Many will remember "Texas History Movies", a cartoon booklet that was distributed to Texas history students from the 1920s through the 1960s by Mobil Oil with its familiar Flying Red Horse logo. For decades "Texas History Movies" taught thousands of school children the varied history of Texas, from Columbus to the discovery of oil. Though the ...
Many legendary men have been associated with University of Texas football, but for most fans one man will always be 'Coach' - Darrell K Royal. One of the most successful coaches in college football, Royal led the Longhorns to three national championships and eleven Southwest Conference titles during his twenty years (1956-1976) as UT's head coach. ...
This long-forgotten eyewitness account of the Texas Revolution has been translated into English for the first time. Gen. Vicente Filisola was second in command of the Mexican army in Texas during the Revolution. After the defeat of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna by Sam Houston's Texans at San Jacinto, Filisola became commander-in-chief of the 4 ...
Lieutenant Jose Cortes of the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers was a keen observer of the native peoples of the Northern Borderlands of New Spain. His REPORT ON THE NORTHERN PROVINCES OF NEW SPAIN provides the most closely informed, best organized understanding of Apaches available at the end of the eighteenth century.
In late 1833 Mexico began to have serious fears that its northeastern territory in Texas would be lost to North American colonists. To determine the actual state of affairs, Mexico sent Col. Juan N. Almonte to Texas on an inspection - the last conducted by a high-ranking Mexican official before the Texas revolution. Almonte wrote a secret report ...
Medical law is fast becoming an important part of the undergraduate syllabus. This new edition, previously entitled "Sourcebook on Medical Law", draws together a wide range of essential material, including extracts from statutes, cases and academic commentary, and presents them in a lucid and logical form. Divided into two parts, the first looks ...
The key focus of this edited text is on the legal and professional conflicts and issues that can arise from regulating health care quality. Doctors and nurses all increasingly face a number of dilemmas with regulating health quality issues such as increasing levels of complaints and litigation, scarcity of resources, under-staffing, professional ...
This book is designed to tap into professional, public and media interest in the dilemmas of healthcare ethics and to provide a useful tool for healthcare professionals to consider some of the most current issues in detail, including: the social creation of health law and healthcare; access to healthcare and control of its quality (including the ...
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