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Water Policy in Texas - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Water Policy in Texas - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

As a water-scarce state with deep cultural attachments to private property rights, Texas has taken a unique evolutionary path with regard to water management. This new resource surveys past and current challenges for managing both groundwater and surface water, telling a comprehensive story about water policy in Texas, and identifying opportunities for improving future governance. Texas is the U.S. state that has experimented most thoroughly with water markets. In Water Policy in Texas , experts from broad disciplinary perspectives describe and analyze Texas water laws and management agencies, and the practices of water marketing and rate making in Texas. They explore the unique cases of the Edwards and Ogallala aquifers, the science and policy of environmental water stewardship, the extensive history of formalized water sharing with neighboring states and Mexico, and the opportunities for harnessing new technologies that might aid in addressing scarcity. This multidimensional, interdisciplinary book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers of Texas water policy, as well as for water managers worldwide, particularly those working within contexts of water scarcity.

DKK 1022.00
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A Trek through Texas Government - Floyd William Holder Iv - Bog - Cognella, Inc - Plusbog.dk

A Trek through Texas Government - Floyd William Holder Iv - Bog - Cognella, Inc - Plusbog.dk

Rather than standard textbooks, which are often written as expanded outlines, A Trek through Texas Government is a textbook in narrative form. This travel adventure tale allows readers to move across geography and through time to learn about the history and government of Texas. The story encompasses everything from a “tour” of the capitol to exploring Texas iconography to concise explanations of municipal, county, special district, and state-wide governmental structure. Students learn the political and cultural history of Texas, state demographics, special interests, and how public moneys are raised and spent. In addition, A Trek through Texas Government enables students to compare and contrast the government of Texas with the federal government. Readers learn about Federalism, The Constitution, federal laws that apply within the state itself, and the rarely discussed presence of the foreign governing entities within the state. Offering an engaging alternative to traditional history and government texts, A Trek through Texas Government is suitable for courses in the history, government, and unique culture of the state. Floyd William Holder IV holds a master's degree in public administration from Texas State University and a second master's degree in political science from Texas Tech University. As an assistant professor of social sciences at Western Texas College, his courses center on the development of the federal and Texas state governments. Professor Holder has served as a reviewer for the Journal of South Texas , as well as for the textbooks Texas Politics Today and Lone Star Politics . He has made presentations to the Kleberg County Historical Society on passport issues and the relationship between history, travel, and memorabilia. He has extensive travel experience and civic participation in twenty countries on five continents, and is an active member of the Snyder Rotary Club.

DKK 811.00
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Iranians in Texas - Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher - Bog - University of Texas Press - Plusbog.dk

Iranians in Texas - Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher - Bog - University of Texas Press - Plusbog.dk

An exploration of the link between politics of migration, prospects of integration, and ethnic identity among Iranian immigrants and their descendants in the United States, spanning from the 1970s to the present day. Thousands of Iranians fled their homeland when the 1978–1979 revolution ended the fifty-year reign of the Pahlavi dynasty. Some fled to Europe and Canada, while others settled in the United States, where anti-Iranian sentiment flared as the hostage crisis unfolded. For those who chose America, Texas became the fourth-largest settlement area. Iranians in Texas culls data, interviews, and participant observations in Iranian communities in Houston, Dallas, and Austin to reveal the difficult, private world of cultural pride, religious experience, marginality, culture clashes, and other aspects of the lives of these immigrants. Examining the political nature of immigration between Iran and the United States and social, cultural, and economic life for Iranian immigrants and their American-born children, Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher incorporates his own experience as a Texas scholar born in Iran. In this revised edition, two new chapters and a new introduction and conclusion provide updates on what has happened in the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, including the Iran nuclear deal and resulting controversy, the Muslim ban, and the global protests over the death of twenty-two-year-old Mahsa Amini for not wearing a hijab. Bringing to life a unique immigrant population in the context of global politics, Iranians in Texas overturns stereotypes and echoes diverse voices.

DKK 970.00
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Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage - John C. Domino - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage - John C. Domino - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

John Domino examines Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage’s progressive jurisprudence during the most tumultuous period in Texas judicial history which witnessed numerous seismic shifts, including the manner in which judicial campaign were conducted, a dramatic change in the partisan and ideological composition of the Texas Supreme Court as well as Court of Criminal Appeals and most of the fourteen intermediate appellate courts, and the birth of the judicial reform movement in Texas. In his decisions, most of which were heavily influenced by Arthur R. Hogue’s Origins of the Common Law and Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law, Gammage forged a solid liberal record arguing for robust individual rights, whether those rights were implied in the Texas constitution, protecting the right to privacy, freedom of expression, due process, and equal protection.

DKK 832.00
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Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields in Texas - Jacqueline Lang Weaver - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields in Texas - Jacqueline Lang Weaver - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

By 1985, every oil and gas-producing state but Texas had passed a ''unitization'' statute requiring cooperation among the various owners of oil and gas reserves. Using interviews, legislative transcripts, and statistical data, Jacqualine Lang Weaver attempts to explain why Texas failed to enact such a statute – aimed at encouraging the most efficient recovery of resources – and how Texas has managed to achieve substantial unitization nonetheless. Originally published in 1986.

DKK 993.00
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Texas - Ernest Wallace - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Texas - Ernest Wallace - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Now in its 11 th edition, Texas: The Lone Star State offers a balanced, scholarly overview of the second largest state in the United States, spanning from prehistory to the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically, this comprehensive survey introduces undergraduates to the varied history of Texas with an accessible narrative and over 100 illustrations and maps. This new edition broadens the discussion of postwar social and political dynamics within the state, including the development of key industries and changing demographics. Other new features include: - - New maps reflecting county by county results for the most recent presidential elections - - - Expanded discussions on immigration and border security - - - The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas and a look to the future - - - Updated bibliographies to reflect the most recent scholarship This textbook is essential reading for students of American history.

DKK 993.00
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Gone to Texas - Randolph B. Campbell - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Gone to Texas - Randolph B. Campbell - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Gone to Texas engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 12,000 years ago to the second decade of the twenty-first century. Focusing on the state''s successive waves of immigrants, the book offers an inclusive view of the vast array of Texans, who often in conflict with each other and always in struggle with the land, created a history and idea of Texas.

DKK 867.00
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Texas vs. California - Kenneth P. Miller - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Texas vs. California - Kenneth P. Miller - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Texas and California are the leaders of Red and Blue America. As the nation has polarized, its most populous and economically powerful states have taken charge of the opposing camps. These states now advance sharply contrasting political and policy agendas and view themselves as competitors for control of the nation''s future. Kenneth P. Miller provides a detailed account of the rivalry''s emergence, present state, and possible future. First, he explores why, despite their many similarities, the two states have become so deeply divided. As he shows, they experienced critical differences in their origins and in their later demographic, economic, cultural, and political development. Second, he describes how Texas and California have constructed opposing, comprehensive policy models--one conservative, the other progressive. Miller highlights the states'' contrasting policies in five areas--tax, labor, energy and environment, poverty, and social issues--and also shows how Texas and California have led the red and blue state blocs in seeking to influence federal policy in these areas. The book concludes by assessing two models'' strengths, vulnerabilities, and future prospects. The rivalry between the two states will likely continue for the foreseeable future, because California will surely stay blue and Texas will likely remain red. The challenge for the two states, and for the nation as a whole, is to view the competition in a positive light and turn it to productive ends. Exploring one of the primary rifts in American politics, Texas vs. California sheds light on virtually every aspect of the country''s political system.

DKK 879.00
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Chuco Punk - Tara Lopez - Bog - University of Texas Press - Plusbog.dk

Chuco Punk - Tara Lopez - Bog - University of Texas Press - Plusbog.dk

2025 Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical AssociationAn immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas. Punk rock is known for its daring subversion, and so is the West Texas city of El Paso. In Chuco Punk, Tara López dives into the rebellious sonic history of the city, drawing on more than seventy interviews with punks, as well as unarchived flyers, photos, and other punk memorabilia. Connecting the scene to El Paso's own history as a borderland, a site of segregation, and a city with a long lineage of cultural and musical resistance, López throws readers into the heat of backyard punx shows, the chaos of riots in derelict mechanic shops, and the thrill of skateboarding on the roofs of local middle schools. She reveals how, in this predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene, women forged their own space, sound, and community. Covering the first roots of Chuco punk in the late 1970s through the early 2000s, López moves beyond the breakout bands to shed light on how the scene influenced not only the contours of sound and El Paso but the entire topography of punk rock.

DKK 920.00
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The Battles of Texas - Mark Garrett Longaker - Bog - Pennsylvania State University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Battles of Texas - Mark Garrett Longaker - Bog - Pennsylvania State University Press - Plusbog.dk

The 1980s were a consequential decade for universities. The marketization of higher education, the adjunctification of labor, and culture wars over curriculum transformed the landscape in a short period of time. The Battles of Texas traces the lived consequences of this upheaval by focusing on one influential institution: the writing program at the University of Texas at Austin. Drawing from university records, newspaper archives, and present-day interviews, Nate Kreuter and Mark Garrett Longaker provide an on-the-ground perspective of the radical creation of UT Austin’s writing program and the subsequent events that made national headlines: the mass firing of lecturers in 1985, the national debate over “multicultural” content in the first-year curriculum, and the divorce of the writing program from the English Department in 1992. Despite these pressures, however, the authors also reveal how writing program administrators at UT Austin exerted their own agency to resist economic and political forces in service of their students and adjunct lecturers. By highlighting the parallels between the 1980s and current labor and political pressures in higher education, The Battles of Texas offers a strategic perspective for academics and administrators today. Combining a narrative institutional history with a public digital archive, searchable and arranged in exhibits and in chronological annals, The Battles of Texas provides academics with the resources they need to survive in times of rapid transition.

DKK 851.00
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Somos Tejanas! - - Bog - University of Texas Press - Plusbog.dk

Somos Tejanas! - - Bog - University of Texas Press - Plusbog.dk

An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays. Being Tejanx is different than just being from Texas. Being Tejanx means you are a border subject. Being Tejanx means living in and from a certain history of oppression, possibility, activism, and cultural-linguistic hybridity arising within the US-Mexico borderland that is home. And being Tejanx means something in particular if you are a woman. In ¡Somos Tejanas!, editors Norma E. Cantú and Jody A. Marín assemble contemporary Tejanx writers who provide firsthand accounts of their experience of identity, enriching the field of Tejanx studies through an encounter with gender and sexuality. The contributions, including personal and scholarly essays, poems, criticism, and artworks, explore the heterogeneity of Tejana identity and the sociopolitical movements, stories, dances, music, and athletic feats that mark Tejanidad. Authors contemplate the history and memory of segregation in Texas, the struggles of surviving the unnatural disaster and blackouts of 2021 amid the global pandemic of COVID-19, and the drug-war violence and ever-tightening immigration restrictions that strangle a transborder way of life shared by millions. An unrepentant act of expression from women under attack by state policymakers, this collection dispels the silence imposed by colonial erasure.

DKK 1034.00
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