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UNINA9910457852703321 |
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Autore |
Ornish Natalie |
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Titolo |
Pioneer Jewish Texans [[electronic resource] /] / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern |
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College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2011 |
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1-299-05346-7 |
1-60344-433-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st Texas A&M University Press ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (377 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Jews - Texas |
Electronic books. |
Texas Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all. |
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With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents Ornish's meticulous research and her fascinating historical vignettes for a new generation of readers and historians. She chronicles Jewish buccaneers with Jean Lafitte at Galveston; she tells of Jewish patriots who fought at the |
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Alamo and at virtually every major enga |
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UNINA9910785386603321 |
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Titolo |
Painting the White House green : rationalizing environmental policy inside the executive office of the president / / edited by Randall Lutter and Jason F. Shogren |
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Washington, DC, : Resources for the Future, c2004 |
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1-136-52696-X |
1-936331-17-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LutterRandall W |
ShogrenJason F |
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Disciplina |
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Environmental policy - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-195) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A tale of two policies: clear skies and climate change / William A. Pizer -- Head in the clouds decision-making : EPA's air quality standards for ozone / Randall Lutter -- Economic analysis and the formulation of U.S. climate policy / Michael A. Toman -- Saving the planet cost-effectively : the role of economic analysis in climate change mitigation policy / Joseph E. Aldy -- Making markets for global forest conservation / Jonathan B. Wiener -- Electricity restructuring and the environment / Stephen Polasky -- Do all the resource problems in the West begin in the East? revisited / Jason F. Shogren -- The good news and the bad News from Washington / Ray Squitieri. |
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Presidents, like kings, lead cloistered lives. Protecting the president from too much isolation are advisers and aides who help ensure that the administration achieves its policy goals while enjoying broad political support. In economics and environmental policy, where disagreement among stakeholders and expert opinion is especially strong, the president needs good advice about political strategy, as well as unbiased information about the substance of policy issues. It is |
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