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Gus Wortham : portrait of a leader
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ISBN: 0585174415 9780585174419 0890965803 Year: 1994 Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press,


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As if light actually matters : new & selected poems
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ISBN: 1680030256 9781680030259 9781680030242 1680030248 Year: 2015 Publisher: Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press,


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George P. Mitchell : fracking, sustainability, and an unorthodox quest to save the planet
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ISBN: 162349804X 9781623498047 9781623498030 1623498031 Year: 2019 Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press,

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"Upon George Mitchell's death in 2013, The Economist proclaimed, "Few businesspeople have done as much to change the world as George Mitchell," a billionaire Texas oilman who defied the stereotypical swagger so identified with that industry. In George P. Mitchell: Fracking, Sustainability, and an Unorthodox Quest to Save the Planet, award-winning author Loren C. Steffy offers the first definitive biography of Mitchell, placing his life and legacy in a global context, from the significance of his discoveries to the lingering controversies they inspired. Mitchell will forever be known as "the father of fracking," but he didn't invent the drilling process; he perfected it and made it profitable, one of many varied ventures he pursued for years. Long before his company ever fracked a well, he pioneered sustainable development by creating The Woodlands, near Houston, one of the first and most successful master-planned communities. Its focus on environmental protection and livability redefined the American suburb. This apparent contradiction between his energy interests and environmental pursuits, which his son Todd dubbed "the Mitchell Paradox," was just one of many that defined Mitchell's life. Anyone who puts fuel in a tank or turns on a light switch has benefited from Mitchell's efforts. This compelling biography reveals Mitchell as a modern renaissance man who sought to make the world a better, more livable place, a man whose unbounded intellectual curiosity led him to support a wide range of interests in business, science, and philanthropy."--Amazon.com


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Civil rights in the Texas borderlands : Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and black activism
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ISBN: 9780252096884 0252096886 9780252038921 0252038924 0252082060 9780252082061 Year: 2015 Publisher: Urbana, [Illinois] ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press,

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In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South. Will Guzmán delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzmán also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated professional in a time when few went to college, as an African American who made waves when most feared violent reprisal, and as someone living on the mythical American frontier as well as an international boundary. A powerful addition to the literature on African Americans in the Southwest, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands explores seldom-studied corners of the Black past and the civil rights movement.


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Un approccio metodologico per la realizzazione di una banca dati storico-geografica
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ISBN: 8875971056 Year: 1989 Publisher: Roma Multigrafica ed.

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Competency-based education programs in Texas : an innovative approach to higher education
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ISBN: 0833093983 083309176X 9780833093981 9780833091765 Year: 2015 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Rand Corporation

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"This report aims to describe existing competency-based degrees and certificate prgorams in Texas; to summarize the national landscape for competency based programs, including the perceived benefits and limitations; and to suggest some potential areas for focus as the state of Texas and higher-education institutions explore the possibility of further expanding these programs"-- Preface.


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Mosquitoes, communities, and public health in Texas
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ISBN: 0128145463 0128145455 9780128145463 9780128145456 Year: 2020 Publisher: London, United Kingdom San Diego, CA

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Mosquitoes, Communities, and Public Health in Texas focuses on the 87 species of mosquitoes found in Texas and discusses more broadly how the state deals with them. The book provides a comprehensive review of the ecology, medical and veterinary importance, and biological diversity of Texas' mosquitoes that reflects principles applicable throughout North America. In addition, it provides detailed identification keys for both larval and adult stages of all mosquito genera and species known to occur in Texas, and a review of surveillance and control strategies. Expansion of the range of potentially invasive mosquitoes is an important topic in the book, as climate change and increased transportation have already resulted in dramatic impact of vectors and arboviruses in the Western Hemisphere--

Texas in the Confederacy : an experiment in nation building
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ISBN: 0826262805 9780826262806 1417528419 9781417528417 0826213901 9780826213907 Year: 2002 Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press,

Sleuthing the Alamo
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ISBN: 128384835X 0195184084 0199755809 9780195184082 9781283848350 9780199755806 0195163494 9780195163490 0195163508 9780195163506 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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In 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 prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that he encountered in the Texas of his youth, Crisp traces his path to the discovery of documents distorted, censored, and ignored--documents which reveal long-silenced voices from the Texan past. In e

Adventures with a Texas humanist
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ISBN: 1417592648 9781417592647 0875652883 9780875652887 Year: 2004 Publisher: Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press,

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The author discusses the writers and trends in Texas literature beginning with early twentieth-century writer J. Frank Dobie and Larry McMurtry during the 1960s and places writers, politicians, and cultural leaders in the context of each age.

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