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Radical Cartographies
Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America
University of Texas Press
Shedding light on the innovative uses of participatory mapping emerging from Latin America’s marginalized communities, this diverse collection reconceptualizes what maps mean as representations of identity and place.
Donald Seldin
The Maestro of Medicine
University of Texas Press, University of Texas Health Press
The inspiring biography of Donald Seldin, the physician, scientist, and academic leader who transformed the ramshackle Southwestern Medical College into a powerhouse of scientific research and patient care.
The Red Caddy
Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea
University of Texas Press
The first literary biography of Edward Abbey in a generation, this thoughtful memoir serves as a meditation on the writing life, the cult of readers, reputation, and the literary afterlife of a well-known writer.
The Adorned Body
Mapping Ancient Maya Dress
University of Texas Press
The Adorned Body is the first truly comprehensive book on what the ancient Maya wore, a systematic survey of dress and ornaments, from head to toe and everything in between.
Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
By Jessica Luther and Kavitha Davidson
University of Texas Press
Acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson explore what it means to be a fan, even as ethical concerns--from doping to domestic violence--complicate the games we love
Fangirls
Scenes from Modern Music Culture
By Hannah Ewens
University of Texas Press
Touching on her own experiences as a music obsessive, Hannah Ewens captures the joy and community of young women bonded by their musical fandoms and the impact these fangirls have on the artists they love.
Texas Place Names
By Edward Callary and Jean K. Callary
University of Texas Press
From Alice to Zephyr, this colorful compendium tells the story behind more than three thousand intriguing place names in Texas, revealing the turning points that put Dime Box, Shiner, and other distinctive appellations on the map.
Landed Internationals
Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By Burak Erdim
University of Texas Press
Landed Internationals explores how postwar encounters in housing and planning helped transform the dynamics of international development and challenged American modernity.
A Thirsty Land
The Fight for Water in Texas
University of Texas Press
A Thirsty Land chronicles Texans’ epic struggles over water, from San Antonio’s mission-era acequias to today’s debates in the face of climate change and population growth, with an eye toward innovative technologies and strategies for increasing the suppl
Flash of Light, Wall of Fire
Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
University of Texas Press
Featuring over one hundred photographs taken after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this book forces us to confront the human and environmental costs of nuclear war.
Making Houston Modern
The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays examines the life and legacy of Houston architect Howard Barnstone, whose modernist designs and pioneering writings reshaped perceptions of the architecture of Texas.
Chican@ Artivistas
Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles
University of Texas Press
A Grammy Award–winning singer and scholar explores how Chican@ artivistas in East Los Angeles, from 1995 to the present, have created a unique community of process-based political engagement influenced by the Zapatista and Fandango movements.
Out of the Shadow
Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala
Edited by Julie Gibbings and Heather Vrana
University of Texas Press
More than a dozen scholars, representing fields ranging from sociocultural anthropology to Latin American history, present a new understanding of Guatemala in the era from 1944 to 1954, when social reform flourished.
Futbolera
A History of Women and Sports in Latin America
By Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel
University of Texas Press
Capturing more than a century of struggles, this stirring cultural history traces the evolution of women’s participation in sports in Latin America, from physical education to amateur clubs to the creation of national teams.
Texas Snakes
A Field Guide
University of Texas Press
Featuring updates to the distribution maps, taxonomy, and checklist of Texas snakes, this fully illustrated field guide will help both novices and experts identify and appreciate the wide variety of snakes found in Texas.
Walker Evans
No Politics
University of Texas Press
This sweeping reinterpretation of Walker Evans reveals how the photographer’s work for hire during and after the Great Depression forces us to reconsider American documentary and its histories.
Seeing Time
Forty Years of Photographs
University of Texas Press
With more than three hundred images, some never before published, Seeing Time is the first career retrospective of Mark Klett, considered one of the most important landscape photographers of the past forty years.
Making It at Any Cost
Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace
By Matías Dewey
University of Texas Press
An examination of the vast counterfeit clothing marketplace in Buenos Aires known as La Salada, this book is the first ethnographic study to examine how aspirations shape behaviors of workers in an informal and illegal economy.
Exile and the Nation
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
University of Texas Press
Connecting oft-disparate fields, this book explores the Zoroastrian diaspora living in India and its role in using antiquity to bolster twentieth-century Iranian nationalism.
Improbable Metropolis
Houston's Architectural and Urban History
University of Texas Press
Beautifully illustrated, Improbable Metropolis is one of the few books to use architecture and urban planning to explain the growth of a major world city, and the only one of its kind on Houston or any other city in Texas.
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