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They Imagine Texas

Author : Kevin McDermott
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977267440
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book They Imagine Texas written by Kevin McDermott and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Imagine Texas is the story of six lives, two deaths and Perros Salvajes County. On a vacant Sunday morning a 28-year-old teacher, Katherine Moliere, is out for a solitary run when she observes a man in a playground knock his son to the ground. Moliere, righteous in her way, intervenes. The man Moliere encounters is Tibor Rauscha, prominent in Texas politics and the wealthiest person in Perros Salvajes. When Moliere crosses his path Rauscha has recently divorced wife one and is engaged to wife two, Fanny DaCosta. None of them know it but Moliere’s encounter at the playground has set in motion a sequence in which little things blow up into big ones. When they cross paths again four years later one death has already happened. Weeks later there will be another. Even then, Texas is not finished with Katherine Moliere. They Imagine Texas has been called “a broken-hearted comedy.” It is a story of haunted lives and haunted houses, and a guide to the categories of justice and mercy. With camping and tacos. _________________________________________________ Kevin McDermott has worked around the world and written from everywhere—including Texas. His career has included journalism from France for The Washington Post and Saveur, from England for The New York Times, and from Haiti for The Atlantic. His poems and short stories have appeared on both sides of the Atlantic. A short story drawing on his reporting from Haiti, “Magic & Hidden Things,” was listed among the distinguished short fiction in that year’s edition of Best American Short Stories. His play, Our Intoxication, was a production of the Manhattan Theatre Festival in New York, where he lives. McDermott's previous novel, Fortunes Neck, earned comparisons to Sherwood Anderson and Tom Drury. Fortunes Neck was a New England Book Festival nominee and was subsequently nominated for the PEN/New England Award and the American Book Award.

Imagine Texas

Author : Laurie Cockerell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984560967
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Imagine Texas written by Laurie Cockerell and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imagine Texas" provides over fifty intriguing writing prompts and activities for Texas history students. Various techniques are employed to improve writing skills, as well as retention of Texas history knowledge.

Imagine a Death

Author : Janice Lee
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680032569
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Imagine a Death written by Janice Lee and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of a slow but impending apocalypse, what binds three seemingly divergent lives (a writer, a photographer, an old man), isn’t the commonality of a perceived future death, but the layered and complex fabric of how loss, abuse, trauma, and death have shaped their pasts, and how these pasts continue to haunt their present moments, a moment in which time seems to be running out. The writer, traumatized by the violent death of her mother when she was a child, lives alone with her dog and struggles to finish her book. The photographer, stunted by the death of his grandmother and caretaker, struggles to take a single picture and enters into a complicated relationship with the writer. The old man, facing his past in small doses, spends his time watching television and reorganizing the objects in his apartment to stay distracted from the deterioration around him. A depiction of the cycles of abuse and trauma in a prolonged end-time, Imagine a Death examines the ways in which our pasts envelop us, the ways in which we justify horrible things in the name of survival, all of the horrible and beautiful things we are capable of when we are hurt and broken, and the animal (and plant) companions that ground us. Innovative Prose

Texas

Author : Dick J. Reavis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878867988
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Texas written by Dick J. Reavis and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Covering everything there is to see and do as well as choice lodging and dining, these gorgeous full-color guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of the region they're visiting.

The Cosmopolitan

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Petroleum Age

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Petroleum Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bluffing Texas Style

Author : Michael Vinson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166231
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Bluffing Texas Style written by Michael Vinson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer’s life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman declared, “like a bestseller.” In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century—the purchase, for more than two million dollars, of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare Americana, a feat noted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His undercover work for the FBI, recovering rare books stolen by mafia figures, had also earned him headlines coast to coast, as had his exploits as “Austin Squatty,” playing high stakes poker in Las Vegas. But beneath such public triumphs lay darker secrets. At the time of his death, Jenkins was about to be indicted by the ATF for the arson of his rare books, warehouse, and offices. Another investigation implicated Jenkins in forgeries of historical documents, including the Texas Declaration of Independence. Rumors of million-dollar gambling debts at mob-connected casinos circulated, along with the rumblings of irate mafia figures he’d fingered and eccentric Texas collectors he’d cheated. Had he been murdered? Or was his death a suicide, staged to look like a murder? How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. Entrepreneur, con man, connoisseur, forger, and self-made hero, Jenkins was a Texan who knew how to bluff but not when to fold.

Sam Houston

Author : James L. Haley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806152141
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Sam Houston written by James L. Haley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley’s fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly the most complete, most personal, and most readable Sam Houston biography ever written. Drawn from personal papers never before available as well as the papers of others in Houston’s circle, this biography will delight anyone intrigued by Sam Houston, Texas history, Civil War history, or America’s tradition of rugged individualism.

Race and Class in Texas Politics

Author : Chandler Davidson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691025391
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Race and Class in Texas Politics written by Chandler Davidson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author brings mature understanding to the socio-economic factors that underlie the bewildering tangle of Texas politics.

Imagine Heaven

Author : John Burke
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493400517
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Imagine Heaven written by John Burke and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's obvious from the bookshelves and the big screen that heaven is on everyone's mind. All of us long to know what life after death will be like. Bestselling author John Burke is no exception. For decades, he has been studying accounts of people who have had near-death experiences (NDEs). While not every detail of individual NDEs correlate with Scripture, Burke shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors clearly point to the God of the Bible and the exhilarating picture of heaven he promises. Imagine Heaven is an inspirational journey through the Bible's picture of heaven, colored in with the real-life stories of heaven's wonders. Burke compares gripping stories of NDEs to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of heaven: Will I be myself? Will I see friends and loved ones? What will it look like? What is God like? What will we do forever? What about children and pets? This book will propel readers into an experience that will forever change their view of the life to come and the way they live life today. It also tackles the tough questions of heavenly reward and hellish NDEs. Anyone interested in NDEs or longing to imagine heaven more clearly will enjoy this fascinating and hope-filled book.

The Hogg Family and Houston

Author : Kate Sayen Kirkland
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292748469
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Hogg Family and Houston written by Kate Sayen Kirkland and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike Hogg used their political ties, social position, and family fortune to improve the lives of fellow Houstonians. As civic activists, they espoused contested causes like city planning and mental health care. As volunteers, they inspired others to support social service, educational, and cultural programs. As philanthropic entrepreneurs, they built institutions that have long outlived them: the Houston Symphony, the Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Park, and the Hogg Foundation. The Hoggs had a vision of Houston as a great city—a place that supports access to parklands, music, and art; nurtures knowledge of the "American heritage which unites us"; and provides social service and mental health care assistance. This vision links them to generations of American idealists who advanced a moral response to change. Based on extensive archival sources, The Hogg Family and Houston explains the impact of Hogg family philanthropy for the first time. This study explores how individual ideals and actions influence community development and nurture humanitarian values. It examines how philanthropists and volunteers mold Houston's traditions and mobilize allies to meet civic goals. It argues that Houston's generous citizens have long believed that innovative cultural achievement must balance aggressive economic expansion.

M.K. and T. Employes' Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book M.K. and T. Employes' Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Planning For Dummies

Author : Jordan Yin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118101677
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Urban Planning For Dummies written by Jordan Yin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get a practical overview of this fascinating field, including studying community demographics, determining the best uses for land, planning economic and transportation development, and implementing plans. Following an introductory course on urban planning, this book is key reading for any urban planning student or anyone involved in urban development. With new studies conclusively demonstrating the dramatic impact of urban design on public psychological and physical health, the impact of the urban planner on a community is immense. And with a wide range of positions for urban planners in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors—including law firms, utility companies, and real estate development firms—having a fundamental understanding of urban planning is key to anyone even considering entry into this field. This book provides a useful introduction and lays the groundwork for serious study. Helps readers understand the essentials of this complex profession Written by a certified practicing urban planner, with extensive practical and community-outreach experience For anyone interested in being in the vanguard of building, designing, and shaping tomorrow's sustainable city, Urban Planning For Dummies offers an informative, entirely accessible introduction on learning how.

Cosmopolitan

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imagine... The Giant's Fall

Author : Matt Koceich
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1643521233
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Imagine... The Giant's Fall written by Matt Koceich and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Release in an Epic Bible Adventure Series for Kids The last thing fourth-grader Wren Evans remembers (before the world as she knew it disappeared) is getting off the school bus to discover her house engulfed in flames. What happens next can't be explained as Wren finds herself in a beautiful valley with a shepherd named David—in ancient Israel! Imagine. . .The Giant's Fall is the fourth release in an exciting epic adventure series for kids ages 8 to 12 written by schoolteacher Matt Koceich. The Imagine series brings the Bible to life for today's kids as they ponder what it would be like to live through a monumental biblical event. Don't miss Book 1 in the Imagine Series--The Great Flood. . .Book 2--The Ten Plagues. . .or Book 3--The Fall of Jericho!

Weird Texas

Author : Wesley Treat
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402766879
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Weird Texas written by Wesley Treat and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."

The Conscious Planet

Author : Neil M. Pine
Publisher : TrineDay
ISBN 13 : 1634244338
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Conscious Planet written by Neil M. Pine and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conscious Planet represents the prerequisite for the future of humanity! It's a powerful polemic against all things wrong with our modern western culture!This salient and cutting-edge vision of reality projects way out beyond the horizon! All this critically important information (while formally being highly controversial and provocative subjects), are now all coming to fruition with more public concern and awareness than ever! The truth about Pandemics & Vaccine horror! The cruel and destructive nature of the livestock industry. Meat recalls and Dangerous zoonotic diseases. Extreme weather and Climate change. Nuclear power dangers, GMOs and the nefarious Bee killing and cancer-causing herbicides from Monsanto, Rainforest destruction, Drought, Famine, and Endangered species including bees! It's everything the government and the multinational corporations that control it, don't want you to know! Furthermore, The Conscious Planet exposes a legacy of demagoguery and Corporate plutocracy used by our politicians and big industry, to cover up the truth about environmental negligence by mitigating or eschewing the facts! (Refer to chapter 4 "Peace and Prosperity," ) Over the years, the truth has become obscured by a maelstrom of this mass government and corporate subreption! I also published an article in the Spring of 2010 in Vision Magazine, warning people about the dangers of nuclear power! Contingent upon this article, just one month later, I gave a 20 min speech about non sustainable practices at the University of California, in Riverside and received an Eco Hero Award. And only 1 year later we experienced the worst nuclear disaster in history at Fukushima Japan! (Refer to chapter "The Insidious Nature of Nuclear Power") This goes way beyond any self-help book. Not only does this information improve your health and psychology, but it will also dramatically reduce your carbon footprint, thus ameliorating all external environment factors surrounding you, making the