Dan O : 44 books
Clearing Hurdles
The Quest to Be The World's Greatest Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Only one man, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon, is officially deemed the World's Greatest Athlete. As an orphan who is never met his biological parents, as a recovering alcoholic, as the subject of a timelessly infamous advertising campaign, as the athlete of maybe the most publicized and...
by Dan O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The first collection from the multi-award-winning American poet and playwright Dan O’Brien.
The Body of an American (2M) Two actors embody more than thirty roles in an exhilarating new form of documentary theatre, against a backdrop of some of the world's most iconic images of war.
The...
Enough Is Enough
Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
It’s time for a new kind of economy We’re overusing the earth’s finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy...
Buffalo for the Broken Heart
Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
For twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, “short-necked,...
Wild Idea
Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O’Brien’s home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the region and...
A Land Gone Lonesome
An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the majestic Yukon River. His journey downriver to Circle City, Alaska, is an expedition into the history of the river and its land, and a record of the inimitable...
by Dan O'Shea, Marnie Grundman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This is a story of one person's journey into and through Parental Alienation Syndrome and the experience of trauma, sorrow and destruction that comes with the syndrome. As a devoted husband and father of 32 years, it came suddenly and unexpectedly, from those dearly loved, who became the alienator...
by Dan O'Neill, Adam Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Every St. Louis Cardinals fan has a bucket list of activities to take part in at some point in their lives. But even the most die-hard fans haven't done everything there is to experience in and around St. Louis. From visiting Ballpark Village to learning how to do an Ozzie Smith backflip, author Dan...
by Alan Bailey, Dan O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In this volume, authors Alan Bailey and Dan O’Brien examine the full import of David Hume’s arguments and the context of the society in which his work came to fruition. They analyze the nuanced natured of Hume's philosophical discourse and provide an informed look into his position on the possible...
The Reluctant Ambassador
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Chaloner, Tudor Diplomat
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Sir Thomas Chaloner achieved much during his short life. As someone at the heart of four Tudor courts, his experience is fascinating. Serving in the household of Thomas Cromwell after university, he later was entrusted with delicate diplomatic missions in France, Scotland, Flanders and finally Spain,...
by Dan O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska
Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth...
The Firecracker Boys
H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However, the plan was blocked by a handful of Eskimos and biologists who succeeded in preventing massive nuclear devastation potentially far greater than that...
by Dan O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Mogadishu, 1993. Paul is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, the present day, Dan is an American writer who is struggling to finish his play about ghosts. Both men live worlds apart but a chance encounter over the airwaves sparks...
Wikipedia
A New Community of Practice?
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
During its brief existence Wikipedia has proved astonishingly successful with 2.8 million articles in English alone available freely to all with access to the internet. The online encyclopedia can be seen as the 21st century’s version of earlier historical attempts to gather the world’s knowledge...