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A Talent for Adventure
Colonel Andrew Croft, DSO, OBE, has used his talent for adventure to the full and he typifies the traditional hero that is every schoolboy's inspiration. Arctic explorer, soldier, pioneer, world record holder, medal winner, yet he remains a gentle, kind and thoughtful man with the time to listen and care about other people. The book is his own account of a life filled with adventure, told in the quiet and unassuming manner one would expect.
It's Not Fun (Hc)
It's Not Fun is the candid, revealing and at times entertaining look at life on the pro-golf circuits below the PGA Tour level. Veteran sportswriter Andrew Cotton offers a firsthand look at what PGA Tour wannabes experience. They travel from tournament to tournament on various minitours with little money in their pockets, but with aspirations of playing well enough week to week to cover their expenses and perhaps earn a shot at the big time. It's a vagabond existence filled with dreams and disappointments, where one or two shots in a four-day tournament can mean the difference in making enough money to make it to the event or having to return home broke. Cotton spent time on the road with some of these PGA Tour aspirants. What he saw, heard and actually experienced offers an unprecedented look at what life is really like for those golfers just one big break removed from being able to compete against the likes of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
Bulletin
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The London Gazette
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Seeds of Empire
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.
Cultivating Knowledge
A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, an...
Cotton Literature
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Bulletin
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All of the Above I
A history of the ancestry of Elizabeth Huey Taylor Cook, tracing various genealogical lines more than four hundred years. Individuals and couples are placed in their historical context, showing their participation in the events of their time (Revolutionary War, Civil War, early settlements in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Kentucky). Special attention is given to the role of various ancestors in the Indian wars of the 1600s and 1700s. Many details about the families' ownership of slaves are included. Various indiiduals' participation in church and community activities - from the earliest colonial settlements to and including the 20th century - are also covered. The main surnames which are treated include TAYLOR, HUEY, MOORE, CROUCH, MAYO, BALDWIN, SCOTT, DAWSON, PUTNAM, PORTER, HAWTHORNE, DOYNE, WHARTON, STONE, WINSTON, GAINES, WATTS, GOUGE, GRAVES, WILLIAMS, HUNT, JEWETT/JUETT, MASON, PENDLETON, GAMEWELL, SWAINE, PARSONS, BOOTH, WOODBURY, DWIGHT, WALTON, MAVERICK, HARRISON, LYTTLETON, VALLETTE, MARMADUKE. A total of about 120 surnames are traced.
