Keith O Brien: 5 books

Book cover of Outside Shot

Outside Shot

Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County's Quest for Basketball Greatness

by Keith O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

"A reporting tour de force and an utterly gripping account… Outside Shot unmistakably triumphs, with the reader rooting hard for the Cardinals—and delighted that O'Brien has brought his considerable skills to telling their story." —Wayne Coffey, New York Times Book Review The...
Book cover of Fly Girls Young Readers’ Edition

Fly Girls Young Readers’ Edition

How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

by Keith O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

From NPR correspondent Keith O’ Brien comes this thrilling Young Readers' edition of the untold story about pioneering women, including Amelia Earhart, who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s—and won. In the years between World War...
Book cover of Fly Girls

Fly Girls

How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

by Keith O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018

A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who...
Book cover of Processing Inaccurate Information

Processing Inaccurate Information

Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences

by Ulrich K. Ecker, Briony Swire, Stephan Lewandowsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014

Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong. Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
Book cover of The Woodland Southeast
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
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