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This book addresses the use of existing and emerging electronic payment technologies within a smart city in the context of the clear and proven value these systems have demonstrated in improving transportation. It addresses such question as How does the toll gantry work? How does it read the transponder tag and deduct the correct amount? How do cities harness the transaction data from mass transit to better meet the demand during peak hours? W...

Don Graham brings together the history, color, and character of Texas' capital city since 1839 when it was selected, on the advice of Mirabeau B. Lamar, as the site for a new capital of the then - Republic of Texas. Essays, fiction, and poetry reveal the variety of literary responses to Austin through the decades and are organized in a roughly chronological fashion to reveal the themes, places, and personalities that have defined the life of t...

This outlines a method for dynamic pricing of high-occupancy toll lanes based on non-linear programming techniques, finite difference stochastic approximation, genetic algorithms and simulated annealing stochastic algorithms, coupled with vector autoregressive techniques, producing a solution for optimal flows and optimal tolls.

It's 1969, and America's youth is reveling in new freedoms. But for California native Don Graham, like so many other men his age, the future feels anything but unfettered. Once a staunch patriot, he does not want to kill or be killed in what he sees as the country's unjust war in Vietnam. Yet his options for avoiding the draft are few and frightening. Suddenly, the graduate study he's planned no longer yields deferment, he's married, but witho...

Don Graham's Giant is a larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology.Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of south Texas. Isolating his star cast i...

Ein junger Cowboy überwirft sich mit Soldaten der US-Armee, weil sie gefangene Indianer brutal behandeln. Zwischen dem Revolverhelden und einem geflüchteten Indianermädchen, dem er bei seinem Ritt nach Mexiko begegnet, entwickelt sich eine vorsichtige Liebe. Ihr kurzes Glück endet in der grausamen Rache ihrer Verfolger.

A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology.Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of south Texas. Isolating his star cast in the wilds of West Te...

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Offering his signature take on Texas literary giants from J. Frank Dobie to Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, and on films such as The Alamo, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, Don Graham demolishes the notion that "Texas culture" is a contradiction in terms.

Suitable for anyone who thinks that oil wells and big hair define Texas can find out differently in the dazzling short fiction presented in South by Southwest, this book includes Texas stories that are among the best produced by the state's writers in the mid-twentieth century.

Brings together the history, color, and character of Texas' capital city since 1839 when it was selected as the site for a new capital of the then - Republic of Texas. This work includes essays, fiction, and poetry which reveal the variety of literary responses to Austin through the decades.

Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS "Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience." -Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove "This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the...

A vast land combining the West, the South, and the Border, small dusty towns and gleaming modern cities, Texas has a history and identity all its own, and a mythology bigger than the Lone Star State itself. In this anthology, selected as a Southwest Book of the Year in 2003, Don Graham has rounded up a comprehensive collection of writings that provides an overview of the diversity and excellence of Texas literature and reveals its vital contri...

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Here Billy Graham examines the problems facing America today compared with what is to come as revealed in the Bible. He answers the tough questions as only he can, with astute biblical insight, and points to the hope and renewal found in Christ.

From the earliest days of film, Texas and its colorful history offered promising story lines comprised of heroes, images, lore, and legend that filmmakers could return to again and again. Offering an overview of Texas in the movies, this book presents commentary on the wretched films about the Lone Star State.

Here Billy Graham examines the problems facing America today compared with what is to come as revealed in the Bible. He answers the tough questions as only he can, with astute biblical insight, and points to the hope and renewal found in Christ.

Here Billy Graham examines the problems facing America today compared with what is to come as revealed in the Bible. He answers the tough questions as only he can, with astute biblical insight, and points to the hope and renewal found in Christ.

This is an examination of the imminence of Christs return in light of todays headlines and the events recorded in Scripture. The morning newspapers are jammed with alarming headlines and stories asking questions no one can answer. In Storm Warning, Billy Graham examines the problems facing America today compared with what is to come as revealed in the Bible. He answers the tough questions as only he can, with astute biblical insight, and point...

The collection begins with a twist on book introductions that sets the tone for the essays to come -- a self-interview conducted poolside at an eccentric Houston motel favored by regional rock bands. The following essays are organized into four parts -- Places, Pages, Polemics, and Pictures.Graham provides a rich sampling of his knowledge of Texas literature and movies in pieces that blanket the territory from Katherine Anne Porter to John Gra...