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Book Dolph Briscoe

Download or read book Dolph Briscoe written by Dolph Briscoe and published by . This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And as a governor who assumed office following one of the most far-reaching corruption scandals in Texas history, Briscoe played a crucial role in restoring public confidence in the integrity of state government."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Briscoe Family from the First Ancestor

Download or read book Briscoe Family from the First Ancestor written by Francis Paul Briscoe and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Olympus  Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacey Swann
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2022-05-17
  • ISBN : 1984897403
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Olympus Texas written by Stacey Swann and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology. For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe: "The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut" (Oprah Daily). The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband's own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it, perhaps, time for a change? Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of alliances are shattered. In the end, the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all down. An expansive tour de force, Olympus, Texas cleverly weaves elements of classical mythology into a thoroughly modern family saga, rich in drama and psychological complexity. After all, at some point, don't we all wonder: What good is this destructive force we call love?

Book Historic Ranches of Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Clayton
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 0292711891
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Historic Ranches of Texas written by Lawrence Clayton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history and present-day operation of twelve prominent Texas ranches.

Book Briscoe Family of Maryland

Download or read book Briscoe Family of Maryland written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Briscoe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Briscoe Family
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-12-04
  • ISBN : 9781671692671
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Briscoe written by Briscoe Family and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show off your last name and family heritage with this Briscoe coat of arms and family crest shield notebook journal. Great birthday, diary, or family reunion gift for people who love ancestry, genealogy, and family trees.

Book Prayer That Works

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Briscoe
  • Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780842319195
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Prayer That Works written by Jill Briscoe and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through studying the lives of Elijah and Elisha, readers will be challenged to pray bold prayers rather than settle for meek prayers not offered in deep faith.

Book Briscoe Family Research Notes

Download or read book Briscoe Family Research Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the Briscoe family primarily from Illinois.

Book Briscoe Family

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Briscoe Family written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Architecture of Birdsall P  Briscoe

Download or read book The Architecture of Birdsall P Briscoe written by Stephen Fox and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birdsall P. Briscoe (1876–1971) practiced architecture from 1912 to 1956, the span of years during which Houston was transformed from an ambitious town on Buffalo Bayou into an international city, its economy powered by cotton, trade, and oil. The country houses Briscoe designed for three generations of affluent clients, sited in such Houston neighborhoods as Courtlandt Place, Shadyside, Broadacres, and River Oaks, display his exceptional skill in formulating stylistic and social identities for his wealthy clients and their families. In The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe, architectural historian Stephen Fox examines the country houses designed by Briscoe, offering a glimpse into the architect’s methods as well as analyzing how Briscoe constructed a “social architecture” to frame his clientele during periods of economic expansion and contraction. Fox demonstrates how Briscoe cultivated and managed elements of taste, style, and fashion to embody assertions of class identity and solidarity in the context of Houston’s capitalist economy. Additionally, Fox shows how Briscoe and his peers interpreted and reflected early twentieth-century Progressive Era design ideals in giving shape to the vision of local civic leaders. Illustrated throughout with masterful color photography by Paul Hester, this original study of one of Texas’ most distinguished residential architects will enthrall readers with both its detail and its contextual clarity. As he did in his book on the architecture of John F. Staub, Fox delivers a treasure trove of insight into a vital period of Houston’s social history and the architect who helped design it.

Book Improving with Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stuart Briscoe
  • Publisher : CLC Publications
  • Release : 2015-09-15
  • ISBN : 1619582082
  • Pages : 171 pages

Download or read book Improving with Age written by Stuart Briscoe and published by CLC Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving with Age addresses the triumphs and challenges of aging Christians and examines the uniqueness of skills and resources they bring to their church communities. Through Scripture and story, the Briscoes assert that aging is not only normal, but it is a joyful and productive life season.

Book Briscoe Family

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book Briscoe Family written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ugly

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  • Author : Constance Briscoe
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2008-11-13
  • ISBN : 1848940513
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Ugly written by Constance Briscoe and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I handed my school photograph to my mother. She stared from the photograph to me. "Lord, sweet Lord, how come she so ugly. Ugly. Ugly.' These cruel words are just the beginning. Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the child was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When Constance was thirteen, her mother simply moved out, leaving her daughter to fend for herself: there was no gas, no electricity and no food. But somehow Constance found the courage to survive her terrible start in life. This is her heartbreaking - and ultimately triumphant story.

Book The Corporation as Family

Download or read book The Corporation as Family written by Nikki Mandell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry. By the mid-1920s, 80 percent of the nation's largest companies--firms including DuPont, International Harvester, and Metropolitan Life Insurance--engaged in some form of welfare work. Programs were implemented to achieve goals that ranged from improving basic workplace conditions, to providing educational, recreational, and social opportunities for workers and their families, to establishing savings and insurance plans. Employing the critical lens of gender analysis, Nikki Mandell offers an innovative perspective on the development of corporate welfare. She argues that its advocates sought to build a new relationship between labor and management by recasting the modern corporation as a Victorian family. Employers assumed the authoritative position of fathers, assigned their employees the subordinate role of children, and hired male and female welfare managers to act as "corporate mothers" charged with creating a harmonious household. But internal conflict and external pressures weakened the corporate welfare system, and it eventually gave way to a system of personnel management and employee representation. With the abandonment of the familial model, the form of corporate welfare changed; but, as Mandell demonstrates, its content left an enduring legacy for modern industrial relations.

Book You

    You

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanna Briscoe
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2011-08-09
  • ISBN : 1608196836
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book You written by Joanna Briscoe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dora Bannan hopes for a new life when she moves her husband and their three children to the wild moorland. She finds a job teaching music at a progressive school, where she also enrolls the children-their fellow students the progeny of back-to-the-land bohemians. But when the school's elegant art teacher, Elisabeth Dahl, offers Dora a seductive alternative to her traditional domestic life, Dora finds that real change is far from easy. Meanwhile, her precocious only daughter, Cecilia, longs for a more traditional life, especially the formal education her new school can't offer. The girl becomes obsessed with her English teacher, James Dahl-an errant representative of the establishment she craves, and husband of the dangerous Elisabeth. Twenty years later, the adult Cecilia brings her partner and daughters back home to the moors and her aging mother. Moving between past and present, You slowly reveals how far Dora and Cecilia let their private, impossible desires lead them-and how much further the consequences extend. Sensual, unnerving, and gripping, You is a novel about the lives we think we want, the choices we can't unmake, and the loves and losses we never forget.

Book Sisters   Lovers

Download or read book Sisters Lovers written by Connie Briscoe and published by One World/Ballantine. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three sisters live in Washington, D.C. One is reluctantly single, the second seems securely happy and married, while the third struggles to support her son and her useless husband.

Book With the Bark Off

Download or read book With the Bark Off written by Neal Spelce and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you got a call from Lyndon Johnson to be in Washington DC tomorrow to take a trip around the world? If you are twenty-four-year-old broadcast journalist Neal Spelce, you buckle up. A two-week diplomatic dream trip turned into a lifelong rollercoaster ride. Spelce began his career as a part-time journalist in the LBJ family-owned Austin TV station in 1956, which vaulted him into a lifetime of memorable experiences with Johnson and many icons of the twentieth century. From his live reporting during the UT Tower shooting tragedy to his lifelong association with LBJ, Spelce found himself behind the scenes in many of the twentieth century’s crucial moments. The Austin-based journalist shares candid moments with LBJ and five other US presidents, including a rare interview with father and son presidents George Bush while the three were cramped together in a small bass boat on a Texas lake. During his lengthy media career, Spelce saw Austin grow from a college town to a thriving city. Along the way he interacted with Texas legends such as Darrell Royal, Willie Nelson, Dan Rather, and more, all part of entertaining stories that he tells, as LBJ liked to say, “with the bark off.”