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Last Chance Texaco

Author : Rickie Lee Jones
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 080218880X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Last Chance Texaco written by Rickie Lee Jones and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and colorful memoir by the singer, songwriter, and “Duchess of Coolsville” (Time). This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song . . . Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner and Rickie Lee Jones in her own words (Hilton Als). It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music. With candor and lyricism, she takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, her years as a teenage runaway, her legendary love affair with Tom Waits, and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee’s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs—“Chuck E’s in Love,” “Weasel and the White Boys Cool,” “Danny’s All-Star Joint,” and “Easy Money”—but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, and a pimp with a heart of gold, and tales of her fabled ancestors. This intimate memoir by one of the most trailblazing and tenacious women in music is filled with never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, whose songs defied categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades. “A striking, distinctive self-portrait.” —The New York Times “Terrific . . . Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on stage.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Men leave, fame fizzles, family breaks your heart . . . but Jones knows a good story and how to tell it.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[The] premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation.” —Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize–winner and author of White Girls

Texaco and the $10 Billion Jury

Author : James Shannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Texaco and the $10 Billion Jury written by James Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shannon was a juror in the 1984 Houston trial that awarded $10.5 billion damages to the Pennzoil Company in its lawsuit against Texaco for preempting Pennzoil's supposedly binding merger agreement with Getty Oil. The verdict stunned the business world and Texaco declared bankruptcy; a compromise four years later reduced the award to $3 billion. With excerpts from court testimony and legal arguments between lawyers, bankers and executives, Shannon reconstructs the four-month trial, adding narrative and interpretations of his own. He tells how jury-room deliberations led to a consensus that Texaco had interfered intentionally, and therefore illegally, with Pennzoil's ``done deal'' and must pay a $3 billion penalty in addition to the $7.5 billion Pennzoil claimed to have lost by not acquiring Getty's oil reserves. Major ad/promo; author tour. (June) Copyright 1988 Cahners Business Information.

Roberts Vs. Texaco:

Author : Bari-Ellen Roberts
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780380796397
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Roberts Vs. Texaco: written by Bari-Ellen Roberts and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1999-03-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texaco recruited banking executive Bari-Ellen Roberts with promises of a professional challenge and advancement. But she and 1400 other African Americans faced a persistant pattern of racial discrimination so onerous that it wound up in a lawsuit-and ultimately in the largest discrimination settlement in U.S. History. This is the true story of how a giant corporation was challenged against all odds by one brave woman who was determined to stand her ground. Here, in Bari-Ellen Roberts' own words, is the fascinating, infuriating, and ultimately triumphant account of how she acheived an electrifying result that could change the face of corporate America, including the inside story of the notorious "Texaco Tapes," which recorded senior executives making racially-charged comments while they allegedly plotted the destruction of evidence. Here is a fresh and inspiring vantage point on what is unquestionably the major civil rights battleground of the twenty-first century: the workplace. Spellbinding and eloquent, intensely personal and dramatically riveting, this is the most persuasive yet damning account of corporate racial discrimination ever written.

Texaco

Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862070462
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Texaco written by Patrick Chamoiseau and published by . This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Caribbean, this novel tells the story of a grim, poverty-stricken shanty town (named after the nearby oil depot) on the edge of Fort de France, the capital of Martinique.

The Log

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Log written by and published by . This book was released on 1943-07 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Solibo Magnificent

Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862073135
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Solibo Magnificent written by Patrick Chamoiseau and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Before an enthralled crowd, Solibo Magnificent, the great teller of tales, is seemingly choked by his own words. Is it astrostrangulation or murder? The two investigating officers discover a transitory universe at the threshold of oblivion.

Texaco's Port Arthur Works, a Legacy of Spindletop and Sour Lake

Author : Elton N. Gish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971277724
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Texaco's Port Arthur Works, a Legacy of Spindletop and Sour Lake written by Elton N. Gish and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book details the 100-year history (1903 to 2003) of Texaco's Port Arthur refinery, Port Arthur Terminal, and Port Neches refinery. It contains 408 pages with more than 1200 photographs that show every aspect of running a refinery. Many of them have no"

Oil & Honor

Author : Thomas Petzinger
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781893122079
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Oil & Honor written by Thomas Petzinger and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Round About the Earth

Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439100063
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Round About the Earth written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet. For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with five ships and 270 men, but only one ship and thirty-five men returned, not including Magellan, who died in the Philippines. Starting with these dangerous voyages, Joyce Chaplin takes us on a trip of our own as we travel with Francis Drake, William Dampier, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, and James Cook. Eventually sea travel grew much safer and passengers came on board. The most famous was Charles Darwin, but some intrepid women became circumnavigators too—a Lady Brassey, for example. Circumnavigation became a fad, as captured in Jules Verne’s classic novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Once continental railroads were built, circumnavigators could traverse sea and land. Newspapers sponsored racing contests, and people sought ways to distinguish themselves—by bicycling around the world, for instance, or by sailing solo. Steamships turned round-the-world travel into a luxurious experience, as with the tours of Thomas Cook & Son. Famous authors wrote up their adventures, including Mark Twain and Jack London and Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (better known as Nellie Bly). Finally humans took to the skies to circle the globe in airplanes. Not much later, Sputnik, Gagarin, and Glenn pioneered a new kind of circumnavigation— in orbit. Through it all, the desire to take on the planet has tested the courage and capacity of the bold men and women who took up the challenge. Their exploits show us why we think of the Earth as home. Round About the Earth is itself a thrilling adventure.

LIFE

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1940-07-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Pure Products

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pure Products written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Last Chance Texaco

Author : Christine Pountney
Publisher : London : Faber and Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571201440
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Last Chance Texaco written by Christine Pountney and published by London : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 2000 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John is a sensitive and wary 15-year-old. Born in Canada, but raised in California by a neglectful father, he finds solace in a relationship with the new girl in town. Their intensely romantic world is shattered by an experience that marks the first stop to an emotional and geographical journey.

The Popular Engineer

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Popular Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Age of Magic

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635422698
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Magic written by Ben Okri and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this enchanting novel from the Booker Prize–winning author, a group of world-weary travelers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village. The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes. Eight weary filmmakers, traveling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travelers will find themselves drawn into the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way. An intoxicating and dreamlike tale unfolds. Allow yourself to be transformed. Having shown a different way of seeing the world, Ben Okri now offers a different way of reading.

Texaco

Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Texaco written by Patrick Chamoiseau and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1997 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature." --Milan Kundera Of black Martinican provenance, Patrick Chamoiseau gives us "Texaco (winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize), an international literary achievement, tracing one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history: a novel that is as much about self-affirmation engendered by memory as it is about a quest for the adequacy of its own form. In a narrative composed of short sequences, each recounting episodes or developments of moment, and interspersed with extracts from fictive notebooks and from statements by an urban planner, Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the saucy, aging daughter of a slave affranchised by his master, tells the story of the tormented foundation of her people's identity. The shantytown established by Marie-Sophie is menaced from without by hostile landowners and from within by the volatility of its own provisional state. Hers is a brilliant polyphonic rendering of individual stories informed by rhythmic orality and subversive humor that shape a collective experience. A joyous affirmation of literature that brings to mind Boccaccio, La Fontaine, Lewis Carroll, Montaigne, Rabelais, and Joyce, "Texaco is a work of rare power and ambition, a masterpiece.

Network World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Network World written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-03-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.

In Search of Snow

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816520152
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Snow written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hot Arizona desert of the late 1950s, Mike McGurk comes of age in one big, riotous gush. Trapped pumping gas at a desolate roadstop, he yearns for things he has never known: love, hope, and the soft, white calmness of snow. Mike's world is filled with a menagerie of quirky characters, who cope with the weight of their unfulfilled dreams with bravado, humor, and violence. Mike trades snappy insults with his macho father, Texaco Turk McGurk, a moustachioed amateur boxer and self-proclaimed war hero who is unable to talk about love. Mike lusts after Lily, his seductive, poem-writing cousin. He cowers before and then confronts the vicious Ramses, grandson of Mr. Sneezy, the wisecracking Apache. And he is rescued by his best friend, Bobo, who delivers him into the care of the loving and generous Mama and Papa Garcia. In Search of Snow is an explosive coming-of-age adventure, full of hilarious episodes and still, poignant moments. Like a blue-collar Don Quixote, Mike must blow up his windmills before he can set off to find the things he lacks, especially the snow that will temper the passion he has just set aflame.