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  • Practical Advice for Investors and Traders

    Navigate and Profit in Any Market

    Capital markets can provide limitless opportunities to prosper but they can also be exceedingly challenging and may pose a significant danger to your financial health and retirement plans. Public equity markets, in particular, require a blend of market insight, technical skills and broad experience. This book aims to help you recognize and maximize opportunities while identifying and reducing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House Will Come To Order

    How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics

    Series series Focus on American History Series
    In a state assumed to have a constitutionally weak governor, the Speaker of the Texas House wields enormous power, with the ability to almost single-handedly dictate the legislative agenda. The House Will Come to Order charts the evolution of the Speaker's role from a relatively obscure office to one of the most powerful in the state. This fascinating account, drawn from the Briscoe Center's oral ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Race Traitor: The True Story of Canadian Intelligence's Greatest Cover-Up

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    Set in 1990s Toronto, RACE TRAITOR is the visceral true story of a teenage girl who becomes entangled in Canada’s most powerful white supremacist group, the Heritage Front – a domestic terrorist group later revealed to have been created and funded with the assistance of Canada’s spy agency, Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS).To sixteen-year old runaway Elisse, the new friends she ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Porn Vs Chicken

    Series series Pacific Coast Hellway Presents
    Wanna know what's pissing me off today?People who tweet about every little thing they do, Real estate agents who advertise on bus benches, Prius Drivers, Guys with toupees, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Republicans, Stupid people on Facebook, Stupid people in general!... The list goes on and on!I’m equal opportunity offender Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff and I’m ready to open my big mouth and ... Read more

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  • Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right

    What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

    by Erica Grieder ...
    Erica Grieder's Texas is a state that is not only an outlier but an exaggeration of some of America's most striking virtues and flaws. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right is a witty, enlightening inquiry into how Texas works, and why, in the future, the rest of America may look a lot like Texas. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Seven Keys to Texas

    The author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans explores the state's unique mindset and culture.Author T. R. Fehrenbach defines Texas as "a state of mind." In The Seven Keys to Texas, he provides us with a seven-part framework for understanding this unique and ever-important state: its people, frontiers, land, economy, society, politics, and the change that has taken place and continues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rotten Boroughs, Political Thickets, and Legislative Donnybrooks

    Redistricting in Texas

    Edited by Gary A. Keith ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    Every ten years, the Texas legislature redistricts itself and the state’s congressional districts in an attempt to ensure equality in representation. With a richly textured cultural fabric, Texas often experiences redistricting battles that are heated enough to gain national attention. Collecting a variety of voices, including legislators themselves, in addition to lawyers, community organizers, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Claytie and the Lady

    Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas

    It was like a remake of The Cowboy and the Lady, except that this time they weren't friends. The 1990 Texas governor's race pitted Republican Clayton Williams, a politically conservative rancher and oil millionaire, against Democrat Ann Richards, an experienced progressive politician noted for her toughness and quick wit. Their differences offered voters a choice not only of policies and programs ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Fiscal Case against Statehood

    Accounting for Statehood in New Mexico and Arizona

    New Mexico and Arizona joined the Union in 1912, despite the opposition from some of their residents. The Fiscal Case against Statehood examines the concerns of the people who lost the battle over statehood in the two territories. Moussalli examines their territorial and early state governments’ fiscal behavior and reveals that while their fears of steep increases in the cost of government were ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Chief Executive In Texas

    A Study in Gubernatorial Leadership

    "A Texas governor has only two happy days: the day he is inaugurated and the day he retires."So spoke Joseph D. Sayers at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, in an analysis of the Texas governorship by Fred Gantt, Jr., the reader learns why Governor Sayers' remark remains true many years after it was uttered: the office has come to be so demanding that the reader may ask why anyone would ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Geology and Politics in Frontier Texas, 1845–1909

    Conservation and development of natural resources are issues of critical importance throughout the world. These issues have been matters of public concern in Texas since legislators first adopted the state-sponsored geological survey as a means of extending government funds to private citizens who would help develop and advertise the mineral and agricultural wealth of Texas.Walter Keene Ferguson ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • In the Governor's Shadow

    The True Story of Ma and Pa Ferguson

    In 1915 Governor James Ferguson began his term in Texas bolstered by a wave of voter enthusiasm and legislative cooperation so great that few Texans anticipated anything short of a successful administration. His campaign was based on two key elements: his appeal to the rural constituency and a temporary hiatus from the effects of the continuous Prohibition debate. In reality, Jim Ferguson had ... Read more

    $17.99 USD