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A Future for Amazonia
Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics
University of Texas Press
A remarkable story of empowerment, tracing the efforts of Randy Borman, the “gringo chief” who stemmed the tide of dispossession and rainforest destruction beginning in the 1990s and helped the Cofán of Amazonian Ecuador flourish as the result of unique c
Texas Furniture, Volume Two
The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880
University of Texas Press
With over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in Volume One, color photographs, and a new introduction, Texas Furniture, Volume Two completes the definitive guide to the state’s rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and the craftsmen who produced it.
Slingin' Sam
The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game
By Joe Holley; Introduction by Peyton Manning
University of Texas Press
Paying long-overdue tribute to one of the greatest legends in football, here is a biography of the quarterback who single-handedly revolutionized the game—TCU All-American and Washington Redskins Hall-of-Famer Slingin’ Sammy Baugh.
Nic Nicosia
University of Texas Press
With lavish illustrations and an original short story by Philipp Meyer, this is the first major career retrospective of photographer and filmmaker Nic Nicosia, whose fabricated images evoke the sense of something askew or threatening within “normal” life.
Américo Paredes
Culture and Critique
University of Texas Press
A rich critical study of the literary legacies bestowed by the late Américo Paredes (1915–1999), and the intellectual paths he created as a distinguished folklore scholar and one of the forebears of Mexican American Studies.
All-American Boy
By Larzer Ziff
University of Texas Press
Offering an intriguing new approach to American cultural history through one of its enduring icons, Larzer Ziff traces the rise and flourishing of an ideal type once represented by such figures as George Washington and Tom Sawyer—a type immensely popular before antiheroes like Holden Caulfield captured our imagination.
A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove
University of Texas Press
Forty interviews with members of the cast and crew; set designs, costumes, and props from the Wittliff Collections; and candid, on-the-set photographs offer a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the book, the miniseries, and the world of Lonesome Dove.
The Surprising Design of Market Economies
University of Texas Press
Bringing a fresh perspective to current debates over the “free market,” this wide-ranging look at how market economies are designed and constructed helps us understand how “the market” works and how we can build fairer and more effective markets.
The Fictional Christopher Nolan
By Todd McGowan
University of Texas Press
With close readings of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Inception, this theoretically sophisticated study explores how Christopher Nolan has developed a politically engaged filmmaking that makes explicit use of cinema’s tendency toward the lie.
The Education of a Radical
An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua
University of Texas Press
In the tradition of My Car in Managua, this is a wise and captivating memoir of a young leftist radical’s transformation while spending ten months as a Sandinista revolutionary in the early 1980s, and his struggle to reconcile uncomfortable truths with hi
Ryan Adams
Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown
University of Texas Press
A prominent music journalist with behind-the-scenes access chronicles the rise of singer-songwriter Ryan Adams from his North Carolina, alt-country roots with Whiskeytown to rock stardom, including stories about the making of the albums Strangers Almanac and Heartbreaker.
DKR
The Royal Scrapbook
By Jenna Hays McEachern and Edith Royal
University of Texas Press
This extraordinary collection of never-before-published photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, football ephemera, and recollections reveals the private man behind the UT football legend who will always be “The Coach,” Darrell K Royal.
Andy Coolquitt
University of Texas Press
Covering Coolquitt’s full range of work over the past twenty-five years, this is the first comprehensive monograph on an artist who is receiving national and international acclaim for using scavenged objects to create artwork that facilitates conversation and community.
A Journey Around Our America
A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S.
University of Texas Press
With a discernment of the American character that recalls Alexis de Tocqueville, this riveting account of the author’s 8,500-mile bicycle journey around the United States offers a unique firsthand perspective on how Latino immigrants are changing the face of our country.
Uncivil Wars
Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory
University of Texas Press
Blending biography, literary analysis, and cultural history, Uncivil Wars reveals a new understanding of the works of Elena Garro and Octavio Paz, placing these iconic writers in the context of the revolutions—military, social, and feminist—that shaped th
The Cultural Life of the Automobile
Roads to Modernity
University of Texas Press
Illuminating the question of what it means to be a mobile human anywhere in the modern world, this strikingly original work of cultural history examines how changes in consciousness, identity, and expression, both national and individual, resulted from th
City of Suppliants
Tragedy and the Athenian Empire
University of Texas Press
With close readings of suppliant dramas by each of the major playwrights, this book explores how Greek tragedy used tales of foreign supplicants to promote, question, and negotiate the imperial ideology of Athens as a benevolent and moral ruling city.
Wild Tongues
Transnational Mexican Popular Culture
University of Texas Press
An innovative application of four social types—the downtrodden Peladita/Peladito and the zoot-suited Pachuca/Pachuco—that illuminates working-class subjects in a broad spectrum of Mexican and Mexican American cultural production.
Lowrider Space
Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars
By Ben Chappell
University of Texas Press
The first ethnographic book devoted to lowrider custom car culture puts a new spin on an aesthetic and mechanical achievement through which Mexican Americans alter the urban landscape and make a place for themselves in an often segregated society.
Between Art and Artifact
Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico
University of Texas Press
An innovative ethnographic study of tourist art markets in Oaxaca, Mexico, where making and selling replicas of pre-Hispanic archaeological pieces is sometimes met with disdain, despite the artisanal quality and rich heritage associated with the practice
Fighting Words
Independent Journalists in Texas
University of Texas Press
Fighting Words profiles five journalists who published the truth as they saw it, no matter how their reporting angered politicians, social and religious leaders, or other journalists.
Prophets of Agroforestry
Guaraní Communities and Commercial Gathering
University of Texas Press
How an indigenous Paraguayan people have maintained themselves as a distinct society and culture, in large part through their practice of commercial agroforestry
Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace
Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995–1998
By David R. Mares and David Scott Palmer
University of Texas Press
An examination of the border war between Peru and Ecuador reveals new approaches to Latin American leadership and a transformed power structure that integrates domestic and international factors.
Nathan Lyons
Selected Essays, Lectures, and Interviews
Edited by Jessica S. McDonald
University of Texas Press
Nathan Lyons is the first comprehensive examination of this visionary photographer, curator, theorist, and educator, one of the most important voices in American photography and a central force in the explosive growth of the field over the past five decad
Displaced
Life in the Katrina Diaspora
Edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek
University of Texas Press
This moving ethnographic account of Hurricane Katrina survivors rebuilding their lives away from the Gulf Coast inaugurates The Katrina Bookshelf, a new series of books that will probe the long-term consequences of America’s worst natural disaster.
Dangerous Gifts
Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece
University of Texas Press
Inspired by anthropological writing on reciprocity and kinship, this book applies the idea of gendered wealth to ancient Greek myth for the first time, and also highlights the importance of the sister-brother bond in the Classical world.
Conversations Across Our America
Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the United States
University of Texas Press
This collection of interviews conducted while the author traveled across the country demonstrates the complexity of Latino immigration by foregrounding the myriad voices of immigrants themselves.
Cognitive Literary Studies
Current Themes and New Directions
Edited by Isabel Jaén and Julien Jacques Simon
University of Texas Press
A dynamic array of top scholars from the sciences and the humanities present new perspectives on the mind and its literary quests, ranging from Hamlet to Kafka to Barrie’s Peter Pan.
The Political Economy of Brazil
Public Policies in an Era of Transition
Edited by Lawrence S. Graham and Robert H. Wilson
University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking study of late twentieth-century Brazilian issues from a policy perspective.
Naked Truth
Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right
University of Texas Press
Taking an unprecedented, counterintuitive look at America’s conflict over sexuality, Naked Truth reveals how the attack on the exotic dance industry by the activist Christian Right threatens the separation of church and state and undermines our civil libe
Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States
Edited by John Tutino
University of Texas Press
Tracing economic, social, and cultural connections from colonial times until today, this book highlights the foundational contributions of Mexico and Mexicans to the United States—Hispanic capitalism, patriarchy, and mestizaje, or ethnic blending.
Life on the Hyphen
The Cuban-American Way
University of Texas Press
With fascinating insights into how both ordinary and famous Cuban-Americans, including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, Gloria Estefan, and José Kozer, have lived “life on the hyphen,” this is an expanded, updated edition of the classic, award-winning study of
Last Launch
Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis
By Dan Winters
University of Texas Press
Powerfully evoking the unquenchable American spirit of exploration, award-winning photographer Dan Winters chronicles the final launches of Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor in this stunning photographic tribute to America’s space shuttle program.
Indie, Inc.
Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s
By Alisa Perren
University of Texas Press
Pioneering the field of media industry studies, Indie, Inc. explores how Miramax changed the landscape not only of independent filmmaking but of Hollywood itself during the 1990s.
Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900–1600
University of Texas Press
Correlating climate change and archaeological data, an award-winning historian offers the first comprehensive overview of how the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age significantly impacted the Native cultures of the American Southwest, Southern Pl
Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes
Themes and Variations from Prehistory to the Present
By Mary Strong
University of Texas Press
Taking a new approach to traditional Andean art that links prehistory with the present, this book illustrates the ongoing legacy of the past in contemporary art and the importance of art not only as a way of expressing religious ideas rooted in nature, bu
Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors
University of Texas Press
This first focused analysis of veterans’ experiences in ancient Greece offers a fresh, “bottom-up” perspective on important military and political aspects of early Hellenistic history.
Photographing the Mexican Revolution
Commitments, Testimonies, Icons
By John Mraz
University of Texas Press
With almost 200 photographs, many never before published, and an authoritative text that delves into the motivations and aesthetics of the photographers who took them, this is the most ambitious and historically accurate visual record of the Mexican Revol
Organic Management for the Professional
The Natural Way for Landscape Architects and Contractors, Commercial Growers, Golf Course Managers, Park Administrators, Turf Managers, and Other Stewards of the Land
University of Texas Press
Nationally acclaimed organic gardening expert Howard Garrett offers detailed, proven instructions for designing and managing large-scale landscapes organically.
Iranians in Texas
Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity
University of Texas Press
A vivid exploration of ethnic identity and political mobility among Iranian immigrants and their descendants in Texas in the wake of the 1978–1979 revolution and its American aftermath, including heightened xenophobia after 9/11 and the response of the Bu
Independent for Life
Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America
University of Texas Press
Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and a team of experts on aging, architecture, construction, health, finance, and politics offer the first comprehensive overview of the possibilities and challenges in helping seniors live independently to a very old ag
Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Collector
Secessionist Prints from the Turn of the Century
University of Texas Press
One of the world’s leading authorities on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright unveils a previously unknown collection of art prints that reveals Wright’s artistic affinities with the modernism of the European Secessionist movements
Enforcement at the EPA
High Stakes and Hard Choices, Revised Edition
University of Texas Press
Now revised and updated through the Clinton and second Bush administrations, Enforcement at the EPA is the definitive history and assessment of the Environmental Protection Agency’s role as America’s environmental watchdog.
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream
By Josh Ozersky
University of Texas Press
This engrossing biography of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC founder Harland Sanders tells a uniquely American story of a dirt-poor striver with unlimited ambition who launched one of the world’s most successful brands—and then ended up as a mere symbol for th
American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism
More Than a Prayer
University of Texas Press
Examining the intellectual output of female American Muslim writers and scholars since 1990, Hammer demonstrates that the themes at the heart of women’s writings are central to the debates of modern Islam worldwide.
The Texas Book Two
More Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University
Edited by David Dettmer
University of Texas Press
Continuing the story begun in The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University, this richly illustrated volume offers a highly readable, in-depth exploration of the personalities and events that have made the University of Texas at A
The Modern Maya
Incidents of Travel and Friendship in Yucatán
University of Texas Press
This magnificent ethnographic photo-essay presents the modern Maya of Yucatán who—resilient, resourceful, creative, and armed with intimate knowledge of the place where they live—have survived centuries of upheaval
Texas Furniture, Volume One
The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880, Revised edition
University of Texas Press
Back in print for the first time in thirty years and thoroughly updated, Texas Furniture is the definitive guide to the state’s rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and the craftsmen who produced it.
Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome
Edited by Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell
University of Texas Press
Using a wealth of evidence from legal, literary, and medical texts, as well as art, architecture, ritual, and material culture, the contributors to this volume offer the first extensive study of the private and public roles of mothers in the Classical wor
Inequity in the Technopolis
Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin
University of Texas Press
A ten-year longitudinal study of the impact of national, state, and local programs that address issues of digital divide and digital inclusion in Austin, Texas.
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