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Cristina, the young protagonist of Tree of Desire, and her little brother Joaquín run away from a home that is outwardly normal, but inwardly disfunctional. Lost on the streets of Mexico City, they confront some of the most terrifying aspects of city life. Or is it all a dream? The story suggests, without confirming, that sexual abuse has driven Cristina to her desperate escape. But is it an escape? Are they awakening from a dream, or reentering a nightmare? Serafín, too, is lost in the city. Searching for his father who has deserted the family, he is virtually helpless amid the city dangers. Serafín finds compassion in surprising places, but will he survive to return to his mother and their rural village? These two novels by one of Mexico's premier writers illuminate many aspects of contemporary Mexican life. Solares describes Mexico's different social classes with Dickensian realism. His focus on young protagonists, unusual in Mexican literature, opens a window onto problems of children's vulnerability that know no national borders. At the same time, his use of elements of the fantastic and the paranormal, and his evocative writing style, make reading his novels a most pleasurable experience. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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On September 8, 1900, a devastating hurricane destroyed most of the island city of Galveston, along with the lives of more than 6,000 men, women, and children. Today that hurricane remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Despite this tragedy, many Galvestonians were determined to rebuild their city. An ambitious plan was developed to construct a wall against the sea, link the island to the mainland with a reliable concrete bridge, and raise the level of the city. While the grade was raised beneath them, houses were perched on stilts and residents made their way through town on elevated boardwalks. Galveston became a city on stilts. While Galvestonians worked to rebuild the infrastructure of their city, they also continued conducting business and participating in recreational activities. Zeva B. Edworthy's photographs document the rebuilding of the port city and life around Galveston in the early 1900s. ... Read more

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Great reference!
What an awesome book to have on your coffee table or on your book shelf!Galveston is rich with history and this book gives a great interpretation of that long past.

Galveston Book
This was a good book with some great pictures of Galveston. My only disappointment was that I thought there would be more about the 1900 hurricane.

Great
This was a great look back in history.The pictures were great!It was so interesting.

A look back in time
The many vintage photos of turn-of-the-century Galveston are the closest thing to a trip back in time.The irony of it all is that Hurricane Ike's damage, which swept over the island shortly after the book was published, has dealt a blow to Galveston that it may never recover from.

ALL INTERESTED IN SEEING THE ISLAND'S PAST SHOULD BUY THIS ONE
There is a new historical pictorial titled:

Galveston: A City on Stilts (General History: Texas) by Jodi Wright-Gidley and Jennifer Marines (Paperback - Oct 13, 2008)

Just in case you don't want to wade through my review, here's what I'm going to conclude:YOU SHOULD BUY THE BOOK.

Now, on with my thoughts:

The book is primarily a selection of photos taken by a professional photographer named Zeva B. Edworthy, who lived in the city for about eleven years after the famous 1900 Storm.They apparently were never shared with the public.

The photos were inadvertently found by his daughter, Judith Wray. She had stored them along with other of her mother's possessions after her mother's estate was settled some years ago. When she found them recently, she donated them to the Galveston County Historical Museum.

I had not seen the photos before, although I have done a good deal of formal, academic research and written about my hometown off and on throughout most of my 68 years.

Along with the photos in the new book are brief narratives. Most appear to me to be accurate although I did find some minor errors and omissions.

Parenthetically, most of the Galveston books that have been written in recent years have been authored by people who are not native Galvestonians and further, who are not decendents of those who knew and told the stories. I think this is an unfortunate oversight.

This is the case here.Frankly, it always astonishes me when these sources are overlooked by those who are outsiders and who are wanting readers to accept them as authorities.

The best living authority on the 1900 Storm, for an example, is Galvestonian Linda Macdonald. Apparently the authors of this book didn't see the need to consult her, opting instead to take their directions from many whose names are either unfamiliar to me, or whom I know have only lived on the Island for a short time.

Old Galvestonians like me refer to this breed as "carpetbaggers" when we speak privately among ourselves and momentarily edge over into being catty.

In all fairness, though, the authors did pick two good, "real," and knowledgable Galvestonians to speak with: Lou Graves MacBeth and Dorothy Lee McDonald Karilanovic.

Nevertheless, with all of this being said, every person interested in Galveston should buy this book. It's well done, and the authors and those who helped them deserve our thanks.And I thank my lifelong friends, Victor and Judy Damiani for giving me an autographed copy for Christmas.
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Ostriches with an attitude, dueling armadillos, troubled tomcats, cantankerous cows and racing mules - they're all here in the true-life stories behind the zany adventures and poignant moments that make up a practice of veterinary medicine. In a diary-like narrative, Dr.David Carlton, a native Texan with an ongoing twenty-year practice in Dallas, gives readers an irresistible peek into his topsy-turvy life through stories of his escapades with an inimitable array of clients and their engaging pets.(The first of a series in a three-book collection of down-home memoirs.) ... Read more

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Along Herriott's lines...
Just as good as James Herriott Books.American twist and great for animal lovers and those who love Texas.Interesting.Read by my 15 year old niece as well and got her started on reading.

Great stories of people & animals.
Dallas Doc is a great book of anecdotes about being a vet in Dallas/Texas. I enjoyed the stories a lot but was left wanting more substance, thus the 4 stars instead of 5.

However, if you like animals and the people who care for them you will like this book and the sequel, Texas Doc.

I loved this book
This was the greatest book ever.
I liked the stories cause they made me laugh and sad too.
I think it was a very good book

You'll want to keep it and read it again!
Any human that is owned by any kind of city or country critter will really enjoy this book...it is filled with hilarious adventures and heart warming, tear jerking accounts of the daily life of a citified rural veterinarian, just trying to do the work he loves the best he can, and still maintain his sanity. This book has earned a 'keep it and read it again' spot right next to my collection of James Herriot's memoirs.

A Veterinarian for all animals
Heartwarming, heart tugging and funny--it's a perfect book for any animal lover.Think Cleveland Amory meets Baxter Black.More like James Herriot's writing than anything I ever read. A fun and easy-to-read collection of short stories that truly describes the life of a Texas veterinarian. I couldn't put it down! ... Read more

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Publisher: [Austin, Texas, Von Boeckmann-JonesSubjects: Ordinances, Municipal -- Texas AustinNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Praise for Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston"I find Cite to be thorough, imaginative, always stimulating, and responsive to the diversity of the Houston community. I hope to see it continue--I hope to see it flourish."--Larry McMurtry"Cite is one of the liveliest and most interesting journals on architecture and urbanism that is being produced today."--Robert Bruegmann, Professor and Chair, Art History Department and School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago"Cite has become an important national publication, for it situates local and regional culture within the context of national and global issues. Thus it provides an antidote to provincialism, on the one hand, and to excessively abstract globalism on the other. Put differently, Cite proves that local concerns need not be parochial, while national or global trends have multiple variations."--Gwendolyn Wright, Professor, Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University"In my judgment, this magazine is competitive with any in the United States that focuses on architecture and the built environment."--Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University"I know of few other publications in America that have so consistently, and at such a perceptive and sophisticated level, promoted high quality design as a mission of education and improvement. . . . I am devoted to it and read every issue with great interest, though I live a half continent away."--Laurie D. Olin, FASLA, Hon. AIA, FAAR, Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of PennsylvaniaBuilt around characteristic features of modern life such as rapid change, built-in obsolescence, indeterminacy, media orientation, a culture of style, and instant gratification, Houston is an ephemeral city, hard to pin down and understand. Its lack of zoning (Houston is the only major city in America without it) and a burgeoning population that doubles every generation have created a new urban paradigm, where displacements of traditional patterns of stability and urban ritual are now the norm. Since 1982, Cite: The Architectural and Design Review of Houston has explored the nature of Houston's evolution as an urban place by publishing commissioned articles by nationally known writers and architectural historians and high quality photography. This volume brings together twenty-five exceptional articles from Cite's first twenty years, along with 224 black-and-white photographs, maps, and plans. The book is divided into three sections: "Idea of the City," edited by Bruce C. Webb, "Places of the City," edited by Barrie Scardino, and "Buildings of the City," edited by William F. Stern. The sections are introduced with new essays written by the editors to provide cohesion for the anthology and commentary on where Houston might be going in the twenty-first century. Most articles are followed by a brief update and bibliography of related articles published in Cite. The editors chose these articles to explore the developmental history and architecture of a flat, sprawling, free-spirited city that is impossible to capture through any one episode or explain through any one place. With a diversity of voices and a selection that includes bothnarrow and broad topics, the volume constitutes a collage that captures the essence of a remarkable place--inchoate, patchwork, full of youthful vigor, favorable to private enterprise, and one of the world's most fascinating cities. ... Read more

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HOUSTON
Houston is the perfect subject for a book of this kind, it lends itself so well to current trends in urban planning and what a lack of zoning can facilitate.The text is scholarly and well researched, uh that should be an oxymoron, but alas it is not always.The authors really nailed Houston and I recognized the city completely.If you have any interest in urban planning or Houston in general, or frankly just well realized books, then I highly recommend this book to you.Well done indeed.

Revealing portrait of a city through its buildings
The best book on Houston that I know.This collection of articles on the architecture of the city captures its aesthetic history (or lack thereof) wonderfully.The book's production quality is clean and beautifully done, and the narratives reveal Houston's vicissitudes - its humble origins, its disinterest in history, its deification of power, and the origins of its sprawl.Excellent.

Another brilliant book by Barrie Scardino
Great compiliation of Cite articles masterfully edited by Scardino & Co. ... Read more

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Architectural photographer Richard Payne began this photographic survey of small Texas towns as a part-time enterprise—something enjoyable to do in his spare time out of nostalgia, curiosity, and a love of making photographs that reminded him of his hometown. The effort grew into a book that reflects today’s Texas small towns and the practice of architecture as a profession and an art.

The brief period between 1880 and 1930 was the golden age of architecture in Texas. The downtowns of small towns were built then, and since about 1950 there has been a general decline, not only in the architecture and infrastructure, but also in the cultural and economic fabric of life in much of rural Texas.

Looking closely at the architecture of some two hundred towns throughout every region of the state, Payne closely documents in beautifully detailed images the current state of our architectural heritage. For him, the art of architecture stems from both the practical need of civic development and from the dedication, hopes, and dreams of architects, builders, and their customers. "Could we learn and apply the lessons small towns offer us?" he asks. "Could we not have, with all our wealth, energy, and talent, buildings, neighborhoods, and cities in which the 'spirit is cuddled, made serene, made at home with its fellow spirits, proud and happy?'"

Payne’s answer, represented by the beauty of his photography and the passion of his writing, "is always yes." ... Read more

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Texas Towns and the Art of Architecture:A Photographer's Journey
I bought this book for my husband, who is an architect and actually knows Richard Payne.He was pleasantly
surprised when he opened the package.Excellent historical record of some buildings that are no longer in
existence.

A unique addition to personal, professional, and academic library collections
"Texas Towns And The Art Of Architecture: A Photographer's Journey" by architectural photographer Richard Payne is a photographic survey of small Texas towns. Payne embarked on this project as a part-time activity -- something to do in his spare time out of nostalgia, curiosity, and taking pictures of places that reminded him of him own hometown. The 'golden age' of small town Texas architecture ran from 1880 to 1930 and reflected all of the early American architectural styles and influences including Greek, Roman, Italian, Egyptian revival, Spanish Colonial, Victorian, Art Deco, Moorish motifs, and a great many idiosyncratic oddities that defy classification. "Texas Towns And The Art Of Architecture" showcases architectural examples drawn from around two hundred towns throughout every region of Texas. Payne carefully documents his beautifully detailed images, many of which rise to the status of art as reflected through the lens of his camera. A unique addition to personal, professional, and academic library collections, "Texas Towns And The Art Of Architecture" is a very highly recommended reading for students of Photography, Architecture, and Texas History.

A must for Texans, road-trippers, and photographers
If you don't smile several times, feel nostalgic several times, and maybe even get a tear or two, while reading and studying the photos in this book, then you must be too young or just arrived from the former Soviet Union.

Page after page in this book called out to me, "You've got to go there," or "Haven't you been there?"Since the book is a compilation of work over a number of years, many of the subjects in these photos are gone.Many more will be gone.Small towns in Texas, and the Southwest in general, are being transformed.

Buy this book.Read it.Go to the places photographed in it while you still can.

Gorgeous Photos
Came across this book at Gonzales, Texas book fair in Dec. 2006.A great gift for friends and loved ones who have a sincere appreciation for small-town Texas.Very unique. ... Read more

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This is a smart volume full of peculiar places. The author details counties, routes and landmarks that distinguish villages' quirky names scattered throughout the Lone Star State. ... Read more

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Dallas local Virginia McAlester, author of Random House's A Field Guide to American Houses, the classic book on the subject, and Abbeville's celebrated Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles, teamed up with Prudence Mackintosh and Willis Cecil Winters to write Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas. This impressive and informative case study immerses readers into the architecture and culture, both past and present, of these classy neighborhoods.

Illustrated with over 280 specially commissioned photographs, in addition to over 75 maps, graphs, and archival images, this insightful work covers the history and development of Dallas's suburbs, as well as the architects who designed them. Homes also features several appendices, providing notes on how to preserve early-twentieth century homes and a catalogue listing over 1,600 homes by address and architect. McAlester authored an additional appendix that illustrates the architectural styles found in The Park Cities, which run the gamut from Tudor and Colonial Revival to Minimal Traditional and Mid-Century Modern.

As grand as the houses it chronicles, Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas will fascinate architects, historians, suburbanites, and would-be suburbanites alike.

325 full-color photographs
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Fantastic Book and a Fantastic Town
Highland Park is a storybook town, and this book explains the feel of the town, as well as giving interesting details of the history and architecture of the pre-war homes.I strongly recommend this book.

INSIDE THE GLORIOUS BUBBLE
As for as im concerned the Park Cities are the closest thing to heaven on earth as you can get.I absolutely love to jog through the winding streets and admire the beautiful landscape.Kessler and Cook did a fantastic job in their design of Highland Park, Old and New Highland park are like beautiful identical twins, your always trying to deside which is the more spectacular.The breathtaking linear and pocket parks and the slight roll the the terrain give the neighborhood a uniqueness. I've been to River Oaks, Beverly Hills, Buckhead, Grosse Pointe, etc..and I can honestly say, the Park Cities are by far and away my favorite.University Park is equally interesting, as the home of SMU and at it's center the uber chic, Volk Estates, as well as all the spectucular churches, they may be called Highland Park this and Highland Park that, but they actually are all in University Park.Though the Park Cities, in particular, the more affluent Highland Park, has gone through the McMansion phenomenon, the neighborhood is none the worst for it, by in large the new homes are elegant and chic, with a few notible acceptions, uh one being that HORRIBLE mess on the corner of Armstrong and Preston, really I think the city should purchase it and tear it down for a small park, but i digress.This book is a welcome addition to anyones collection, the images are beautiful and the history is enlightening.The book goes indepth on the history, I thought I knew everything about the formation of the Park Cities, but this book taught me quite alot I didnt know.I appreciated that the architects of the houses are given their due, and in the appendix, every house in the Park Cities is chronicled as to who was the architect of record.I appreciated the anectdotes such as the story of the owner of one of the most spectacular houses in dallas, getting the Highland Park city budget in the mail and thinking it was a bill, so she payed it; this is also the lady, who when approached by the Dallas Country Club about buying her mansion so that they could expand the golf course through her land, responded that, how about if she just bought the Dallas Country Club instead..lord, I would have loved to have met this woman.The author has done her homework and as a native to Dallas, she gives the subject the attention it deserves. No doubt this is one of the Great American suburbs, I think the Greatest.

PARK CITIES?INTERESTING?SUPRISINGLY YES!!
Before discovering this book, Ithought of the Park Cities as a place to avoid, or if absolutely necessary , drive through with the utmost caution and dread, due to the local police force's penchant for pulling over outsiders for the most mundane of traffic infractions, or simply for just "looking" suspicious.Imagine my surprise when I started pouring through the pages of "The Homes of Park Cities", and was drawn by Clicque's artful photographs, Mackintosh's entertaining essays, and McAlester/Winters' excellent and informative scholarly research and writing.Who knew that Azaleas, the signature foliage of the Park Cities, were not native plants, but actually a brilliant business strategy executed by a new and struggling landscape company?Who knew that the Park Cities steadfastly, and presciently, avoided constant pressure and intimidation by the City of Dallas for annexation, thereby avoiding the zoning/building incompetence that Dallas continues to struggle with to this day?Who knew that a coffee table book would make a confirmed "Park Cities Naysayer", such as myself, a convert?Well, this book does all of that and more.LOVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS!LOVE THE ESSAYS!LOVE THE HISTORY!LOVE THIS BOOK!FIVE STARS!

WHAT A SURPRISINGLY INTERESTING BOOK!!
Just wanted to weigh in on a fascinating "coffee-table" book.If you are interested in the development of american suburbs throughout the twentieth century then you must procure this excellent tome!It features sumptuous photography, scholarly research, amusing and informative historical anecdotes, rare archival images...all presented in a beautifully laid-out and artfully done volume.Never thought that I would be completely engaged by the history of the Park Cities in Dallas, Texas...but I am!Kudos to the authors and photographer!When is the documentary coming out?I would love to see it!A MUST BUY FOR THE HOLIDAYS! ... Read more

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Dave Oliphant consciously began Memories of Texas Towns and Cities in the autumn of 1974 and finished it twenty-five years later in the fall of 1999. Some of the thirty sections of this epic-like treatment of Texas places, historical figures and contemporary friends, and readings in world and regional history and history and literature have appeared previously in Oliphant's earlier collections. Here after a quarter centruy is the complete Memories sequence, which brings together a wide-ranging picture of Texas through the places, people, and poetry one man remembers and celebrates. ... Read more

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Wonderful Revisit To Familiar Places
Nostalgia was in full play while reading Mr. Oliphant's poetry.I loved going to places that I have enjoyed and seeing them through someone else's eyes.His poetic style is different but that is part of its charm.What lovely, and sometimes funny, pictures his words paint! Jeanette Boehme ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments: Earth & Space 2004 is the Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference organized by the Aerospace Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The conference was held in League City/ Houston, Texas, from March 7-10, 2004. Conference attendees addressed technology challenges relevant to Space, Earth, and other planetary bodies including the Moon and Mars. The goal was to create a multidisciplinary program with a dynamism that would encourage technology transfer between those conducting research and development work in Space and on Earth and those practicing in civil engineering and aerospace disciplines. Included in the Proceedings are 139 papers from academia, aerospace and civil engineering industries, and leading government agencies; the papers address the challenges facing today's aerospace and civil engineering industry and the technology needed for future generations. TOPICS included: Lunar and Martian Exploration and Development; New Frontiers in Technology; Life Support Systems; Structures and Materials; Engineering and Architecture in Extreme Environments; Advanced Space Systems; Field Sensing and Robotics; Space Engineering, Construction, and Architecture; Space Exploration and Transportation; Advanced Technologies for Infrastructure Monitoring; Remote Sensing, GPS and GIS; and Space-Based Water Resources, Hydroclimatology and Hydrometeorology. ... Read more

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An Atrocious and Shallow Portrait of Brownsville
I bought this book hoping that our two college professors would give Brownsville a bed of rich and accurate description and at least some analytical scrubbing. I thought this because before I bought the book I examined sections in it that were written by Professor Knopp. His are the enjoyable chapters that focus primarily on Brownsville's culture and people and give us some insight into what Brownsville is about -- how it works on a structural level, how its people interact with each other, and so on. The sections written by Professor Adams, however, are awful. Why? Many reasons: they are written in a dry and dull prose with an unneccessary focus on things like boats and machinery; they are replete with subjective references to politics that should have been left out; and they lack the sophistication and insight that Knopp's chapters possess. Adams's writing is so poor in comparison to Knopp's, in fact, that it reads like a juvenile's -- there are places, for instance, where Adams glosses over big topics like Brownsville's shipping industry (instead giving us only facts and figures) and where he strays into politcal territory when he should have stayed out (at several points he reveals his dislike of such things as the welfare system, political liberals, and segments of our Mexican immigrant population). The result is that the book as a whole reads like a tourist guidebook or a manual for political upstarts who need a Cliff Notes of Brownsville. Very poor effort. If it weren't for Knopp's chapters (and I wish he had written the majority of the book), the book would have been a complete waste of my time. ... Read more

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Right after the Civil War, Texas cattlemen drove cattle north to feed the developing north and to stock the vast new ranches. The greatest of these cattle trails was a trail that came out of south Texas toward Dodge City, Kansas, on to Ogallala, Nebraska, and as far north as Canada. In twelve seasons it carried over six million longhorns. It became known, for the most part, as the Western. Now for the first time, based on stories and memories of homesteaders and cowboys and other documentation, the authors tell the history of the Trail and show through detailed maps the exact cattle routes of the Western Trail. The coffee-table size book is heavily footnoted, packed with delightful accounts from people who were there, and has some forty vintage photos. For those who enjoy reading about the true Old West and the industry that introduced an American icon, the cowboy, this is a must book to own. ... Read more

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The Cattle Drive Era. . .revisited!
The Western: The Greatest Texas Cattle Trail, 1874-1886

The most thoroughly researched book of its kind I've ever come across. . .for those connected to or simply interested in the cattle drive era of the late 1800s, a true delight!!With sons and nephews intending to ride their bicycles down the trail from North Dakota to Texas, I could not have asked for a better source! ... Read more

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The San Antonio edition of Historical Cities explores the multi-national past of this south Texas city.Fifty-one historic sites and landmarks in the city’s downtown and surrounding area are explored.A concise history is also provided.Reference maps for the downtown and San Antonio’s environs are included, along with GPS coordinates for all listed historic sites. ... Read more

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Streetwise San Antonio Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of San Antonio, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map

This map covers the following areas:
Main San Antonio Map 1:21,000
Riverwalk Map 1:12,000
San Antonio Area Map 1:230,000

San Antonio is a town with a distinct Mexican flavor, rich in history and romance. From natural caverns to manmade missions, this Texas city is a crossroads where many cultures have mixed, mingled and merged.

The STREETWISE® map of San Antonio showcases the central area of the city. The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), the Jose Antonio Navarro State Historical Site and Market Square the largest Mexican marketplace outside of Mexico are all highlighted on the map. The Tower of the Americas is prominently illustrated along with the city’s trademarked section Riverwalk, a picturesque 2.5 mile cobblestone path that borders the San Antonio River. A detailed Riverwalk" inset map details the pedestrian path and features hotels, sites, and the convention center.

The San Antonio Area map will navigate you in and around the region to places like San Antonio International Airport, Fort Sam Houston, McNay Art Museum, Sea World San Antonio, Six Flags Fiesta and to numerous missions like Mission Concepcion and Mission San Jose. There’s also Freeman Coliseum where the annual San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo is held each year.

A complete index of streets, hotels, points of interest, shopping, education, culture, transportation and parks is clearly listed on the STREETWISE® San Antonio Map.

Our pocket size map of San Antonio is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® San Antonio map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® San Antonio map today and you too can navigate San Antonio, Texas like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar. ... Read more

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Not as good and I hoped
This map was not easy to read, and not as clear to give me good directions.It is laminated, so it is not easily soiled or torn, but that is about the best part of it.

Streetwise San Antonio Map review
This map is very helpful for navigating the streets in the heart of downtown San Antonio-- especially for walkers. But if you're driving downtown and you're not familiar with the layout of the streets, then good luck, because there's not much sense to how all those little one-way streets are laid out, and even a detailed map won't help enough. However, the downtown area should really be explored on foot rather than by car. Just find an inexpensive parking lot to leave the car, and take your Streetwise map with you.

If you are driving beyond the downtown area, this map does not provide enough detail, so I'd recommend that you bring another map for that purpose. We brought a map from AAA, and we did fine using both the Streetwise map and the AAA map.

San Antonio
Found this map to very helpful and indestructible.A very nice resource to have on hand, easy to use and accurate for walking and driving.

Too Isolated
I loved the plastic and the clear, colored markings tha show up real good, but was deeply disappointed that it did NOT show the entire city of San Antonio, as billed. It centered rght on the central part of SA and the Alamo, but when you want to use i to get to OTHER places aside downtown---forget it, it becomes a topography map not a road map and is very disappointing.

A great way to see a city!
Bottom line, this series of maps is the best way to see a city. Because they are coated in plastic and fold, they stand up well to being stuffed in a backpack or handbag, and they are clear and easy to use. I've used the San Francisco, Manhattan, London, and Florence maps, and they are really marvelous. And now I'm going to San Antonio!

One of the things I like best about them is that they clearly highlight museums, parks, and other tourist spots so that they are easy to find. The only drawback is that some of the text is mighty small, which can be a problem in low light if your eyes are over 40 like mine are. They are smaller than big fold-out paper maps, which is an advantage if, for safety reasons, you don't want to make it obvious that you are studying a map, advertising that you are a visitor. ... Read more

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Prison City looks beneath the placid surface of Huntsville, Texas, execution capital of the world, and sheds light on controversial issues usually hidden behind penitentiary walls. The authors draw on a multitude of voices from the community surrounding the prison—from inmates and guards to neighboring residents and local politicians—to reflect on questions of crime and punishment, vengeance, and forgiveness. We see how the sophisticated communication techniques employed by inmates, information officers, and community leaders shape opinions in the small towns where prisons are a principal industry. The poignant, evocative stories that run throughout the book highlight the incarcerated population’s increasing influence in the political, cultural, and economic landscape in the United States. Most of all, Prison City offers opportunities to understand why the Texas justice system has become a global metaphor for incarceration and capital punishment. ... Read more