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A Guide to the Lone Star State
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Discusses the experiences of European immigrants in Texas, and examines their social and cultural contributions to the Lone Star State. Includes illus...
The Sons of the Republic of Texas tells the story of the Republic of Texas beginning with its birth on April 21, 1836. Includes a brief history of the...
Examining the ways in which politics and ideology stimulate and shape changes in human science, this book focuses on the cultural sciences in nineteen...
Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern s...
International Trade Information Sourcebook
The finest in true-crime writing from the Lone Star State, from marital murder in the Houston suburbs to bloody battles under the streetlights of Amar...
Martyrdom in South Asian Memory
In 680 C.E., a small band of the Prophet Muhammads family and their followers, led by his grandson, Husain, rose up in a rebellion against the ruling ...
Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives
Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this radical way of life-- the withdrawal from the world, comb...
What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, wh...
Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil
Various historians, philosophers, and social scientists have attempted to provide convincing explanations of the roots of violence, with mixed and con...
The Year of Four Emperors
The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent, and frightening periods in all Roman history. It wa...
Combining insights from observation, experimentation, and theory, The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species offers a broad overview of specie...
Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection
Overzicht van de creaties uit de Texas fashion collectie van de Spaanse modeontwerper (1895-1972)....
Philosophy has as much to do with feelings as it does with thoughts and thinking. Philosophy, accordingly, requires not only emotional sensitivity but...
What the Great "Immoralist" Has to Teach Us
Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most popular and controversial philosophers of the last 150 years. Narcissistic, idiosyncratic, hyperbolic, irrevere...
Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India
Questioning the conventional depiction of India as a nation divided between religious communities, Gottschalk shows that individuals living in India h...
Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra
The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing th...
A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markers
This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizat...
To which are Added the Relief Laws
Texas Women
Since 1973, Texas Monthly has spotlighted hundreds of Texans who, for better or worse, make this state like no place else. TEXAS MONTHLY On . . . Texa...
Delivered February 10, 1866
Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas
Cases argued and determined in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas....
Building a Safe Room Inside Your House
In All of Us, in All We Do
Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to...
The Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916-1917
A representative anthology of Texas folklore from the first half of the twentieth century, including legends, ghost stories, songs, proverbs, and othe...
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The Early Years, 1863-1910
William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American jour...
Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas
A hands-on desk reference for the practicing oncologist โ from the leader in the field of cancer management A Doody's Core Title for 2011! The MD An...