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Texas A&M University
A Pictorial History, 1876-1996, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This expanded edition of Texas A&M University: A Pictorial History gives a panoramic view of Texas A&M, from its infancy as a college with forty-eight agricultural and mechanical (engineering) students to today's diverse campus of more than forty thousand students.
Captured in full-color...
Gustav Dresel's Houston Journal
Adventures in North America and Texas, 1837-1841
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
by Mark A. Roeder
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Did you know that:
- Buffalo Bill, Will Rogers, and Jesse Owen have visited Culver?
- Culver has been home to some three dozen hotels?
- Jesse James once robbed Mr. Culver?
- A five year old attempted to hold up the Culver Bank?
- Culver is the sixth name of our...
by Archer Butler Hulbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Volume 10 of the series "Historic Highways of America". According to Wikipedia: "Archer Butler Hulbert (26 Jan 1873 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history... He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. Hulbert...
The Tennessee
The New River: Civil War to TVA
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity," this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished. Southern Classics Series.
The Senate and the People of Canada
A Counterintuitive Approach to Reform of the Senate of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
The Senate of Canada is the upper house of its parliamentary system. It is an appointed legislative chamber that has been frequently derided for its apparent lack of effective activity, its failure to represent Canada’s federal system, and the perceived lack of accountability among its members....
by Jose Remigio Gomis Fuentes Sr
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Cuestionarios de respuesta múltiple que trata en profundidad las cuestiones relativas a la Contratación con el Sector Público: legislación aplicable, diferentes tipos de contratos con las Administraciones Públicas, Contratos de Obra Pública, contratos de Concesión de Obra Pública, contratos...
The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn
Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Lafcadio Hearn (1850--1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprised and amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block "cartoons" and accompanying articles, which were variously funny, scathing, surreal, political,...
Impacts of Faith-Based Decision Making on the Individual-Level Legislative Process
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Increased diversity and shifting social identities have created significant effects on contemporary legislative systems. These shifts have altered how legislative bodies conduct, implement, and pass various policies and bills. Impacts of Faith-Based Decision Making on the Individual-Level Legislative...
by Melchior Schellinck
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Public Law / Miscellaneous, University of Southampton, course: Maritime Law, language: English, abstract: Charterparties often contain clauses allowing the owner to ignore the charterer's orders and deviate from the contractual route. These clauses are...
Wings over the Mexican Border
Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big Bend
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Against a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II comes this compelling look at the rise of U.S. combat aviation at an unlikely proving ground—a remote airfield in the rugged reaches of the southwestern Texas borderlands. Here, at Elmo Johnson's Big...
Latitude 20.04°N Longitude 155.71°W
The Dilemma of Being Hawaiian American
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Latitude 20.04N, Longitude 155.71W is a Hawaiian story told through snapshots and snippets of the lives of fabled and fictionalized family members named Lindsey, Beckley, and others. Through them, I recall bits and pieces of Hawaiis rich and glorious past, everyday folks living ordinary lives doing...
Belo
From Newspapers to New Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Founded in Galveston in 1842 with the launch of the Daily News, the Belo Corporation entered the twenty-first century as a powerhouse conglomerate, owning four daily newspapers (including the Dallas Morning News), twenty-six television and cable stations, and over thirty interactive Web sites. The...
Chiriaco Summit
Built by Love to Last in the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
"Wine was free, but we had to pay for water."
Joe Chiriaco and his thirteen siblings heard this from their Italian immigrant father as he recounted his ocean journey to America. In the face of limited water and rudimentary dirt roads, Joe and his Norwegian wife, Ruth Bergseid, founded Chiriaco...