Texas Ingenuity

Texas Ingenuity
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781439660058
ISBN-13 : 1439660050
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Texas Ingenuity by : Alan C. Elliott

Imagination is bigger in Texas, too. This collection of inspiring and often quirky stories highlights dozens of examples of innovation from Lone Star history. The Hamill brothers devised a better oil well to reach gushers at Spindletop. The first Neiman-Marcus store opened in Dallas in 1907, revolutionizing the retail fashion world. Astroturf emerged at the Astrodome in 1966. Fritos and corn dogs are just two ubiquitous snack foods claimed as Texan originals. Houston native, and civil rights activist, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan rose to national prominence as a voice of unity during the Watergate scandal. Author Alan C. Elliott details these and many more lessons in success in Texas Ingenuity.

Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors & Innovators

Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors & Innovators
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780738503561
ISBN-13 : 0738503568
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors & Innovators by : Alan C. Elliott

This book is a collection of informative--and sometimes quirky-- stories about Lone Star innovators, inventors, and inventions. Each story emphasizes a Texas connection and shows how Texas ingenuity, determination, or sheer dumb luck made the person or product famous and successful.

Texas Ingenuity - Inventions, Inventors & Innovators

Texas Ingenuity - Inventions, Inventors & Innovators
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 1933177292
ISBN-13 : 9781933177298
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Texas Ingenuity - Inventions, Inventors & Innovators by : Alan C. Elliott

Elliott presents a collection of informative and sometimes quirky stories about Lone Star innovators, inventors, and inventions. Each story emphasizes a Texas connection and shows how Texas ingenuity, determination, or sheer dumb luck made the person or product famous and successful.

Billboard

Billboard
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Total Pages : 102
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis Billboard by :

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

A Manual of Engineering Drawing

A Manual of Engineering Drawing
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015003723619
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis A Manual of Engineering Drawing by : Thomas Ewing French

The Organization of Congress

The Organization of Congress
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Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105021760363
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Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Organization of Congress by : United States. Congress. Organization of Congress Special Joint Committee

Senior Moments

Senior Moments
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780374712990
ISBN-13 : 0374712999
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Senior Moments by : Willard Spiegelman

A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading, looking at art, talking, and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead. Spiegelman's expertly crafted book considers, with wisdom and elegance, how to be alert to the joys that brim from unexpected places even as death draws near. Senior Moments is a foray into the felicity and follies that age brings; a consideration of how and what one reads or rereads in late adulthood; the eagerness for, and disappointment in, long-awaited reunions, at which the past comes alive in the present. A clear-eyed book of memories, written in eight searching and courageously honest essays, Senior Moments is guaranteed to stimulate, stir, and restore.

The Texas Outlook

The Texas Outlook
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Total Pages : 712
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105005055186
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Texas Outlook by :

Prisons and Punishment in Texas

Prisons and Punishment in Texas
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781137533081
ISBN-13 : 1137533080
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Prisons and Punishment in Texas by : Hannah Thurston

This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are presented, which show celebratory stories of Texan toughness in the penal sphere, as well as poignant stories about the witnessing of executions, comical stories that normalize the harsher aspects of Texan punishment, and presentations about prison officers who have lost their lives in the war on crime. In analysing these representations, the book shows that Texan history plays an important role in the production of Texan self-identity, and that to understand the Texan commitment to harsh punishment we must be prepared to focus on Texan myths and memories. Prisons and Punishment in Texas draws on diverse interdisciplinary work, including criminology, cultural studies about Southern values, as well as research on cultural memory and dark tourism. Museums are shown to be under-researched sites of criminological significance, which offer rich evidence through which penal imaginaries and the cultural role of punishment can be explored. The book will be of great interest to criminologists as well as scholars of sociology, cultural studies, museum studies and politics.