State Local category: 1635 books
by Mehmet Merdan Hekimoglu
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Public Law / Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This Study concerns itself with the Turkish constitutional developments from Ottoman times to the present state of the modern Turkish Republic.In this way, the historical...
Driving Efficiency in Local Government Using a Collaborative Enterprise Architecture Framework
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
The overall functions of a government impact a wide range of sectors in society. It is imperative for governments to work at full capacity and potential in order to ensure quality progress for its citizens. Driving Efficiency in Local Government Using a Collaborative Enterprise Architecture Framework:...
Fort Davis
Outpost on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one of the U.S. Army's most important western posts, relates the exciting history of Trans-Pecos Texas—the far western reaches off the state. Wooster traces the history of this Davis Mountains region from the days when Indians and later Spaniards...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This report assesses the KALAHI-CIDSS community-driven development project in the Philippines to determine its contribution toward improved service delivery and governance in the beneficiary communities. KALAHI-CIDSS was found to be especially effective in facilitating broad-based participation of...
Coordinating the Criminal Justice System
A Guide to Improve the Effective Administration of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
This guide was developed to assist students, professors, executives of local criminal justice systems, and appointed and elected officials of general government to have a better understanding on how the criminal justice system should function. It may also be of special interest to citizens and public...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Thomas Jefferson’s only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, is a rich and revealing compendium of information and opinion on the largest and most important state in the union at the end of the American Revolution. Presented in the scientific spirit of the Enlightenment as an encyclopedia of useful...
Jewel of the Missions
San Juan Capistrano
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
Mission San Juan Capistrano has long been called "The Jewel of the Missions." This book captures the history of the mission from its founding in 1776 by Father (now Saint) Junipero Serra to the present day. Between the pages, you will learn about many features of the mission and discover...
by Fabian Junge
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Public Law / Administrative Law, grade: 2,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, language: English, abstract: To work out the details on how to acquire communal resource rights by long term use we first have to examine the question what...
Oil in Texas
The Gusher Age, 1895-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a booming economy that built cities, attracted...
An Old Ranger’S Memories
Building Montaña De Oro State Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
An Old Rangers Memories: Building Montaa de Oro State Park chronicles the adventures had in taking what used to be a working seaside ranch and transforming it into what would become San Luis Obispo Countys most-beloved state park. From Ranger McKillops first visit, through to the first Labor Day weekend...
The Cradle of Texas Road
A Model of Cultural Integration for the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The region north of Houston, Texas, is a cultural enclave of communities and sites distinctive in Texas history. Here, significant contributions to the history of the great state of Texas emerged, along with some of its most noted and distinctive personalities, communities, and historical sites.
Thoroughly...
by Doug Brodie, James Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
The mid-19th century mining town of Bodie, California located at 8,369 feet, atop the Sierra Nevada Mountains, just 3 1/2 miles from the Nevada border, was considered one of the richest gold and silver mining towns in the west. Geologists who know of its present rich ore deposits, say it could have...
West Virginia
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
" An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape....
The American Constitutional Tradition
Colonial Charters, Covenants, and Revolutionary State Constitutions, 1578–1780
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The book is a work of non-fiction. The book is a historical analysis of the evolution of a uniquely American constitutionalism that began with the original English royal charters for the exploration and exploitation of North America. When the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787, the accepted conception...