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Drug War Zone
Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
University of Texas Press
Gripping firsthand accounts of the drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border from drug traffickers and law enforcement officials.
Boxing Shadows
University of Texas Press
As dramatically intense as the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby, this compelling biography chronicles Anissa “The Assassin” Zamarron’s victory over mental illness to become a two-time world champion in women’s boxing.
A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction
University of Texas Press
A deep exploration of the ways in which postcolonial narrative fiction both acts on and is acted upon by the modern world.
Cinema of Solitude
A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983
University of Texas Press
A study of el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema) and its films presenting alienated characters caught in a painful transition period in which old family, gender, and social roles have ceased to function without being replaced by viable new ones.
Together, Alone
A Memoir of Marriage and Place
University of Texas Press
In this beautifully written memoir, the author of the popular China Bayles mystery series meditates on what it means to be married—to a person and a place—while also needing to be alone and experience silence and solitude.
Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory
A Novel
By Emma Pérez
University of Texas Press
The story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo as she journeys through her own Brokeback Mountain.
Venomous Snakes of Texas
A Field Guide
University of Texas Press
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Price’s Poisonous Snakes of Texas.
The Seduction of Brazil
The Americanization of Brazil during World War II
University of Texas Press
A fascinating study of how the Roosevelt administration used mass media, including films by such luminaries as John Ford, Walt Disney, and Orson Wells, to promote the American way of life to Brazilians and how Brazilians actively interpreted, negotiated, and reconfigured this effort at cultural seduction.
Princess, Priestess, Poet
The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
By Betty De Shong Meador; Introduction by John Maier
University of Texas Press
The first collection of original translations of all forty-two temple hymns of Enheduanna, the world’s earliest known writer.
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