Authors:Doug Welsh,  Aletha St. Romai,
Publisher: TAMU Pre
Keywords: month, guide, almanac, garden, welsh, texas, doug
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2007-10-25
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 158544619X
ISBN-13: 9781585446193

Think of Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac as a giant monthly calendar for the entire state--a practical, information-packed, month-by-month guide for gardeners and "yardeners." This book provides everything you need to know about flowers and garden design; trees, shrubs, and vines; lawns; vegetable, herb, and fruit gardening; and soil, mulch, water, pests, and plant care. It will help you to create beautiful, productive, healthy gardens and have fun doing it. Writer, educator, and broadcaster Doug Welsh gives a wealth of practical gardening advice in this book. Encouraging us to "think

Author: Mel Laracey
Publisher: TAMU Pre
Keywords: hughes, holly, series, presidency, leadership, joseph, public, people, partisan, story, going, presidents
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-05-02
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1585441805
ISBN-13: 9781585441808

When the American president cannot get his way with Congress on something of great importance to him, he often appeals directly to the American people. This kind of appeal has been criticized as an unconstitutional means of subverting the power balance intended by the Constitution. In this volume, Melvin C. Laracey challenges the notion that direct appeals are either recent or unconstitutional. Presidents and the People offers the first comprehensive study of presidential communication with the public on policy matters and of attitudes toward going public. Laracey demonstrates that the practic

Author: Julia Kirk Blackwelder
Publisher: TAMU Pre
Keywords: beauty, training, segregation, american, african, jim, crow, styling
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1585442445
ISBN-13: 9781585442447

Julia Kirk Blackwelder focuses on the beauty education industry in racially segregated communities from World War I to the 1960s. She explores the industry as a locus of black entrepreneurial effort and aspiration and describes the work of two key players resisting racial prejudice.

Authors:Howard R. Lamar,  Kristin Emig Parso,
Publisher: TAMU Pre
Keywords: spencer, russell, series, west, southwest, dill, elma, american, frontier, myth, victim, trader
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 1977-05-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 089096033X
ISBN-13: 9780890960332

Author: Martin Reu
Publisher: TAMU Pre
Keywords: sponsored, books, texas, university, christi, corpus, coast, gulf, control, bayous, water, atchafalaya, basin, designing
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2004-06-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1585443751
ISBN-13: 9781585443758

The Louisiana Atchafalaya River Basin is one of the most dynamic and critical environments in the country. The river’s immense floodway is the ancestral home of the American Cajun population; it sustains the nation’s last cypress-tupelo wetland and provides habitat for many species of animals. Perhaps most crucial, it remains a primary component of the plan to control the Mississippi River and relieve flooding in communities in the lower river valley. The continuing health of the basin is a reflection not of nature, but of the work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. With levee bu

Author: Nicholas Evan Sarantake
Publisher: TAMU Pre
Keywords: relations, foreign, presidency, japanese, okinawa, american, occupation, keystone
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0890969698
ISBN-13: 9780890969694

In the 1990s, Okinawa became the focal point of a crisis in US-Japanese relations. This text uses declassified documents to examine America’s larger strategic purposes during this period, bringing to the readers’ attention an episode in American foreign relations that is taken for granted.

Author: Guadalupe San Miguel Jr.
Publisher: TAMU Pre
Keywords: sponsored, series, texas, international, university, fronteras, century, tex, proud, mex, music, twentieth, tejano
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-02-27
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1585441880
ISBN-13: 9781585441884

From the dance halls to the main stage, from small town Texas to the big cities, "musica tejana" is rapidly becoming known as a rich and vibrant form of American music. The 20th century has seen Texas Mexican music balance between the traditional and the modern, remaining rooted in Mexico while taking nourishment from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the United States. In this book the author provides a history of the evolution of "musica tejana" - its ups and downs and its importance to Mexican Texas culture in the context of Anglo-Mexican relations. He also discusses the more recent develop