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Depositions
Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship
University of Texas Press
Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx’s “depositions,” this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country’s military dictatorship.
How to Suppress Women's Writing
By Joanna Russ; Introduction by Jessa Crispin
University of Texas Press
A landmark feminist critique with a new foreword by Jessa Crispin, author of Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, this provocative book surveys the forces that work against women who dare to write.
Red Hot Mama
The Life of Sophie Tucker
University of Texas Press
This entertaining biography of the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” reveals how Sophie Tucker became one of the most powerful women in show business, blazing a trail for performers such as Judy Garland, Carol Channing, and Bette Midler.
A Spy in the House of Loud
New York Songs and Stories
By Chris Stamey
University of Texas Press
A cofounder of the dB’s, Chris Stamey re-creates the music scene in late 1970s New York City, recalling the birth of punk and other new streams of electric music as well as the making of the cult albums Stands for deciBels and Repercussion.
Speaker Jim Wright
Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics
University of Texas Press
Drawing on the author’s unprecedented access to Jim Wright before his death, this biography reveals how the former US House majority leader and speaker shaped the political culture of Congress that endures today, some three decades after his fall from pow
Life in Oil
Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
By Michael L. Cepek; By (photographer) Bear Guerra
University of Texas Press
Revealing how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted, this beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving at the center of the Ecuadorian oil industry.
The Adventures of a Cello
Revised Edition, with a New Epilogue
University of Texas Press
Now updated through 2009, here is a delightful biography of a celebrated Stradivarius cello and an inviting overview of cello music and its preeminent composers and performers by world-famous concert cellist Carlos Prieto.
The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
University of Texas Press
Presenting a radically new interpretation that reorients Spanish-centric historiography and recognizes indigenous agency, this visually compelling book maps the continuities between Aztec Tenochtitlan and sixteenth-century Mexico City.
Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century
Edited by Paula Perlman
University of Texas Press
Eleven essays by leading scholars chart new directions for the study of ancient Greek law, including fresh assessments of key debates, new methodological approaches, and an argument for the ongoing relevance of teaching Greek law.
Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam
Edited by Michael Frishkopf and Federico Spinetti
University of Texas Press
Bringing together the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, art history, and architecture, this edited collection investigates how sound production in built environments is central to Muslim religious and cultural expression.
The Chora of Metaponto 7
The Greek Sanctuary at Pantanello
By Joseph Coleman Carter and Keith Swift
University of Texas Press
The seventh volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology’s series on rural settlements in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto adds much to the study of Greek religion and to the picture of the ancient Greek countryside.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 72
Humanities
Edited by Katherine D. McCann
University of Texas Press
The 2018 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV
University of Texas Press
With in-depth explorations of six contemporary American and British films and shows, this pioneering volume spotlights black female characters who play central, subversive roles in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Eugenics in the Garden
Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity
University of Texas Press
The first book to link eugenics with urban planning and the built environment, this volume traces how the “science” of race improvement spread from medicine to architecture as Latin Americans pursued a utopian project of modernization.
A Place of Darkness
The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema
University of Texas Press
Analyzing films from La manoir du Diable to Dracula and Frankenstein, as well as their promotion and critical reception, this book reveals how tales of horror are intimately bound to questions of nationhood and national identity.
Screening Stephen King
Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television
By Simon Brown
University of Texas Press
Surveying adaptations of Stephen King’s work across four decades, this volume links the evolution of King’s “brand” to the changing preoccupations and industrial contexts of the horror genre in film and TV since the seventies.
CinemaTexas Notes
The Early Days of Austin Film Culture
Edited by Louis Black and Collins Swords
University of Texas Press
Written to accompany movies screened by the Radio-Television-Film Department at the University of Texas, the CinemaTexas Notes open a fascinating window on the early Austin film scene and the rise of film studies.
They Came to Toil
Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression
University of Texas Press
Recounting a forgotten episode in the Long Civil Rights Movement, this book analyzes how news reporting of forced deportations of Mexicans in the 1930s created representations of Mexican Americans that endure today.
Making Plans
How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment
University of Texas Press
This frank, first-person account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus offers a practical primer on community and regional planning by one of the leading experts in the field.
Banking on Beauty
Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California
By Adam Arenson
University of Texas Press
Expansively researched and illustrated, this lively history recounts how the extraordinary partnership of financier Howard Ahmanson and artist Millard Sheets produced outstanding mid-century modern architecture and art for Home Savings and Loan.
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