Austin: 1740 books

Scholars have written reams on the conquest of Mexico, from the grand designs of kings, viceroys, conquistadors, and inquisitors to the myriad ways that indigenous peoples contested imperial authority. But the actual work of establishing the Spanish empire in Mexico fell to a host of local agents—magistrates,...

Over the past century, the United States has created a global network of military bases. While the force structure offers protection to US allies, it maintains the threat of violence toward others, both creating and undermining security. Amy Austin Holmes argues that the relationship between the US...

When a team of five explorers embarked on a 1,200-mile journey down the Rio Grande, the river that marks the southern boundary of Texas and the US-Mexico border, their goal was to experience and capture on film the rugged landscapes of this vast frontier before the controversial construction of a...

If you have ever been a young woman than you know that your hormones can drive you wild at times. Find out who I am and how I tried to control my impulses. It was so hard for me, it was almost impossible and I ended up having sex all the time.

Most girls don't like to sleep around unless of course you are a tramp. But every now and then they find themselves in the arms of a stranger. they find someone that gives them the attention they need and then find themselves in a uncontrollable emotional state. That is what happened to me one night;...

Senior year has come and gone, and now Daniel is concerned about what the rest of his life is going to be like. Combine the stress of choosing what to do with college, leaving home, and deciding what to do about the girl he cares for, it seems like Daniel’s world is crumbling down all around him....

Even in the absence of a major war, the world remains a dangerous place. Fuses are lit in practically every region and on every continent, which could eventually ignite a global conflagration and draw the world’s superpowers into a deadly and catastrophic conflict. The U.S., Russia, and China all...

Charles Vidor Simon is the main character of Who Plays on Court One, the story of a tennis team. Charles questions Coach Dick Green’s style of teaching and coaching—so different from that of his hard-driving father, Elek Simon—and the lifestyle of some of his tennis mates. He faces financial...

Marene J. Austin had a dream that eventually compelled her to write Celebrate Lifes Lessons. The book is about how she turned the story of her own life into a walk of faith. She was always hearing a voice and blindly followed that voice to her success. Marene has a humorous way of presenting lifes...

The key word to these studies is the great utterance of the Apostle Paul: "That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death," (Philippians 3:10), a quest which commenced in the startling revelation to him on...

Two years before I set out on the road trip that would change my life, I wrote a collection of essays named “Ved’s Philosophy of Shit, Volume 1.” In it, I speculated about deep and profound things that were, of course, untested. The pages overflowed with clever things like #31: Life, as a population,...

The Name of the Lord Jesus came before Christianity. Christianity took its character, in the first place, from the Name. It was the Name that gave to Christianity its nature. I fear that it may have been reversed since. It seems, although perhaps not deliberately and intentionally or consciously,...

God has always had in His mind and eye a people in absolute ascendancy. You can change the word ascendancy for other words if you like, such as dominion, exaltation, and so on. But ascendancy is a very good word, and I think it will suit our purpose; a people in absolute ascendancy. That thought immediately...

Kalin Taylor is on the path to success. He's just won a scholarship to the prestigious Sanderson College of Arts and Science to study medicine. He's also about to do something very, very stupid in the name of becoming one of the 'in' kids at college.  It sounded simple at the time. Sneak into...