Oil Field Child
Author: Estha Briscoe Stowe
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780875650333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells of the lives of early-day oil field families in Texas boomtowns.
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Goodnight, Drilling Rig
Author: Kyle Wagner
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781734822717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSnuggle up to your loved ones and say goodnight to the oil patch! As the sun goes down, join the car ride around the oilfield - from computer code to lease road - as it gets ready to call it a night. A story for all ages, this oilfield picture book is sure to leave you smiling!
My Daddy Works on an Oil Rig
Author: Andrew Douglas
Publisher: Collingwood Publishing
Published: 2018-06-07
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781527223295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaddy is a busy man, and he has to work away a lot on an oil rig. When he goes away he misses Mummy and his sons. Follow Daddy's adventures as he travels to the oil rig, by planes, helicopters and boats! Throughout all this, he still keeps in contact with his family. Luckily, Daddy isn't away for too long and the family count down the days until they can see him again! Andrew Douglas has written this book for any other children whose parents work away from home. He wanted his own children to know that he still thinks of them whilst he's away, and hopes that other children (and parents!) are comforted by his story.
The Wall That Failed
Author: Evelyn Rossler Stroder
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2017-09-20
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1532003994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wall that was five feet high and built of concrete, rock, and mortar split Crane, Texas, in half more than a half century ago—with blacks on one side and whites on the other. Evelyn Rossler Stroder, a longtime teacher, gave little thought to the wall as she ran teacher errands to the former Bethune School for blacks, which in the late 1960s became the Bethune Annex to the Crane school system. In this history, she explores the origins of the wall, the community’s recollection of it, and how it symbolized the ugliness of racial segregation. She also examines the consequences of separating the school systems, swimming pools, movie theaters, and most every facet of life in the small oil field community. The story also celebrates how sports brought the two communities together, beginning with the Bethune basketball team, which had won three state championships in their conference of all-black schools, coming together with their new, white classmates in 1965. The integrated team brought Crane all the way to the state finals. Discover how sports helped a small West Texas town move forward in this inspiring tale about The Wall That Failed.
Energy in American History
Author: Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 1015
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics"--
Riffraff and Other Stories About the Nomadic Life of a Texas Oilfield Brat.
Author: Carol Mogensen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2015-06-19
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1503572501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarol Mogensen begins a chronicle of her nomadic life by describing her family's wandering from one Texas oil boom town to another during the 1940s. These wanderings over the dry Texas plains instilled in her a thirst for adventure and led to living in Puerto Rico and, ultimately, on a small island in Alaska. She titles her book Riffraff as that is the way many residents of the small Texas farming communities whee cotton fields sat stop oil fields viewed the influx of nomadic oilfield workers into their communities. Although some may consider her early years a hard scrabble existence, she describes a childhood of being led into mischief by an older brother with humor. Other stories describe the experience of being the first woman to parachute with Sky Divers in Potter County in 1960, a car trip through Mexico in 1961 with her college roommate, an unpleasant incident at the notorious Jack Ruby's nightclub in Dallas, the pathos of loss of a loved one to suicide, and starting a new life with a new love in southeast Alaska, delivering supplies to remote island locations.
Child Support Assurance Act of 1992
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780160391453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren at Play
Author: Howard P. Chudacoff
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2008-09
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0814716652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: Play -- Childhood and play in colonial America -- Domesticating children, 1800-1850 -- The arrival of toys, 1850-1900 -- The invasion of children's play culture, 1900-1950 -- The golden age, 1900-1950 -- The commercialization of children's play, 1950 to the present -- Children's play goes underground, 1950 to the present -- Conclusion
Drugs in Institutions: Interstate placement and traffic in children and their drugging
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 752
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChild Hunger and Human Rights
Author: Clair Apodaca
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-04-05
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1136994815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChild Hunger and Human Rights: International Governance applies the human rights theory of legal obligation to the problem of child malnutrition and investigates whether duty-bearers have fulfilled their obligations to protect, respect and provide. This book includes moral, economic, political and legal components to the research on the child’s right to be free from hunger. Using two methods of investigation; the first a historical comparative method based on the systematic analysis of the content of historical materials, government documents, policy statements, state budgets, newspaper reports and other public records, and the second is statistical analysis. Apodaca investigates beyond the suffering, deformities, and deaths of children, to child malnutrition resulting in reduced physical and mental development threatening the child’s life opportunities, the prospects of further generations, and the growth of the economy. Examining the connection between governmental agricultural, economic and financial policies, international donor policies, and transnational corporate voluntary codes of conduct affecting child malnutrition rates, this book will be of interest to policy-makers, activists, students and scholars of human rights, social justice, international ethics, development, international relations and law.
