Author: Jonathan Eisen
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Collection of memoirs, stories, samples of journalism, and novel exerpts about Texas.
Unknown Texas
Author: Jonathan Eisen
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Collection of memoirs, stories, samples of journalism, and novel exerpts about Texas.
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Collection of memoirs, stories, samples of journalism, and novel exerpts about Texas.
Unknown Texas
Author: Jonathan Eisen
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN: 9780020197607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Articles discuss Texas' people, geography, history, politics, religion, economy, and music
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN: 9780020197607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Articles discuss Texas' people, geography, history, politics, religion, economy, and music
The Polio Years in Texas
Author: Heather Green Wooten
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From the 1930s to the 1950s, in response to the rising epidemic of paralytic poliomyelitis (polio), Texas researchers led a wave of discoveries in virology, rehabilitative therapies, and the modern intensive care unit that transformed the field nationally. The disease threatened the lives of children and adults in the United States, especially in the South, arousing the same kind of fear more recently associated with AIDS and other dread diseases. Houston and Harris County, Texas, had the second-highest rate of infection in the nation, and the rest of the Texas Gulf Coast was particularly hard-hit by this debilitating illness. At the time, little was known, but eventually the medical responses to polio changed the medical landscape forever. Polio also had a sweeping cultural and societal effect. It engendered fearful responses from parents trying to keep children safe from its ravages and an all-out public information blitz aimed at helping a frightened population protect itself. The disease exacted a very real toll on the families, friends, healthcare resources, and social fabric of those who contracted the disease and endured its acute, convalescent, and rehabilitation phases. In The Polio Years in Texas, Heather Green Wooten draws on extensive archival research as well as interviews conducted over a five-year period with Texas polio survivors and their families. This is a detailed and intensely human account of not only the epidemics that swept Texas during the polio years, but also of the continuing aftermath of the disease for those who are still living with its effects. Public health and medical professionals, historians, and interested general readers will derive deep and lasting benefits from reading The Polio Years in Texas.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From the 1930s to the 1950s, in response to the rising epidemic of paralytic poliomyelitis (polio), Texas researchers led a wave of discoveries in virology, rehabilitative therapies, and the modern intensive care unit that transformed the field nationally. The disease threatened the lives of children and adults in the United States, especially in the South, arousing the same kind of fear more recently associated with AIDS and other dread diseases. Houston and Harris County, Texas, had the second-highest rate of infection in the nation, and the rest of the Texas Gulf Coast was particularly hard-hit by this debilitating illness. At the time, little was known, but eventually the medical responses to polio changed the medical landscape forever. Polio also had a sweeping cultural and societal effect. It engendered fearful responses from parents trying to keep children safe from its ravages and an all-out public information blitz aimed at helping a frightened population protect itself. The disease exacted a very real toll on the families, friends, healthcare resources, and social fabric of those who contracted the disease and endured its acute, convalescent, and rehabilitation phases. In The Polio Years in Texas, Heather Green Wooten draws on extensive archival research as well as interviews conducted over a five-year period with Texas polio survivors and their families. This is a detailed and intensely human account of not only the epidemics that swept Texas during the polio years, but also of the continuing aftermath of the disease for those who are still living with its effects. Public health and medical professionals, historians, and interested general readers will derive deep and lasting benefits from reading The Polio Years in Texas.
Official Register of the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Brands and Their Companies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brand name products
Languages : en
Pages : 1350
Book Description
This is a guide to product trade names, brands, and product names, with addresses of their manufacturers and distributors.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brand name products
Languages : en
Pages : 1350
Book Description
This is a guide to product trade names, brands, and product names, with addresses of their manufacturers and distributors.
Quarterly Bulletin
Author: State Plant Board of Florida
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
North of 36
Author: Emerson Hough
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In this book, Emerson Hough explains the first major cattle drive from Texas to Kansas which led to the establishment of cattle trails to date. In this story, the possession of a young woman was desired by a crook State Treasurer with the plan of boycotting her cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas which was 1000 miles away. To preserve this wonderful history, the story was produced for TV.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In this book, Emerson Hough explains the first major cattle drive from Texas to Kansas which led to the establishment of cattle trails to date. In this story, the possession of a young woman was desired by a crook State Treasurer with the plan of boycotting her cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas which was 1000 miles away. To preserve this wonderful history, the story was produced for TV.
Old South Texas
Author: Murphy Givens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961475222
Category : Corpus Christi (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961475222
Category : Corpus Christi (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Book of Unknown Americans
Author: Cristina Henríquez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385350856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385350856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.
Report for the Biennial Period Ending ... and Supplemental Reports to ...
Author: State Plant Board of Florida
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants, Protection of
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants, Protection of
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description