Rehabilitation; Along with the textbooks written with Carr, Shepherd also wrote Physiotherapy in Paediatrics, and Cerebral Palsy in Infancy: targeted activity to optimize early growth and development. These textbooks have been translated into many ...
Shepherd became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1981, a Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute in 1981, was a Killam Fellow from 1991–93, received a Vikram Sarabhai Professorship from the Physical Research Laboratory, India, in 1998, became a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1999, received the Canadian Space Agency John H. Chapman Award of Excellence in ...
William Gunn Shepherd (1878–1933) was an American journalist, fiction writer and war correspondent. Shepherd is best known for his reporting from Europe during the First World War . Shepherd also covered the Mexican Revolution and accompanied Francisco I. Madero on his march to Mexico City in 1911.
Title page of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834). A science book is a work of nonfiction, usually written by a scientist, researcher, or professor like Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time), or sometimes by a non-scientist such as Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything).
Shepard embraced many different themes throughout his career. In his early work, he wrote extensively about Central America.This included clearly science-fictional stories about near future high-tech jungle war (such as "R&R" and "Salvador"), as well as stories that seemed more in line with magic realism.
The Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) was inaugurated at a 1956 conference at MIT to review introductory physics education and to design, implement, and monitor improvements. It produced major new physics textbooks, instructional movies, and classroom laboratory materials, which were used by high schools around the world during the 1960s ...
In recognition of his work in climate science and global climate awareness, he was the 2014 recipient of the Captain Planet award by Ted Turner's Captain Planet Foundation. [11] Shepherd is a contributor to both Forbes [12] and Weather Underground. [13] Shepherd served as the President of the American Meteorological Society in 2013. [14]
His book was featured in many publications, notably The New York Times, New York Post, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor amongst others. Scratch Beginnings was used in curriculums or suggested reading material in tens of American and international universities, colleges and schools and translated into other languages.