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Painted Light

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.

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Vernon Fisher

By Vernon Fisher; Introduction by Frances Colpitt and Ned Rifkin
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.

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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.

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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.

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Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers

American Hilltop Fox Chasing

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.

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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.

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Desert Duty

On the Line with the U.S. Border Patrol

By Bill Broyles and Mark Haynes; Introduction by Charles Bowden
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.

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The Gernsheim Collection

By Roy Flukinger; Introduction by Alison Nordström; Afterword by Mark Haworth-Booth
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.

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The Charles Bowden Reader

By Charles Bowden; Edited by Erin Almeranti and Mary Martha Miles; Introduction by Jim Harrison
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

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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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