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Free Download Brandon Rottinghaus, "Inside Texas Politics: Power, Policy, and Personality of the Lone Star State"
English | 2017 | pages: 505 | ISBN: 0190299517 | PDF | 84,9 mb
Inside Texas Politics provides students with an exciting insider’s perspective on the world of Texas government. Its focus on how power struggles have shaped Texas institutions and political processes offers students a fresh perspective that differentiates itself from all other texts on the market. Rottinghaus’ anecdotes make Inside Texas Politics fun and relevant for today’s students, and his visual representations of data foster the skills students need in order to understand and think critically about the political world around them.

Free Download We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaking and Migration
English | ASIN: B0CKKK4F78 | 2024 | 12 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Jessica Goudeau
Narrator: Jessica Goudeau
An award-winning author’s deep exploration of pivotal moments in Texas history through multiple generations of her own family, and a ruthless reexamination of our national and personal myths. Seven generations of Jessica Goudeau’s family have lived in Texas, and her family’s legacy-a word she heard often growing up-was rooted in faith, right-living, and the hard work that built their great state. It wasn’t until her aunt mentioned a stowaway ancestor and she began to dig more deeply into the story of the land she lives on today in suburban Austin, that Goudeau discovered her family’s far more complicated role in Texas history: from a swindling land grant agent in the earliest days of Anglo settlement that brought slavery to Mexican land, up through her Texas Ranger great-uncle, who helped a sociopathic sheriff cover up mass murder.

Free Download Michael J. Pisani, "The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0292739273, 0292756836 | PDF | pages: 351 | 4.7 mb
Much has been debated about the presence of undocumented workers along the South Texas border, but these debates often overlook the more complete dimension: the region’s longstanding, undocumented economies as a whole. Borderlands commerce that evades government scrutiny can be categorized into informal economies (the unreported exchange of legal goods and services) or underground economies (criminal economic activities that, obviously, occur without government oversight). Examining long-term study, observation, and participation in the border region, with the assistance of hundreds of locally embedded informants, The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border presents unique insights into the causes and ramifications of these economic channels.

Free Download Hiking Texas Hill Country: A Guide to the Area’s Greatest Hiking Adventures by Alisha McDarris
English | May 7th, 2024 | ISBN: 9781493072750 | 257 pages | True PDF | 19.58 MB
Hiking Texas Hill Country will lead you down 40 of the best trails in one of the best regions of the state to get outdoors. Discover the rolling hills, expansive blue skies, lush vegetation, and refreshing creeks and streams that make Hill Country unique and the trails that take you there. Situated close to vibrant cities like Austin and San Antonio, hikers don’t need to travel far to enjoy a good meal and a comfortable bed if they opt not to pitch a tent in one of the many campgrounds alongside rivers, lakes, and impressive geological features.

Free Download Alwyn Barr, "Desegregating Texas Schools: Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 029274692X | EPUB | pages: 224 | 14.9 mb
In the famous Brown v. the Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Yet history records that it took more than a decade of legal battles, civil rights protests, and, tragically, violent confrontations before black students gained full access to previously white schools.

Free Download Jacqueline Jones, "An East Texas Family’s Civil War: The Letters of Nancy and William Whatley, May-December 1862"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0807170690 | EPUB | pages: 200 | 0.3 mb
During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration.

Free Download Texas: Portrait of a State By Laurence Parent
2013 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0882409158 | PDF | 103 MB
Texas is unique, not only because it is the only state to enter the Union by way of a treaty, but because a clause in that treaty gives Texas the right, in perpetuity, to divide into as many as five separate states. These Five States of Texas reflect the remarkable geographic variety of this vast landscape. From the plains and mountains, beaches and deserts, forests and rugged canyons, Laurence Parent captures the beauty of the Texas landscapes, places, and people that are as diverse as its many-faceted culture. Техас является уникальным не только потому, что это единственное государство, чтобы войти в союз путем договора, а потому, что оговорка в договоре, что дает право Техаса, на неограниченный срок, разделиться на целых пять отдельных государств. Эти Пять штатах Техас отражают замечательное географическое разнообразие этого огромного ландшафта. С равнины и горы, пляжи и пустыни, леса и скалистые каньоны, Лоуренс Родитель захватывает красотой пейзажей Техас, мест и людей, которые столь же разнообразны, как и его многогранной культурой.

Free Download Matt Warnock Turner, "Remarkable Plants of Texas: Uncommon Accounts of Our Common Natives"
English | 2009 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0292757034, 0292718519 | EPUB | 15,1 mb
With some 6,000 species of plants, Texas has extraordinary botanical wealth and diversity. Learning to identify plants is the first step in understanding their vital role in nature, and many field guides have been published for that purpose. But to fully appreciate how Texas’s native plants have sustained people and animals from prehistoric times to the present, you need Remarkable Plants of Texas.

Free Download Bill Cunningham, Steven L. Davis, Rollo K. Newsom, "Lone Star Sleuths: An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction"
English | 2007 | pages: 283 | ISBN: 0292717377 | PDF | 2,5 mb
Texas has always staked a large claim on the nation’s imagination, and its mystery literature is no exception. Hundreds of crime novels are set within the state, most of which have been published in the last twenty years. From the highest point atop the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas to the Piney Woods of East Texas, from the High Plains of the Panhandle to the subtropical climate of the lower Rio Grande Valley, mystery writers have covered every aspect of Texas’s extraordinarily diverse geography.

Free Download Frommer’s Texas By David Baird, Eric Peterson, Neil Edward Schlecht
2007 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 0470082984 | PDF | 10 MB
Frommer’s. The best trips start here.Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.The lowdown on all things Texas, from designer duds to honky tonks.Outspoken opinions on what’s worth your time and what’s not.Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.Find great deals and book your trip at Frommers.com