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Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art
By Gay Robins; Illustrated by Ann S. Fowler
University of Texas Press
This book argues that innovation and stylistic variation played a significant role in ancient Egyptian art.
Native Plants for Southwestern Landscapes
By Judy Mielke
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive guide to landscaping dry environments with native plants.
Habitat Conservation Planning
Endangered Species and Urban Growth
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study focuses on a new tool for resolving the land-use conflict--the creation of habitat conservation plans.
National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987
University of Texas Press
The first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood.
Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter
University of Texas Press
Twenty-nine pieces dating from before 1932, including several on Mexican themes.
History and Society in Central America
By Edelberto Torres Rivas; Translated by Douglass Sullivan-González; Introduction by VIctor Bulmer-Thomas
University of Texas Press
The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s.
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song
MPB, 1965-1985
University of Texas Press
A critical study of MPB (música popular brasileira), a term that refers to varieties of urban popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, incorporating samba, Bossa Nova, and new materials.
Toward a Philosophy of the Act
By M. M. Bakhtin; Edited by Michael Holquist
University of Texas Press
Rescued in 1972 from a storeroom in which rats and seeping water had severely damaged the fifty-year-old manuscript, this text is the earliest major work (1919-1921) of the great Russian philosopher M. M. Bakhtin.
The New Latin American Cinema
A Continental Project
University of Texas Press
This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema.
Irene Rice Pereira
Her Paintings and Philosophy
University of Texas Press
The first intellectual history of a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" ima
In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution
Contemporary Mexican History, 1910–1989
University of Texas Press
The first history of 20th-century post-revolutionary Mexico.
Café con leche
Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela
University of Texas Press
An exploration of whether or not historical facts actually support the popular perception that Venezuelans have achieved a racial democracy in which people of all races live free from prejudice and discrimination.
Architecture in Texas
1895-1945
By Jay C. Henry
University of Texas Press
This book is the first comprehensive survey of Texas architecture of the first half of the twentieth century.
Spanish Memory Book
A New Approach to Vocabulary Building, Junior Edition
University of Texas Press
Original mnemonic rhymes appropriate in subject matter and skill level for junior high and high school students to help them acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary.
The Euro-American Cinema
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
This literate and lively study explores the spread of American culture into international cinema as reflected by the collision and partial merger of two important styles of filmmaking: the Hollywood style of stars, genres, and action, and the European art
Chapters on Marriage and Divorce
Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh
University of Texas Press
Three compilations of responses to questions about family law given by two prominent Muslim jurists of the ninth century.
Transforming Modernity
Popular Culture in Mexico
By Néstor García Canclini; Translated by Lidia Lozano
University of Texas Press
An examination of popular culture -- merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them?
The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie
University of Texas Press
A study of the use of drugs, poisons, and chemicals in Christie’s fiction.
Apache Reservation
Indigenous Peoples and the American State
University of Texas Press
In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development of the reservation system and its contemporary relationship to the American state, with comparisons to similar phenomena in Canada, Australia, and South Africa.
The History of Capitalism in Mexico
Its Origins, 1521–1763
By Enrique Semo; Translated by Lidia Lozano
University of Texas Press
This book argues that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the basic dynamic of Mexico's social and economic development.
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