Lake Junaluska 15 Historic Postcards

Lake Junaluska 15 Historic Postcards
Author: William E. King
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2010-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738585994

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Our Appalachia

Our Appalachia
Author: Laurel Shackelford
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813158249

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Many books have been written about Appalachia, but few have voiced its concerns with the warmth and directness of this one. From hundreds of interviews gathered by the Appalachian Oral History Project, editors Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg have woven a rich verbal tapestry that portrays the people and the region in all their variety. The words on the page have the ring of truth, for these are the people of Appalachia speaking for themselves. Here they recollect an earlier time of isolation but of independence and neighborliness. For a nearer time they tell of the great changes that took place in Appalachia with the growth of coal mining and railroads and the disruption of old ways. Persisting through the years and sounding clearly in the interviews are the dignity of the Appalachian people and their close ties with the land, despite the exploitation and change they have endured. When first published, Our Appalachia was widely praised. This new edition again makes available an authentic source of social history for all those with an interest in the region.

Greetings from Nowhere

Greetings from Nowhere
Author: Barbara O'Connor
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-03-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0374399379

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In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences.

Travel Checklist Journal

Travel Checklist Journal
Author: Claudine Gandolfi
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-09-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781441327840

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Make this journal your constant companion as you plot outand enjoythe vacation or holiday you envision. Where will you go? Where will you stay? What marvels will you see? Any must dine restaurants? And will you be able to squeeze it all in? This practical checklist planner/journal will help you plan it all and then record the details once youre there! Makes a great pre-trip planning tool and post-trip keepsake! One-month (undated) calendar helps you see your plan in advance Prompts for things to look up/research (hotels, dining spots, shops, their ratings, etc.) Packing List and Travel Checklist Itinerary pages. Hardcover. Elastic band place holder. Inside back cover pocket.

The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column
Author: Andrew Gross
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250180015

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“One of the best historical thriller authors in the business... [A] stellar novel.” —Associated Press #1 New York Times bestselling author of The One Man Andrew Gross once again delivers a tense, stirring thriller of a family torn apart set against the backdrop of a nation plunged into war. February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell’s Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the demise of his marriage when a group draped in Nazi flags barges in. Drunk, Charlie takes a swing at one with tragic results and a torrent of unintended consequences follows. Two years later. America is wrestling with whether to enter the growing war. Charles’s estranged wife and six-year-old daughter, Emma, now live in a quiet brownstone in the German-speaking New York City neighborhood of Yorkville, where support for Hitler is common. Charles, just out of prison, struggles to put his life back together, while across the hall from his family, a kindly Swiss couple, Trudi and Willi Bauer, have taken a liking to Emma. But Charles begins to suspect that they might not be who they say they are. As the threat of war grows, and fears of a “fifth column”—German spies embedded into everyday life—are everywhere, Charles puts together that the seemingly amiable Bauers may be part of a sinister conspiracy. When Pearl Harbor is attacked and America can no longer sit on the sideline, that conspiracy turns into a deadly threat with Charles the only one who can see it and Emma, an innocent pawn.

Unto These Hills

Unto These Hills
Author: Kermit Hunter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780807868751

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Unto These Hills: A Drama of the Cherokee

The Pleasures of Statistics

The Pleasures of Statistics
Author: Frederick Mosteller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2010-03-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387779566

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From his unique perspective, renowned statistician and educator Frederick Mosteller describes many of the projects and events in his long career. From humble beginnings in western Pennsylvania to becoming the founding chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Statistics and beyond, he inspired many statisticians, scientists, and students with his unabashed pragmatism, creative thinking, and zest for both learning and teaching. This candid account offers fresh insights into the qualities that made Mosteller a superb teacher, a prolific scholar, a respected leader, and a valued advisor. A special feature of the book is its chapter-length insider accounts of work on the pre-election polls of 1948, statistical aspects of the Kinsey report on sexual behavior in the human male, mathematical learning theory, authorship of the disputed Federalist papers, safety of anesthetics, and a wide-ranging examination of the Coleman report on equality of educational opportunity. This volume is a companion to Selected Papers of Frederick Mosteller (Springer, 2006) and A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller’s Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy (Springer-Verlag, 1990). Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006) was Roger I. Lee Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Harvard University. His manuscript was unfinished at his death and has been updated.

Voices of a People's History of the United States

Voices of a People's History of the United States
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 667
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1583229477

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Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.

Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1927
Genre: Celebrities
ISBN:

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