Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793320984
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Texas and Other State Greats
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793320984
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793320984
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
What's Great about Texas?
Author: Amanda Lanser
Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
ISBN: 1512475297
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! What's so great about Texas? Find out the top ten sites to see or things to do in the Lone Star State! Explore Texas's rodeos, wild places, oil fields, and rich history. The Texas by Map feature shows where you'll find all the places covered in the book. A special section provides quick state facts such as the state motto, capital, population, animals, foods, and more. Take a fun-filled tour of all there is to discover in Texas.
Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
ISBN: 1512475297
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! What's so great about Texas? Find out the top ten sites to see or things to do in the Lone Star State! Explore Texas's rodeos, wild places, oil fields, and rich history. The Texas by Map feature shows where you'll find all the places covered in the book. A special section provides quick state facts such as the state motto, capital, population, animals, foods, and more. Take a fun-filled tour of all there is to discover in Texas.
The Great State of Texas
Author: Earle Michael Young
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524935443
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524935443
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Florida
Author: Kate Boehm Jerome
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9781589730137
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Presents information and facts about Florida, including famous people, places, and events associated with the state.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9781589730137
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Presents information and facts about Florida, including famous people, places, and events associated with the state.
Great Texas Birds
Author: John P. O'Neill
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292760531
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Presents color reproductions of forty-eight Texas birds selected as the personal favorites of illustrator John O'Neill and editor Suzanne Winckler, each accompanied by a personal, scientific, or literary observation by a well-known Texas birder or nature writer.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292760531
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Presents color reproductions of forty-eight Texas birds selected as the personal favorites of illustrator John O'Neill and editor Suzanne Winckler, each accompanied by a personal, scientific, or literary observation by a well-known Texas birder or nature writer.
Texas Spelling Bee!
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793367697
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793367697
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Texas Silly Basketball Sportsmysteries
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793310881
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793310881
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The Other Great Migration
Author: Bernadette Pruitt
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603449485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted white families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603449485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted white families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston.
Texas Silly Trivia!
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556090811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556090811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The Great Texas Wind Rush
Author: Kate Galbraith
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292735839
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas’s latest boom, with the Lone Star State now leading the nation. How did this dramatic transformation happen in a place that fights federal environmental policies at every turn? In The Great Texas Wind Rush, environmental reporters Kate Galbraith and Asher Price tell the compelling story of a group of unlikely dreamers and innovators, politicos and profiteers. The tale spans a generation and more, and it begins with the early wind pioneers, precocious idealists who saw opportunity after the 1970s oil crisis. Operating in an economy accustomed to exploiting natural resources and always looking for the next big thing, their ideas eventually led to surprising partnerships between entrepreneurs and environmentalists, as everyone from Enron executives to T. Boone Pickens, as well as Ann Richards, George W. Bush and Rick Perry, ended up backing the new technology. In this down-to-earth account, the authors explain the policies and science that propelled the “windcatters” to reap the great harvest of Texas wind. They also explore what the future holds for this relentless resource that is changing the face of Texas energy.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292735839
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas’s latest boom, with the Lone Star State now leading the nation. How did this dramatic transformation happen in a place that fights federal environmental policies at every turn? In The Great Texas Wind Rush, environmental reporters Kate Galbraith and Asher Price tell the compelling story of a group of unlikely dreamers and innovators, politicos and profiteers. The tale spans a generation and more, and it begins with the early wind pioneers, precocious idealists who saw opportunity after the 1970s oil crisis. Operating in an economy accustomed to exploiting natural resources and always looking for the next big thing, their ideas eventually led to surprising partnerships between entrepreneurs and environmentalists, as everyone from Enron executives to T. Boone Pickens, as well as Ann Richards, George W. Bush and Rick Perry, ended up backing the new technology. In this down-to-earth account, the authors explain the policies and science that propelled the “windcatters” to reap the great harvest of Texas wind. They also explore what the future holds for this relentless resource that is changing the face of Texas energy.