Author: Alan C. Elliott
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439660050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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
Author: Alan C. Elliott
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439660050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439660050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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
Author: Alan C. Elliott
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738503568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738503568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Crowded in the Middle of Nowhere
Author: Bo Brock
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1626342652
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award GOLD Winner in Humor Crowded in the Middle of Nowhere: Tales of Humor and Healing from Rural America is a collection of humorous and poignant stories from a veterinarian in a small, dusty farming and ranching community in rural West Texas. Dr. Brock gives you an intimate look into his small-town and big-hearted perspective on life, animals, and their owners. His unique perspective and tales of doctoring beloved pets, cantankerous livestock, and occasionally their owners will make you smile, laugh, cry, and evoke every other emotion under the sun.
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1626342652
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award GOLD Winner in Humor Crowded in the Middle of Nowhere: Tales of Humor and Healing from Rural America is a collection of humorous and poignant stories from a veterinarian in a small, dusty farming and ranching community in rural West Texas. Dr. Brock gives you an intimate look into his small-town and big-hearted perspective on life, animals, and their owners. His unique perspective and tales of doctoring beloved pets, cantankerous livestock, and occasionally their owners will make you smile, laugh, cry, and evoke every other emotion under the sun.
Texas Ingenuity - Inventions, Inventors & Innovators
Author: Alan C. Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933177298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933177298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
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.
Historic Gregg County
Author: Van Craddock
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1893619621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
An illustrated history of Gregg County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1893619621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
An illustrated history of Gregg County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
The Organization of Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Organization of Congress Special Joint Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Currents in American History: A Brief History of the United States, Volume II: From 1861
Author: Alan C. Elliott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000949303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book focuses on the historic ramifications of a handful of essential events that shaped the American past. It describes the causes of a select number of epoch-making events and examines the short- and long-term consequences of these critical turning point moments.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000949303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book focuses on the historic ramifications of a handful of essential events that shaped the American past. It describes the causes of a select number of epoch-making events and examines the short- and long-term consequences of these critical turning point moments.
San Antonio
Author:
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762752114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762752114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Senior Moments
Author: Willard Spiegelman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712999
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712999
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.