Author: Henry Taylor Millard
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1662910576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
When a black haired, three-year-old girl is found wounded in a dumpster outside the small town of Travis City, Texas, the mystery of who she is and how she got there sets off a thirty-year saga of two diverse families. The little girl, Lourdes, is adopted by Danny and Maria Sanchez, a loving, poor couple, and the child flourishes with her own special talents and assistance by the town patriarch, William Barrett Downs the Third. Over a lifetime in An Honorable Place, we follow Lourdes Sanchez’s victories along with her soul-searching sorrows. It is a story of what it means to be a Texan, in a time when many in the world wonder why this land is so special to its citizens. If you still believe in honor, work ethic, and the power of the individual, you will believe the stories of Travis City, Texas.
An Honorable Place
Author: Henry Taylor Millard
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1662910576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
When a black haired, three-year-old girl is found wounded in a dumpster outside the small town of Travis City, Texas, the mystery of who she is and how she got there sets off a thirty-year saga of two diverse families. The little girl, Lourdes, is adopted by Danny and Maria Sanchez, a loving, poor couple, and the child flourishes with her own special talents and assistance by the town patriarch, William Barrett Downs the Third. Over a lifetime in An Honorable Place, we follow Lourdes Sanchez’s victories along with her soul-searching sorrows. It is a story of what it means to be a Texan, in a time when many in the world wonder why this land is so special to its citizens. If you still believe in honor, work ethic, and the power of the individual, you will believe the stories of Travis City, Texas.
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1662910576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
When a black haired, three-year-old girl is found wounded in a dumpster outside the small town of Travis City, Texas, the mystery of who she is and how she got there sets off a thirty-year saga of two diverse families. The little girl, Lourdes, is adopted by Danny and Maria Sanchez, a loving, poor couple, and the child flourishes with her own special talents and assistance by the town patriarch, William Barrett Downs the Third. Over a lifetime in An Honorable Place, we follow Lourdes Sanchez’s victories along with her soul-searching sorrows. It is a story of what it means to be a Texan, in a time when many in the world wonder why this land is so special to its citizens. If you still believe in honor, work ethic, and the power of the individual, you will believe the stories of Travis City, Texas.
"An Honorable Place in American Air Power"
Author: Frank A. Blazich (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585663057
Category : Air defenses
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Military historian and Civil Air Patrol (CAP) member Frank A. Blazich Jr. collects oral and written histories of the CAP's short-lived--but influential--coastal air patrol operations of World War II and expands it in a scholarly monograph that cements the legacy of this vital civil-military cooperative effort"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585663057
Category : Air defenses
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Military historian and Civil Air Patrol (CAP) member Frank A. Blazich Jr. collects oral and written histories of the CAP's short-lived--but influential--coastal air patrol operations of World War II and expands it in a scholarly monograph that cements the legacy of this vital civil-military cooperative effort"--
An Honorable Man
Author: Paul Vidich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501110381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"This gripping first novel in a spy thriller series, set in Washington D.C. at the height of the Red Scare, investigates a double agent in the CIA whose betrayals threaten to compromise the two lead investigators, the Agency, and the entire nation."--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501110381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"This gripping first novel in a spy thriller series, set in Washington D.C. at the height of the Red Scare, investigates a double agent in the CIA whose betrayals threaten to compromise the two lead investigators, the Agency, and the entire nation."--
An Honorable Texan
Author: Victoria Chancellor
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426818416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Christie Simmons left Fort Worth behind for good reasons. A new life in Brody's Crossing means her son can know his father. Christie and Cal Crawford had a brief affair before he left to go overseas, and she's sure that finding out about the baby wasn't the homecoming he imagined…. Everything in Cal's life is upside down, starting with the fact that his cattle ranch, the Rocking C, is raising everything except cows. Now he's discovering there's a lot more to being a dad than just fathering a child. But as a man who believes in tradition, can Cal change everything about his life? More important, will Christie—a woman he's growing closer to every day—be there if he doesn't?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426818416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Christie Simmons left Fort Worth behind for good reasons. A new life in Brody's Crossing means her son can know his father. Christie and Cal Crawford had a brief affair before he left to go overseas, and she's sure that finding out about the baby wasn't the homecoming he imagined…. Everything in Cal's life is upside down, starting with the fact that his cattle ranch, the Rocking C, is raising everything except cows. Now he's discovering there's a lot more to being a dad than just fathering a child. But as a man who believes in tradition, can Cal change everything about his life? More important, will Christie—a woman he's growing closer to every day—be there if he doesn't?
History of the City of New York
Author: Martha Joanna Lamb
Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Municipal Register of the City of Hartford ...
Author: Hartford (Conn.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Parliamentary Debates
Author:
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Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
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Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
My Kind of Place
Author: Susan Orlean
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588364321
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois—and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality. With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world. Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary journalists.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588364321
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois—and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality. With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world. Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary journalists.
Locked in Place
Author: Vivek Chibber
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state. Chibber contrasts India's experience with the success of a similar program of state-building in South Korea, where political elites managed to harness domestic capitalists to their agenda. He then develops a theory of the structural conditions that can account for the different reactions of Indian and Korean capitalists as rational responses to the distinct development models adopted in each country. Provocative and marked by clarity of prose, this book is also the first historical study of India's post-colonial industrial strategy. Emphasizing the central role of capital in the state-building process, and restoring class analysis to the core of the political economy of development, Locked in Place is an innovative work of theoretical power that will interest development specialists, political scientists, and historians of the subcontinent.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state. Chibber contrasts India's experience with the success of a similar program of state-building in South Korea, where political elites managed to harness domestic capitalists to their agenda. He then develops a theory of the structural conditions that can account for the different reactions of Indian and Korean capitalists as rational responses to the distinct development models adopted in each country. Provocative and marked by clarity of prose, this book is also the first historical study of India's post-colonial industrial strategy. Emphasizing the central role of capital in the state-building process, and restoring class analysis to the core of the political economy of development, Locked in Place is an innovative work of theoretical power that will interest development specialists, political scientists, and historians of the subcontinent.
History of Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Vanderburgh County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vanderburgh County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description