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Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independence, and the Texas Republic. This title examines the lives, careers, and influence of the Tejano leaders who were influential in the political and military leadership, and economic development of Texas.

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. This title presents an account of the epidemics that swept Texas during the polio years.

One of the best tie-down calf ropers ever to come out of South Texas, Juan Salinas roped in Texas rodeos large and small from the mid-1920s to 1935. At the time, few if any other Mexican Americans competed in rodeo. The story of Juan Salinas is also the story of the people of Mexican origin who live on the ranches of the South Texas brush country.

When their country calls, Texas Aggies go to war. From the Spanish-American War and World War I to the Second Gulf War, Aggies have been in the forefront of America's armed forces. This title celebrates the school's distinctive Corps of Cadets and its military contributions while honoring the individual sacrifices of its members.

For each of the 44 of the flowers of Texas in this book, the author describes the significance and origin of its common name, identifies where the flower grows naturally, what uses it has had historically, and what legends are associated with it.

Over 100 years after its landfall, the hurricane that struck Galveston Island on September 8, 1900, remains the worst natural disaster America has seen. In this title witnesses describe, in many never-before-published accounts, their encounters with this deadly storm.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - the famous words from Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address. This study focuses primarily on the speech and its drafting (principally by Raymond Moley). Houck also tells of its delivery and the responses of those who were inspired by it.

In attempting to not only establish but also explain the Serbian record during the Nazi occupation, Philip Cohen takes his reader back into nineteenth-century Serbia to uncover the foundation of a political and social system that was partly built on ethnic prejudices and the glorification of violence.

This is both a self-reflective, subjective account and a scientific discourse on human development and intercultural communication. This volume will be warmly welcomed not only by psychoanalysts and those interested in Jungian thought and practice but also by anyone seeking more effective ways to learn from other cultures.

In this first comprehensive biography of James Earl Rudder, Hatfield covers Rudder's storied military exploits -- from years spent stateside training the all-volunteer 2nd Ranger Battalion to the unit's trek over the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc during the D-Day invasion.

. . . a brilliant and exceptionally clear tactical study that offers a point of departure for broader reflections on the nature of contingency and uncertainty in all military operations."" - Foreign Affairs

The black sun, an ages-old image of the darkness in individual lives and in life itself, has not been treated hospitably in the modern world. Written by a Jungian analyst, this book reexamines the paradoxical image of the black sun and the meaning of darkness in Western culture.

The eastern screech owl, widespread over the eastern half of North America and noticeably tolerant of human activity, is one of America's most familiar birds. Residing naturally in wooded environs with tree cavities, this owl lives well in suburbia and can be found nesting in mailboxes, porch columns, and purple martin houses. Based on a twenty-five-year study, biologist Frederick R. Gehlbach tells the life story of the eastern screech owl, focusing on case studies of suburban and rural study plots in Central Texas. This is the first thorough study of major life-history, behavioral, and ecological features of the species. Indeed, it is the first concurrent, comparative study of an urban and a rural population of any New World animal. Told in a personal voice, the story of these birds will interest all who have not lost touch with their ancestral world. However, Gehlbach has also included quantitative data and analysis of interest to ecologists, wildlife biologists, and ornithologists. Photographs (including color shots of the gray and rufous phases), figures, and tables provide further detail. Gehlbach's investigations have been those of not only an academic ecologist, but a suburbanite curious about his natural surroundings. The result is a model of research on species population dynamics and adaptation, yielding an emerging picture of what the eastern screech owl needs for successful coexistence with human neighbors.

Examines the economic, political, and cultural factors that influenced the unfolding of the fight for the Italian peninsula. This study provides documentation highlighting Axis defensive operations in Sicily, their takeover of Italy, and the internment of the Italian army along with data on economic conditions in German-occupied northern Italy.

Written in a readable narrative style that belies the rigorous research behind it, Blood and Treasure tells the story of the Confederacy's ambitious plan to extend a Confederate empire across the American continent.

Recounts the last high-casualty US action in the Vietnam War. This work presents a look at soldiers who performed in exemplary fashion under terrible circumstances.

A decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the plains of the Southwest. Anthony Glass led one of the most important. In 1808-1809, with a party of twelve hunter-traders, he acted as semi-official emissary of the U.S. government in the practically uncharted lands of the Taovaya-Wichita and Comanche Indians. His was the first party of whites ever to view the sixteen-hundred-pound meteorite venerated as a healing shrine by the Plains tribes. Alone among the early southwestern traders, Glass kept a lively journal detailing his route and experiences. Forgotten for nearly two centuries, this journal appears here in its entirety with rich annotation and interpretation by editor Dan L. Flores. Flores offers a novel, sympathetic view of the Indian trader as a sometime instrument of Jeffersonian borderlands diplomacy, and he presents fresh data on the land and its inhabitants. Landscape, photographs, historically important frontier maps, and contemporary paintings of the traders and the Indians, and their ways of life, further develop this tale of Anthony Glass, Indian trader.