Download or read book The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority written by John Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power—and with that, modern-day civilization—to the hard-scrabble regions of Central and South Texas. With those achievements, and the support of powerful political leaders like Lyndon Johnson, LCRA for years was touted as one of the state’s major success stories. But LCRA has never been a stranger to controversy, and while it continues to provide much of the energy and water that fuels the economic engine of Austin and beyond, most people know very little about LCRA. In this book, readers will learn about the forces of nature and politics that combined to create LCRA; the colorful personalities who operated, supported, or fought with the agency; its spectacular successes, periodic blunders, and occasional failures; and its evolution into one of the largest public power organizations in Texas. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

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Download or read book iPad For Dummies written by Edward C. Baig and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated, full-color guide to Apple’s all-new iPad It's ultra-thin, rich with functionality, packed with stunning graphics, and one of the hottest-selling devices on the planet. And if you want to get the very most from the latest iPad and iOS software, this is the book to have. Mac experts and veteran For Dummies authors Edward Baig and Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus walk you through the basics as you set up and explore the new iPad, master the multitouch interface, set up iTunes for your iPad, browse the web, find the latest apps in the App Store, synchronize with iCloud, play games, video chat, and yes, accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. Covers the third-generation iPad, iPad 2, and original iPad Gets you up to speed on the basics, including the multitouch interface, setting up your e-mail account, getting connected, filling your iPad with amazing apps and cool content, and more Shows you how to turn your iPad into the ultimate gaming machine, take advantage of the retina display for a razor-sharp reading experience, watch and record HD movies, shoot and edit high-quality images with the iSight Camera, use FaceTime video calling, and so much more Includes tips on protecting your information, troubleshooting, connecting wirelessly, and using your iPad as a personal hotspot From smart basics to some very savvy stuff, iPad For Dummies, 4th Edition will make you wonder how you ever lived without your iPad.

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Austin written by Hilary Hylton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insiders' Guide to Austin is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Texas's state capital. Written by locals (and true insiders), Insiders' Guide to Austin offers a personal and practical perspective of Austin and its surrounding environs.

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Download or read book Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks written by Travis D. Stimeling Ph.D. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who saw country music as a part of their collective heritage and sought to reclaim it for their own progressive scene. These children of the Cold War, post-World War II suburban migration, and the Baby Boom escaped the socially conservative world their parents had created, to instead create for themselves an idyllic rural Texan utopia. Progressive country music--a hybrid of country music and rock--played out the contradictions at work among the residents of the growing Austin community: at once firmly grounded in the conservative Texan culture in which they had been raised and profoundly affected by the current hippie counterculture. In Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene, Travis Stimeling connects the local Austin culture and the progressive music that became its trademark. He presents a colorful range of evidence, from behavior and dress, to newspaper articles, to personal interviews of musicians as diverse as Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doug Sahm. Along the way, Stimeling uncovers parodies of the cosmic cowboy image that reinforce the longing for a more peaceful way of life, but that also recognize an awareness of the muddled, conflicted nature of this counterculture identity. Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks brings new insight into the inner workings of Austin's progressive country music scene -- by bringing the music and musicians brilliantly to life. This book will appeal to students and scholars of popular music studies, musicology and ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, folklore, American studies, and cultural geography; the lucid prose and interviews will also make the book attractive to fans of the genre and artists discussed within. Austin residents past and present, as well as anyone with an interest in the development of progressive music or today's 'alt.country' movement will find Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks an informative, engaging resource.