The Largest Hotel Chain in Texas: Texas Prisons, Paperback - Lon Bennett Glenn

Reducere. Overcrowded and understaffed, Texas prisons are nearing the meltdown stage. It wasn't always that way. A few California lawyers and an activist fed...

Publisher: Texas A & M University PressAuthor(s): Louis JacobsIllustration(s): 24 colour, 15 black and white photographs, 5 line drawings; 24 colou...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An NPR Best Book of the Year God Save Texas is a journey through the most...

Winner, Violet Crown Award, Writers' League of Texas, 2008 For more than a decade, Marcia Kaylakie traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend co...

Just remembering the crispy fried chicken and luscious peach cobblers a grandmother or aunt used to make can set your mouth watering. And since rem...

Reducere. 1 Brown football scores the final field goal 2 Grey Armadillo's take a long prairie stroll 3 Furry Black Jack Rabbits happily leapt 4 Shiny red boo...

Reducere. This is Texas, Y'Allwritten and illustrated by Misha Blaise A charming gift for proud Texans of all ages Take a rollicking ride through Texas cultu...

Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases. The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reform...

Description"Pat Blashill's beautiful book of photos captures the poetics and energetic eccentricities of the post punk Austin, Texas music scene of...

Reducere. Experience flavor as big as the Lone Star State itselfTexans aren't shy to proclaim that the nation's best barbecue comes from inside the borders o...

Reducere. Many people in northern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma still believe that the Marlow brothers--George, Charles, Alf, and Epp--were thieves and kil...

Reducere. This practical, inspiring book will take the guesswork out of choosing the right plants for our Texas climate. Gardeners from all over the state wi...

Around 2, 300 BC Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple in Ur, a position she held for almost forty years. This volume t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cal (Southern Methodist University, USA) JillsonIllustration(s): 17 Line drawings, color; 38 Halftones, c...

Reducere. Texas Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Texas's history. Each episode included in the book is a story ...

Reducere. Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Te...

"I went into lots of fights by myself, and I came out by myself, too " said Captain Manuel T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas of the Texas Rangers. In this ...

Reducere. Texas history buffs and travelers have an eerie need for this book, which offers an unusual twist to seeing the "sights" in the Lone Star state. Or...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a "fix" for the regulation ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Lone Star Nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands demythologizes Texas's journey to statehood and restores the genuinely heroic ...

Presents a contemporary natural history of okapi, a relative of the giraffe. This book recounts its discovery by European explorers, and describes ...

Traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F Austin's proposal in the 1830s to ""Mexicanize"" Anglo children by ...

Texans are passionate about this signature sandwich, and photographer/writer Rick Vanderpool has become, in his own right, the Hambassador of Texas...

Tells the little known story of the contribution of Texas A&M University to early aviation in World War I. Through painstaking research - using uni...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Texas Frontier provides for riveting adventure and inspiring characters as this historical fiction series draws readers into the struggle for f...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Texas, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Texas: A Captivat...

Reducere. In thirteen chapters, Lon Tinkle tells the day-by-day story of how 182 men fought a losing battle but won for their cause an almost unparalleled me...

Reducere. There are many things that are big in Texas: Wide open spaces, personalities, hair, but above all, there's flavorUnited Tastes of Texas is your geo...

Reducere. Along with its Wild West spirit, geographical diversity, dramatic history and sheer size, Texas contains a wealth of spinetingling stories of the s...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Texas, then keep reading...Texas is one of the most recognizable states in the United States of ...

There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself--and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle, author Paul H. Carlson tells the story of Chicago-based William Henry Bush and his role in sha...

Reducere. As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texa...

Reducere. This is a book written for university political science classes. It focuses on the Texas constitution, its history, and how it functions in Texas p...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Editors of Texas MonthlyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 206 x 172 x 28Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Texas, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Texas: A Captivat...

This important new study examines the intricately linked phenomena of interwoven population growth, economic power, quality education, business lea...

Reducere. This book gives a graphic portrayal of frontier life in Texas with marauding Comanche and Kiowa Indian tribes. Replete with many stories of Indian ...

Reducere. Texans faced two foes as the Civil War began in 1861: the Union armed forces and the Plains Indians. In this breakthrough volume, David Paul Smith ...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native ...

Reducere. An American western folklore adventure - bringing justice no matter the cost. Will and Gid Crockett have joined forces with a fiery redhead - and t...

Reducere. DescriptionOne hundred thirty-two species, subspecies, and varieties of cacti may be found in Texas. About one hundred of them occur in the state's...

Provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews wi...

Offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays b...

Reducere. World War II, British RoWith the outbreak of yal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and ...