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A Study of Organizational Dilemmas
University of Texas Press
One of the first systematic, empirical studies of religious orders in the United States and one of the few sociological investigations of convents and the changes occurring within them.
The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945
University of Texas Press
This volume not only brings to light several important women poets but also represents the discovery of a tradition of women writers.
Anthropology and History in Yucatán
Edited by Grant D. Jones
University of Texas Press
A collection of ten essays that offer interpretations of the survival and adaptation of lowland Maya culture from its earliest contact with the Spanish to the 1970s.
Voices of Change in the Spanish American Theater
An Anthology
Edited by William I. Oliver
University of Texas Press
A selection of plays that are representative of a fresh spirit and of societal pressures and changes in Spanish American culture.
The Gerbil in Behavioral Investigations
Mechanisms of Territoriality and Olfactory Communication
By Del Thiessen and Pauline Yahr
University of Texas Press
In this comprehensive account of olfactory communication and territorial behavior in the Mongolian gerbil, Del Thiessen and PaulineYahr provide the first detailed study of the neurological and physiological mechanisms that control these basic functions.
The Art of Life
Studies in American Autobiographical Literature
University of Texas Press
This volume defines an original theory of autobiographical writing and provides intriguing analyses of major American works of literature.
Osip Mandelstam
Selected Essays
Translated by Sidney Monas
University of Texas Press
The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent Mandelstam's major poetic themes and his thought on literature, language and culture, and the work and place of the poet.
Gondal's Queen
A Novel in Verse
By Emily Jane Brontë; Edited by Fannie E. Ratchford
University of Texas Press
A cycle of eighty-four poems by Emily Jane Brontë, for the first time arranged in logical sequence, to re-create the “novel in verse” which Emily wrote about their beloved mystical kingdom of Gondal and its ruler, Augusta Geraldine Almeda, who brought tra
Elites and Economic Development
Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities
By John Walton
University of Texas Press
A detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America.
Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos
Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas
University of Texas Press
Two volumes of African American folk tales collected in Texas.
Science and Ceremony
The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres
University of Texas Press
This book constitutes the first major appraisal of the work and influence of C. E. Ayres.
Aspects of English Sentence Stress
University of Texas Press
Using a working definition of stress as subjective impression of prominence, the author attempts to formulate general principles that will predict the relative prominence of different words in particular utterances—what might be called the syntax of stress.
Hamlet's Castle
The Study of Literature as a Social Experience
University of Texas Press
A theoretical and practical examination of the interactions that take place in a literary classroom.
The Siren and the Seashell
And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry
University of Texas Press
A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.
The Making of a History
Walter Prescott Webb and The Great Plains
University of Texas Press
The first biographically oriented study of a man regarded as one of the twentieth century's major western historians.
The Galveston Era
The Texas Crescent on the Eve of Secession
By Earl Wesley Fornell; Illustrated by Lowell Collins
University of Texas Press
A study of the Texas Gulf Coast on the eve of the Civil War, centering on the charming and contradictory city of Galveston.
Moroccan Islam
Tradition and Society in a Pilgrimage Center
University of Texas Press
A study of maraboutism in Morocco.
Man Across the Sea
Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts
University of Texas Press
Originally delivered at a symposium held in May 1968 during the national meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, these essays offer differing points of view and considerable evidence on the pros and cons of pre-Columbian contact between the Old W
Current Thought in Musicology
Edited by John W. Grubbs
University of Texas Press
These nine papers constitute a broad overview of the direction of music scholarship in the 1970s.
Heredity, Environment, and Personality
A Study of 850 Sets of Twins
By John C. Loehlin and Robert C. Nichols
University of Texas Press
This volume reports on a study of 850 pairs of twins who were tested to determine the influence of heredity and environment on individual differences in personality, ability, and interests.
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