query: who wrote the first book relating to texas called relacion

pos: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca is the account of his experiences with the Narvaez expedition and after being wrecked on Galveston Island in November 1528. Cabeza de Vaca and his last three men struggled to survive. They wandered along the Texas coast as prisoners of the Han and Capoque American Indians for two years, while Cabeza de Vaca observed the people, picking up their ways of life and customs. They traveled through the American Southwest and ultimately reached Mexico City, nearly eight years after being wrecked on the island. In 1537, Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain, where he wrote his narratives of the Narvaez

neg: Michael Van Wagenen Mormonism in Texas, relating to this book. He also wrote the book "Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War" which was published in 2012. He also collaborated on the book "Between Pulpit and Pew: The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore". Wagnenen was also a professor of history at the University of Texas in Brownsville, Texas. Wagenen continued his teaching career at Georgia Southern University. He has been the assistant professor and public history coordinator there since 2012. He founded the Public History certificate program at Georgia Southern. He has received grants from the Charles

neg: Spread offense and due to the fact that his teams were often over-matched physically by other schools, they were called the "Mighty Mites". While there, he deployed the earliest form of a spread offense to great success. Russell's team is the subject of a book by author Jim Dent entitled, "Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football". In 1952 Texas Christian University (TCU) coaching legend Leo "Dutch" Meyer wrote a book entitled "Spread Formation Football", detailing his ideas about football formations, in which the first sentence was, "Spread formations are not new to football."

neg: Panay the capital there from Cebu since it had abundant provisions and was better protected from Portuguese attacks before the capital was once again transferred to Manila. Miguel de Luarca, who was among the first Spanish settlers in the Island, made one of the earliest account about Panay and its people according to a Westerner's point of view. In June 1582, while he was in Arevalo (Iloilo), he wrote in his "Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas" the following observations: The island is the most fertile and well-provisioned of all the islands discovered, except the island of Luzon: for it is exceedingly

neg: Madja-as most illustrious nobility in the whole island." Miguel de Loarca, who was among the first Spanish settlers in the Island, also made one of the earliest account about Panay and its people according to a Westerner's point of view. In June 1582, while he was in Arevalo (Iloilo), he wrote in his "Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas" the following observations: The island is the most fertile and well-provisioned of all the islands discovered, except the island of Luzon: for it is exceedingly fertile, and abounds in rice, swine, fowls, wax, and honey; it produces also a great quantity of cotton

neg: Texas literature Texas literature Texas literature is literature about the history and culture of Texas. It ranges broadly in literary genres and dates from the time of the first European contact. The earliest works relating to Texas were written in Spanish and were primarily historical in nature. Authors and works include: The first English book which was solely about Texas was "Texas" (1833) by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin. It was expanded in 1836 and retitled "History of Texas". A later author in this period, John Crittenden Duval, was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie.

neg: Timawa inland. The Spanish conquistador Miguel de Loarca described the preparations and the undertaking of such raids in his book "Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas" (1582) as thus: "Mangubat" and "Mangahat" also followed strict codes of conduct on the treatment of prisoners ("bihag") and the redistribution of the plunder among participants. Captives who surrendered were valued alive as they were usually ransomed by relatives or otherwise had to work for their freedom (see "uripon"). Any "timawa" who kills a captive who has surrendered is obligated to pay for their value or risk becoming an "uripon" himself. Captured "datu" were also treated

neg: James Reston Jr. Sam Rockwell. The movie received 5 Academy Award nominations. Reston's 2013 work, "The Accidental Victim", is a non-fiction book about John F. Kennedy's assassination which argues that Texas Governor John Connally was Lee Harvey Oswald's intended victim. The author has remarked that the two hardest books he wrote were the book about the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide entitled Our Father Who Art in Hell: the Life and Death of the Reverend Jim Jones (1981) and the book about his handicapped daughter, Hillary called Fragile Innocence (2006)About the emotional difficulties of a writer dealing with difficult material, Reston wrote a seminal

neg: Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen to Jefferson, Texas, around 1886, where she taught at a public school. She also lived in Ft. Worth, Texas, and worked in the public school system. Allen wrote fiction based around true stories about wealthy African-American families in the Southern United States. Her most notable work was "Treading the Winepress", also called "A Mountain of Misfortune." The book consisted of 41 stories about two families. The stories took place in "Capitolia," which was based on Columbia, South Carolina. The book includes love triangles, murder, womanhood, charity, and madness. It was a serialized publication. She also wrote novelettes for Texas-based publications.

neg: Buddy (dog) Clinton acquired another chocolate Lab whom he named "Seamus". First Lady Hillary Clinton wrote a children's book called "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets" in 1998. It included excerpts from more than 50 letters written to the First Pets by children and more than 80 photographs of Socks and Buddy. Buddy was a central character in Rick Cleveland's 2005 one-man show "My Buddy Bill", relating the writer's fictional friendship with Bill Clinton, which began when both men discovered their common interest in dogs. Buddy (dog) Buddy (August 7, 1997 – January 2, 2002), a male chocolate-colored

neg: Donald J. Devine was a popular lecturer among students, who were frustrated for not being able to guess his philosophical orientation until the final course session. As a professor, he wrote three books and several articles in professional journals. His writing in the period emphasized relating major political philosophy themes to empirical aspects of American society and government. The first book was titled "The Attentive Public: Polyarchical Democracy" This book was his Ph.D. thesis and was selected to be included in the prestigious American Politics Research Series, edited by Berkeley Professor Aaron Wildavsky, who supervised this series devoted to advanced methodological approaches to

neg: Stephen Moss (American author) Stephen Moss (American author) Steven Moss (born ) is an American author and educator known for co-writing "We Could Not Fail", a book covering the lives of the first ten black Americans who worked for NASA. Moss was educated at Texas Tech University, where he wrote his master's thesis on race issues concerning NASA. Moss is an associate professor of English at Texas State Technical College. Moss collaborated with Richard Paul, a radio producer who was working to document the lives of early black NASA employees, to write a book covering the lives of the first ten black engineers and

neg: Ese Hombre (Rocío Jurado song) attributes about a former lover who uses a false identity to capture and lure women into deceitful ill-fated relationships. Lise Waxer wrote in her book "Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music", that "Ese Hombre" is a "strong feminist song". Virginia Marie Raymond wrote in her book "Mexican Americans Write Toward Justice in Texas, 1973--1982" that the lyrics are "rousingly hostile", while John Lannert of "Billboard" magazine praised the recording's lyrical content calling it a "fiery, stand-up-to-that-man testimony". David Cazares of the "Sun Sentinel" called the track an "outrageous song that bashes an egotistical and womanizing

neg: Juan de Plasencia effect: He is the author of what is believed to be the first book printed in the Philippines, the Doctrina Cristiana, that was not only printed in Spanish, but also in Tagalog, in both Latin script and the commonly used Baybayin script of the natives of the time, and it even had a version in Chinese. Other works attributed to him are the "Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalos" (1589), that not only helped understand and preserve many of the traditional ways of the local population, but also provided the first form of Civil Code, used by local governors

neg: Cane (novel) "Cane" in November 1921 on a train from Georgia to Washington D.C. By Christmas of 1921, the first draft of those sketches and the short story “Kabnis” were complete. Waldo Frank, Toomer’s close friend, suggested that Toomer combine the sketches into a book. In order to form a book-length manuscript, Toomer added sketches relating to the black urban experience. When Toomer completed the book, he wrote: “My words had become a book…I had actually finished something.” However, before the book was published, Toomer’s initial euphoria began to fade. He wrote, “The book is done but when I look for the

neg: Charles Barber (author) was called "a blockbuster" by Library Journal. Salon wrote: "Compelling. In Comfortably Numb, Barber brings a street-smart perspective... Offers something several of the other books don't: practical, therapeutic alternatives to antidepressants.” Barber wrote pieces relating to "Comfortably Numb" in "The Washington Post", "Scientific American Mind", and "The Nation". In promoting the book, he appeared on Fresh Air and national television. The paperback edition of "Comfortably Numb" was released by Vintage Books in 2009. His forthcoming book, "Citizen Outlaw: A Gangster's Journey", will be published by HarperCollins. Barber has lectured nationally and internationally at colleges, medical schools, and mental health advocacy

neg: Ellen Schulz Quillin Ellen Schulz Quillin Ellen Dorothy Schulz Quillin (June 16, 1892 – May 6, 1970) was an American botanist, author, and museum director who helped establish the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas. She was the museum's director from 1926 to 1960. Quillin also wrote several field guides relating to plants in Texas. Ellen Dorothy Schulz was born on June 16, 1892, in Saginaw County, Michigan, the daughter of William and Anna (Millfeld) Schulz. She received an M.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 1918 and did postgraduate work at the University of Texas from 1920 to 1922. She married

neg: Bud Shrake Bud Shrake Edwin A. "Bud" Shrake, Jr. (September 6, 1931 – May 8, 2009) was an American journalist, sportswriter, novelist, biographer and screenwriter. He co-wrote a series of golfing advice books with golf coach Harvey Penick, including "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book", a golf guide that became the best-selling sports book in publishing history. Called a “lion of Texas letters” by the "Austin American-Statesman", Shrake was a member of the Texas Film Hall of Fame, and received the Lon Tinkle lifetime achievement award from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Book Festival Bookend Award. Shrake was born in

neg: Stephen Moss (American author) scientists who had worked at NASA. Stephen Moss (American author) Steven Moss (born ) is an American author and educator known for co-writing "We Could Not Fail", a book covering the lives of the first ten black Americans who worked for NASA. Moss was educated at Texas Tech University, where he wrote his master's thesis on race issues concerning NASA. Moss is an associate professor of English at Texas State Technical College. Moss collaborated with Richard Paul, a radio producer who was working to document the lives of early black NASA employees, to write a book covering the lives of

neg: Philippine mythology Tagalos" in 1589, documenting the traditions of the Tagalog people at the time. Other accounts during the period are Miguel de Loarca's "Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas" and Pedro Chirino's "Relacion de las Island Filipinas" (1604). The stories of ancient Philippine mythology include deities, creation stories, mythical creatures, and beliefs. Ancient Philippine mythology varies among the many indigenous tribes of the Philippines. Some groups during the pre-Spanish conquest era believed in a single Supreme Being who created the world and everything in it, while others chose to worship a multitude of tree and forest deities ("diwata"s). "Diwata"s came from the

neg: Amarillo Slim Fat People", where he wrote of playing poker with Larry Flynt, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon among others. In addition to his poker exploits, Preston wrote about his exploits in proposition betting. In April 2007, Preston created a website and released an E-Book called "All In: An E-guide To No Limit Texas Hold'em". The book was written by Preston along with Joe Brent Riley. Thomas Austin Preston Jr. was born on December 31, 1928, in Johnson, Arkansas, but when he was an infant his parents moved to Turkey, Texas. After they divorced, his mother returned to Johnson, while his father

neg: Dorothy Scarborough critically acclaimed book, "The Wind" (first published anonymously in 1925), was later made into a film of the same name starring Lillian Gish. Biographical Essay on the Handbook of Texas Online Foreword to "The Wind" by Sylvia Ann Grider, Barker Texas History Center series, University of Texas Press, 1979. Dorothy Scarborough Emily Dorothy Scarborough (January 27, 1878 – November 7, 1935) was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest. Scarborough was born in Mount Carmel, Texas. At the age of four she moved to Sweetwater, Texas for her

neg: Guru Amar Das her father and in 1539, Amar Das, at the age of sixty, met Guru Angad and became a Sikh, devoting himself to the Guru. In 1552, before his death, Guru Angad appointed Amar Das as Guru Amar Das, the third Guru of Sikhism. Guru Amar Das was an important innovator in Sikhism, who introduced a religious organization called the "Manji" system by appointing trained clergy, a system that expanded and survives into the contemporary era. He wrote and compiled hymns into a "Pothi" (book) that ultimately helped create the "Adi Granth". Guru Amar Das helped establish the Sikh rituals relating

neg: Banton Church in the island of Panay. On October 31, 1571, Banton became an encomienda entrusted to encomiendero Don Sebastian y Mena, a Spanish resided in Villa Arevalo in Panay. In 1582, Banton was visited by Miguel de Loarca, who gave a clear view of the island. In his famous book "Relacion de Las Islas Filipinas," it was written: "“The island is mountainous and almost round in shape planted by coconut trees. There 200 families residing the island. Majority of them are traders…”" Based on the historical accounts of the Augustinian Recollects, Banton was established in 1622 in the hill of Bacoco

neg: National Indian Association book of guidance called "Handbook of information relating to university and professional studies etc. for Indian students in the United Kingdom". Manning's help was not just theoretical, in 1888 Cornelia Sorabji wrote to the National Indian Association from India for assistance in completing her education. This was championed by Mary Hobhouse, and Manning contributed funds together with Florence Nightingale, Sir William Wedderburn and others. Sorabji arrived in England in 1889 and stayed with Manning and Hobhouse. Sorabji became the first woman to complete a law degree at Oxford and kept in contact with the NIA during her later career. In

neg: San Mateo, Rizal There are 15 Barangays in San Mateo. In his book "Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas", Father Gaspar de San Agustin records the Municipality of San Mateo in 1572 as a town annexed to Pasig. He described the inhabitants as "fierce but friendly and of quiet disposition." Father Juan de Medina, in his account Relacion de los Con ventos Y Pueblos Fundados por los PP. Agustinos, likewise put 1572 as the year the Parish of San Mateo was established. However, according to Miguel López de Legazpi, the first Spanish Governor in the Philippines (1571 to 1572), it was Juan de Salcedo,

neg: Georgetown, Texas their fields. Also, concerns were expressed about noise relating to cattle and other farm animals. Meanwhile, Round Rock and Georgetown leadership strongly lobbied for a route along the Balcones Escarpment fault line, which would later become U.S. Highway 81 and then eventually I-35. The second-largest economic development activity in Georgetown history was the selection in 1995 of Georgetown as the site for the first-ever Sun City location in Texas. Originally called Sun City Georgetown, the project today is called Sun City Texas due to its size and because it draws residents from all over the state. As of 2010, about

neg: Bidi Bidi Bom Bom recordings]". Sue Anne Pressley of the "Washington Post" wrote that "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" was "sprightly carefree", and "infectious". Writing for the "San Antonio Express-News", Michael Clark complimented A.B.'s addition of "world-music flourishes" to the song. Katherine Seligman, also from the "San Antonio Express News", described the recording as an: "infectiously happy song". "Sun Sentinel" contributor, Steve Bennett also called the recording "infectious". Author Veda Boyd Jones wrote that "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" is a: "catchy song with nonsensical words". This was echoed by Joe Nick Patoski in his book, "Texas Monthly on Texas Women", where he called Selena "savvy

neg: Midnight, Texas week. The official trailer of the series was released on March 20, 2017. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 63% approval rating for the first season, with an average rating of 5.3/10 based on 27 reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a first-season score of 50 out of 100, based on 16 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Midnight, Texas Midnight, Texas is an American supernatural drama television series broadcast on NBC. "Midnight, Texas" is based on the book series of the same name by author Charlaine Harris, who also wrote "The Southern Vampire Mysteries", the

neg: José Enrique de la Peña to determine the authenticity of the documents. In 1955, Jesús Sanchez Garza published a book called "La Rebellion de Texas—Manuscrito Inedito de 1836 por un Ofical de Santa Anna" purporting to be de la Peña's memoirs. "Inedito" means "unpublished" in Spanish, meaning that this was the first time the memoirs were publicly available. Garza self-published the book, which included the diary, 40 pages of introductory material on de la Peña and an additional 90 pages of supporting documents, including the only known copy of the article de la Peña wrote from prison. The book had little impact on historical research

neg: The Liars' Club her experience being raped and molested as a child, her mother's mental instability, and her witness to death and disparity. The book is split into three sections, each a different period of her life. The first, called "Texas, 1961", details Karr's and her sister Lecia's upbringing in Southeast Texas. The narrative includes backgrounds of both of her parents, Charlie and J.P., including how they met, and their previous relationships. Karr also writes about her maternal grandmother, who at 50 years old, died of cancer. The second section of the book is called "Colorado, 1963". Karr explains that her family "moved

neg: Emily St. John Mandel Great Lakes region. It was nominated for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Toronto Book Award. A film adaptation of the novel is in development by producer Scott Steindorff. Mandel wrote an article analysing in detail – using Goodreads' database of books – statistics relating to novels with titles in "The ___'s Daughter" pattern. She wrote a similar, subsequent article analysing in detail – using Goodreads' database of books – statistics relating to novels that included the word "girl" in the

neg: Battle of Grand Pré and poet Mary Jane Katzmann Lawson wrote the poem "The Battle of Grand Pre" about 1820 Merrill Denison who wrote a radio play "The Raid on Grand Pre" in 1931 and Archibald MacMechan wrote a book "Red Snow on Grand Pré" in the same year. One of the Acadians who accompanied the French on this expedition was Zedore Gould then aged 20, who afterwards escaping the Expulsion was a tenant to DesBarres on his Minudie estate. He lived to a great age and was fond of relating his experiences in this, the perhaps most famous exploit in Nova Scotian History.

neg: Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast is a 2006 book by Ted L. Eubanks Jr., Robert A. Behrstock, and Ron J. Weeks, published by the Texas A&M University Press. The book discusses birds found in seven Texas counties, although the content extends into other counties as human political boundaries do not often define natural regions. Victor Emanuel wrote the book's foreword. The book begins with its acknowledgements. The first section of "Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast" discusses the history of bird observation in and

neg: Texas State Historical Association relating to Texas." This led to another meeting in Austin on March 2, 1897, where 250 individuals were invited to help create the organization. Of the 250, "between twenty and thirty" were present at the meeting, with others who could not attend responding with approval. This first formal meeting of TSHA included men and several women who became charter members. One of the founders was U.S. Texas Senator John Henninger Reagan. At this first meeting, George P. Garrison, forwarded the idea that archival material about Texas needed to be preserved. Officers were chosen during the meeting and a controversy over

neg: John Greville Fennell outdoor pursuits. He was author of ‘The Book of the Roach,’ 1870, an exhaustive treatise on angling for that fish; and contributed a paper called ‘Curiosities of Angling Literature’ to Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell's ‘Fishing Gossip,’ 1866. This is a discursive attempt at the humorous style in writing on angling topics, which was at that time fashionable. He also wrote ‘The Rail and the Rod,’ a meritorious guide book to the favourite angling resorts of the Thames. Generous to a fault, and an excellent practical angler, Fennell was never so happy as when relating to a circle of friends reminiscences of

neg: Thorne Webb Dreyer included in discussions with American peace activists." Author Mary Hershberger wrote that the meeting, organized by SDS founder Tom Hayden and peace activist Dave Dellinger, "resulted in the first prisoner of war release to American peace activists." In her book, "Dreams and Everyday Life", Penelope Rosemont wrote about the historic demonstrations outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. "Thorne Dreyer came into town from Austin, Texas to edit the SDS wall poster called "Handwriting on the Wall"," she said. "Handwriting on the Wall" was published each night during the convention and posted all over town, playing an important role in

neg: Telegraph and Texas Register the newspaper remained in Houston. Many of the paper's articles were aimed at attracting immigrants to Texas, or retaining those who had recently arrived. Articles emphasized the good character of recent settlers (as opposed to the widespread belief that residents of Texas were scoundrels) and the advantages of living in the country. Through much of 1837, Moore wrote a series of articles describing the natural resources of Texas and the geography of various regions of the nations. Moore's series on the geography of Texas was in 1840 compiled into a book "Maps and Descriptions of Texas". The book was reprinted

neg: Willard S. Bain Lipton in the "Los Angeles Free Press" wrote: "The author, whoever he is, is the master arsonist of ideas, a light-bringer as well as a fire-bringer. This book may turn out to be the first major work of the hip era in writing." He opened a bookstore called Paper Ships in Corte Madera, California in 1970. Willard S. Bain Willard S. Bain (May 4, 1938 – December 2, 2000) was an American writer. Born Willard Slocum Bain Jr. in San Antonio, Texas, where his father was the president of the Mid-Texas Telephone Company, he graduated from Alamo Heights High School

neg: PUSH (university guide) a wider range of concerns, particularly those relating to non-academic features of student life. The first edition of the book coincided with legislation that led to the transformation of all British polytechnics into universities, but the acronym was retained as the book had provoked considerable media interest. In particular, attention focused on what Push called 'flunk rates' (i.e. the proportion of students who dropped out or failed their courses), which were revealed in a comparative form for the first time. The website was launched in 1996 and, shortly afterwards, Ben Rich left Push as his career in public relations demanded

neg: Carl H. Claudy and factual nature. Carl H. Claudy Carl Harry Claudy (January 13, 1879 – May 27, 1957) was an American author, magazine writer, and journalist for the New York Herald. He wrote a number of books relating to photography and to aviation, including "First Book of Photography: A Primer of Theory" and "Prize Winners' Book of Model Airplanes". During the early 1900s, Claudy photographed many important aeronautical events such as Alexander Graham Bell's tetrahedral kite experiments and the Wright Flyer Army Trials at Fort Meyer, Virginia. Claudy wrote many science fiction stories for "The American Boy" magazine during the early 1930s.

neg: Carl H. Claudy Carl H. Claudy Carl Harry Claudy (January 13, 1879 – May 27, 1957) was an American author, magazine writer, and journalist for the New York Herald. He wrote a number of books relating to photography and to aviation, including "First Book of Photography: A Primer of Theory" and "Prize Winners' Book of Model Airplanes". During the early 1900s, Claudy photographed many important aeronautical events such as Alexander Graham Bell's tetrahedral kite experiments and the Wright Flyer Army Trials at Fort Meyer, Virginia. Claudy wrote many science fiction stories for "The American Boy" magazine during the early 1930s. Four novelization books

neg: Tippy Lemmey fans of both animal stories and realistic fiction." "The Horn Book Magazine" wrote "This is a terrific read-aloud, but why bother? Get Tippy Lemmey into one kid's hands and it will be the pass-it-on hit of the summer reading club." "Tippy Lemmey" has also been reviewed by "Kirkus Reviews". It was a 2005 Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee. Tippy Lemmey Tippy Lemmey is a 2003 chapter book by Patricia McKissack about three children, Leandra, Paul, and Jeannie, who are terrorised by a neighborhood dog, called Tippy Lemmey, but manage to overcome their fears and befriend him. A review of "Tippy Lemmey"

neg: T. R. Fehrenbach T. R. Fehrenbach Theodore Reed "T. R." Fehrenbach, Jr. (January 12, 1925 – December 1, 2013) was an American historian, columnist, and the former head of the Texas Historical Commission (1987-1991). He graduated from Princeton University in 1947 and wrote more than twenty books, including the bestseller "Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans" and "This Kind of War", about the Korean War. Senator John McCain called this book “perhaps the best book ever written on the Korean War”. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said “There’s a reason I recommended T.R. Fehrenbach’s book...that we all pull it out and

neg: Pete Brewton who have grown bitter from the endless frustration and resentment that is their unhappy lot." Brewton promoted the book on Alternative Views. Texas politician Jon Lindsay took out a newspaper advertisement to discredit Brewton's book. Pete Brewton Pete Brewton teaches journalism and law at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Brewton is best known for an investigative journalism series he wrote for the "Houston Post" that were the basis of a book, "The Mafia, CIA and George Bush." He is an award-winning journalist with 15 years reporting experience at the "Houston Chronicle" and the "Houston Post". He practiced law in

neg: Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast Husak of Cameron University wrote that the book's size makes it difficult to carry during any trips to observe birds. Manaster concluded that the book is "a spectacular contribution". Husak wrote that the book "will serve as an indispensable reference for professionals and amateur birders with an interest in the avifauna of this region." Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast is a 2006 book by Ted L. Eubanks Jr., Robert A. Behrstock, and Ron J. Weeks, published by the Texas A&M University Press. The book discusses birds found

neg: Gardner Soule wasp as informative. Soule who had spent his early life in Texas authored "The Long Trail" which described the history of cowboys and cattle trails. Historian Ralph Bieber wrote that the book was "disorganized, full errors, and generally unreliable." Orlan Sawey a President of the Texas Folklore Society wrote that a "major defect of the book is its historical inaccuracy." Gardner Soule Gardner Soule (December 16, 1913 - October 26, 2000) was an American writer known for his books on cryptozoology and marine life. Soule contributed articles to "Boys' Life" and "Popular Science". Many of his books were aimed for

neg: Bud Shrake Russell's "Dare of an Angel" and the Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn standard "My Buddy." Shrake’s hearse bore the Mad Dog Productions sign in the back window. Shrake is buried next to Ann Richards in the Texas State Cemetery Bud Shrake Edwin A. "Bud" Shrake, Jr. (September 6, 1931 – May 8, 2009) was an American journalist, sportswriter, novelist, biographer and screenwriter. He co-wrote a series of golfing advice books with golf coach Harvey Penick, including "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book", a golf guide that became the best-selling sports book in publishing history. Called a “lion of Texas letters” by

neg: Texas literature Duval wrote "Early Times in Texas" (serial form, 1868–71; book, 1892) and "Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace" (1872). Fiction about Texas was written starting in the early 19th century and consisted primarily of romantic historical novels. The Alamo figured prominently in many of these works by authors such as Augusta Evans Wilson, Amelia Edith Barr, and Jeremiah Clemens. Two seminal writers who wrote about Texas in the Western tradition are J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb. Other non-fiction writers about Texas include Edward C. Abbott, Tom (Thomas Calloway) Lea, Paul Horgan, J. Evetts Haley and Sally Reynolds Matthews. One of

neg: Erkkara Raman Nambudiri and Parpola, elevated him to national and international levels. Being a renowned scholar, his word was the last on matters relating to Śrauta and Vedic rituals. After 1970, Erkkara wrote several articles relating to Vedam which got published. He was the founding editor of "Anaadi" monthly which was started in 1973. Erkkara’s first book "Aamnaaya Mathhanam" got him the Sahitya Akademi Award. His later books "Ekaahaaheena Sathrangal" and "Srouthakarma Vivekam" were well received by scholars. Erkkara was not only a bright scholar and orthodox ritualist, but he managed to look after his family property and family temple in place of

neg: Pauline A. Young at any injustice." "Delaware: A History of the First State" is a three-volume Delaware history book. Young wrote a chapter in this book titled "The Negro in Delaware: Past and Present" that focused on the early history of African-Americans in the state. This work was the first comprehensive history of Black Americans in Delaware. Many scholars regularly turn to the writings because it is a source of information relating to the heritage of all aspects of Black history. In this book, Pauline addresses race relations in the state and expresses her concerns with Delaware's lack of progression.Young began her collection

neg: Texas Rangers (film) source was the book "Taming of the Neuces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers" by George Durham. In 1989, Frank Price at Columbia optioned a story idea called "Ranger" from Scott Busby and Martin Copland based on the book "A Texas Ranger" by N. A. Jennings. Busby and Copland were hired to do the adaptation. A year later John Milius was on the project. He wrote several drafts and was going to direct for Columbia, then Savoy Pictures. In 1992 Milius said he hoped to make the film with a young cast for $15–17 million. Which is "very reasonable today,"

neg: Jared Taylor he founded and published the first issue of "American Renaissance", a white supremacist newsletter and website. In 1994 he created the New Century Foundation to help with the running of "American Renaissance". Taylor wrote "Paved With Good Intentions" (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1993), a book on race-relations in the United States. In 1994, he was called by the defense team in a Fort Worth, Texas black-on-black murder trial, to give expert testimony on the race-related aspects of the case. Prior to testifying in the trial he called young black men "the most dangerous people in America" and added "This must

neg: Gabrielle Enthoven visit sites of old theatres. Shortly before her death in 1950, Enthoven became the first Chairman of the Society for Theatre Research After her marriage in 1893, Enthoven began to regularly attend the theatre and to paste various press cuttings relating to the London theatre into scrapbooks. Her great interest in theatre and theatre history led Enthoven to start collecting memorabilia and ephemera related to the stage. She recalled: 'It started when, in 1900, I noticed an inaccuracy in some book of stage history. Being passionately interested in the theatre, I wrote to the author who admitted a mistake. There

neg: John Warner Barber and harbors and collected local history as he went. He also delved into the works of historians. From all this he produced the book now commonly called "Connecticut Historical Collections". The full title is "Connecticut Historical Collections, Containing a General Collection of Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Connecticut with Geographical Descriptions". The book has been called "the first popular local history published in the U.S." The book sold well—7,000 copies in its first year even though it cost three dollars, then an average week's pay. Twelve years later

neg: Pun Pun-Off World Championships in Austin, Texas. In 2015 the UK Pun Champion was Leo Kearse. Sometimes called "books never written" or "world's greatest books", these are jokes which consist of fictitious book titles with authors' names that contain a pun relating to the title. Perhaps the best-known example is: ""Tragedy on the Cliff" by Eileen Dover", which according to one source was devised by humourist Peter DeVries. It is common for these puns to reference taboo subject matter, such as ""What Boys Love" by E. Norma Stitts". Non-humorous puns were and are a standard poetic device in English literature. Puns

neg: Critical terrorism studies dominant terrorism paradigm." CTS's antecedents lie with scholars such as Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, who published critical works relating to the state and terrorism from the late 1970s. One of the first major works that gave impetus to a CTS discourse was Joseba Zulaika and William Douglass's seminal work, "Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism". This book was a critical appraisal of many of the international community's commonly-held assumptions about terrorism. A further catalyst for CTS came from Richard Jackson's 2005 book, "Writing the War on Terrorism". Jackson called for scholars to resist the current

neg: Granger E. Westberg case conferences. He also wrote and talked about what he called "whole-person care". In 1962 Westberg's interest in the grief process resulted in his writing "Good Grief", a book that is still selling well more than 50 years after its first publication. At the time of Westberg's death, the work had sold more than 2.4 million copies and was the top-selling book in the history of Augsburg Fortress, the official publisher of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In 1964 Westberg became the Dean of the Institute of Religion, which was located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center

neg: Sydir Vorobkevych by a quiet sparkling of sincere, deep, human, and people-relating feeling" (Ivan Franko). The prominent characteristics of Vorobkevych's poetry are folkore and a melodious quality. After a trip to Kiev in 1874, he wrote choir works "Tsar-river our Dnieper" and "I was born upon Dnieper, therefore I am Cossack". During his lifetime, a collection of his poems entitled "on the Prut" (1901) was published, edited by Ivan Franko, who called him the "first new spring lark of our national revival." A series of the poet's series of short stories, novels and essays, called "Peru", included "Nero", "Sablya Skanderbeg", "Cleopatra," and

neg: Bro Code Bro Code that they developed in their sitcom, "How I Met Your Mother" creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, and one of the show's writers, Matt Kuhn, wrote a book called "The Bro Code". Published by Simon & Schuster, the book covers 150 rules written in articles of what "bros" should or should not do. The book was penned by Barney Stinson and also credited with Kuhn, who also wrote the entries of Barney's blog, mentioned in the series. The book was first shown in the episode "The Goat". Greig Dymond of CBC.ca calls the book "a tongue-in-cheek guide to

neg: Betty Sue Flowers Betty Sue Flowers Betty Sue Flowers is the former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and an Emerita Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Flowers is a native Texan and graduated from the University of Texas and the University of London. She is the author of a number of texts, particularly relating to Christina Rossetti. She also edited the book and acted as a consultant to the 1988 documentary, "The Power of Myth", a series of interviews between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers. She also coauthored the influential book "Presence: Human purpose and

neg: Justin Harvey Smith 1920 and the first Loubat Prize in 1923. From 1917 to 1923 Smith was chairman of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of the American Historical Association. Justin Harvey Smith also wrote "Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony" in 1907. He wrote "Arnold's March from Cambridge to Quebec" in 1903. In 1899 he wrote "The Troubadours at Home". Smith's papers were donated to the Latin American collection of the University of Texas library, (now the Benson Latin American Collection, by a book dealer, Michael M. Russel, who had acquired them. The collection enriched the university's materials on the Mexican–American War. Dr. Smith

neg: J. J. Pickle Nora "Sugar" Critz. They had one daughter together. Critz died in 1952 and Pickle married Beryl Bolton McCarroll in 1960. Pickle was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1991 and lymphoma in 2001. He died at his home in Austin on June 18, 2005 of complications from his cancer and is interred at the Texas State Cemetery there. Peggy Pickle was Jake Pickle's only daughter. She still makes contributions to the University of Texas at Austin on her father's behalf. In 1997, Jake and Peggy Pickle wrote a book together called "Jake" with a foreword by former Texas governor Ann Richards.

neg: Rajah Matanda the same year, he succumbed to his illness. Before he died, Legazpi granted Rajah Matanda's wish that Rajah Sulayman be declared Paramount ruler of Maynila. The unnamed author of the "Anonymous 1572 Relacion" (translated in Volume 3 of Blair and Robertson) explains that this was in keeping with indigenous laws, which allowed inheritances to be passed on to "legitimate" children. While Rajah Matanda did in fact have children, they were not born of his "legitimate wife". The unnamed author of the relacion, explaining the custom as he understood it, says: According to archival research of historian Luis Camara Dery, Rajah

neg: Julian Darley the University of Texas at Austin, where he wrote his thesis on the elimination of television. In pursuit of better understanding of hydrocarbon, Julian wrote a book called "High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis" about a natural gas crisis in North America and other industrialized nations. He also co-authored "Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil" (2005, unreleased) in collaboration with Celine Rich, Dave Room and Richard Heinberg, a book tackling the subjects of “global relocalization” of economy, society and culture. Julian Darley Julian Darley is a filmmaker, writer and speaker

neg: Fran Lebowitz a writer of book and movie reviews for a small magazine called "Changes", Andy Warhol hired her as a columnist for "Interview," where she wrote a column called "I Cover the Waterfront." This was followed by a stint at "Mademoiselle". Her first two books were the essay collections "Metropolitan Life" (1978) and "Social Studies" (1981), both collected in "The Fran Lebowitz Reader". In 1995 she wrote "Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas", a children's book about giant pandas living in New York City who long to move to Paris. Lebowitz has been known, in part, for "Exterior Signs

neg: Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1711 them to Universities or Town Councils. The lands associated with supporting Parish clergy – or Ministers, as they were now called – were generally undisturbed. The King took over the role of default Patron, in the absence of any specific Patron. The First Book of Discipline (1560) and the Second Book of Discipline (1578) laid down the rules for the reformed Church of Scotland. Both stipulated that Ministers should be chosen by congregations. The First Book never became civil law, and neither did the part of the Second Book relating to Patronage, as the right of the heirs of original

neg: Gay Life (TV series) and relating to non-gay people". "Gay Life" was broadcast late on a Sunday evening in the London region, and was first shown on 11 February 1980 at 11:30 pm. Notable contributors included comedian Graham Chapman, who spoke of his experience as a gay parent in the February 24 episode. The debut episode was reviewed by John Russell Taylor in the following week's issue of "Gay News". In his essay "Something for Everyone" included in the critical theory book "Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics" edited by Glyn Davis and Gary Needham, Gregory Woods wrote that Taylor's review had raised "basic but

neg: Kit Carson thought that Mrs. White read the same ... [and prayed] for my appearance that she might be saved." In 1856, Carson told his life story to someone who wrote it down. This book is called "Memoirs". The manuscript was lost when taken East to find a professional writer who would work it into a book. Washington Irving was asked, but declined. The lost manuscript was found in a trunk in Paris in 1905. It was later printed. The first biography of Carson was written by DeWitt C. Peters in 1859. The book was called "Kit Carson, the Nestor of the

neg: Maya music were used to blow higher overtones. While the use of clay trumpets gradually diminished, the use of wooden trumpets persisted. ‘Long thin trumpets of hollow wood with long twisted gourds at the ends’ still existed by the time Diego de Landa wrote his Relacion in 1566. The Maya used many different types of flutes, some much like modern flutes and others very different. A common type of Mayan flute had a goitre chamber on the side which was used to deflect the air going into the instrument from taking a straight path. This caused the instrument to produce a sound

neg: Michael O'Brien (photographer) (Bright Sky Press, 2003). The book was a collaborative effort with former "LIFE" reporter Elizabeth Owen O'Brien (his spouse), who wrote brief, biographical stories to accompany each figure. "The Face of Texas" features nationally known figures such as Willie Nelson and George W. Bush side by side with lesser-known Texans like Shannon Perry, the 1989 Gatorfest Queen of Anahuac. A second edition of "The Face of Texas", with 23 new portraits and additional stories, was published by The University of Texas Press (October 2014). O'Brien's second book, "Hard Ground", is a collection of black-and-white portraits of homeless individuals, accompanied by

neg: Lorraine Heath parents met while her a father was stationed at Bovingdon while serving in the air force. Shortly after Heath's birth, her family moved to Texas where she was raised in Angleton, Texas. She earned a BA in psychology from the University of Texas and lived in Austin, Texas for sixteen years before moving to Plano, Texas in 1987. In 1998, Laura Bush, then First Lady of Texas, invited Heath to serve on a romance panel at the Texas Book Festival. She wrote training manuals and computer code for the IRS before she turned to fiction writing when she picked up

neg: Littlefield, Texas an interest in Newton's wife, Ruth. Another suspect, Jim Clyde Thomas, was gunned down in a personal disagreement on August 22, 1951, in Durant, Oklahoma. The murders, called the "most heinous on the Texas South Plains", remain unsolved. The Hunts are interred at the City of Lubbock Cemetery; their two young daughters were reared by Mrs. Hunt's sister. "Clovis Road - The Dr. Roy Hunt Murder - Littlefield, Texas 1942 - 1943" was written in 2009 by a Littlefield native, Dana Middlebrooks Samuelson and Robert Samuelson, M.D. Jerry Scott Hughes wrote the foreword, and the book was based on their

neg: Clay Walker Walker did. Of the comparison among the three, Rick Koster wrote in the book "Texas Music" that Walker's success came more quickly than that of Chesnutt or Byrd. Kurt Wolff and Orla Duane, authors of "Country Music: The Rough Guide", said that he "had loads of youthful energy, a golden Texas twang, and, of course, plenty of boyish good looks." They also called his music "relatively tame" but said that "his Texas bar-room roots remain clearly visible in his voice and songs." Regarding Walker's onstage persona, former Warner Bros. executive Bill Mayne told "Billboard" magazine in 1997 that Walker has

neg: David L. Hoggan [Trott zu Solz] believe that I undertook these commitments gladly? Hitler forced me into them!" In response, Barnes and Hoggan wrote a series of letters attempting to rebut Weinberg's arguments, who in his turn wrote letters replying to and rebutting the arguments of Hoggan and Barnes. The exchanges between Hoggan and Barnes on one side and Weinberg on the other became increasingly rancorous and vitriolic to such an extent that in October 1963 the editors of the "American Historical Review" announced that they would cease publishing letters relating to Hoggan's book in the interests of decorum. In a 1963 article,

neg: Translation (Mormonism) Cyril C. Richardson. It appears in 9:3. Annalee Skarin was a woman who had been raised in the LDS Church who claimed to have invented a meditation technique by which anyone could "translate" themselves directly into Heaven. She also claimed in her book to be able to see directly into the Spirit World with what is called in Mormonism the "spiritual eye". She wrote a book about it called "Ye Are Gods". Originally a devout Mormon, she was excommunicated from the Church shortly after publication of her first book, "Ye Are Gods", because it was perceived by high-ranking members that

neg: Edwin Jackson Kyle Agriculture in 1911, Kyle was named its first dean. Committed to education as well as research, Kyle wrote prolifically about agriculture. His book, "Fundamentals of Farming and Farm Life", was adopted by the state of Texas as a standard elementary textbook in 1912. Within 30 years this textbook had sold over half a million copies, "an enormous publication run for the era." In the fall of 1904, Kyle, who was also the director of the General Athletics Association, wanted to secure and develop an athletic field to promote the school's athletics. Texas A&M was unwilling to provide funds, so Kyle

neg: Jesse Sublett "Deep in the Heart (of Texas)". Sublett has also written extensively for non-fiction television, contributing to numerous series on The History Channel such as "The Great Ships," "Search and Rescue," and "Boneyards: The Secret Lives of Machines." A two-hour documentary, "The Killer Storm" (chronicling the so-called Perfect Storm of 1991), which Sublett wrote, aired on The History Channel in 1999 and also premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin. He wrote the original book for a stage play called "Marathon" which debuted in 2007 with music by Austin-based singer-songwriter Darden Smith. In 2009, however, Sublett asserted his

neg: The Wrong Box (novel) The Wrong Box (novel) The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. The others were "The Wrecker" (1892) and "The Ebb-Tide" (1894). Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 (then called "The Finsbury Tontine"), Stevenson revised it in 1888 (then called "A Game of Bluff") and again in 1889 when it

neg: Dalmatian city-states who visited him in 1897 and wrote down approximately 2,800 words, stories, and accounts of his life, which were published in a book that has provided much information on the vocabulary, phonology, and grammar of the language. Bartoli wrote in Italian and published a translation in German ("") in 1906: this book is considered the first on ethnic minority disappearance in world literature. The boundaries of the eight original Dalmatian City-States were defined by the so-called "Dalmatian Pale", similar to the one existing in Ireland under British control and called The Pale. The word "pale" derives ultimately from the Latin

neg: Nigamananda Paramahansa of sadhana (spiritual practice) prevalent in Sanatan Dharma. Nigamanananda's followers believe that these books are useful to any faithful person and if practiced carefully will lead to success in spiritual pursuits. By Mohanty's efforts these books were translated from Bengali to Oriya. Nigamananda also published "Arya Darpan" (आर्य दर्पण), a monthly magazine on sanatana dharma, intended for disseminating non-sectarian spiritual knowledge among the masses. Many essays on important topics relating to religious and scriptural matters were included in this magazine. Advising his disciples, Nigamananda wrote letters, from which one hundred are collected in a book called "Thakurer Chithi" (ठाकुरेर चिठी).

neg: Catherine Ponder initial ministry in Birmingham, Alabama (1958–61). She founded ministries in Austin, Texas (1961–69), San Antonio (1969–73) and Palm Desert, California in 1973, where she remains minister. Ponder wrote her first prosperity book "The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity" in the early 1960s whilst living in Birmingham, Alabama. Her life expanded dramatically whilst she was in the midst of finishing that book. She married and moved to the southwest, where her husband taught at the University of Texas. Much later, after her husband's death, her life changed again. In the early 1970s, another move took her to San Antonio, Texas. There she

neg: Bathala combination of two different spellings of the name from older documents such as ""Badhala"" in ""Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalos"" (1589, Juan de Plasencia) and ""Batala"" in ""Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas"" (1582, Miguel de Loarca), the latter was supposedly the correct spelling in Tagalog since the letter "h" was silent in Spanish. Bathala or Batala was apparently derived from Sanskrit "bhattara" (noble lord) which appeared as the sixteenth-century title "batara" in the southern Philippines and Borneo. In Indonesian language, "batara" means "god", its feminine counterpart was "batari". It may be worth noting that in Malay, "betara" means

neg: Romblon nest. This eventually evolved to "Lomlom", and later on to "Donblon", the name reported by Spanish chronicler Miguel de Loarca in his book "Relacion de las Islas Filipinas" in 1582, before finally evolving to Romblon. Meanwhile, local historians Roland Madeja and Evelyn Reyes relate the origin of the name "Romblon" to the shape of Romblon Island. Madeja claims that the name was derived from the Spanish word "ronblon", another term for "tornillo", meaning "screw." According to him, the Spanish claimed to have observed the screw-like shape of Romblon Island. Meanwhile, Reyes claims Romblon originated from "doubloon", which refers to the

neg: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid Ariav of the Hillel Jewish Student Center on the Iowa campus, who stated: "'I am an Israeli so of course I served in the military, so I feel emotionally involved, but I feel every person, every American, every thinker needs to think twice about Carter's opinion, because it's not right' ..." Nevertheless, Keller adds: "Carter adamantly defends the accuracy of his book, saying he wrote every word himself." On 3 May 2007, Carter presented a lecture and participated in a discussion relating to the book in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Democracy and Model United Nations, in

neg: Seto Inland Sea latter part. In the Western world, Donald Richie wrote a literary nonfiction travelogue called "The Inland Sea" relating a journey along the sea, beginning from the East at Himeji and ending at Miyajima in the West, close to Hiroshima, going from island to island, exploring the landscape, meeting and discussing with local people, as well as musing on Japanese culture, the nature of travel and of identity, and his own personal sense of identity. In 1991, filmmakers Lucille Carra and Brian Cotnoir produced a film version of Richie's book, which further explored the region through interviews and images photographed by

neg: Foy E. Wallace the Gospel Advocate Company "circa" 1934. 4. "The Certified Gospel", First Edition – 1937. This is a book of sermons delivered at Port Arthur, Texas in 1937. The sermons are: The Certified Gospel, Who Wrote the Bible?, Christ and the Church, How and When the Church Began, The Last Will and Testament, What It Means to Preach Christ, The Gospel in Old Testament Example, The Lord's Day, Restoring the Ancient Order, Why Send for Peter?, What To Do To Be Saved, God's Call to Repentance and The Origin and Doctrines of Seventh Day Adventism. This book contains 110 pages and

neg: Pulpwood Queens favorite books. In a February 2010 article, the "Texas Observer" described the weekend as "fast becoming one of the most important literary events in America." And the "Marshall News Messenger", in Marshall, Texas, wrote that the event is for men too, with members known as the Timber Guys. Pulpwood Queens was included in a "Newsweek" article about book clubs. In it, "Newsweek" reported that when Patrick, chosen by "Good Morning America" to select the first book on the morning show's televised book club, announced that the Pulpwood Queens had picked Ann Packer's debut novel, "The Dive From Clausen's Pier", it

neg: Laura Bush outreach in a multidisciplinary approach to women's health and has begun efforts to establish a multi-campus women's health institute in Amarillo, El Paso, Lubbock and the Permian Basin. A subsidiary of the center, the Jenna Welch Women's Center, opened in Midland, Texas, on August 10, 2010, to deliver expert medical care to women and their families. Operating in partnership with the Laura Bush Institute, the Jenna Welch Center, named for Bush's mother, strives for excellence in research, education and community outreach. Bush wrote her first book with her daughter Jenna called "Read All About It!". It was published on April

neg: Of Pandas and People gaps in the fossil record and the apparent sudden appearance "ex nihilo" of "already intact fish with fins and scales, birds with feathers, beaks, and wings, etc". The book makes no explicit reference to the identity of the intelligent designer implied in the "blueprint" metaphor. Kevin Padian, a biologist at University of California, Berkeley reviewed the book and called it "a wholesale distortion of modern biology". Michael Ruse, a professor of philosophy and biology, reviewed it, calling the book "worthless and dishonest". Gerald Skoog, Professor of Education at Texas Tech University, wrote in his 1989 review that the book reflected

neg: Union Harmony Fannin County, Texas. William died in 1857 and Harriet in 1858. "Union Harmony or Family Musician" was a four shape tunebook, registered in 1834, but printed in 1837 in Maryville, Tennessee by Ferdinand A. Parham. It contained 151 tunes, of which 43 songs are credited to William Caldwell. Many of these tunes, Caldwell wrote, were "not entirely original, but he has harmonized, and therefore claims them." David Music called this book "The First East Tennessee Tunebook". Writers from George Pullen Jackson to Harry Eskew consider the chief contribution on Caldwell and the "Union Harmony" to be the preservation of folk

neg: Avetis Sultan-Zade to interest in the "oil question" and the growing importance of this basic commodity. This study lead Sultan-Zade to the publication of his second full-length book, "Krizis mirogo khoziaistva i novaia voennaia groza" (The crisis of the world economy and the new threat of war), published in Moscow. In addition a synopsis of this book was published in article form in the pages of the multi-lingual magazine "Communist International." Sultan-Zade wrote a series of articles in 1922 relating to various issues relating to the political and economic situation in Iran, India, and China, including pieces on the peasantry, the battle

neg: Down in Houston cultural history and music of African-Americans in Texas. Willoughby wrote that the book doubles as a "fun and rewarding" work for people who enjoy music and also "a valuable cultural study as a neighborhood, its people, and its music survived and flourished from Jim Crow through the Civil Rights Movement." Other books about African-Americans in Houston: Down in Houston Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues is a 2003 book written by Roger Wood, with photographs from James Fraher, published by the University of Texas Press; it is No. 8 of the Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life,

neg: World Central Kitchen the disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017. World Central Kitchen served more than 3,000,000 meals. Its founder wrote a 2018 book about the experience called "We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time". In August 2017, WCK was coordinating efforts with the American Red Cross and working in Houston, Texas following Hurricane Harvey. WCK operated in Southern California in Ventura County during the December 2017 Thomas Fire to assist firefighters and first responders and provided food to families affected by the fires. A kitchen

neg: Wena Poon Texas who goes to Spain to break into the male-dominated world of bullfighting.It was adapted by BBC Radio 4 for serialisation over two weeks for its "Book at Bedtime" radio show. The series ran from 6–17 September 2010. "Alex y Robert" was launched on 12 July at the London Literature Festival to favourable reviews. In 2013, Poon released the sequel to "Alex y Robert" called "Novillera". The novel comments on gender, tradition and modernity and explores the ancient bull ranching culture of Spain. In 2012–2015, Poon wrote a trilogy of Chinese-Japanese sword fighting novels as a humorous, modern response to

neg: Horatio Gordon Robley live in London. Continuing with writing after his retirement, he returned to his interest in tattoos and wrote two books relating to his time in New Zealand, "Moko or Maori Tattooing" in 1896 and "Pounamu: Notes on New Zealand Greenstone". In the first book, as well as demonstrating and explaining the art of Māori tattooing, he also wrote chapters on the dried tattooed heads or Mokomokai. Robley decided to acquire as many examples of Mokomokai as possible, and at length built up a unique collection of 35 heads. In 1908 he offered them to the New Zealand Government for £1,000;

neg: Don Tate A review in the "School Library Journal" called the book "A lovely introduction to an inspirational American poet." The "Boston Globe" called it "a moving biography of a slave who taught himself to read using a discarded spelling book". In 2016, Tate won an Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, A Christopher, and a Texas Institute of Letters book prize. In his work, Tate often writes about historical figures who persisted during the period of American slavery. In the New York Times article "'A Fine Dessert': Judging a Book by the Smile of a Slave," Tate was quoted on the topic,

neg: Andrew W.K. Andrew W.K. due to his consistent and powerful use of positivity to improve the lives of those who hear his music." Andrew wrote a monthly column in FRONT Magazine in the UK. Andrew also wrote a monthly advice column in the Japanese magazine "Rockin' On", which ran for 10 years – from 2002 until 2012 – and resulted in a book of all the advice columns compiled, called "I Will Change Your Life." In September 2013, Andrew announced that his first book about partying, "The Party Bible," will be published by Simon & Schuster. The announcement, first broken on The

neg: Midnight, Texas Midnight, Texas Midnight, Texas is an American supernatural drama television series broadcast on NBC. "Midnight, Texas" is based on the book series of the same name by author Charlaine Harris, who also wrote "The Southern Vampire Mysteries", the novels which were adapted into the "True Blood" television series. The series premiered on July 24, 2017. On February 14, 2018, NBC renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on October 26, 2018. On the run from his past, young psychic Manfred Bernardo is told by the ghost of his grandmother to seek out refuge in Midnight, Texas. There, he

neg: Charles J. Shields published the first biography of Kurt Vonnegut, "And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life" (Holt), described by Steve Almond in the "Boston Globe" as a “disturbing account of the late author, whose ambition and talent transformed him from an obscure science fiction writer to a countercultural icon,” and an "engrossing, definitive biography" by "Publishers Weekly" in a starred review. It was selected as a "New York Times" Notable Book, and "Washington Post" Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011. In 2018, the University of Texas Press published Shields’ "The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner & the Writing

neg: Thomas J. Yates serve in other responsibilities and assignments in the church. He wrote a book called "A Brief History of the Origin of the Nations". He worked as a tour guide at Temple Square and served as a temple worker for ten years. He died on February 8, 1958, in Abilene, Texas, while he was visiting. He died in the Rancho Motel. Investigators found that he died due to a pulmonary hemorrhage. Thomas J. Yates Thomas J. Yates (November 13, 1870 – February 8, 1958) was the first seminary teacher in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In