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Not Just the Levees Broke
Atria Books 2008; US$ 14.00Called "one of the rawest specimens of classic Nawlins spitfire you'll ever find" by Newsweek , and featured in Spike Lee's HBO documentary When the Levees Broke , Phyllis Montana-Leblanc gives an astounding and poignant account of how she and her husband lived through one of our nation's worst disasters, and continue to put their lives back together.... more...
John Ringo, King of the Cowboys
University of North Texas Press 2008; US$ 23.96John Ringo fought and killed for what he believed was right. As a teenager, Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father was killed tragically in the midst of the family's overland trek to California. As a young man he became embroiled in the blood feud turbulence of post-Reconstruction Texas. This title offers information on Ringo. more...
Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00Whether she's writing about redneck politics in her native Texas or the discreet charms of Bushwazee, Molly Ivins in never less than devastatingly honest?and hilarious. Our toughest, funniest, and savviest columnist delivers the goods on: -Texas politics: "Well, our attorney general is under indictment. He ran as 'the people's lawyer'; now we call... more...
Sleuthing the Alamo
Oxford University Press, USA 2004; US$ 18.99In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of the past two centuries. Beginning with a very personal... more...
The Sutton-Taylor Feud
University of North Texas Press 2009; US$ 19.96The Sutton-Taylor Feud of DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, and surrounding counties began shortly after the Civil War ended. This book presents a study of the Sutton-Taylor Feud. It demonstrates that the violence between the two sides was in the tradition of the family blood feud, similar to so many other nineteenth-century American feuds. 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...
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...
Österreich(er) im Ausland - quo vadis? Multikulturalismus und Migration zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts: eine Identitätsanalyse der Persistenz kultureller Eigenheiten österreichischer Auslandsemigranten
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 48.52Hauptbeschreibung In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Situation österreichischer Auslandsemigranten zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts beleuchtet. Ein spezieller Fokus wird dabei auf Lateinamerika und die in der multikulturellen Gesellschaft Argentiniens lebenden Auslandsösterreicher gerichtet. Hauptforschungsaspekt dieser Dissertation ist die Persistenz... more...
Saint Petersburg Sights
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual... more...
Archaeology of Louisiana
LSU Press 2010; US$ 40.00Archaeology of Louisiana provides a groundbreaking overview of archaeology in the Bayou State, providing a thorough analysis of the cultures, communities, and people of Louisiana from the Native Americans of 13,000 years ago to the modern historical archaeology of New Orleans. With 18 chapters and 27 distinguished contributors, this book brings together... more...









