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Painted Light
By Kate Breakey
University of Texas Press
With luminous images from nine suites of photographs, this is the first career retrospective of internationally acclaimed artist Kate Breakey, encompassing works ranging from early images that bridge art and science to her mature still lifes.
Vernon Fisher
University of Texas Press
With over 150 superb illustrations, this is the most current and comprehensive retrospective of the work of internationally acclaimed postmodern artist Vernon Fisher, whose bold and innovative multimedia work suggests stories with multiple meanings and indecipherable conclusions.
Texas, A Modern History
Revised Edition
University of Texas Press
Thoroughly updated since its original publication in 1989, this popular history by award-winning author David G. McComb brings the story of Texas into the twenty-first century.
Hollywood Incoherent
Narration in Seventies Cinema
University of Texas Press
Looking at iconic films such as The Godfather, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, and A Woman Under the Influence, this book reveals that the narrative and stylistic innovations of the 1970s opened a new era in American cinema.
Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers
American Hilltop Fox Chasing
By Thad Sitton
University of Texas Press
Based on thousands of fascinating primary accounts in letters, magazine articles, and interviews, Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers is the definitive social history of a vanishing American pastime—folk fox hunting.
Feeding the City
From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860
University of Texas Press
This social and cultural history of the provisioning of Salvador, Brazil, as it moved from colony to independent city encompasses a whole society by looking at a broadly defined occupation—the food trade—and showing the connections between and among social categories.
Desert Duty
On the Line with the U.S. Border Patrol
University of Texas Press
Covering a fifty-year span of law enforcement, Desert Duty reveals the patriotic sense of duty and compassionate calling that motivates the men and women who guard the borders of the United States.
The Gernsheim Collection
University of Texas Press
This selection of masterpieces from the Gernsheim Collection, one of the world’s most important collections of photography, effectively constitutes a visual history of photography from the earliest-known photograph to images of the mid-twentieth century.
The Charles Bowden Reader
University of Texas Press
With excerpts from his major books—Blue Desert, Desierto: Memories of the Future, Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals, A Shadow in the City, Trinity, and Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing—as well as prominent magazine articles and early journalism, this anthology gathers the best and most representative writing from Charles Bowden’s entire career
Texas Through Women's Eyes
The Twentieth-Century Experience
University of Texas Press
Combining scholarly research with vivid, first-person accounts, this lively history for the first time tells the story of women’s experiences in twentieth-century Texas, with an inclusive focus on rural women, working-class women, and women of color.
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