On November 11, 1918, what was then called “the Great War” ended. The consequences of four years of warfare in Europe reverberated throughout the world, leaving few places untouched. Even though it was far from the scenes of conflict, Texas was forever changed, as historian Gregory W. Ball details in Texas and World War I.This accessible history recounts the ways in which the war affected Texas and Texans politically, socially, and economically. Texas’s position on the Uni...

Glorious continues the hard science fiction Bowl of Heaven series from multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford and Larry Niven.Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths.Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous ...

Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar collects two novels from science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) that weave a thrilling intersteller odyssey in the not-too-distant future.“If you like hard SF with mind-stretching ideas—both physical and psychological—then you definitely want to read this book.” —Analog on the New York Times bestseller Bowl of HeavenA human exp...

Two science fiction masters spin a New York Times –bestselling tale of alien encounters and strange technologies on an epic scale." Bowl of Heaven is the first installment of what will be the biggest sci-fi saga since―well, since ever. If only more of us could share the authors' visions, and optimism." ― The Wall Street JournalI...

Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as nonfict...

Get ready for the ultimate game day feast with Super Bowl Game Recipes! Packed with crowd-pleasing appetizers, snacks, sliders, wings, dips, and party favorites, this cookbook is perfect for football fans, home cooks, and anyone hosting a Super Bowl gathering.Inside this book, you'll discover:• 30 Delicious Game Day Recipes - Enjoy a variety of appetizers, finger foods, dips, sliders, wings, and party snacks.• Easy-to-Follow Instruc...

The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish a nationFor the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in the present.It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. But there are few memorials marking these fi...

Glorious continues the hard science fiction Bowl of Heaven series from multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford and Larry Niven.Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths.Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerou...

Who doesn't love Lucy? The legendary actress, producer, and comedian steps into the Who Was? spotlight.Much like her hit TV show, I Love Lucy, Americans in the 1950s fell in love with Lucy. Born in New York in 1911, Lucille Ball was always a natural performer. She danced in the chorus of Broadway shows and acted in small parts in Hollywood movies. But Ball's true gift was comedy. She found a way to showcase her gifts in 1951 when CBS gave her the chance to...

The dramatic sequel to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford's New York Times bestselling novel, Bowl of HeavenScience fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent...

Sehr geehrter Leser! Mit Dr. Glenn Morton hat Autor John Ball eine der faszinierendsten Figuren der Grusel- und Horror-Literatur geschaffen, wenn nicht die fesselndste und bedeutsamste überhaupt. Außergewöhnlich, initiativ, zielstrebig, ungeheuer ehrgeizig, geachtet, geehrt – genial – und doch hart, rücksichtslos, gehasst: das ist DR. MORTON, Arzt und Wissenschaftler! Verbrecher und Mörder – das sagen die anderen. Urteilen Sie selbst! Lassen auch Sie sich von der Ausstrahlung seiner schill...

Since 1990, football history has become increasingly important within the field of sport science, yet few studies have centred on the Europeanization of the game from the interwar period onwards. This period saw the creation of a sovereign institution dedicated to European football, the establishment of specific rules about players’ transfers and contracts and, in particular, the development of competitions.This book examines the development of European football between 1905 and 199...