age ~42
from Stephenson, VA
The Cursed Shakespeare Play is More Cursed as a Movie on a Shoestring BudgetA converted screenplay about what happens when an ambitious novice director, Diane, takes a small army of volunteers to a secluded island mansion to film her version of William Shakespeare's Macbeth.At first, it seems like j...
Author
Spencer Russell
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
271
ISBN #
14
The past has long fingers into the present, but they are not just the fingers of fact. How we remember the past is at least as important as the objective facts of that past. The memories used by a people to define itself have to be understood not just as (sometimes) bad history but also as historica...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
324
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN #
158544569X
EAN Code
9781585445691
ISBN #
13
This book will walk you through the Julia language. First it will use examples to show off different sides of Julia: writing a simple, fast simulation; plotting data; and defining a new numeric type and associated arithmetic operators. The rest of the chapters will each focus on a specific part of J...
Author
Spencer Russell, Avik Sengupta, Leah Hanson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
200
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
ISBN #
1491903600
EAN Code
9781491903605
ISBN #
12
For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains Indian in...
Author
Paul H. Carlson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN #
0890968179
EAN Code
9780890968178
ISBN #
11
The Texas Left. Some would say the phrase is an oxymoron.For most of the twentieth century, the popular perception of Texas politics has been that of dominant conservatism, punctuated by images of cowboys, oil barons, and party bosses intent on preserving a decidedly capitalist status quo.In fact, p...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN #
1603441891
EAN Code
9781603441896
ISBN #
10
Escalante Canyon is a red-walled hole in a geologic uplift (the Uncompahgre Plateau) in western Colorado. Pioneers surging west fell into this canyon hole the way gold nuggets get caught in the potholes of a stream. Like nuggets eddying against stone, they were shaped by the Canyon—rounded off, shat...
Author
Muriel Marshall
Binding
Paperback
Pages
312
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN #
0890963320
EAN Code
9780890963326
ISBN #
6
In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right, ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN #
1623490294
EAN Code
9781623490294
ISBN #
5
Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one ...
Author
Terry G. Jordan
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN #
0292780702
EAN Code
9780292780705
ISBN #
4