Miles And Miles Of Texas

Author : Carol Dawson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623494567
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miles and Miles of Texas written by Carol Dawson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.

Author : Charles Radin
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 082181933X
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miles of Tiles written by Charles Radin and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Miles of Tiles" is a mathematics lesson for middle school classes requiring students to calculate the number and cost of tiles needed to cover the floor of the classroom. This lesson includes Internet activities. "Miles of Tiles" is presented as a service of the Link-to-Learn Professional Development Project of Pennsylvania, a state-sponsored educational technology initiative.

Author : Miles Arceneaux
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1622880005
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thin Slice of Life written by Miles Arceneaux and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Sweetwater returns to his hometown to visit his brother but arrives to find he is a no-show: The Coast Guard has discovered Johnny’s shrimp boat drifting abandoned in the Gulf. Is it “death by misadventure” as the authorities presume, or something more sinister? Meanwhile, Fulton Harbor, where Charlie’s family have docked their shrimp boats for generations, has changed—and not for the better. Hard-working Vietnamese fishermen are under the thumb of Col. Nguyen Ngoc Bao, a ruthless exiled gangster who aims to recreate his criminal enterprise in a New World setting. Confronting Bao and his thugs are Charlie and a mismatched group of good guys (and gals): a fast-and-loose Cajun hustler, a salty cast of “Third Coast” barroom regulars, a handful of courageous Vietnamese émigrés, a menacing ex-convict, and a misplaced Texas Ranger who discovers a slice of the Lone Star State that the cowboy movies of his boyhood never prepared him for. Along the way Charlie finds himself falling for his brother’s girlfriend, whose zealous desire to see justice served tests his own limits for loyalty and commitment. Unlikely heroes arise from improbable circumstances, and the denizens of the small seaside community find their fortunes and fates ebbing and flowing like the tidal flux of the ocean itself.

Author : Samuel Peter Heintzelman
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Miles and a Fight written by Samuel Peter Heintzelman and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Maj. Samuel Peter Heintzelman, one of the most cultured, dedicated, and respected officers in the antebellum frontier army, was at Camp Verde on September 28, 1859, Juan Nepomuceno Cortina sent shock waves throughout Texas by brazenly leading some seventy-five angry raiders into the streets of Brownsville and initiated a war that would reverberate north to Austin and beyond to the halls of Washington and Mexico City. Heintzelman's journal provides a detailed and vivid account of the battles at El Ebonal and Rio Grande City. Heintzelman's impressions of his senior commander, Col. Robert E. Lee, are also noteworthy.

Author : Joel Whitburn
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780823082919
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits written by Joel Whitburn and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the information since the earliest Billboard charts were originally compiled in 1942 is gathered into this one essential reference on country music that has been updated and expanded to capture today's top recording artists and their biggest songs. Original.

Author : Jay B. Sauceda
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781477318003
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mile Above Texas written by Jay B. Sauceda and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jay B. Sauceda is creating a new kind of literature for the state, a visual literature that is as significant and powerful as John Graves’s Goodbye to a River, Robert Caro’s The Path to Power, Edna Ferber’s Giant, or T. R. Fehrenbach’s Lone Star. His compositions accomplish what all great work does—offering a new way of seeing things so familiar that we have stopped seeing them.” —Rick Bass in Texas Monthly On the ground, Texas is a vast patchwork of natural and human landscapes—wide open spaces contrasting with sprawling cities; the watery worlds of rivers, lakes, and coastlines giving way to the arid vistas of plains and deserts. From the air, though, Texas takes on a wholeness that unites the landscapes that people manufacture with the land that nature still sculpts. This is the Texas that Jay B. Sauceda portrays in A Mile above Texas, a book of stunning aerial photographs that document the entire perimeter of the state. Sauceda flew 3,822 miles, over five days in 2015, in a single-engine Cessna. He shot more than 44,000 photos from the plane, via handheld cameras and GoPros attached to the wings. This book presents the very best of those photographs in sections that cover each leg of the trip: Victoria to Marshall, Marshall to Dalhart, Dalhart to El Paso, El Paso to Marfa, and Marfa to Mustang Beach. With fresh views of Texas’s beaches and rivers, woodlands and deserts, cities and farms, A Mile above Texas offers an encompassing view of the state that perhaps only flyers and migratory birds have enjoyed before now.

Author : Miles Redd
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614280614
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Chic written by Miles Redd and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed interior design sensation Miles Redd is known for his quirky brand of cozy glamour. His unique aesthetic vision is characterized by playful mélanges of high and low, invigorated with whimsical splashes of color and modern gestures. Drawing on inspirations ranging from Richard Avedon fashion photographs to Rene Gruau illustrations, Redd has crafted interiors for a wide array of venues. His Trademark approach to design has brought to life rooms infused with boldness, fantasy, and sophistication. This lavishly illustrated volume will be an inspiration to anyone interested in spirited, eclectic design.

Author : Richard Cook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195322665
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's about that Time written by Richard Cook and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.KI/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Journey Through Texas written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John DeMers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933979229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Follow the Smoke written by John DeMers and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Places, people, secrets and recipes!"--Cover.