Pierce, Daniel S.
Summary: "In this book, Daniel S. Pierce examines land use in the Smokies over the centuries, describing the pageant of peoples who have inhabited these mountains and then focusing on the twentieth-century movement to create a national park." "Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials, Pierce presents the most balanced account available of the development of the park. He tells how park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Tennessee Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 PIEPierce, Daniel S.
Summary: In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Following NASCAR founder Big Bill France from his start as a mechanic, Real NASCAR details the sport's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.72 PIEBolger, Daniel P.
Summary: "A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose, the World War II tank commander whose 3rd Armored Division struck fear into the hearts of Hitler's panzer crews"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber 2021
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Summary: "A stylish, funny and surprising guide to the art of conversation"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 MENRasmussen, Daniel
Summary: The author, a historian reveals the long forgotten history of America's largest slave uprising, the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811 that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of American history. In this narrative, he offers new insight into American expansionism, the path to Civil War, and the earliest grassroots push to overcome slavery. Five hundred slaves, dressed in military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk RasmussenPatterson, Daniel
Summary: Michelin two-star chef Daniel Patterson and celebrated natural perfumer Mandy Aftel are experts at orchestrating ingredients. Yet in a world awash in cooking shows and food blogs, they noticed, home cooks get little guidance in the art of flavor. In this trailblazing guide, they share the secrets to making the most of your ingredients via an indispensable set of tools and principles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: A Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an engaging discussion of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern world are fueling a paradox of greater longevity and chronic disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 LIEAmen, Daniel G.
Summary: "New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD and more. Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn't much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the "mental illness" label-damaging and devastating on its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers 2020
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Summary: "A history of the United States' overseas possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines and beyond, and what they reveal about the true meaning of American empire."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 IMMLyons, Daniel
Summary: Examines how the ideas of Silicon Valley and its "new oligarchs" have changed work culture, making employees subject to constant change, dehumanizing technologies, and even health risks, and discusses how to restore the social contract between employers and employees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 658.3 LYOStone, Daniel (Daniel Evan)
Summary: "On a frigid April night in 1912, the world's largest--and soon most famous--ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world's fixation with her every tragic detail. Plans to find and raise the Titanic began almost immediately. Yet seven decades passed before it was found....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 STOHendrex, Daniel.
Contents: KIA on the front page -- A child of war -- A delayed entry into war -- Son of the insurgency -- Death before dismount -- Forced to fight -- Club paradise lost -- Coins for fighting -- Baghdad and beyond -- Jamil and the Da Baba -- Through the arches of Husaybah -- The archangels of Husaybah -- Escape plans -- Border catch -- Crossing the line -- In harm's way -- A boy among men -- Fingers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.704 HENEllsberg, Daniel
Summary: The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Senior Fellow and iconic whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers presents an eyewitness expos©♭ of the dangers of America's secret, long-standing nuclear policy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 ELLSjursen, Daniel A.
Summary: A combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan examines the history of the United States through an alternate lens that emphasizes our history of slavery, indigenous genocide, and militarist imperialism to present a more balanced view of the American story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SJUSchulman, Daniel
Summary: "The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants--with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman--who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "Lupus, a disease of the immune system, can be quite deadly, claiming the lives of thousands of patients yearly. Dr. Daniel J. Wallace is one of the world's leading authorities on this disorder, an eminent clinician who has treated over 2000 lupus patients, the largest such practice in America. HisThe Lupus Book, originally published in 1995, immediately established itself as the most readable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2013
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Summary: "This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called "Seller of Dreams." The man is a scammer; his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he wants. While that talking did save Monkey's life, it has left a lot of people furious with Samir--furious enough to hire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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Summary: An analysis of the scientific causes of irrational fear offers insight into the brain's role in causing people to experience and react to fear, in a report that explains how heightened fear in the post-9/11 world is dangerously intersecting with biologically driven responses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.46 GAROkrent, Daniel
Summary: Eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. By 1921 Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that 'biological laws' had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law that remained U.S. policy until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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Summary: As part of the Oxford History of the United States series, this volume is a portrait of an era that saw dramatic transformations in American life. The author illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. This narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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Summary: Chronicles the history of the arts and includes biographies of important figures ranging from Homer to Stravinsky incorporated into a mosaic of creativity that spans three thousand years
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BOOOkrent, Daniel
Summary: Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. This book explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.41 OKRSusskind, Daniel
Summary: "A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than he bargained for when a wave of automation sweeps him and his kind out to an oil-black, petroleum-stink sea of indolent excess and the promise of A WORLD WITHOUT WORK"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company 2020
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Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen equips you with powerful weapons to battle the inner dragons that are breathing fire on your brain, driving unhealthy behaviors, and robbing you of joy and contentment. Your brain is always listening and responding to these hidden influences and unless you recognize and deal with them, they can steal your happiness, spoil your relationships,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2021