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The Unexpected Spy

Author : Tracy Walder
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250230993
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Unexpected Spy written by Tracy Walder and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs "Reads like the show bible for Homeland only her story is real." —Alison Stewart, WNYC "A thrilling tale...Walder’s fast-paced and intense narrative opens a window into life in two of America’s major intelligence agencies" —Publishers Weekly (starred review) When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she’d fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in the CIA and, later, the FBI. In high-security, steel-walled rooms in Virginia, Walder watched al-Qaeda members with drones as President Bush looked over her shoulder and CIA Director George Tenet brought her donuts. She tracked chemical terrorists and searched the world for Weapons of Mass Destruction. She created a chemical terror chart that someone in the White House altered to convey information she did not have or believe, leading to the Iraq invasion. Driven to stop terrorism, Walder debriefed terrorists—men who swore they’d never speak to a woman—until they gave her leads. She followed trails through North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, shutting down multiple chemical attacks. Then Walder moved to the FBI, where she worked in counterintelligence. In a single year, she helped take down one of the most notorious foreign spies ever caught on American soil. Catching the bad guys wasn’t a problem in the FBI, but rampant sexism was. Walder left the FBI to teach young women, encouraging them to find a place in the FBI, CIA, State Department or the Senate—and thus change the world.

Unexpected Texas

Author : Tui Snider
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781495421969
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Unexpected Texas written by Tui Snider and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only does Tui Snider explain the stories behind these offbeat sites, but she also gives directions to a bunch of quirky Texas places.

Explorer's Guide West Texas: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations)

Author : Judy Wiley
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581578199
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Explorer's Guide West Texas: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations) written by Judy Wiley and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere else has quite the allure that west Texas cities, plains, and ranchlands have; this book is your guide to it all. West Texas is where deep blue mesas at the Big Bend and the plunging, layered walls of Palo Duro Canyon inspire awe; where off-the-beaten-path towns serve fine cuisine; where you can find a Picasso original hanging in a jailhouse museum; where views go on forever and millions of stars come out at night. Nowhere else has quite the allure that these cities, plains, and ranchlands have; this book is your guide to it all. Distinctive for their accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the diverse travel guides in our Explorer's Great Destinations series meet the conflicting demands of the modern traveler. They're packed full of up-to-date information to help plan the perfect getaway. And they're compact and light enough to come along for the ride. A tool you'll turn to before, during, and after your trip, these guides include chapters on lodging, dining, transportation, history, shopping, recreation, and more; a section packed with practical information, such as lists of banks, hospitals, post offices, laundromats, numbers for police, fire, and rescue, and other relevant information; maps of regions and locales, and more.

Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash

Author : Rusty Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493064401
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash written by Rusty Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of New Texas, the Texas we know today—oil-rich, insufferably loud, and unbearably proud of itself—begins in the late 1920s, when a horned frog wakes from its thirty-one-year nap in a courthouse cornerstone and flabbergasts the nation. In slightly over two decades ten individuals—their words, actions, and accomplishments—come to define the New Texas of the twenty-first century. While the history of Old Texas rests on oft-told legends of Houston, Austin, Travis, Crockett, Rusk, Lamar, and Seguin, today’s New Texas—proud, loud, self-promotional, sports-crazy, and too rich for its own good—is the Texas that percolates throughout the nation’s popular culture. In Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash: How Ten Mavericks Created the Twentieth-Century Lone Star State, author Rusty Williams profiles ten largely unsung men and women responsible for the Texas you love, hate, and (secretly) envy today.

Texas Advance Sheet February 2012

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Publisher : Fastcase Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5169 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Advance Sheet February 2012 written by and published by Fastcase Inc. This book was released on with total page 5169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Texas Sky

Author : Wyman Meinzer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292752180
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Texas Sky written by Wyman Meinzer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declared Texas State Photographer for 1997, the author celebrates his native state with a collection of some 114 pages of color photographs, along with a thoughtful, accompanying essay by John Graves that captures the essence of Texas. UP.

The Texas Calaboose and Other Forgotten Jails

Author : William E. Moore
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623497159
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Texas Calaboose and Other Forgotten Jails written by William E. Moore and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A calaboose is, quite simply, a tiny jail. Designed to house prisoners only for a short time, a calaboose could be anything from an iron cage to a poured concrete blockhouse. Easily constructed and more affordable for small communities than a full-sized building, calabooses once dotted the rural landscape. Though a relic of a bygone era in law enforcement and no longer in use, many calabooses remain in communities throughout Texas, often hidden in plain sight. In The Texas Calaboose and Other Forgotten Jails, William E. Moore has compiled the first guidebook to extant calabooses in Texas. He explores the history of the calaboose, including its construction, use, and eventual decline, but the heart of the book is in the alphabetically arranged photo tour of calabooses across the state. Each entry is accompanied by a vignette describing the unique features of the calaboose at hand, any infamous or otherwise memorable occupants, and the state of the calaboose at present. Most have been long abandoned, but because many remain on city or town property, some have been repurposed into storage buildings or even government offices. In certain ways, these small jails encapsulate the history of outlying communities during a time of transition from the “Wild West” to the twentieth century. Some of the structures have been preserved and cared-for, but despite the stories they can tell, many more are endangered or have already been lost. This definitive guide to tiny Texas jails serves as a record of a unique and disappearing feature of our heritage.

Texas

Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0804151415
Total Pages : 1474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Texas written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states. Among his finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken, as the loyalties established over the course of each turbulent age inevitably collapse under the weight of wealth and industry. With Michener as our guide, Texas is a tale of patriotism and statesmanship, growth and development, violence and betrayal—a stunning achievement by a literary master. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Texas “Fascinating.”—Time “A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, frontier and settlement, money and power . . . [James A. Michener] manages to make history vivid.”—The Boston Globe “A sweeping panorama . . . [Michener] grapples earnestly with the Texas character in a way that Texas’s own writers often don’t.”—The Washington Post Book World “Vast, sprawling, and eclectic in population and geography, the state has just the sort of larger-than-life history that lends itself to Mr. Michener’s taste for multigenerational epics.”—The New York Times

Big Bend Country

Author : Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890968116
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Big Bend Country written by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.?Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and compromise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a private lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shootouts, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.?Ragsdale?s stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists. ?Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be welcomed by all lovers of that wonderful country.? ?Dallas Morning News ?If you?ve never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale?s new book will make you want to go there.??Austin American-Statesman.

Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast

Author : Ted Eubanks
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603445307
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast written by Ted Eubanks and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last thirty years, the Upper Texas Coast has become a "must go" destination for birders around the globe. This book will serve as an essential companion to the customary field guide and pair of binoculars for all visitors to Houston, High Island, Galveston, Freeport, or any of the area's other exciting birding spots. It also places the birdlife of the region, a seven-county area with a larger bird list than forty-three states, into historical and ecological contexts. Authors Eubanks, Behrstock, and Weeks--all recognized authorities on the migrant and resident birds of this region--present a thorough introduction to the area's history, physiography, and avifauna. Then, in generous discussions of bird families and species, they synthesize years of records, tracking the comings and goings of more than 480 birds and incorporating their own lifetimes of experience to create an "ornithological mosaic" of lasting significance.

Texas State Journal of Medicine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Texas State Journal of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unexpected Joy

Author : Bill Russell
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573707642
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book Unexpected Joy written by Bill Russell and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern-day Cape Cod, Joy, a baby boomer and proud hippie, is holding a memorial concert for the other half of her popular musical duo, Jump & Joy. When her tightly wound, conservative daughter and her sweet, rebellious granddaughter arrive from Oklahoma, sparks fly as one family seeks to find the common ground in their different values, dreams, and goals. A heartfelt and hilarious story that celebrates diversity and acceptance, Unexpected Joy weaves folk-rock, pop, and blues in bringing together a family that hasn’t experienced true joy in decades.

Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce, of the State of New York, for the Year ...

Author : New York Chamber of Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce, of the State of New York, for the Year ... written by New York Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York

Author : New York Chamber of Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York written by New York Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report

Author : New York (State) Chamber of Commerce of State of New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report written by New York (State) Chamber of Commerce of State of New York and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, for the Year ...

Author : New York Chamber of Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, for the Year ... written by New York Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Texas Politics

Author : Cal Jillson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000488381
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Texas Politics written by Cal Jillson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth edition of this popular text has been expanded and updated to better fit the needs of a stand-alone Texas politics course. Jillson continues to approach the politics of the Lone Star State from historical, developmental, and analytical perspectives, while giving students the most even-handed, readable, and engaging description of Texas politics available today. Students are encouraged to connect the origins and development of government and politics in Texas to its current practice and the alternatives possible through change and reform. This text helps instructors prepare their students to master the origin and development of the Texas Constitution, the structure and powers of state and local government in Texas, how Texas fits into the U.S. federal system, as well as political participation, the electoral process, and public policy in Texas. Texas Politics offers instructors and students an unmatched range of pedagogical aids and tools. Each chapter opens with an engaging vignette and a series of focus questions to orient readers to the learning objectives at hand and concludes with a chapter summary, a list of key terms, review questions, suggested readings, and web resources. "Let’s Compare" boxes help students see how Texas sits alongside other states, "Texas Legends" boxes spotlight key figures in Texas political history, "Pro & Con" boxes bring conflicting political views into sharper focus and every chapter features a timeline of important events in Texas history. New to the eighth edition • Covers the 2020 national elections, the 2021 legislative session, and the 2018 state and national elections as they affect Texas. • Highlights Governor Greg Abbott’s call for policy solutions to the vulnerability of the Texas energy grid; Texas voter eligibility laws; the coronavirus recovery program; and preparation for redistricting in the wake of the 2020 census. • Provides a detailed study of the 2022–2023 state budget and the taxing and spending decisions that went into it, including the school funding and property tax reforms of 2019. .