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Published by Brand: Texas Tech University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0896724107ISBN 13: 9780896724105
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The quilts are beautiful, the faces worn but kind . . . the insights affecting. -New York Times Book ReviewThe women who speak through the book shared a vision, a strength, and a spirit that few of us will ever know or understand. -Christian Science MonitorYou cant always change things. Sometimes you dont have no control over the way things go. Hail ruins the crops, or fire burns you out. And then youre just given so much to work with in a life and you have to do the best you can with what youve got. Thats what piecing is. The materials is passed on to you or is all you can afford to buy . . . thats just whats given to you. Your fate. But the way you put them together is your business. You can put them in any order you like. -Mary White, from the IntroductionFirst published in 1977, The Quilters chronicles the lives and quilts of pioneer women of Texas and New Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century. Compelling black and white portraits of the women accompany their moving oral histories, while thirty-six color photographs showcase the quilts.This award-winning book was the basis of the Broadway play Quilters, nominated for seven Tony Awards.Patricia Cooper taught at the University of California at Berkeley until her death in 1987.Norma Bradley Allen is a freelance writer who lives in Cedar Hill, Texas.
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Published by Brand: Texas Tech University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0896724786ISBN 13: 9780896724785
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. More than a century later, the Galveston hurricane of 1900 is still the largest natural disaster in American history. Pounding most of the historic island city to rubble, and claiming perhaps as many as eight thousand lives, the storm stranded Galvestons stunned survivors without a bridge to the mainland. When the bridge was rebuilt, amazingly in eleven days, only the most stalwart-like fictive young diarist J. T. King-would choose to stay. Before the storm, J. T. is a normal, active teenager, swimming, riding his bike, and getting into scrapes with his best friend, Ippy. Though J. T. sleeps on a rickety cot in the pantry of his grandmothers boardinghouse, life at the corner of Q1/2 and 25th Streets is as secure as the sturdy old house itself. But when the hurricane hits, brave and compassionate J. T. is poised to weather and record for all time the greatest storm any American has ever survived. Extensive primary-source research forms the backbone of J. T.s thrilling authentic and richly detailed diary. The historical appendix, complete with photos and map, is invaluable to young readers and teachers alike.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 1603441123ISBN 13: 9781603441124
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Author Roman Popadiuk served in the Bush White House from 1989 to 1992 as deputy assistant to the president and deputy press secretary for foreign affairs. In that capacity, he was closely involved with many of the day-to-day decisions of the administration during a momentous period that saw the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of a new global coalition, the curbing of a dictators expansionist policies in the Middle East, and shifting domestic, economic, and political currents.In this important volume, Popadiuk examines the ways in which the personal leadership style of George Bush influenced the formation and execution of policy. Popadiuk composes a mosaic of events, quotations, and observations that yield a broad view of the ways in which a presidents personal qualities and philosophies impinge upon leadership options.General readers and public service professionals will find The Leadership of George Bush informative and enlightening, and scholars of the presidency and public policy will discover new avenues for research on both the Bush administration and executive leadership and policy.
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Published by Brand: University of North Texas Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0929398513ISBN 13: 9780929398518
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Offers a look at the personal lives of Texas' first family.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0890963762ISBN 13: 9780890963760
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A down-to-earth autobiography reveals the domestic side, the on-the-road side, the kids' side, and a wife's perspective of what it is like when family life revolves around the game of baseball.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 1585445673ISBN 13: 9781585445677
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humansbipedal apes, actuallyfirst emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones revealed, as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe and finally the New World.Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveriesMary Leakeys Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johansons Lucy in 1974, and most recently Martin Pickfords Millennium Man, to name just a fewexperts in genetics were looking at the human species from a very different angle. In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick first saw the double helix structure of DNA, the basic building block of all life. In the 1970s it was shown that humans share 98.7% of their genes with the great apesthat in fact genetically we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are to gorillas. And most recently the entire human genome has been mappedwe now know where each of the genes on the chromosomes that make up DNA is located on the double helix.In Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves, two of the worlds foremost scientists, geneticist Rob DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, show how research into the human genome confirms what fossil bones have told us about human origins. This unprecedented integration of the fossil and genomic records provides the most complete understanding possible of humanitys place in nature, its emergence from the rest of the living world, and the evolutionary processes that have molded human populations to be what they are today.Human Origins serves as a companion volume to the American Museum of Natural Historys new permanent exhibit, as well as standing alone as an accessible overview of recent insights into what it means to be human.
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Published by Brand: Texas AM University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0890965331ISBN 13: 9780890965337
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. This autobiography details Marshall's career, from his days as a young law student writing about the problems of the oil industry for a prestigious law review, to his oil regulation days under FDR, to his work in some of the country's most important oil companies.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0890960887ISBN 13: 9780890960882
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Many outlanders think of Texas as a land of cactus flats or High Plains ranches, its landscape broken only by barbed wire fences of perhaps an oil derrick. Texans, of course, know better. Here, in 202 magnificently reproduced, full-color photographs from Texas Highways magazine, the astonishing diversity and beauty of Texas landscapes are splendidly and dramatically displayed.The damp pine forests, shaded lakes, and tangled thickets of East Texas; the fertile fields of the rolling prairies; the vast wheat and cotton farms and rangelands of the Panhandle plains; the rugged peaks rising high over desert flats in the Trans-Pecos; the sun-drenched beaches and citrus groves of the coastlands; and the limestone cliffs, clear streams, and hidden springs of the Hill Country-all are Texas landscapes. These stunning photographs from the states official travel magazine not only reveal the physical beauty of these varied regions, but also tell us something about the culture and heritage of those who live there.In his introduction to this volume, John Graves describes the Texas landscapes as they once were and as they now are, and muses on how man has shaped the land and how, in its turn, the land has shaped man too.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0890966419ISBN 13: 9780890966419
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Hendrickson, Kenneth E.
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Published by Brand: Texas A n M University Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0890960526ISBN 13: 9780890960523
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed presentation copy.
Published by Brand: Texas AM University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0890965315ISBN 13: 9780890965313
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Who lost the war in Vietnam? Popular mythology has blamed politicians, the press, or Jane Fonda and the antiwar movement. Crosswinds, a riveting and incisive analysis by a former Air Force officer who served as an intelligence specialist during the war, demonstrates convincingly that the U.S. Air Force was indeed "set up" for defeat, but not by an America that tied its hands. Rather, the Air Force was a victim of its own history, its institutional values, and an intellectually ossified leadership which could not devise a strategy appropriate to the war at hand. These factors within the Air Force itself created heavy flying.To many airmen and military analysts, the color of the flag over Ho Chi Minh City was the result of political betrayal of an Air Force that had delivered an unbroken string of unmitigated tactical victories. Many embrace the myth that the Christmas Bombing of December, 1972, for instance, had brought Hanoi to its knees before the politicians called the military off. Moreover, these commentators argue that the same "victory" could have been had at any time during the war if only air power had been unleashed. Yet, Earl Tilford convincingly demonstrates that - in spite of the nearly eight million tons of bombs dropped in Indochina, the 2,257 Air Force planes lost, and the untold thousands of people killed - air power failed to achieve victory.This book examines the entire Air Force experience in Southeast Asia, including the "secret wars" in Laos and Vietnam. Using previously untapped, recently declassified sources, Tilford challenges the accepted Air Force interpretation that it was betrayed. Tackling the issues of the air war, he traces the doctrine of strategic bombing from its roots in World War II through its development in the 1950s and early 1960s as a response to the Soviet threat abroad and interservice rivalries at home. In concluding, he compares the debacle of the Vietnam air war with the strategies of the subsequent Gulf war. Crosswinds is a powerful piece of writing, thoroughly researched and convincingly argued. It will contribute mightily to the ongoing attempt to understand what happened in Southeast Asia and why.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585441627ISBN 13: 9781585441624
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The American Military Experience in the Mexican War.
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Published by Brand: Texas Christian University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0875653634ISBN 13: 9780875653631
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Part travelogue, part natural history, and part documentary, A Walk across Texas is the record of three friends journey from the Panhandle to Granbury-a 450-mile walk across West Texas. Jon McConal and his two friends, Eddie Lane and Norm Snyder, hiked for twenty-eight days through the less traveled byways of the Texas outlands, and in the process they encountered a world that is now as foreign to most Americans as the Taj Mahal.Researching places they wanted to see in advance, the trio selected a route that crossed as many creeks and rivers as possible and offered amenable campsites. Not young men, McConal, Lane, and Snyder conquered the harsh environment of West Texas, dealing with blisters and backaches, severe weather and low blood sugar while still remaining friends. Along the way they met unique local characters and visited out-of-the-ordinary sites. With his seasoned journalists eye, McConal blends personal interviews and keen descriptions of the countryside they trekked. As he spins the narrative of their journey, local legends, histories, flora, and fauna unfold.
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Published by Brand: University of North Texas Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1574410008ISBN 13: 9781574410006
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In the April, 1971, issue of Southwestern Historical Quarterly , historian Llerena Friend wrote that there was a need for a new editing of Houston correspondence to complement the eight-volume collection compiled in the 1930s by Eugene C. Barker and Amelia Williams.When author Madge Roberts began research for her previous book, Star of Destiny: The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston, she began to collect just such a file of previously unpublished Houston correspondence, which soon consisted of nearly a thousand letters. Because most of these letters were until recently in the hands of Houston descendants, most of them are personal rather than political. Although a few have been excerpted in various books and historical articles, none have been published in their entirety.In comparing these letters to those published in the Barker and Williams volumes, Roberts found that the personal letters often take the historian one step further, as Houston felt more free to discuss his analyses of people and events than he did in his official correspondence.Houston was an extraordinary writer, in terms of both quantity and quality. His letters to friends and family overflow with lively details about manners, dress, medical practices, farming, transportation, family dynamics, and many other topics of interest to social historians.In her footnotes, Roberts reveals the full names of the people mentioned and the historical events taking place at the time, thus placing the letters into the broader context of Houston's life and times.Volume I, 1839-1845, covers the years of the Texas Republic.
Published by Brand: University of Texas Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0944722083ISBN 13: 9780944722084
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. n. art book.
Published by Brand: Texas AM University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0890967849ISBN 13: 9780890967843
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Introduces forensic archaeology, describes how human faces are reconstructed from skeletal remains, and explains what this can reveal about the past.
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Published by Brand: Texas Tech University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0896724352ISBN 13: 9780896724358
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Softcover. Condition: Good. There is magic to be found in this place so beautiful, it might be holy . . . El Caon de los Recuerdos.Here between the mountains, on the edge of the desert, in a remote area of Northern New Mexico, you must come expecting the miraculous:People around the village still spoke of the miracle of the flying sheep, even if they did not believe it to be true. They still spoke of the young Garcia girl and how she saw five sheep tumbled in the wind ahead of a thunderstorm, wool balls at the infinite mercy of God's hand. Dominga's parents and brothers, and most everyone else around Mi Ojo, believed that seven-year-old Dominga had been struck on the head by lightning that day. Even when the sheep were found dead five miles out in Recuerdos Canyon, their wool tinged with hues of purple and pink, like the tips of the clouds at sundown, people around Mi Ojo believed Dominga's story to be nonsense. The miracle, they said was that Dominga Garcia was alive at all, loco or not. But Dominga knew el milagro de Mi Ojo was the five flying sheep, even if her neighbors were too stubborn to acknowledge it.And even now, at forty-seven, the beautiful widow Dominga Garcia de Jesus hasn't stopped believing in miracles; she's just desperately in need of one.In an extraordinarily rich pageant of characters and cultures, through a landscape so palpable it breathes with a life of its own, Canyon of Remembering charts the soul's journey to find meaning, forgiveness, and most miraculous of all . . . love.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0890964769ISBN 13: 9780890964767
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. In their willingness to leave home and country to create a new city and a new nation, the first Houstonians were a special breed. They were adventurers and builders; they were citizens of the world. This is the story of these people, their descendants and like-minded successors, and their city, up to the end of the Second World War.It is a history marked by murder, mutiny, and the ironies of war, by comedy and high jinks, by heroism and a remarkable generosity. This fascinating social history grew out of Marguerite Johnston's forty years of friendship with the city and its people. It traces Houston's first families through interlinking marriages, charitable associations, and business partnerships.In this book, Johnston brings to light unpublished letters and diaries from those who served with Perry in Japan, who helped Maximillian design Mexico City, who acted for Woodrow Wilson at Versailles, who helped Roosevelt restore the national economy, and who, by conceiving and negotiating the Marshall Plan, saved Western Europe from collapse. She also sketches in warm detail the gentle life of a Southern town and portrays a people of intellect and a natural elegance.Ima Hogg, Houston philanthropist and patron of the arts, once said that Houston was lucky because the first Houstonians who got rich gave their money for schools, parks, hospitals, and the arts. "This set the pattern," she said. "This is what Houstonians do once they get a little money." Since 1836, their continuing philanthropy has totaled more than a billion dollars, yet remains personal. It has created a lively cultural scene, a prestigious educational establishment, a pace-setting medical center, and a gracious life-style.Old Houstonians rarely speak of themselves as Texans--they are Houstonians. Their story--not without problems, challenges, and conflicts--is the story of people who have shaped a major American city and who from it, have influenced lives around the world.
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Published by Brand: Texas Tech University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0896724689ISBN 13: 9780896724686
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The saga of China, Burma, India-World War IIs forgotten theater-is as heroic as it is seldom told. CBI ground troops were charged with the Herculean task of carving a road from India to China through humid jungles where disease was as great a hazard as the Japanese, and pilots who flew the Hump, the treacherous flight route over the Himalayas, braved violent monsoon rains, deadly wind shifts, and mountainsides that suddenly loomed from the clouds.Richard Beard, an Army psychologist assigned to the 142nd General Hospital in Calcutta, dealt daily with emotional trauma. While American and British soldiers hacked their way through dense tropical forests to build the supply route, Beard immersed himself in the internal jungles of those he treated.A pillar to the men he served, Beard was an astute listener and observer, pleased to be playing his part. But his own pillar was his wife, Reva, teaching school half a world away in Findlay, Ohio. In daily letters to Reva, he poured out not only his observations of life in India but also his own longing and passions, and the unfolding drama of war, in painfully exquisite detail tempered with tenderness and humor. Revas return letters are filled with news of the home front and stories of her young students, but through them all courses a longing for Richards safe return.In these letters the couples devotion to each other in the face of separation and their willingness to see the war through to its end demonstrate once again the dedication of the World War II generation.
Published by Brand: Texas A n M University Press, 1977
ISBN 10: 0890960267ISBN 13: 9780890960264
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Frary, Michael (illustrator). First Edition. Brett, Bill, Stolen Steers, A Tale Of The Big Thicket.
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Published by Brand: University of North Texas Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 1574410393ISBN 13: 9781574410396
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In this reprint of a memoir that chronicles his work for the Neiman Marcus retailing enterprise from 1926 through the early 1970s, Stanley Marcus details his business philosophy and shows how it developed from the strong influence of his father. In a Credo, he provides a brief summary of his philosophy of life, and describes the controversy generated by his decision to support a group of high school students suspended from a Dallas school in 1966 for wearing long hair. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0890960917ISBN 13: 9780890960912
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Carter, George F.
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Published by Brand: Texas Christian Univ Pr, 1986
ISBN 10: 087565021XISBN 13: 9780875650210
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Taylor, J. Golden.
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Published by Brand: University of North Texas Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1574411780ISBN 13: 9781574411782
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat, to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran.When Chuck Gross left for Vietnam in 1970, he was a nineteen-year-old army helicopter pilot fresh out of flight school. He spent his entire Vietnam tour with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company flying UH-1 Huey helicopters. Soon after the war he wrote down his adventures, while his memory was still fresh with the events. Rattler One-Seven (his call sign) is written as Gross experienced it, using these notes along with letters written home to accurately preserve the mindset he had while in Vietnam.During his tour Gross flew Special Operations for the MACV-SOG, inserting secret teams into Laos. He notes that Americans were left behind alive in Laos, when official policy at home stated that U.S. forces were never there. He also participated in Lam Son 719, a misbegotten attempt by the ARVN to assault and cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail with U.S. Army helicopter support. It was the largest airmobile campaign of the war and marked the first time that the helicopter was used in mid-intensity combat, with disastrous results.Pilots in their early twenties, with young gunners and a Huey full of ARVN soldiers, took on experienced North Vietnamese antiaircraft artillery gunners, with no meaningful intelligence briefings or a rational plan on how to cut the Trail. More than one hundred helicopters were lost and more than four hundred aircraft sustained combat damage. Gross himself was shot down and left in the field during one assault.Rattler One-Seven will appeal to those interested in the Vietnam War and to all armed forces, especially aviators, who have served for their country.
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Published by Brand: Texas Tech University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0896723623ISBN 13: 9780896723627
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The commanding saga of a real-life World War II heroine.Dorothy Davis Thompson was born and reared in Shanghai, the daughter of an American business man and granddaughter of missionaries. In 1937 she left Shanghai to attend nursing school at Columbia University in New York. Shortly thereafter, the Japanese invaded China, and her family fled to the Philippines. Graduating from Columbia, she rejoined her family in Manila. With the city's fall to the Japanese in 1942, Thompson and her family were taken prisoners and interned in nearby Santo Tomas.There they struggled to survive and to cope with ever-mounting concerns for missing friends and other loved ones, including Thompson's fiance, a captured Philippine Scout officer. Putting her newly found nursing skills to the test, Thompson managed to establish a hospital in the camp. Yet, twenty-two months later, she was herself so very ill that she and her mother were released in a prisoner exchange. Recovering in the United States, Thompson was determined to see her family reunited. With few resources other than her own tenacity, Thompson began her most dramatic journey yet, the return to Santo Tomas for the liberation of the camp.
Published by Brand: Texas Christian University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0875650465ISBN 13: 9780875650463
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Condition: fair. Shaw, Charles (illustrator).
Published by Brand: Texas Christian Univ Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0875651151ISBN 13: 9780875651156
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The Poetry and Music of Red Steagall, including original artwork by members of the Cowboy Artists of America plus hand written lead sheets of Steagall's music.
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Published by Brand: Texas Tech University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0896722481ISBN 13: 9780896722484
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. If you like cowboys, or if you like country fiddling, youll enjoy [this] story. If you like both, youre doubly in luck, for McWhorter is an unusual combination: a working cowboy and a working fiddler. -Elmer Kelton. A cowboy, a ranch manager, an alumnus of Bob Willss Texas Playboys, and the leader of a western-swing band, Frankie McWhorters stories are endlessly entertaining.
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Published by Brand: Univ of North Texas Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 1574410725ISBN 13: 9781574410723
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 0. Book by Lavergne, Gary M.
Published by Brand: Texas Christian University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0875652166ISBN 13: 9780875652160
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A talented pianist and a woman of great vitality and charm, Lili Kraus was one of the most extraordinary musicians of the twentieth century. Born into extreme poverty in Budapest, she showed such musical talent that by the age of seven she was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music as a piano major. Eventually she studied with Bartók and Schnabel, the great apostle of the Viennese classicists, and became one of the leading interpreters of the Mozart piano repertoire. Her long and distinguished performing career included appearances with the worlds major orchestras and more than one hundred recordings.Kraus life was as fascinating as her music. As Nazism hovered over Germany, she and her husband, Otto Mandl, converted from Judaism to Catholicism and finally fled to the Dutch East Indies where they and their two children were interned by the Japanese in separate prisoner-of-war camps. Kraus turned that grim and bitter experience into an opportunity for personal and professional reflection and growth.Charmingly charismatic, brilliant and beautiful, she spoke seven languages, designed her own gowns, and was on intimate terms with the rich and famous of the musical and political scenes of two continents. An intriguing world figure, she became an American by association when she moved to Texas to accept a position with TCU in Fort Worth. In her later years, she divided her time between Texas and her home in North Carolina.This, the first full biography of the late Madame Kraus, is based on extensive interviews with Kraus, her associates throughout Europe and the United States, and her family. Roberson collected hundreds of recital and concert reviews, published or broadcast interviews with the diva, and a number of articles written by Kraus. The manuscript includes an exhaustive discography and an extensive bibliography.The general reader will find here a portrait of an intriguing world figure. Musicians will value the explanations of her ideas on technique, interpretation, and performance. All will be impressed with the nobility and strength of her spirit.
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