Download or read book Every where written by Will Carleton and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Every where written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Trilogy written by Craig D. Hillis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the people of Bosque County Texas.
Download or read book American Fiction 1901 1925 written by Geoffrey D. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-13 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.
Download or read book Picturing Texas Politics written by Chuck Bailey and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rare, previously unpublished photographs and iconic images of politicians from the state’s founders to Ann Richards, George W. Bush, and Rick Perry, here is the first-ever photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns. The Republic of Texas was founded in 1839, around the time that photography was being invented. So while there were no photographers at the Alamo or San Jacinto, they arrived soon after to immortalize, on film, Sam Houston, David Burnett, Mirabeau Lamar, and many other founding fathers of the Lone Star State. Over the following nearly two centuries, Texas politics and politicians have provided reliable, often dramatic, and sometimes larger-than-life subjects for photographers to capture in the moment and add to the historical record. Picturing Texas Politics presents the first photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns ever assembled. Chuck Bailey has searched archives, museums, libraries, and private collections to find photographs that have never been published, as well as iconic images, such as Russell Lee’s pictures of one of Ralph Yarborough’s campaigns. These photographs are arranged into four chronological sections, each one introduced by historian Patrick Cox, who also provides informative photo captions. The photographs display power and political savvy from the early Republic to Lyndon Johnson and Bob Bullock; unmatched dedication to Texas in the Hobby and Bush families; and the growing influence of women in politics, from Miriam “Ma” Ferguson to Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, and Kay Bailey Hutchison. With Sam Houston’s jaguar vest, W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel’s hillbilly band, a famous governor with an ostrich, and prominent Texans eating watermelons, shooting guns, and riding horses, this is Texas politics at its liveliest and best.
Download or read book The Immortal Ten written by Todd Copeland and published by Big Bear Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is their story.--Dr. Eugene Baker, Baylor University historian from 1981 to 1995 and author of To Light the Ways of Time
Download or read book Hogs written by George Schroeder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schroeder takes readers on a ride through the rich and colorful history of Arkansas Razorbacks football.
Download or read book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS • WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Financial Times • New York • Independent (U.K.) • Times (U.K.) • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • Globe and Mail Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
Download or read book Of Immortalized Warriors written by William Mueller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OF IMMORTALIZED WARRIORS is a portrayal of the United States during the controversial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Center stage in the novel is the late Captain Theodore Hume, the most decorated warrior in the country. It is his widow who engages Dr. James Isner, an upstart Ivy League economist, and Riley Cooper, a close acquaintance, both former Marines, to write a biography of this lionized but condemned Navy SEAL commando. Dr. Isner is determined to exploit the life of the American hero by advancing his own ideas that point to puzzling features of the United States, of Western culture and, more generally, of mankind's evolution that has up to now not been fully explained. The skeletons in the closet are the independent and inspiring Dotti Moore, Hume's first wife, who leaves him for another man, and a shocking but innovative clandestine mission he heads up in Afghanistan. A modern-day story of blood and treasure, politics, society, religion, fellowship, and wartime memories of an American hero. Linkages to Ancient Greece and Rome and former empires of the Middle East are examined?it is Mueller at his best. A skillfully crafted study of man and of freedom in the world. OF IMMORTALIZED WARRIORS, Mueller's fourth book, is a poignant military tale, with an exceptional message, and you will love it.
Download or read book The Birth of Immortality written by Ray Wilson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-07-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS WAS AN ANGEL SENT FROM GOD AS SEEN IN MY VISION. THE VISION AND REVELATION OF THE BIRTH FO IMMORTALITY IT WERE A BIG EXPLOSION IN OUTER SPACE OUTSIDE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. AT THE FAR END OF THE UNIVERSE THIS BIG HEAVENLY BODY EXPLODED AND FRAGMENTS FROM THE GIANT PLANET WENT SPEEDING INTO ALL DIRECTIONS OF SPACE. AS I SAW THIS GREAT VISION IT WAS A SPIRITUAL LIGHT. AFTER TIMES AND TIMES THESE FRAGMENTS APPEARED TO BE MADE INTO PLANETS, SOME INTO MOONS, COMETS, SOME INTO, STARS, AND OTHER WELL KNOWN HEAVENLY BODIES. ONE OF THE FRAGMENTS WERE EARTH, AND ONE OF THE FRAGMENTS FROM THIS LARGE HEAVENLY BODY APPEARED TO BE SUPER BRIGHT. THE APPEARANCE OF THIS FRAGMENT AS I SEEN IT OUT IN THE SECOND HEAVEN WERE AS METERITE OR A SMALL COMET IN THE DARKNESS OF SPACE THE APPEARANCE OF IT AS A SHOOTING STAR IN THE DARKNESS OF THE HEAVENS AND AFTER SOME SPIRITUAL TIME THIS SMALL HEAVENLY BODY DESCENDED DOWN UNTO ME. THESE WORDS APPEARED AND WERE REVEALED INTO A SPIRITUAL REVELATION FROM GOD THE BIRTH OF IMMORTALITY THIS IS WHERE THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK BEGAN TITLE: THE BIRTH OF IMMORTALITY BOOK WRITTEN BY: RAY WILSON
Download or read book Only in the Meantime written by Mario Benedetti and published by Host Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Despite being virtually unavailable since its original publication in 1970, Perro del amor (Love Hound) has greatly influenced the rich tradition of Chilean literature. Written three years before the military overthrow of the government by Augusto Pinochet, these poems offer concise but penetrating language that still resonates today. Opening with spare meditations on solitude, intimacy and suicide, the volume then reflects on degraded familial relationships and ends with a powerful evocation of the erotic. This bilingual collection offers an emotional landscape rarely seen in poetry.
Download or read book The Mystery Fancier Vol 8 No 4 July August 1986 written by Mickey Spillane and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery Fancier, Volume 8 Number 4, July-August 1986, contains: "That Pawn-Shop Gypsy," by Bob Sampson, "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: The Great Cover-Up," by Jeff Banks, "The Rural Policeman in American Mystery Fiction," by George Dove and "The Cream of Queen," by Frank Floyd.
Download or read book AACR 2016 Abstracts 1 2696 written by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and published by CTI Meeting Technology. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 1617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AACR Annual Meeting is a must-attend event for cancer researchers and the broader cancer community. This year's theme, "Delivering Cures Through Cancer Science," reinforces the inextricable link between research and advances in patient care. The theme will be evident throughout the meeting as the latest, most exciting discoveries are presented in every area of cancer research. There will be a number of presentations that include exciting new data from cutting-edge clinical trials as well as companion presentations that spotlight the science behind the trials and implications for delivering improved care to patients. This book contains abstracts 1-2696 presented on April 17-18, 2016, at the AACR Annual Meeting.
Download or read book Governing Codes written by Karrin Vasby Anderson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Familiar narratives and simplistic stereotypes frame the representation of women in U.S. politics. Pervasive containment rhetorics, such as the distinction between women as mothers and caregivers and men as rational thinkers, create unique hurdles for any woman seeking public office. While these 'governing codes' generally act to constrain female political power, they can also be harnessed as a resource depending on the particular circumstances (e.g., party affiliation, geographic location and personal style). One of these governing codes, the metaphor, is an especially powerful tool in politics today, particularly for women. By examining the political careers of four of the most prominent and influential women in contemporary U.S. politics_Democrats Ann Richards and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republicans Christine Todd Whitman and Elizabeth Dole_Karrin Vasby Anderson and Kristina Horn Sheeler illustrate how metaphors in public discourse may be both familiar narratives to embrace and boundaries to overturn.
Download or read book Hood s Texas Brigade in the Civil War written by Edward B. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many infantry brigades in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade earned the reputation as perhaps the premier unit. From 1862 until Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the brigade fought in most of the major campaigns in the Eastern Theater and several more in the Western, including the Seven Days, Second Manassas (Second Bull Run), Sharpsburg (Antietam), Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, the siege of Richmond and Petersburg, and Appomattox. Distinguished for its fierce tenacity and fighting ability, the brigade suffered some of the war's highest casualties. This volume chronicles Hood's Texas Brigade from its formation through postwar commemorations, providing a soldier's-eye view of the daring and bravery of this remarkable unit.
Download or read book Texas Monthly On written by editors of Texas Monthly and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1973, Texas Monthly has spotlighted hundreds of Texans who, for better or worse, make this state like no place else. TEXAS MONTHLY On . . . Texas Women profiles thirteen women who are not only fascinating in their own right, but also representative of the legions of women who have contributed to the character and uniqueness of Texas. They range from First Ladies Laura Bush and Lady Bird Johnson to pop culture icons such as Candy Barr and Janis Joplin—and all of them exemplify the qualities that make Texas women distinctive. The women's profiles originally appeared as articles in the magazine, authored by some of Texas Monthly's notable writers—Cecilia Ballí, Gary Cartwright, Paul Burka, Mimi Swartz, Jan Jarboe Russell, Skip Hollandsworth, Robert Draper, William Broyles Jr., Jan Reid, Joe Nick Patoski, Pamela Colloff, and Helen Thorpe. The writers also introduce their pieces with headnotes that update the stories or, in some cases, tell the story behind the story. TEXAS MONTHLY On . . . Texas Women is the first in a series of books in which the editors of Texas Monthly will offer the magazine's inimitable perspective on various aspects of Texas culture, including food, politics, travel, and music, among other topics.
Download or read book Texas Historical and Biographical Record written by Ernest Emory Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
