" Fascinating information…little-known facts about remarkable Texans and events across the state."— North Dallas GazetteTexas is renowned for its legendary and colorful history—but even the state's famous storytellers don't know it all. Ever hear about the escaped ape in the Big Thicket? Or the "Interplanetary Capital of the Universe" that sat on the Gulf Coast? Does the cowboy hat that warmed U.S.-China relations ring a bell?From the Staked Plain ...

Uncover the suppressed testimony of the Lone Star State's uncomfortable past.Tinseltown almost always gets Texas wrong. The "Searchers" never did that much searching, the "Giants" were hardly ever big in terms of character and The Last Picture Show was just the beginning of a disturbing reveal. As acclaimed writer Stephen Harrigan suggests, the Lone Star State was not exactly a Big, Wonderful Thing, and for too many Texans, nothing was ever "Awright, Awright, Awrig...

In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Percilla-Augusta region of neighboring Houston County. The number of dead surpassed the casualties of the Rosewood Massacre in Florida and rivaled those of the Tulsa Riots in Oklahoma, but the incident--one of the largest mass murders of blacks in American history--is now largely forgotten. Investigate the facts behind this harrowing act of genocid...

On November 13, 1969, ten students at Texas State University were suspended for participating in a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. They had kept vigil in front of the Huntington Mustangs, bearing signs that read,"Vietnam Is an Edsel" and "44,000 U.S. Dead, For What?" while an increasingly hostile anti-protest crowd chanted, "Love it or leave it!" and "Let's string 'em up!" It was a day after news of the My Lai massacre broke. Part of a coordinated, nationwide Vietnam Moratorium e...

Some of these quirky true stories might surprise even the most proud Texan. Austin sat the first all-woman state supreme court in the nation in 1925. A utopian colony thrived in Kristenstad during the Great Depression. Bats taken from the Bracken and Ney Caves and Devil's Sinkhole were developed as a secret weapon that vied with the Manhattan Project to shorten World War II. In Slaton in 1922, German priest Joseph M. Keller was kidnapped, tarred and feathered amid anti-German fervor follow...

Welcome to Texas, where the things that go bump in the night are bigger and badder than anywhere else.Thirteen spine-tingling tales await, including Pendulum Grim, a chilling look at the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce, and Nia, a cautionary tale of political extremism. The real terror lies in stories like Warren, a haunting, ripped-from-the-headlines tale of how one man killed Halloween for a generation.E. R. Bills, a master of n...

Texas is more than a state of mind. Texas is a jam-packed slate of unmatched meanderings that run a dozen different directions. Have you ever mingled in Marfa, lingered in Luckenbach, or wandered the expanse of the Padre Island National Seashore? Do you want to trek through the Piney Woods, track a Texas whatsit, or trace the footsteps of a Lone Star literary treasure? Would you consider visiting a Texas ghost town, pondering Ozymandias with Percy Shelley, or luxuriating in the Edenic wate...

Som en af verdens førende forskere og eksperter i kemi i kroppen afslører Philippe Grandjean i denne både personlige og opsigtsvækkende bog, hvordan kemi påvirker vores krop og miljø. Og han deler årtiers oplevelser og opdagelser fra en karriere dedikeret til at forstå og bekæmpe miljøforurening.Svært nedbrydelige miljøgifte bliver ført rundt i hele verden gennem vinde og havstrømme og påvirker hele fødekæden. Giftige stoffer findes i dag i drikkevandet, i jorden og i vandet, vi bad...

Som en af verdens førende forskere og eksperter i kemi i kroppen afslører Philippe Grandjean i denne både personlige og opsigtsvækkende bog, hvordan kemi påvirker vores krop og miljø. Og han deler årtiers oplevelser og opdagelser fra en karriere dedikeret til at forstå og bekæmpe miljøforurening.Svært nedbrydelige miljøgifte bliver ført rundt i hele verden gennem vinde og havstrømme og påvirker hele fødekæden. Giftige stoffer findes i dag i drikkevandet, i jorden og i vandet, vi bad...

In Het slimme ouders opvoedboek helpt neuropsycholoog Álvaro Bilbao jonge ouders op toegankelijke wijze de hersenen van hun kinderen te begrijpen. Feit: tijdens onze eerste zes levensjaren hebben onze hersenen een enorme ontwikkelingspotentie, die daarna nooit meer terugkomt. Nog een feit: het heeft geen zin om van ieder kind een mini-Mozart te willen maken, want júíst met hersenen die onder druk moeten ontwikkelen gaat het vaak mis. In Het slimme ouders opvoedboek legt neuropsycholoog Álv...

Lix: 6Malin er fra Syrien. Syrien er et sted med krig og uro, så derfor bor Malin nu i Danmark.Malin går i klasse med Lea. En dag spørger Lea om Malin vil sove hjemme hos hende. Hjemme i Syrien sover børn ikke sammen, så vil Malins mor og fra mon give hende lov til at sove hos Lea?Serien Når alt er nyt er særlig målrettet begynderlæsere med en anden sproglig og kulturel baggrund end dansk.

Als Antwort auf die Frage nach dem Weg zu ewiger Lebendigkeit stellte Jesus "ein Kind in die Mitte". Diese Botschaft nimmt das Buch auf und entfaltet sie als Grundlage wahrer Menschlichkeit - der Mensch als das Wesen, das fragt und staunt, das in Beziehungen lebt -, vertrauensvoller Gottesbeziehung und zeitkritischer Korrektur, die den Menschen nicht auf "Erwachsenenwerte" wie Leistung reduziert. Die Bezüge zu Texten des Evangeliums regen an für Meditation, Gebet und Lebenspraxis, um der e...