Describes the development of Texas's Big Bend National Park, as well as the controversies that have shaped it over its first fifty years.

A collection of Texas folk sayings--handed down via oral tradition--that are "expressive, unique, useful, delightful, quite descriptive, oftentimes bizarre, and always entertaining."

"Mendelssohn was one of music's greatest child prodigies. This book roots his early years firmly in the cultural and familial histories that shaped his childhood: the rise of his grandfather, Moses, from obscure poverty to international renown as a philosopher; his aunts' leading role in turn-of-the-century salon culture; his father's career as one of Berlin's most successful bankers. At the same time, this book confronts head-on the myth that Mendelssohn's...