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Trouble, Trials Trouble, Trials, and Vexations: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores , Texan Plantation Mistress: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores , Texan Plantation Mistress Thomas W. Cutrer 9781649670243
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32Rachel Moores and her husband David operated a cotton plantation in the bottoms of the Sulphur River in North East Texas. From that vantage point, they viewed the changing fortunes of Texas as the... -
Be Your Best Self: Lead, Impact, and Grow with Haundra by Jimmy Flores 9798896861683
RRP: €9.63Booksplease Price: €9.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896861683Author Jimmy FloresFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Staten House New York, New... -
Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston by Hardin Stephen L. 9781933337562
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.15Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly-but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged ""harsh epithets"" with David James Jones,... -
Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880 by Robert F. Pace 9781933337517
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €26.16The West Texas frontier-the area encompassing the region stretching from Fort Worth to the Caprock, from Palo Duro Canyon to the San Saba River-has been a crossroads of humanity for thousands of... -
Under Texas Skies: Oil, Ranches, and Dreams That Shaped a State Julie DeWees Sparks 9781649670380
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €39.27Beneath the vast, unyielding Texas sky lies a story of grit, gushers, and grandeur-a tale of how oil, cattle, and the audacious dreams of larger-than-life figures forged a state unlike any other... -
Under Texas Skies: Oil, Ranches, and the Dreams That Shaped a State Julie DeWees Sparks 9781649670311
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €33.84Beneath the vast, unyielding Texas sky lies a story of grit, gushers, and grandeur-a tale of how oil, cattle, and the audacious dreams of larger-than-life figures forged a state unlike any other... -
Adding Life to Years: The Wesleyan at Georgetown Robert W. Sledge 9781649670342
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Adding Life to Years: The Wesleyan at Georgetown "The skill of science has added years to life-now we must add life to years." At the heart of The Wesleyan at Georgetown lies a profound truth: it is... -
Adding Life to Years: The Wesleyan at Georgetown Robert W. Sledge 9781649670397
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €30.67Adding Life to Years: The Wesleyan at Georgetown "The skill of science has added years to life-now we must add life to years." At the heart of The Wesleyan at Georgetown lies a profound truth: it is... -
Texas Turf: Horse Racing in 19th Century Texas Anne J Bailey 9781649670267
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94Texas was a land of change in the nineteenth century. Different flags flew in Texas skies during this period, but horse racing remained the most popular sport under each banner. Settlers from the... -
Rockets, Tanks and Submarines Edward T Cotham 9781649670274
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €30.67Few topics have fascinated American readers more than the Civil War. Occurring as it did at the beginning of a new industrial age, it fostered a wide variety of strange and innovation contraptions... -
The Eclipse of Council Housing Ian Cole 9781041134145
Booksplease Price: €117.16In the 1990s, council housing was widely criticised, rejected by government and was the object of waning public support. Yet at one time direct state provision accounted for one-third of the nation's... -
Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive: Reinterpreting the Rise and Fall of Public Housing Kathleen Flanagan 9781032475301
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66From the mid-1940s, state housing authorities in Australia built large housing estates to enable home ownership by working-class families, but the public housing system they created is now regarded... -
Landmark Maps of Texas: The Frank and Carol Holcomb Collection Frank H. Holcomb 9781649670205
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €77.22Landmark Maps of Texas features important depictions of the Lone Star State and the Americas from 1513 to 1904. Nearly 100 maps in their original color grace its pages and many of these specimens are... -
Reorienting a Nation: Consultants and Australian Public Policy by John F. Martin 9781138328051
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.54First published in 1998, this volume examines how in the 1980s Australian governments experienced dramatic change in the policy-making environment. The use of consultants by successive Hawke Labour... -
Reorienting a Nation: Consultants and Australian Public Policy by John F. Martin
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €132.51First published in 1998, this volume examines how in the 1980s Australian governments experienced dramatic change in the policy-making environment. The use of consultants by successive Hawke Labour... -
Enter with Hope: Schreiner University at 100 by Tim Summerlin 9781649670199
RRP: €66.64Booksplease Price: €54.91Schreiner University, started as a military institute in 1923, is a landmark institution in the state of Texas. Schreiner at 100 tells the story of the last quarter century of the university's 100... -
Owner-Occupation in Britain Stephen Merrett 9780367686017
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.83Originally published in 1982, this is a companion volume to State Housing in Britain. Together the 2 volumes cover the tenure of some 85% of all British households in much of the 20th Century. The... -
Progressive Planning Practice: Transforming Communities of Color Sean Robin 9781032935614
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.16This book provides justification, a framework, and examples for an emergent alternative approach to planning and community development. Planning, design and community development have often been... -
Queen of the West: A Documentary History of San Antonio, 1718-1900 by Richard Bruce Winders 9781649670038
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €34.11By 1850, the frontier settlement of San Antonio had seen more than its share of hardships, Indians attacks, rebellions, and repeated military occupations. These events all marked the towns recent... -
Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S. Constitutional System by David R. Mayhew
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.29With three independent branches, a legislature divided into two houses, and many diverse constituencies, it is remarkable that the federal government does not collapse in permanent deadlock. Yet,... -
Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government by Jeffery A. Jenkins 9780691118123
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €89.37The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of... -
Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government by Jeffery A. Jenkins 9780691156446
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.20The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of... -
Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age by David Wagner
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large... -
Utilizing Forensic Technologies for Unidentified Human Remains: Death Investigation Resources, Strategies, and Disconnects by George W. Adams 9780367778880
RRP: €85.67Booksplease Price: €76.26In missing and unidentified investigations, an abyss of dissonance seems to exist between law enforcement and the community they serve that all too often creates grating wounds that may never heal... -
Lust for Glory: An Epic Tale of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation by Stephen L. Hardin 9781933337753
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.92Lust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation is a concise, reader friendly depiction of the "Heroic Age" of Texas history. Employing short, episodic chapters,... -
Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy by Erik J. Engstrom 9780472119011
Booksplease Price: €73.10Erik J. Engstrom offers a historical perspective on the effects of gerrymandering on elections and party control of the U.S. national legislature. Aside from the requirements that districts be... -
Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy by Erik J. Engstrom 9780472036578
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €28.73Erik J. Engstrom offers a historical perspective on the effects of gerrymandering on elections and party control of the U.S. national legislature. Aside from the requirements that districts be... -
Managing the President's Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation by Andrew C. Rudalevige 9780691095011
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.95The belief that U.S. presidents' legislative policy formation has centralized over time, shifting inexorably out of the executive departments and into the White House, is shared by many who have... -
The Process of Government under Jefferson by Noble E. Cunningham 9780691607740
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €57.13"Based on an exploration of the total mass of executive and legislative records for the years 1801-1809--something no other scholar has attempted--this thoroughly documented account describes the... -
The Process of Government under Jefferson by Noble E. Cunningham 9780691636269
RRP: €173.74Booksplease Price: €98.91"Based on an exploration of the total mass of executive and legislative records for the years 1801-1809--something no other scholar has attempted--this thoroughly documented account describes the... -
European Integration and Housing Policy by Mark Kleinman 9780415170260
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €64.02This book presents a series of debates arising from the housing needs of different EU countries. The authors address key issues by examining in turn: * the consequences of European integration for... -
Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care by Karen V. Hansen 9780813535012
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €29.27In recent years U.S. public policy has focused on strengthening the nuclear family as a primary strategy for improving the lives of America's youth. It is often assumed that this normative type of... -
Jigsaw Puzzle Politics in the Sunshine State by Seth C. McKee 9780813060712
Booksplease Price: €88.38This brief review of the evolution of redistricting standards, processes, and outcomes underscores the importance of scholarship examining the dynamics of each redistricting cycle.Jigsaw Puzzle... -
Taking Stock of Environmental Assessment: Law, Policy and Practice by Jane Holder 9781844721009
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31This edited collection analyzes the appropriate balance between conservation and development and the place for participation and popular protest in environmental assessment. Examining the... -
Texian Macabre Stephen L. Hardin 9781649670229
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €30.67Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly-but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged "harsh epithets" with David James Jones, a... -
Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World by Faranak Miraftab
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project. Neoliberalism's onslaught across the globe now shapes... -
Money Rules: Financing Elections In America by Anthony Gierzynski
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €32.40The role of money in the U.S. electoral process has become more and more controversial in recent years. Following the Buckley ruling and other legislation in 1996, candidates and political parties... -
A Decent Home: Planning, Building, and Preserving Affordable Housing by Alan Mallach
RRP: €88.05Booksplease Price: €78.65What is a decent home? Does it simply provide shelter from the elements? Is it affordable enough that you can buy the other necessities of life? Does it connect you to a community with adequate... -
How Washington Actually Works For Dummies Greg Rushford 9781118312957
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.79Get the inside scoop on the most powerful city on Earth Washington, D.C.: Capital of the Free World; the most powerful city on Earth. No other country, company, or international organization can... -
Crisis System: A critical realist and environmental critique of economics and the economy Petter Naess (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo, Norway) 9780415818742
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66This book throws light onto the nature and causes of three different but strongly interconnected crises in contemporary societies worldwide: an economic crisis, an ecological crisis and a normative...