Brayton + Hughes Design Studio: The Art of Interior Architecture

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This volume explores how the tradtional distinctions between these types of interiors are becoming less discernible.

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Excellent starter book........1999-08-16

This book is well illustrated and can serve as an excellent resource for those wanting to know about range plants. This book would be useful to ranchers, students, laymen, and technicians. If one wanted to carry just one book to the field to identify and learn basic things about a variety of plants, this would be the one.

The trail drivers of Texas;: Interesting sketches of early cowboys and their experiences on the range and on the trail during the days that tried men's ... who fathered the cattle industry in Texas,

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The trail drivers of Texas;: Interesting sketches of early cowboys and their experiences on the range and on the trail during the days that tried men's ... who fathered the cattle industry in Texas,
J. Marvin Hunter
Manufacturer: Cokesbury press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000863ZCQ

Life on the Texas Range (M. K. Brown Range Life Series)

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Life on the Texas Range (M. K. Brown Range Life Series)
J. Evetts Haley
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman

ASIN: 0292776837

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"Here is the book of western pictures I have been waiting for. It is a book of photographs by Erwin Smith, who took a camera to cow camps in the early years of this century, before the old life in the saddle was entirely dead and gone. He made the best pictures of that life I ever saw.... If you love the land, and the herds at grass, and the men who rode horses, this is your book."

—Tom Lea

"Smith is to range-land photography what Mathew Brady was to Civil War photography."

—Houston Post

"Along with Andy Adams, Philip Ashton Rollins, Ross Santee, and the artist Charles M. Russell, Erwin Smith belongs in the great tradition of interpreters of the real cowboy."

—Saturday Review

"Every student of the West should savor this book and every library with a serious emphasis on Western Americana should purchase it . . ."

—Journal of the West

Contemporary Ranches of Texas: The History and Current Operation of Sixteen Working Ranches in Texas (M. K. Brown Range Life Series)

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Contemporary Ranches of Texas: The History and Current Operation of Sixteen Working Ranches in Texas (M. K. Brown Range Life Series)
Lawrence Clayton
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Xit Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado (Western Frontier Library)

ASIN: 0292712391

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Ranching and Texas remain synonymous for people around the world, although our knowledge of ranch life more often comes from the movies than from herding cattle on the Panhandle Plains. Yet there still are Texans for whom ranching is a daily way of life, and this book tells their stories.

Through Lawrence Clayton's words and Wyman Meinzer's evocative black-and-white photographs, you will visit sixteen working ranches across Texas: Alta Vista, Canales, Catarina, O'Connor, and Ray in South Texas; R. A. Brown, Chimney Creek, Goodnight, J A, Moorhouse, Nail, and Renderbrook Spade in the Panhandle and Northwest Texas; and Henderson Cove, Hudspeth River, Long X, and Hoskins 101 in the Trans-Pecos. Many of these ranches trace their beginnings to the open range, and all of them are known today for running a quality "outfit."

Clayton recounts the history and current operation of each ranch, often drawing on stories handed down over generations. Quotes from ranch owners and employees give a feel for the challenges and rewards of modern-day ranching and also underscore how much ranching varies across the different regions of Texas. Meinzer's photographs capture the endless prairies and the weather-worn faces of the men and women who work the cattle, as well as the tools of their trade. For everyone fascinated by Texas ranching, this book offers enjoyable reading and viewing of this proud and increasingly rare way of life.

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Award Winner for Book Design.......2002-07-22

This book has received an Award of Excellence from the 2001 Southern Books Competition. "The austere black and white Contemporary Ranches of Texas with its barbed-wire rule and powerfully understated photographs captures the essence of Texas." Congratulations to the author and photographer, designer Ellen McKie and the University of Texas Press.

6000 Miles of Fence (M. K. Brown Range Life Series)

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The Big, Big Ranch

6000 Miles of Fence (M. K. Brown Range Life Series)
Cordia Sloan Duke , and Joe B. Frantz
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young

ASIN: 0292775644

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"This book, with all the merit of being an organized and beautifully presented story, is more than a social history; it is source material, resting on the firm bedrock of first-hand accounts. Hence, while it joins in many libraries and collections several shelves of other cowboy books, it will always be on the top shelf with a select few that have made real contributions to the history of the American West. As a man should be measured by his own standards, and an event in terms of its own time, a book should be evaluated in relation to its purpose. By this standard, as well as by comparison with other books in its library classification, 6,000 Miles of Fence is a success."

—Southwestern Historical Quarterly

The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run. Their forthright, yet picturesque, discussion of ranching hardships and dangers dissipates Hollywood and TV glamorizing. They relate in honest cowboy language what actually happened inside the XIT's 6,000 miles of fence.

Cordia Sloan Duke, wife of an XIT division manager, Robert L. Duke, many years ago realized that only those who had experienced ranch life could depict it with deep understanding. As the young wife of a rising young ranch hand, she kept in her apron pocket a notebook and pencil, recording all manner of interesting details as they caught her attention. This diary was the nucleus for the present book. Conceiving of an account of life on the XIT as presented by XIT cowboys, Mrs. Duke set about drawing from reticent, sometimes reluctant, ranch hands the impressions of the XIT (occasionally written down by their more literate wives or daughters) which they had retained through the years. Cordia Sloan Duke and Joe B. Frantz have organized the reminiscences around key aspects of ranch life, retaining the language of the cow hands.

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The Big, Big Ranch.......1999-10-15

At the time, the XIT was the world's largest ranch. It stretched for two hundred miles from the top of the Panhandle to Lubbock. It averaged 27 miles in width. Its greatest width was fifty miles. For comparison, the ranch was about twice as large as the state of Rhode Island. This book tells of life on the XIT Ranch as recorded on an almost daily basis by Mrs. Cordia Sloan Duke, wife of an XIT division manager, Robert L. Duke. It is illustrated with photographs, and a map.

Facts As I Remember Them: The Autobiography of Rufe Lefors (M K Brown Range Life Series, No 16)

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Facts As I Remember Them: The Autobiography of Rufe Lefors (M K Brown Range Life Series, No 16)

Manufacturer: Univ of Texas Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0292724578

Texas Panhandle Frontier (The M. K. Brown range life series, no. 12)

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Making a Region Understandable

Texas Panhandle Frontier (The M. K. Brown range life series, no. 12)
Frederick W. Rathjen
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0292780079

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Making a Region Understandable.......2002-01-18

As a relative newcomer to the Texas Plains-Panhandle region, I found The Texas Panhandle Frontier quite helpful in advancing my understanding of the forces that crafted its culture. Rathjen artfully begins with a geographic review of the llano flat lands and the canyons that splay out from them. He moves chronologically from the Paleo Indian cultures through the Spanish explorers, the Anglo-American scientist-explorers, the historic Indian cultures, the buffalo hunters, and finally, the U.S. military conquest. The Panhandle region was discovered by Europeans twice-first by Coronado and his followers from Spanish New Mexico and later by the Anglo scientists, such as James Abert and Randolph Marcy. Yet, the wearying sameness of the region, its extreme weather, and paucity of water intimidated settlers, leaving it open through the middle 19th century for the free run of semi-nomadic Comanches and other native groups.

Coming to this region from El Paso, I wondered why the Spanish influence was nearly absent from the Plains-Panhandle. Rathjen shows how the area today might have been oriented toward New Mexico if the Spanish explorers of the 16th and 17th centuries had seen the region as a place of settlement rather than as an expanse to be crossed in the search for gold. Ultimately in the 19th century, as more choice lands were claimed, the region attracted Texas cattlemen and ranchers who saw financial opportunity in the emptiness. Hence, the region today is oriented east to the heart of Texas and even north toward Dodge City, Kansas.

Rathjen suggests that the tough barren landscape drew settlers who were equally as tough. His book helps a reader to understand how an intense and often uncompromising Christian Bible-based culture took hold in an uncompromising region. The book also leads the outsider begrudgingly to admire this land and its relatively new residents, yet also to lament that its Native American peoples were not permitted to flourish and add a plurality to the region.

Rathjen deals sensitively with the various groups who crossed the land, crediting both the Indians and their Anglo adversaries with the intelligence and nobility of worthy opponents. In different ways each found a niche in a difficult land. He acknowledges the sometimes severe military tactics on both sides and also presents a dispassionate but sympathetic look at the buffalo slaughter of the late 1800s. Rathjen's prose is never overbearing, melodramatic, or intrusively opinionated. He allows readers to draw their own conclusions about the complex relationships between humans of different cultures, animals, and the environment that all must share.

The book is well written and engaged in its subject. Rathjen is to be commended for the way in which he periodically summarizes the chapters and draws meaningful conclusions. Passages like the following are especially insightful:

"Significantly the scientific exploration of the Texas Panhandle was exclusively financed and directed by the federal government and executed by its agents, and was in no way a function of state or private enterprise. Having occurred in a state that owned its public lands, this fact, in turn, suggests that the federal government was far more a factor in the development of the American West than has generally been supposed" (113).

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At your local zoo, you've long been acquainted with the elephant, zebra, and chimpanzee. They're old friends. But what of the xiphias, hackee, zebu, and urubu? In Milder's new volume, you'll encounter these animals and more, presented in the form of a poetic palindrome, with names ranging from A to Z and back, and learn about the habits and idiosyncrasies of these exotic creatures. An incredibly fun book for readers of all ages!

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Sergio Aragones' Mad Menagerie
Sergio Aragones
Manufacturer: E.C. Publications]
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00071JRTM

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This digital document is an article from Mensaje, published by Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1553 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Calderón, Fernando (coordinador): ¿Es sostenible la globalización en América Latina? Debates con Manuel Castells.(¿Es sostenible la globalización en América Latina? Debates con Manuel Castells. Vol. I: La globalización y América Latina: Asignaturas pendientes)(¿Es sostenible la globalización en América Latina? Debates con Manuel Castells. Vol. II: Nación y cultura. América Latina en la era de la información)(Reseña de libro)
Publication: Mensaje (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino
Volume: 53 Issue: 528 Page: 53(2)

Article Type: Reseña de libro

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Cuba--Sociedad, Cultura y Politica En Tiempos de Globalizacion

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Cuba--Sociedad, Cultura y Politica En Tiempos de Globalizacion

Manufacturer: Centro Editorial Javeriano
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Binding: Hardcover

Cultura y globalización.: An article from: Revista Chilena de Humanidades

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Cultura y globalización.: An article from: Revista Chilena de Humanidades
Jacques Chonchol
Manufacturer: Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008JDB5E
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Revista Chilena de Humanidades, published by Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 3013 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cultura y globalización.
Author: Jacques Chonchol
Publication: Revista Chilena de Humanidades (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades
Page: 13(7)

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Cultura, globalización y posmodernidad, de José Joaquín Brunner.(Reseña de libro): An article from: Relaciones Internacionales

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Cultura, globalización y posmodernidad, de José Joaquín Brunner.(Reseña de libro): An article from: Relaciones Internacionales
Alfonso Sánchez Múgica
Manufacturer: UNAM (Relaciones Internacionales)
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Relaciones Internacionales, published by UNAM (Relaciones Internacionales) on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2444 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cultura, globalización y posmodernidad, de José Joaquín Brunner.(Reseña de libro)
Author: Alfonso Sánchez Múgica
Publication: Relaciones Internacionales (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: UNAM (Relaciones Internacionales)
Issue: 88 Page: 119(4)

Article Type: Reseña de libro

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CULTURAS Y PODER. Interacción y asimetría entre las culturas en el contexto de la globalización

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CULTURAS Y PODER. Interacción y asimetría entre las culturas en el contexto de la globalización
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Ensamblando Culturas: Diversidad y Conflicto En La Globalizacion de La Industria (Serie Culturas)

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Ensamblando Culturas: Diversidad y Conflicto En La Globalizacion de La Industria (Serie Culturas)
Luis Reygadas
Manufacturer: Gedisa Editorial
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Binding: Paperback

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Ethos latinoamericano y globalización *.(impacto cultural de la globalización en América Latina): An article from: Atenea (Chile)

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Ethos latinoamericano y globalización *.(impacto cultural de la globalización en América Latina): An article from: Atenea (Chile)
Pedro Morandé
Manufacturer: Universidad de Concepcion- Atenea
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008ISEAM
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Atenea (Chile), published by Universidad de Concepcion- Atenea on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 6264 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ethos latinoamericano y globalización *.(impacto cultural de la globalización en América Latina)
Author: Pedro Morandé
Publication: Atenea (Chile) (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2001
Publisher: Universidad de Concepcion- Atenea
Issue: 484 Page: 13(16)

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¿Europa musulmana o euro-islam? : política, cultura y ciudadanía en la era de la globalización

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¿Europa musulmana o euro-islam? : política, cultura y ciudadanía en la era de la globalización
Manuel; Alsayyad, Nezar Castells
Manufacturer: Alianza Editorial
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 8420637076

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Globalizacion y cultura
John Tomlinson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Hoy se discute mucho sobre la globalización, pero los debates se restringen a los discursos disciplinarios específicos. Por primera vez, en este libro se reúne una teoría social y el enfoque de estudios culturales para comprender la globalización.

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This report by AMA Research on the UK Office Furniture Dealers Market is a practical review of UK office furniture dealer channels, analysing market size, structure, recent and future trends. The dealer channel still represents the major route for the distribution of office furniture, although competition has increased in recent years both from office furniture manufacturers who deal direct with end-users and the growth of office superstores / mail order companies.

Key areas covered in the report include (a) the overall office furniture market, (b) dealer characteristics, (c) customer base, and (d) buying and specification process for office furniture dealers.

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This volume deals with the question of inequality through race, class and gender. Most studies only concern themselves with either class and gender, or with the combination of race or gender. What happens if we throw all three concepts into the analysis? The volume seeks to explore how race, class and gender are interrelated in the study of topics such as social transformation, national identity, sexuality and work. The volume should be of interest to both students and scholars in gender and race studies, labor history, sociology, history, non-Western history.

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Libral Bias.......2006-04-29

This book was assigned in a class, and was one that I wish we had not read. Some good points, but just not worth reading through the one-sided arguments. I am not a Flat-Earth conservative righting this either, so take the advice and do not read this, unless for a class.

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