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Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783784349
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Texaco written by Patrick Chamoiseau and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rickie Lee Jones
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 080218880X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
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
Author : Brent Hartinger
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968455
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book The Last Chance Texaco written by Brent Hartinger and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guy looked at me with a stare that would have frozen antifreeze. "You the new groupie, huh?" "Yeah," I said. "So?" "So no one wants you here. Why don't you go back where you came from?" I can't go back, I wanted to say. That was the thing about living in a group home. There was nowhere for me to go but forward. Brent Hartinger's second novel, a portrait of a subculture of teenagers that many people would like to forget, is as powerful and provocative as his first book, Geography Club.
Author : Thomas Petzinger
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781893122079
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)
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:
Author : Bari-Ellen Roberts
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780380796397
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (963 download)
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.
Author : James Shannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Texaco's Stagecoach Draw Unit Natural Gas Field Development Project, Farson County, Sweetwater County written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679751750
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Texaco written by Patrick Chamoiseau and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-02-24 with total page 418 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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lubrication written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. D. Ball
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780887406560
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Texaco Collectibles written by Robert W. D. Ball and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texaco filling stations, products, giveaways, sales promotional toys, signs, banners, uniforms, and equipment are presented in color photos and text. Historical black and white photos of vintage Texaco stations, as well as early airplanes and ships from the extensive Texaco fleet are also included.
Author : Elton N. Gish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971277724
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (777 download)
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"
Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816520152
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
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.
Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862073135
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)
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.
Author : Paul M. Barrett
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770436366
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Law of the Jungle written by Paul M. Barrett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest. Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron’s lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules. Donziger, a larger-than-life, loud-mouthed showman, proved himself a master orchestrator of the media, Hollywood, and public opinion. He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the theory that his noble ends justified any means of persuasion. And in the end, he won an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against Chevon--the biggest environmental damages award in history. But the company refused to surrender or compromise. Instead, Chevron targeted Donziger personally, and its counter-attack revealed damning evidence of his politicking and manipulation of evidence. Suddenly the verdict, and decades of Donziger’s single-minded pursuit of the case, began to unravel. Written with the texture and flair of the best narrative nonfiction, Law of the Jungle is an unputdownable story in which there are countless victims, a vast region of ruined rivers and polluted rainforest, but very few heroes.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gasohol Competition Act of 1979, S. 2251 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 942 pages
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Download or read book Transportation Lines on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Industrial Development and Manufacturers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1956 each vol. includes as a regular number the Blue book of southern progress and the Southern industrial directory, formerly issued separately.
