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Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas

Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas

Light Townsend Cummins

Texas A M University Press
2015
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At Fair Park in Dallas, a sculpture of a Native American figure, bronze with gilded gold leaf, strains a bow before sending an arrow into flight. Tejas Warrior has welcomed thousands of visitors since the Texas Centennial Exposition opened in the 1930s. The iconic piece is instantly recognizable, yet few people know about its creator: Allie Victoria Tennant, one of a notable group of Texas artists who actively advanced regionalist art in the decades before World War II.Light Townsend Cummins follows Tennant’s public career from the 1920s to the 1960s, both as an artist and as a culture-bearer, as she advanced cultural endeavors, including the arts. A true pathfinder, she helped to create and nurture art institutions that still exist today, most especially the Dallas Museum of Art, on whose board of trustees she sat for almost thirty years. Tennant also worked on behalf of other civic institutions, including the public schools, art academies, and the State Fair of Texas, where she helped create the Women’s Building. Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas sheds new light on an often overlooked artist.
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To the Vast and Beautiful Land

To the Vast and Beautiful Land

Light Townsend Cummins

Texas A M University Press
2019
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To the Vast and Beautiful Land gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author's career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original article to current scholarship and forms the connective tissue for the volume. A new bibliography updates and supplements the sources cited in the essays. From the ""enduring community"" of Anglo-American settlers in colonial Natchez to the Gálvez family along the Gulf Coast and their participation in the American Revolution, Cummins shows that mercantile commerce and land acquisition went hand-in-hand as dual motivations for the migration of English-speakers into Louisiana and Texas. Mercantile trade dominated by Anglo-Americans increasingly tied the Mississippi valley and western Gulf Coast to the English-speaking ports of the Atlantic world bridging two centuries, shifting it away from earlier French and Spanish commercial patterns. As a result, Anglo-Americans moved to the region as residents and secured land from Spanish authorities, who often welcomed them with favorable settlement policies. This steady flow of settlement set the stage for families such as the Austins—first Moses and later his son Stephen—to take root and further ""Anglocize"" a colonial region. Taken together, To the Vast and Beautiful Land makes a new contribution to the growing literature on the history of the Spanish borderlands in North America.
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On History's Trail

On History's Trail

Light Townsend Cummins; Larry McNeill

Texas State Historical Association,U.S.
2014
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On History’s Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 2009–2012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cummins’s time as the State Historian of Texas, when he spoke to dozens of groups across the Lone Star State and beyond.The subjects include the settlement of Canary Islanders in Texas and Louisiana, the Red River War, Dallas sculptress Allie V. Tennant, the ""hometown"" of Audie Murphy, and much more. While wide-ranging in time and place, this collection emphasizes the importance of biography and the individual in Texas history, never losing the warmth and humanity that is Cummins’s hallmark.The most important point of On History’s Trail, though, is the most valuable lesson Cummins learned while State Historian: The history of Texas is alive and well today. There are more people reading and researching the history of the state than ever before. The range of topics in this volume shows the viability, breadth, and range of the state’s remarkable history.
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Breaking Light: Birth of a Hero (Book 1)

Breaking Light: Birth of a Hero (Book 1)

Carl Townsend

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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What happens when a small community of believers risks everything to change everything? -The story is fiction. The battle is spiritual. -There is a war going on-A battle for your heart. -The story takes place in 2032. -It's not really 2032 and it's not really fiction. Somebody moved the stage. -You have a part in the story. -You are trapped in an illusion, a murky fog or mist. Tough being a hero when you're in a place like that. -What's this Church thing, anyway? How does it relate to this hero thing?
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A Deceit of the Light

A Deceit of the Light

Cameron Townsend

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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"A Deceit of the Light" continues Lenore Grey's story in 1964 where she is anxious to stop L. A. Detectives Ian Marsh's and Rick O'Grady's investigation of a burglary before Marsh learns she is a vampire. Deciding Preston Halifax's arrest will end their interest in her, she returns to the hospital where she left the comatose art thief after she bit him. While searching for his room, she encounters an assault victim, sending her mind back to 1720 England and her struggle to overcome the physical and emotional scars left by her ordeal at her uncle's house.No longer able to bear any man's touch, she rebuffs her husband, the Count de Poenari's advances with unexpected results.The return of ardent suitor Thomas Broadmore and the discovery that a family member survived the devastating fire at Haverford Hall and is unwittingly about to marry a soul-stealing succubus in addition to finding that the ghosts of her siblings are stalling the rebuilding of Haverford further complicate Lenore's efforts to resume a somewhat normal life.Back in 1964, O'Grady recalls his bizarre meeting with the extraterrestrial Marsh, whose difficulty adhering to protocol saved O'Grady's life. With thesearch for Ian's key stalled by Halifax's disappearance, they are even more determined to uncover the secret that Lenore is trying so desperately to hide.Please visit Cameron Townsend and "Like" The Lenore Grey Novels on Facebook
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In the Light

In the Light

Constance L. Townsend

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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The Light, in its many forms, has always been a God-connection for me. Whether I experience it in the sunshine or am aware of the light within myself. Like a moth to flame, I am always drawn to the Light. The stories...though written of fictional characters... and poetry... in this book reflect my own personal experiences in seeking and finding God's Light. Hopefully, my sharing them here with you will shine some of that light on your path as well.
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Light

Light

Emily Dodd

Collins
2016
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Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level What is light and how does it work? Did you know it was the fastest thing in the universe? Learn about the different properties of light and the importance of the sun, as well as the potential for using light in the future. Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.Text type: an information bookCurriculum links: science
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Light

Light

Michael Grant

Harpercollins
2014
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The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Gone series by Michael Grant is another masterful, arresting depiction of life in the FAYZ.It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil.And now, the gaiaphage has been reborn as Diana's malicious mutant daughter, Gaia. Gaia is endlessly hungry for destruction. She yearns to conquer her nemesis, Little Pete, and then bend the entire world to her warped will. As long-standing enemies become allies, secrets are revealed and unexpected sacrifices are made. Will their attempts to save themselves and one another matter in the end, or will the kids of Perdido Beach perish in this final power struggle?" T]his book is more than satisfying--it is epic."--VOYA (starred review)Read the entire series: GoneHungerLiesPlagueFearLightMonsterVillainHero
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Light

Light

Timothy O'Grady

Vintage
2013
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An elderly Pole sits in a cafe in Krakow. At another table a young man with a ravaged face is drinking wine and reading Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy. They begin to talk. All through the night as they go from bar to bar the young man tells the story of the great love of his life, of how in the midst of their rapture the woman inexplicably disappeared, and of how he is now driving across Europe in a desperate attempt to find her. After they part in the pre-dawn light the old man returns to his rooms and finds himself beset by questions. Why can he not forget this young man? Who was the woman he was with and why did she leave him? These questions lead him back through his own life, from pre- and post-war Poland, to his membership of the Communist Party and his own life-altering love affair with a woman he met in Berlin and then ran away with to the sand dunes of the Baltic coast until she, too, left him without explanation. Through the years that followed he wandered the world trying to escape from the memory of her. Now, back in a small town in Poland, he begins to assemble stories both from his own past and that of the young man and the woman he loved and lost until he finds himself on an unexpected quest. Light traverses Europe and parts of America, the history of physics and political changes in Central Europe. It is about love and ruin, East and West, friendship and betrayal, the search for certainty and the consequent disillusionment. It is, too, about the making of stories and how they can lead, inadvertently, to revelation.
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Light

Light

Ian A. Walmsley

Oxford University Press
2015
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Light enables us to see the world around us. Our sense of sight provides us with direct information about space and time, the physical arrangement of the world, and how it changes. This almost universal shared sensation of vision has led to a fascination with the nature and properties of light across the ages. But the light we see is just a small part of the whole spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, ranging from radio waves to gamma rays. In this Very Short Introduction Ian Walmsley discusses early attempts to explain light, and the development of apparently opposing particulate and wave theories by scientists such as Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens. He shows how light was recognized as an electromagnetic wave in the 19th century, and the development of the quantum mechanics view of wave-particle duality in the 20th century. He also describes the many applications of light, domestic and scientific, such as microwaves, DVDs, and lasers. We now use the whole range of electromagnetic radiation to peer both into the human body and deep into space. Turning to the future of optics, Walmsley concludes by looking at some of the most exciting new developments using quantum light sources in communications and computing. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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Light

Light

Michael I. Sobel

University of Chicago Press
1989
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Rainbows and exploding stars, ancient Greek optics and modern lasers-these are but a few facets of this entertaining exploration of light in all areas of science and technology. "Like the denizens of some brilliant ocean, humans are awash in light. Surrounded by illuminations both natural and artificial, we remain blissfully unaware of how light determines most of life's rhythms and rituals or how it dominates every field of modern science. Michael I. Sobel, a professor of physics at Brooklyn College, has attempted no less a task than to enlighten us (see how it pervades our language) about the many facets of this ubiquitous phenomenon, from its earliest stirrings of emotion and wonder in ancient savants to its modern applications in lasers and silicon chips. His broader objective, however, is to show the unity of the natural sciences by using light as a central theme. . . . As a guide along the path of light Mr. Sobel is excellent."-James Cornell, New York Times Book Review "At long last, here is a book about a technical subject that anyone can read with interest and understand. . . . The author's technical genius and communication skills are combined with excellent lucid sketches, concise meaty captions, and fascinating photographs."-Jason R. Taylor, Science Books and Films "The title says it all. It is simply a magnificent dissertation on every aspect of light. Its lucid and attractive prose may be read for pleasure and wonder, yet the book is also a reference book of authority. I doubt whether any question about light cannot be answered by consulting it, whether the question is about glow-worms or the aurora borealis, black bodies of the structure of the eye, mirages or fluorescence. This is a marvelous book, one of the best paperbacks I have ever encountered."-New Scientist
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Light

Light

Scott Palmer

Red Globe Press
2013
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How has light influenced the staging of theatre throughout history?What does light contribute to performance?How does it make meaning?This collection explores the creative potential of light in the theatre. Through a wide range of extracts from historical accounts, new research and rare documents, some presented for the first time in English, Scott Palmer provides new ways of thinking about lighting as a creative performance practice. Focusing on elements such as:• the emergence of lighting design in the theatre• equipment and techniques• the dramaturgy of light• its impact on actor, audience and playhouse• the semiotics and phenomenology of light in performancethe book reveals why light has such a profound effect on the audience's experience of a theatrical event.
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Light

Light

Scott Palmer

Red Globe Press
2013
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How has light influenced the staging of theatre throughout history?What does light contribute to performance?How does it make meaning?This collection explores the creative potential of light in the theatre. Through a wide range of extracts from historical accounts, new research and rare documents, some presented for the first time in English, Scott Palmer provides new ways of thinking about lighting as a creative performance practice. Focusing on elements such as:• the emergence of lighting design in the theatre• equipment and techniques• the dramaturgy of light• its impact on actor, audience and playhouse• the semiotics and phenomenology of light in performancethe book reveals why light has such a profound effect on the audience's experience of a theatrical event.
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