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Love Deeper Than a River - My Life in San Antonio (Paperback): Lila Banks Cockrell Love Deeper Than a River - My Life in San Antonio (Paperback)
Lila Banks Cockrell; As told to Catherine Nixon Cooke; Foreword by Henry Cisneros
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R480 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R74 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lila Banks Cockrell has been an important voice in San Antonio politics and public life for more than six decades. In Love Deeper Than a River, she recalls her life as a public servant in the city she loves and, as member of the Greatest Generation, recounts how coming of age during Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II, and the burgeoning civil rights movement influenced her political views and kindled her passion to serve her country and community. Love Deeper Than a River details the era of Cockrell's life that many San Antonians are familiar with, including her four terms as the first woman mayor of San Antonio, between 1975 and 1991, and her service on countless municipal commissions, civic boards, foundations, and conservancies in the 1990s and into the early twenty-first century. Her life stands as an inspiration for everyone, including new generations of civic leaders.

Roj Rodriguez - Mi Sangre (Hardcover): Nadine Barth Roj Rodriguez - Mi Sangre (Hardcover)
Nadine Barth; Text written by Anne Wilkes Tucker; Henry Cisneros; Text written by Lila Downs, Dolores Huerta, …
R1,115 Discovery Miles 11 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The series Mi Sangre by Roj Rodriguez started as a photo documentation of a personal journey to retrace his Mexican heritage and has evolved into a fine art project aimed at highlighting Mexican culture on both sides of the US/Mexico border. It documents everyday aspects of Mexican life, the culture and popular iconography, both as they exist in Mexico and as reimagined by Mexican Americans in the US. With each of the subjects portrayed, Roj Rodriguez engaged in sometimes casual, sometimes insightful conversations. Mi Sangre includes proud and elegant charros, beautiful and skilled escaramuzas, joyful and coy children, wise and innocent elders, vibrant and talented mariachi musicians, loving and welcoming families, and even fine art re-interpretations of Loteria iconography.

My Storm - Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (Hardcover, New): Edward J. Blakely My Storm - Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (Hardcover, New)
Edward J. Blakely; Contributions by Henry Cisneros
R1,278 Discovery Miles 12 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina. In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a disaster of enormous proportions. Millions of pounds of water crushed the basic infrastructure of the city. A land area six times the size of Manhattan was flooded, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving most of New Orleans under water for 57 days. No American city had sustained that amount of destruction since the Civil War. But beneath the statistics lies a deeper truth: New Orleans had been in trouble well before the first levee broke, plagued with a declining population, crumbling infrastructure, ineffective government, and a failed school system. Katrina only made these existing problems worse. To Blakely, the challenge was not only to repair physical damage but also to reshape a city with a broken economy and a racially divided, socially fractured community. My Storm is a firsthand account of a critical sixteen months in the post-Katrina recovery process. It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that could not only survive but thrive. He considers the recovery effort's successes and failures, candidly assessing the challenges at hand and the work done-admitting that he sometimes stumbled, especially in managing press relations. For Blakely, the story of the post-Katrina recovery contains lessons for all current and would-be planners and policy makers. It is, perhaps, a cautionary tale.

San Antonio's Historic Hotels (Hardcover): David L Peche San Antonio's Historic Hotels (Hardcover)
David L Peche; Foreword by Henry Cisneros
R781 R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Save R128 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Promise and Betrayal - Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods (Hardcover, New): John I. Gilderbloom,... Promise and Betrayal - Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods (Hardcover, New)
John I. Gilderbloom, R. L. Mullins Jr.; Foreword by Henry Cisneros
R1,686 Discovery Miles 16 860 Out of stock

Traditionally, institutions of higher education have been viewed as the gateway to a better future, despite the fact that so many of the neighborhoods surrounding them have been filled with hopelessness and despair. In Promise and Betrayal, the authors want nothing less than to start a revolution in higher education, calling on partnerships between "town and gown" to create sustainable urban neighborhoods. John I. Gilderbloom and R. L. Mullins Jr. detail how higher education institutions can play an important role in helping to revitalize our poor neighborhoods by forming partnerships with public, private, and nonprofit groups. They advocate leaving the "ivory tower" and supplying the community with expert knowledge as well as creative and technical resources.

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