I love this book. You can tell this guy's from the area. He includes great details and tips about things you would otherwise miss. It's a good deal of insightful info for a few books. It's about time something like this hit the shelves for new and old Texas bikers!

....an excellent quality guide to Texas mountain biking. Great descriptions, a good variety of rides and text that isn't boring like some guide books. The author really inspired me to get out and hit the trails! Definitely one to own if you are interested in biking.

As San Antonionians, my husband and I walk on the River Walk every few weeks simply because we love it. After readingDiane Capito's San Antonio on Foot, we tried several of her RiverWalk walks. We discovered new views and new wonders! After years of walking the RiverWalk, Ms. Capito showed us more sights! Delightful!

The walks in this book are well-laid out and very interesting. San Antonio is a beautiful city and this book will help you appreciate it more fully, and get some excercise in the process! Even if you are not a walker, the book is a good guide to some places in San Antonio you might otherwise miss. PS-There are errors in the ad-the new edition IS available, and the book if far more than 4 pages long.

My Husband and I visited Houston, San Antonio & Austin, we only had a couple of weeks in which to fit in as much as we could. This book was a brilliant way to get the most from a short time. It helped us to enjoy our visit to the full. We hope to visit more of the USA and shall certainly use this type of book again.

I really enjoyed using Day Trips from San Antonio and Austin to plan several recent weekend excursions. I found the book very helpful and used it to plan a trip to Corpus Christi and another to the Hill Country. Even though I have lived in this area for over 20 years, I found many hidden treasures thanks to this guide!

This book is filled with information on Central Texas Aquatic Resources. If you're looking for a guide to find the most lucrative waters to suit your mood, this is it! The author gives in-depth information on pools, watering holes, natural springs & rivers, water theme parks, and lakes. I found the author to be very knowledgeable by way of giving the reader detailed insights on each particular place to swim. Having done her share of swimming as her favorite pastime, the author's enthusiasm for pools really shows, which makes it an interesting read vying to keep the reader afloat!

This is a very cool book. I had no idea there was so much history about Texas swimming. Great old pictures, tons of information, fascinating stories. Chandra Beal's enthusiasm for this subject really shows. First rate reading!

Excellent book. James M. McCaffrey weaves the facts of Granbury's Texas Brigade from the beginning of the Civil War to after. Along with his facts that are documented very well, he puts in each chapter quotes from actual troops to better illustrate from those who were there, the points of the book. It starts from the mustering in Texas, to life in the Army of Trans-Mississippi, to prison life, to life in the Army of Tennessee, including all the campaigns and battles. The leadership of the struggling Southern Army is covered well. Not only is the history of the brigade covered, but it is an excellent reference book as well. McCaffrey's work in the appendices, which are chapters in themselves, cover; The flags of Granbury's Brigade (with line drawings), the weapons of Granbury's Brigade, and the regimental rosters of the men in Granbury's Brigade. This includes the names of the troops in the Sixth Texas Infantry Regiment, Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment, Tenth Texas Infantry Regiment, Fifteenth Texas Calvary Regiment, Seventeenth Texas Calvary Regiment, Eighteenth Texas Calvary Regiment, Twenty-fourth Texas Calvary Regiment, and the Twenty-fifth Texas Calvary Regiment. There are also maps of the battles with troop movments and pictures of some members of Granbury's Brigade, including a page of weapons and another of the flag of the 17th and 18th Texas Cavalry. The best review I could give this book is that the kin of mine who fought in this unit would be proud of this work. If you are studying Civil War history, Texas troop's Civil War history, or had ancestry in this brigade, this is a very good book to add to your library. I salute the author,James M. McCaffrey, for bringing the history of Granbury's Brigade alive.

This book has been an indespensable guide to the recruitment, training, engagements and other events of my ancestor and his brother James N. and John S. Hamilton in Co. I of the Texas 18th Cavalry (dismounted). I highly recommend as an excellent account of not only Granbury's Brigade, but a great short introduction to battlefield circumstances and tactics for the "uninitiated", such as myself. A VERY readable book !

I think Bob Phillips IS Texas.

Bob Phillips has taken his favorite Texas sites and put them into a wonderful little book that is just the size to fit in your glove compartment. His award winning show come through in this great book. For 25 years now he has used his special talents for finding some of the most intresting characters in Texas. In this wonderful little book he put these people into words. A must for Texas travelers

R.S. Christie exposes a complicated network of interdependencies, relationships and problems in a seemingly narrow area of government. Yet, this work can be used as a model for anyone interested in the old "Where does the money go to?" question in the area of Government Science. Christie's writing is fluent and crystal-clear and she clearly has a good grasp of the inner workings of the Austin government. The US has long been debating issue regarding public spending in the area of Health Care. This work is an example of how some basic problems can be unlocked. I'd call it "A Barefoot Model for Problems in Government Spending". We usually talk of "taxpayers' money" - and this scientific work does an important service to those of us who wonder why red tape does seem to get worse every year. Highly specialized, yes, but recommended without doubt.

My friend Edgar actually wrote this, I'm just passing it on, since he's read the book and I haven't yet. The language is a bit stilted because it was originally included in a college term paper.

If earlier attempts to form historical connections from the pre-Contact past to the ethnographic present have been confounded by unintelligible data, new developments in Maya hieroglyphic translation radically collapsed many of the previous barriers to consulting the pre-Contact records, especially from the Classic Period (ca. 100-900 CE). Blaffer's fascinating (1972) ethnozoological monograph focuses on bat symbolism, from pre-Contact mythology and iconography to modern ethnography and folklore of the Tzotzils around Zinacantan, Chiapas. Specifically, Blaffer is interested in the continual identification of the bat with what in structuralism is termed the "ambiguous" or "anomalous intermediate category," a type of entity that obtains characteristics from both poles of otherwise diametric oppositions: nature/culture, life/death, male/female, animal/human, and so forth.

As a 25 year resident of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, I must say this man knows his stuff. His ratings of the restaurants are dead on and his discriptions of the cities is not only factual but also amusing. There are things he found I didn't know about and are dying to check out. This is a must read for anyone who wants to know some little known facts about this great metroplex.