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Author : Neal Tannahill
Publisher : Pearson College Division
ISBN 13 : 9780205990764
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Texas Government, Books a la Carte Edition written by Neal Tannahill and published by Pearson College Division. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neal Tannahill
Publisher : Pearson Higher Ed
ISBN 13 : 020591649X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Texas Government written by Neal Tannahill and published by Pearson Higher Ed. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Updated in its 12th edition, Texas Government introduces the essentials of Texas government and its often colorful politics in a way that any reader can understand. With an emphasis on public policy and active learning, this popular and highly accessible textcontains an abundance of useful study aids and exercises in every chapter and a lively, straightforward writing style. Showing readers the impact that government has on their lives, this insightful and sometimes humorous critique of Texas government engages readers in the course material and encourages them to become active participants in their government. Note: MyPoliSciLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyPoliSciLab, please visit: www.mypoliscilab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MyPoliSciLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205908810 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205908813
Author : Anthony Champagne
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393283679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Governing Texas written by Anthony Champagne and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 selling book for Texas government courses, with a new focus on the future of Texas politics.
Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781133964414
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (644 download)
Download or read book TX.GOV written by William Maxwell and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by the continuous feedback of a “student-tested, faculty-approved” process, TX.GOV delivers a visually appealing, succinct print component, tear-out review cards, and a consistent online offering with CourseMate that includes an eBook in addition to a set of interactive digital tools, all at a value-based price and proven to increase retention and outcomes. TX.GOV employs a motivating debate theme and focuses on the current and historical conflicts and controversies that define Texas politics. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Author : Laurie E. Jasinski
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0876112971
Total Pages : 2008 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Texas Music written by Laurie E. Jasinski and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 2008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical voice of Texas presents itself as vast and diverse as the Lone Star State’s landscape. According to Casey Monahan, “To travel Texas with music as your guide is a year-round opportunity to experience first-hand this amazing cultural force….Texas music offers a vibrant and enjoyable experience through which to understand and enjoy Texas culture.” Building on the work of The Handbook of Texas Music that was published in 2003 and in partnership with the Texas Music Office and the Center for Texas Music History (Texas State University-San Marcos), The Handbook of Texas Music, Second Edition, offers completely updated entries and features new and expanded coverage of the musicians, ensembles, dance halls, festivals, businesses, orchestras, organizations, and genres that have helped define the state’s musical legacy. · More than 850 articles, including almost 400 new entries· 255 images, including more than 170 new photos, sheet music art, and posters that lavishly illustrate the text· Appendix with a stage name listing for musicians Supported by an outstanding team of music advisors from across the state, The Handbook of Texas Music, Second Edition, furnishes new articles on the music festivals, museums, and halls of fame in Texas, as well as the many honky-tonks, concert halls, and clubs big and small, that invite readers to explore their own musical journeys. Scholarship on many of the state’s pioneering groups and the recording industry and professionals who helped produce and promote their music provides fresh insight into the history of Texas music and its influence far beyond the state’s borders. Celebrate the musical tapestry of Texas from A to Z!
Author : Erica Grieder
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610393759
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right written by Erica Grieder and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erica Grieder’s Texas is a state that is not only an outlier but an exaggeration of some of America’s most striking virtues and flaws. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right is a witty, enlightening inquiry into how Texas works, and why, in the future, the rest of America may look a lot like Texas.
Author : Edward A. Bradley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623492572
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book We Never Retreat written by Edward A. Bradley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “filibuster” often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century—invasion of foreign lands by private military forces. Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short shrift in the studies of American-based filibustering, these expeditions were led by colorful men such as Augustus William Magee, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, John Robinson, and James Long. Previous accounts of their activities are brief, lack the appropriate context to fully understand filibustering, and leave gaps in the historiography. Ed Bradley now offers a thorough recounting of filibustering into Spanish Texas framed through the lens of personal and political motives: why American men participated in them and to what extent the US government was either involved in or tolerated them. “We Never Retreat” makes a major contribution by placing these expeditions within the contexts of the Mexican War of Independence and international relations between the United States and Spain.
Author : Kathy Pelta
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613934404
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Texas written by Kathy Pelta and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the geography, history, environment, economy, famous people, and culture of the Lone Star State.
Author : John Seidlitz
Publisher : SEIDLITZ EDUCATION, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1732194866
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (321 download)
Download or read book ELs in Texas: What School Leaders Need to Know written by John Seidlitz and published by SEIDLITZ EDUCATION, LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School leaders need a convenient and accessible resource that integrates the voluminous amounts of information in their binders, books, and manuals into one easy-to-read resource. The updated (Third Edition) of ELs in Texas:What School Leaders Need to Know responds to this need with an understanding of the overwhelming tasks required of school administrators, bilingual/esl coordinators, and instructional coaches/specialists on a daily basis. This comprehensive resource includes: • explanations of current policy and law • information and guidance related to • federal and Texas state law for ELs • a convenient and efficient resource for school leaders at all levels of experience • a collection of current and relevant statutes, codes, and guidance for leading programs. This resource is best experienced in the Google Play Books app on your tablet or in the Adobe Digital Edition e-reader on desktop/laptop.
Author : Adam Gamble
Publisher : Good Night Books
ISBN 13 : 1602197660
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Good Night Texas written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these boardbooks designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions—such as the Rocky Mountains in Denver, the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Lake Ontario in Toronto, and volcanoes in Hawaii. Rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place. Featuring all new illustrations, this completely revised edition highlights many of the Lone Star state’s most iconic places, including NASA’s Johnson Space Station, the Alamo, the Gulf of Mexico, Dallas, Houston, and Texas wildlife, such as longhorn cattle and prairie dogs.
Author : Conrado Espinoza
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611921366
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)
Download or read book El sol de Texas / Under the Texas Sun written by Conrado Espinoza and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They had just crossed the bridge into the United States. Their feet were now firmly planted on the soil that was their promised land. They had made it! Blessed be the Virgin of Guadalupe! Now they had no reason to fear the villistas, the carrancistas, the government, or the revolutionaries! Here they could find peace, work, wealth and happiness!" And so begins the story of the Garcia family, who like many of their compatriots, fled their homeland during the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution in search of a better life in the United States. Originally published in 1926 in San Antonio, Texas as El sol de Texas, the novel chronicles the struggles of two Mexican immigrant families: the Garcias and the Quijanos. Their initial hopes--of returning to their homeland with enough money to buy their own piece of land--are worn away by the reality of immigrant life. Unable to speak English, they find themselves at the mercy of unscrupulous work contractors and foremen: forced to work at backbreaking labor picking cotton in the fields, building the burgeoning Southwest railroad system, and working in Gulf Coast oil refineries. Considered the first novel of Mexican immigration, El sol de Texas / Under the Texas Sun depicts the diverse experiences of Mexican immigrants, from those that return to Mexico beaten down by the discrimination and hardship they encounter, to those who persist in their adopted land in spite of the racism they face. The original Spanish-language text is accompanied by the first-ever English translation by Ethriam Cash Brammer and an introduction by John Pluecker. Publication of this fascinating historical novel will provide unique insight into the long history of Mexicanimmigration to the United States and its implications for cultural, historical, and literary studies.
Author : Paul Benson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780134831220
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Texas Experience written by Paul Benson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is something to be said for experience. Between the two of us, the authors of this text have over five decades of teaching Texas government in the classroom, and almost that many years writing about it. But in our rapidly changing world, the ability to adapt to change is fundamentally important. Among the most notable agents of change in Texas government over the last decade has been the successful launch of the Texas Tribune, an online newspaper devoted to covering Texas politics with an emphasis on helping readers not only know but understand what is happening with the state's government. This non-partisan endeavor is the largest organization covering state politics anywhere. They are experts at providing analysis and process vast data sets into usable content. With our experience and the Tribune's analysis and immediacy, our aim is to create content that is readable, up-to-date, and meaningful to you as a student. You will have the opportunity to engage in Texas government instead of simply reading a textbook. The narrative text you'll find here covers the key concepts in Texas government. But to get the full Texas Experience with current Texas Tribune content integrated, you'll want to access the title in Revel. There you will find interactive resources that will bring the course to life, illustrate how these core concepts affect you and your community every day, help you become an informed consumer of the news, and empower you to make a difference in state and local politics now and throughout your life. Our approach in writing this book is simple. First, be realistic. Texas politics is less a debate about ideology and theory than it is a pragmatic discussion of what works"--
Author : Jerry Thompson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 160344243X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Tejanos in Gray written by Jerry Thompson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Texans, fighting for the Confederate cause, in their own words . . . The Civil War is often conceived in simplistic, black and white terms: whites from the North and South fighting over states’ rights, usually centered on the issue of black slavery. But, as Jerry Thompson shows in Tejanos in Gray, motivations for allegiance to the South were often more complex than traditional interpretations have indicated. Gathered for the first time in this book, the forty-one letters and letter fragments written by two Mexican Texans, Captains Manuel Yturri and Joseph Rafael de la Garza, reveal the intricate and intertwined relationships that characterized the lives of Texan citizens of Mexican descent in the years leading up to and including the Civil War. The experiences and impressions reflected in the letters of these two young members of the Tejano elite from San Antonio, related by marriage, provide fascinating glimpses of a Texas that had displaced many Mexican-descent families after the Revolution, yet could still inspire their loyalty to the Confederate flag. De la Garza, in fact, would go on to give his life for the Southern cause. The letters, translated by José Roberto Juárez and with meticulous annotation and commentary by Thompson, deepen and provide nuance to our understanding of the Civil War and its combatants, especially with regard to the Tejano experience. Historians, students, and general readers interested in the Civil War will appreciate Tejanos in Gray for its substantial contribution to borderlands studies, military history, and the often-overlooked interplay of region, ethnicity, and class in the Texas of the mid-nineteenth century.
Author : Art Martínez de Vara
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1625110596
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Tejano Patriot written by Art Martínez de Vara and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Martínez de Vara’s Tejano Patriot: The Revolutionary Life of José Francisco Ruiz, 1783–1840 is the first full-length biography of this important figure in Texas history. Best known as one of two Texas-born signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Ruiz’s significance extends far beyond that single event. Born in San Antonio de Béxar into an upwardly mobile family, during the war for Mexican independence Ruiz underwent a dramatic transformation from a conservative royalist to one of the staunchest liberals of his era. Steeped in the Spanish American liberal tradition, his revolutionary activity included participating in three uprisings, suppressing two others, and enduring extreme personal sacrifice for the liberal republican cause. He was widely respected as an intermediary between Tejanos and American Indians, especially the Comanches. As a diplomat, he negotiated nearly a dozen peace treaties for Spain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas, and he traveled to the Imperial Court of Mexico as an agent of the Comanches to secure peace on the northern frontier. When Anglo settlers came by the thousands to Texas after 1820, he continued to be a cultural intermediary, forging a friendship with Stephen F. Austin, but he always put the interests of Béxar and his fellow Tejanos first. Ruiz had a notable career as a military leader, diplomat, revolutionary, educator, attorney, arms dealer, author, ethnographer, politician, Indian agent, Texas ranger, city attorney, and Texas senator. He was a central figure in the saga that shaped Texas from a remote borderland on New Spain’s northern frontier to an independent republic.
Author : Kristina Horn Sheeler
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623490103
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Woman President written by Kristina Horn Sheeler and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imagining—and thus, the electing—of a woman as president? Examining both major-party and third-party campaigns by women, including the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, the authors of Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture identify the factors that limit electoral possibilities for women. Pundits have been predicting women’s political ascendency for years. And yet, although the 2008 presidential campaign featured Hillary Clinton as an early frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and Sarah Palin as the first female Republican vice-presidential nominee, no woman has yet held either of the top two offices. The reasons for this are complex and varied, but the authors assert that the question certainly encompasses more than the shortcomings of women candidates or the demands of the particular political moment. Instead, the authors identify a pernicious backlash against women presidential candidates—one that is expressed in both political and popular culture. In Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture, Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson provide a discussion of US presidentiality as a unique rhetorical role. Within that framework, they review women’s historical and contemporary presidential bids, placing special emphasis on the 2008 campaign. They also consider how presidentiality is framed in candidate oratory, campaign journalism, film and television, digital media, and political parody.
Author : L. Tucker Gibson
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780133998283
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Government and Politics in the Lone Star State, Books a la Carte Edition written by L. Tucker Gibson and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jesús F. de la Teja
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806154578
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance written by Jesús F. de la Teja and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most histories of Civil War Texas—some starring the fabled Hood’s Brigade, Terry’s Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure—depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, the often neglected stories of Texas Unionists and dissenters paint a far more complicated picture. Ranging in time from the late 1850s to the end of Reconstruction, Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance restores a missing layer of complexity to the history of Civil War Texas. The authors—all noted scholars of Texas and Civil War history—show that slaves, freedmen and freedwomen, Tejanos, German immigrants, and white women all took part in the struggle, even though some never found themselves on a battlefield. Their stories depict the Civil War as a conflict not only between North and South but also between neighbors, friends, and family members. By framing their stories in the analytical context of the “long Civil War,” Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance reveals how friends and neighbors became enemies and how the resulting violence, often at the hands of secessionists, crossed racial and ethnic lines. The chapters also show how ex-Confederates and their descendants, as well as former slaves, sought to give historical meaning to their experiences and find their place as citizens of the newly re-formed nation. Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was announced in Texas—Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas.
