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Delves deeply into the president's evolving relations with the press and its influence on and importance to the events of the time. James D. Startt navigates the complicated relationship that existed between one of the country's most controversial leaders and its increasingly ruthless corps of journalists. The portrait of Wilson that emerges here is one of complexity.

The aim in this important book is to lay the groundwork for the development of a ""more contemporary Jungian approach"" to working with transference and countertransference dynamics within the therapeutic relationship. Jan Wiener's work is also informed by knowledge from other fields, such as philosophy, infant development, neuroscience, and the arts.

Winner, Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, presented by the Native Plant Society of TexasIn its prime, the Texas Blackland Prairie formed a twelve-million-acre grassy swath across the state from the San Antonio area north to the Red River. Now, roughly one tenth of one percent of this vast prairie remains in the form of small pockets tucked away here and there, having once served as hay meadows or sprouting from rock too stony to plow.As Matt White tracks the ever dwindling parcels of tallgrass prairie in northeast Texas, he develops deep connections with prairie plants and prairie people through unexpected discoveries and inspirational encounters. He stumbles upon fragments of virgin land, and he uncovers remarkable tales of destruction and stewardship.From explaining what a prairie is to how to appreciate its beauty and importance, White increases our awareness of prairies, past and present, so that we might champion their survival in whatever forms remain._____________________________________"It seems fair that every region, every landscape, every place deserves a champion. The imperiled prairies of northeast Texas certainly have one in Matt White, a native son and an unabashed prairie enthusiast. . . . As such, he offers a credible voice and insight into the blackland prairie, its history, its residents, its architecture, and its natural diversity. His enthusiasm was obviously genuine. It was also infectious and encompassing. At times, I felt like I was right alongside him at the moment of discovery."-Carter Smith Texas Parks & Wildlife DepartmentMatt White is the author of The Birds of Northeast Texas and is a ­regular nature columnist for the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald. He studies and grows prairie plants on his land near Campbell.

The Pacific Theater in World War II depended on American sea power. This power was refined between 1923 and 1940, when the U.S. Navy held twenty-one major fleet exercises designed to develop strategy and allow officers to enact plans in an operational setting.Prior to 1923, naval officers relied heavily on the theories of Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan, who argued that sea control was vital to military victory, best attained through use of the battleship. Fleet exercises, however, allowed valuable practice with other military resources and theories.As a direct result of these exercises, the navy incorporated different technologies and updated its own outdated strategies. Although World War II brought unforeseen challenges and the disadvantages of simulation exercises quickly became apparent, fleet "problems" may have opened the door to different ideas that allowed the U.S Navy ultimately to succeed.Testing American Sea Power challenges the conventional wisdom that Mahanian theory held the American Navy in a steel grip. Felker''s research and analysis, the first to concentrate on the navy''s interwar exercises, will make a valuable contribution to naval history for historians, military professionals, and naval instructors.CRAIG C. FELKER is a commander in the United States Navy and recently served as a contributor for the History Channel''s Deep Sea Detectives. He resides in Annapolis, Maryland.

Offers insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary sources - including thousands of letters and unpublished journals, this title affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants' own words, why it was so important to them to engage in tumultuous struggles occurring so far from home.

As we ask anew in these troubled times what it means to be an American, You, the People provides perspective by casting its eye over the answers given by past U.S. presidents in their addresses to the public. Who is an American, and who is not? Could any questions be more timely?

African American women have played significant roles in the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality, but relatively little is known about many of these leaders and activists. Lulu B. White was one of those women in the civil rights movement in Texas. Merline Pitre places White in her proper perspective in Texas, Southern, African American, women's, and general American history.

Ever since the Alamo, the military has been a vivid part of the Texas experience. This title addresses the significance of that military experience. It reevaluates famous personalities, reassesses noted battles and units, and brings fresh perspectives to such matters as the interplay of fiction, film, and historical understanding.

A member of the distinguished British Huxley family, Julian Huxley (1887-1975) was a man of many talents and enormous energy. This title focuses on Huxley's contributions to field and laboratory biology, when first published in 1992. It provides an examination of his efforts to popularize science and to advance the human species through eugenics.

A study of combat preparedness in the Eighth Army from 1949 to the outbreak of hostilities in 1950. It concedes that the US soldiers sent to Korea suffered gaps in their professional preparation, from missing and broken equipment to unevenly trained leaders at every level of command.

"One need not be schooled in military history or archaeology to benefit from this research, for the authors do an excellent job of maintaining the interest of [both] the scholarly reader and anyone new to these subjects."--"Journal of the West"

After WWII, the discovery and production of onshore oil in the United States faced decline. As a result, offshore prospects in the Gulf of Mexico took on new strategic value. Shell Oil Company pioneered many of the early moves offshore. This book presents the history of Shell Oil, drawing on interviews with Shell retirees and other sources.

Tells the story of General MacArthur's November 1950 attack to the Yalu River, an attack that was repulsed by 200,000 Chinese 'volunteer' infantry.

For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. The Austin-Boston Connection analyzes the importance of the friendships (especially mentor-protege relationships) and enmi-ties within congressional delegations, regional affinities, and the lynchpin practice of appointing the Democratic Whip.

At the end of the Great War, the US Army faced the challenge of integrating what it had learned in its war effort. This work traces the military's developments between the world wars through an examination of the army's primary doctrine manuals, the Field Service Regulations.

Born near Blanket, Texas, in 1890, Bess Whitehead Scott grew up on a small farm held together by her widowed mother and eight brothers and sisters. She graduated from Baylor University and taught school briefly before she persuaded the ""Post"" editors to give her a chance.

A collection of studies which features six scholars who consider aspects of American antebellum expansion.

Tells the story of how military officers and civilian contractors built the Air Force Satellite Control Facility (AFSCF) to support the National Reconnaissance Program. This book also tells the story of the command and control systems that made rockets and satellites useful..

Drawing on oral histories, this book tells the story of the West Texas independents as a group, looking at their business strategies in the context of their national, regional, and local conditions. It focuses on the Permian Basin and southeastern New Mexico over the 60-year period in which the region rose to prominence on the American oil scene.

In Near Eastern studies, it has accepted by many as fact that predynastic trade routes connected Egypt and Mesopotamia. The author ferrets out the two possible trade routes between these two different cultures. He focuses on the variety of cultural differences, rather than their shared similarities, to map the infusion of these cultures.

The Comanches were long portayed as marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty. In this book, Gerald Betty details the kinship patterns that underlay all social organization and behaviour among the Comanches.

In the spring of 1883 Apache raiders massacred Judge McComas and his wife and kidnapped their six-year-old son, Charley on a desolate road in southwestern New Mexico Territory, all victims of revenge sought by the Apaches for Gen. George Crook's campaign. Marc Simmons brings to light one of the last massacres of the Indian wars.

The army that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and other military remuneration. William A. DePalo, Jr., studies the birth and tumultuous adolescence of the Mexican National Army.

The chapters in this book (two by former White House speechwriters) give insight into the process of presidential speechwriting, from Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to Ronald Reagan's.

This history of the Atchafalaya Basin is an account of the transformation of an area that has endured perhaps more human manipulation than any other natural environment in the nation.

The Korean War was pivotal in China's modern military history. Based on Chinese and Russian archival materials and interviews with Chinese participants in the air war, this work, presenting the Chinese point of view, stands as both a complement and a corrective to previous accounts of the conflict.

Herman and George R. Brown, formidable figures in the construction industry and Texas politics, made a unique business team. This book serves as both a history of their lives and as an examination of business life in mid-20th-century America.

When Nazi Germany began bearing down on Europe in the late 1930s, Herman Bodson was a student pacifist at the University of Brussels. As the reality of eventual invasion sank into his soul, he entered the resistance and five years of dangerous work as, in his words, ""a fighter and a killer"".

A look at one of the US Army's bloodiest nightmares of World War II. In late 1944-1945, as the American army advanced into the woods south east of Aachen, Germany, they encountered a forest bristling with German troops. Unit after unit were subsequently chewed up by German infantry and artillery.