Search results for ""Author Mona D. Sizer""
Taylor Trade Publishing Texas Money: All the Law Allows
Howard Hughes died with hypodermic needles broken off in his arm. When Mary Kay Ash was in elementary school, she cared for her tubercular father while her mother worked fourteen hours a day in a cafe. H. Ross Perot staged the rescue of his EDS executives from jail in Iran when President Carter couldn't get his diplomats out of their own embassy. Michael Dell started his fortune while still in high school. What do they all have in common? They're all texans and worth billions! Texas has long been synonymous with legendary wealth acquired by inheritance, by luck, by intelligence, and sometimes by sheer hard-nosed determination. Author Mona D. Sizer offers a glimpse into some extraordinary lives and reveals not only how they made it, but also what they did with it.
£15.05
Taylor Trade Publishing Texas Disasters: Wind, Flood, and Fire
Texas Disasters traces major catastrophes in a larger-than-life state with no need for exaggeration. These captivating narratives highlight the human drama in episodes like the Branch-Dividian Holocaust, the Columbia Disaster, the New London School Explosion, the Big Drift, the Waco Tornado, the Destruction of Texas Indians, and the Texas City Explosion.
£14.99