Recommends one hundred and fifty restaurants, describes each establishment's cuisine, atmosphere, and service, and lists addresses and telephone numbers
A rich, detailed look at the state of Texas, including its history, environment, business and industry, politics and government, education, agriculture, and population.
Texas is the most diverse of America's 48 contiguous states, with geography ranging from pine forests of East Texas to the mountains of El Paso, from the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico to the plains of the Panhandle. This handy almanac covers everything from music and rattlesnakes to politics, religion and hate crimes.
Childhood Recovery By: Dallas Dean Dallas Dean currently lives quietly in the deserts of Phoenix with his wife. Dallas does not stray far from who he is or how he came to be as he continues to work in the field of mental health and addiction. Dallas is a firm believer in a humanitarian effort so whenever a volunteer opportunity arises, Dallas enjoys the heart felt rewards from helping another human being.
Midway, the most famous naval battle in American history, has been the subject of many excellent books. However, none satisfactorily explain why the Japanese lost that battle, given their overwhelming advantage in firepower. While no book may ever silence debate on the subject, Midway Inquest answers the central mystery of the battle. Why could the Japanese not get a bomber strike launched against the American carrier force before being attacked and destroyed by American dive bombers from the Enterprise and Yorktown? Although it is well known that the Japanese were unable to launch an immediate attack because their aircraft were in the process of changing armament, why wasn't the rearming operation reversed and an attack launched before the American planes arrived? Based on extensive research in Japanese primary records, Japanese literature on the battle, and interviews with over two dozen Japanese veterans from the carrier air groups, this book solves the mystery at last.
All of the text and some of the photographs in this book originally appeared as a special commemorative section of The Dallas Morning News on November 20, 1988.
Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one. But although scholars have long known that writing for the vast periodical marketplace provided many Victorian authors with needed income—and sometimes even with full second careers as editors and journalists—little has been done to trace how the midcentury ascendancy of periodical discourses might have influenced Victorian literary discourse. In The Dynamics of Genre, Dallas Liddle innovatively combines Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the first rigorous study of the relationship between mid-Victorian journalistic genres and contemporary poetry, the novel, and serious expository prose. Liddle shows that periodical genres competed both ideologically and economically with literary genres, and he studies how this competition influenced the midcentury writings and careers of authors including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Harriet Martineau, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and the sensation novelists of the 1860s. Some Victorian writers directly adopted the successful genre forms and worldview of journalism, but others such as Eliot strongly rejected them, while Trollope launched his successful career partly by using fiction to analyze journalism’s growing influence in British society. Liddle argues that successful interpretation of the works of these and many other authors will be fully possible only when scholars learn to understand the journalistic genre forms with which mid-Victorian literary forms interacted and competed.
Can anyone identify a perfect spouse? Is there such a person? You'll know the truth after you read The Perfect Spouse. Jason is the protagonist of the story, but the book is primarily about The Perfect Spouse and their plans for other people. Jason didn't want a lot of fanfare for his second wedding because he had a wonderful marriage previously, but he wanted his new wife Siobhan to have a memorable wedding day. Why was so much attention given to him? That's called writer's license. Is there such a thing as a perfect spouse? You tell me. About the Author Sioux Dallas started creating stories when she heard a great-uncle telling original stories that made him famous. She began writing hers down in the third grade. By the seventh grade teachers were encouraging her to do something with her work. Teaching at school, taking care of a family, raising and training horses, giving riding lessons, her music, and working in the church all took time. Dallas started taking her writing more seriously and undertook the necessary steps to have it published after she retired and was a widow. The Perfect Spouse is her fifth published book, and she is currently working on three others.
Leadership isn’t just a title What could you do with a $1 billion budget if you had 100,000+ students and one of the largest school systems in America? Imagining is his reality. Learn along from Dallas Dance as he shares the successful change efforts he employed to transform Baltimore Public Schools. Deliberate Excellence is a true story of success in a challenging school environment that delivers great insight and inspiration. Readers will be moved and changed by three key success principles: Establishing equity over equality by providing exactly what individuals need to be successful Understanding change, how it happens, and what one needs to make it so Knowing people deeply and how that leads to accomplishment and organizational change Be inspired by this passion for progress and the drive to maximize latent potential in all people. "For 20 years, Dr. Dallas Dance has been an inspiration to me as a leader. He understands that true leaders inspire others to lead, galvanize their audience, and provide practical applications to difficult situations. Regardless of the political climate, Dr. Dance has always kept students first. After reading Deliberate Excellence, educators will take away successful strategies to increase student achievement." Dr. John B. Gordon III, Chief of Schools Chesterfield County Public Schools, Chesterfield, VA "Leaders are desperate for books that offer techniques from educational leaders who still practice and hone their craft from the trenches and a proven record of success. Dallas Dance offers educational leaders a unique, candid, and welcome perspective." LaQuita Outlaw, Principal – Grades 6-8 Bay Shore Middle School, Bay Shore, NY
An alcoholic, a young mother whose husband is brain damaged after a devastating car accident, an old woman carefully cleaning her house on Christmas Eve to prepare for her planned holiday suicide, a depressed gas station owner, and a disillusioned youth pastor discover the hope of Christmas in the ordinary kindnesses they render each other.
For the past 160 years, giant birds have been reported in the skies above the Black Forest region of northern Pennsylvania. Now, it's up to one man and one woman, to find out where they came from, and where they've gone. Failed Ph.D. candidate and assistant museum curator Ian McQuade is rescued by cartographer Alma Del Nephites, after an ill-fated expedition into the Amazon Basin. They travel to meet the enigmatic CEO of a secretive organization, where the two are given the opportunity to seek out proof of the existence of thunderbirds. A madman's journal will lead them into the heart of a 700 year-old mystery, where cutting edge technology designed to locate and identify such creatures will collide with an ancient power that has hidden and protected them for centuries. Ian must face his past, in order to believe in a future that couldn't possibly exist. With lightning in their eyes and thunder in their wings, who will control the fate and destiny of the thunderbirds?
George Dallas Mosgrove was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1844 and enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment as a private on September 10, 1862. Through service as a clerk and orderly in both regimental and brigade headquarters, he became familiar with the environment of officers and command. His eyewitness account illuminates the western theater of the Civil War in Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia. Mosgrove admits to a romanticism influenced by Sir Walter Scott in his description of the superiority of the officers and "some of the boys" in his regiment. At the same time, his narrative includes unadorned passages that depict with stark honesty the sordidness of war and man's inhumanity. Mosgrove provides firsthand information about military actions at Blue Springs, Saltville, and elsewhere and relates details of his participation in John Hunt Morgan's Last Kentucky raid and the skirmish where Morgan was killed. Mosgrove's highly entertaining account is a perceptive and informative retelling of the truth as he saw it. This Bison Books edition also contains newly discovered material on Morgan's death.
A chilling, fascinating novel about the secret agenda of a powerful underground faction in America--from the author of Desires in Conflict. This stunning expose of the gay agenda in America today presents powerful lessons about facing potentially explosive situations with sensitivity and wisdom.
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