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Daisy Bates
University Press of Mississippi 2005; US$ 35.00Daisy Bates (1914-1999) is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. For guiding the Nine through one of the most tumultuous civil rights crises of the 1950s, she was selected as Woman of the Year in Education by the Associated Press in 1957 and was the only woman... more...
Welcome Home
Wiley 2010; US$ 29.95With so many differing opinions about real estate these days, buying or selling a home can seem like a daunting task, especially for the everyday person who has little or no real estate experience. But as author Sarah Daniels explains, the process doesn't have to be painful, and people can come away from the experience feeling happy with the outcome.... more...
Goodbye to a River
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream?s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore... more...
Enduring Pastoral
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 59.00Has the pastoral vision, so central to American history and culture, survived the twentieth century? Enduring Pastoral traces and analyzes the development of the middle landscape by examining the historical construction of a variety of private and more...
Die Mochica an der Nordküste Perus
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 35.59Von den südamerikanischen Kulturen ist gewöhnlich nur diejenige des Inkareiches ins kollektive Bewusstsein gedrungen. Deren kurze, aber intensive Erfolgsgeschichte und ihr spektakuläres Ende verdecken die Tatsache, dass auch schon vor ihnen hochentwickelte politische und religiöse Strukturen bestanden haben. Sie zu vernachlässigen, wäre dasselbe, als... more...
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
Random House Children's Books 2011; US$ 17.99In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child?s unique perspective to an important chapter in America?s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of... more...
Lone Star Travel Guide to Texas Hill Country
Taylor Trade Publishing 2011; US$ 9.99A more narrowly focused but still abundantly informative treatment of the Texas Hill Country, this new edition features five tours of the Hill Country that capture the essence of its flavor and charm. Take a ride on the Fredericksburg & Northern Railroad, follow the historic Mormon trails from Travis Peak Community to Medina Lake, visit Enchanted... more...
Lone Star Travel Guide to Central Texas
Taylor Trade Publishing 2011; US$ 9.99Formerly a part of the popular Lone Star Guide to the Texas Hill Country , Central Texas now gets its own treatment in this up-to-date guide. Five tours take you from the Balcones Escarpment to "Central Texas Stew," a region of the state largely settled by Czechs and Germans in the early twentieth century. more...
Johnson-Sims Feud
University of North Texas Press 2010; US$ 11.96In the early 1900s, two families in Scurry and Kent counties in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. Billy Johnson, the father, set up Gladys and Ed on a ranch, and the young couple had two daughters. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection... more...
Frommer's Texas
Wiley 2011; US$ 19.99Our authors hit all the highlights, from the nightlife in funky Austin to bright lights of Dallas to the trails of Big Bend. They've checked out all the state's best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget. You'll also get up-to-the-minute coverage... more...









