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The Texanist
Fine Advice on Living in Texas
By David Courtney and Jack Unruh
University of Texas Press
The first collection of acclaimed illustrator Jack Unruh’s work, this book gathers the best of the illustrations he created for The Texanist, Texas Monthly’s back-page column, along with the serious and not-so-serious questions that inspired them.
Frankie and Johnny
Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America
University of Texas Press
With chapters on Lead Belly, Thomas Hart Benton, John Huston, Mae West, and Sterling Brown, this innovative book presents a new argument for the centrality of African American folklore as a source of cultural expression in the 1930s.
Breakfast in Texas
Recipes for Elegant Brunches, Down-Home Classics, and Local Favorites
University of Texas Press
The author of the James Beard Cookbook Award finalist Texas on the Table presents nearly one hundred recipes for breakfast and brunch, including favorites from some of Texas’s most popular restaurants, along with menus for entertaining and delightful culinary notes.
The Quality of Life Report
A Novel
By Meghan Daum; Introduction by Curtis Sittenfeld
University of Texas Press
A New York Times notable book, The Quality of Life Report is the critically acclaimed first novel by Meghan Daum, New York Times best-selling author and winner of the PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction.
Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force
Mapping a Chicano/a Art History
University of Texas Press
The first book-length study of the Royal Chicano Air Force maps the history of this vanguard Chicano/a arts collective, which used art and cultural production as sociopolitical activism.
Eddie Adams
Bigger than the Frame
By Eddie Adams; Introduction by Don Carleton
University of Texas Press
This career-spanning collection of both iconic and rarely seen images celebrates the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Eddie Adams, whose potent visual storytelling ran the gamut from the horrors of war to the lives of the famous and powerful
Chrissie Hynde
A Musical Biography
By Adam Sobsey
University of Texas Press
With new insights into her life and music and fascinating details about the making of all of her albums, this is the first book about Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend Chrissie Hynde, the leader of The Pretenders.
Rebellious Bodies
Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics
University of Texas Press
Exploring the body politics surrounding stars Melissa McCarthy, Gabourey Sidibe, Peter Dinklage, Danny Trejo, Betty White, and Laverne Cox, this book reveals how non-normative celebrity bodies address cultural anxieties about pressing social and political issues.
Jazz and Cocktails
Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
University of Texas Press
With insightful analyses of the contributions of jazz composers such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Chico Hamilton, and John Lewis, this book considers the complex roles of jazz and race in classic film noir.
Project 258
Making Dinner at Fish & Game
By Zak Pelaccio
University of Texas Press
From the James Beard Award–winning chef Zakary Pelaccio—this cookbook celebrates the local foods movement with an enticing selection of seasonal recipes from his renowned restaurant Fish & Game.
This Land
An American Portrait
By Jack Spencer
University of Texas Press
Created across thirteen years, forty-eight states, and eighty thousand miles, this startlingly fresh photographic portrait of the American landscape shares artistic affinities with the works of such American masters as Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Mark Rothko, and Albert Bierstadt.
The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory
University of Texas Press
Using examples from all of the Athenian orators, this innovative book considers forensic speeches as one of the premier performance genres of Classical Athens, in which vision and visuality played a central role in convincing a jury.
Picturing Childhood
Youth in Transnational Comics
University of Texas Press
Uniting the perspectives of comics studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection is the first book devoted to representations of childhood in iconic US and international comics from the 1930s to the present.
Haunting Bollywood
Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
By Meheli Sen
University of Texas Press
The first wide-ranging look at horror and the supernatural in Bollywood films made since 1949, this interdisciplinary study examines how gender and genre intersect in cinematic tales of unproductive love, abominable creatures, and unspeakable appetites.
Connecting The Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.
Blood of the Earth
Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia
University of Texas Press
Spanning the 1920s to the presidency of Evo Morales, this history traces how resource nationalism has pitted ordinary Bolivians against conservative Bolivian leaders, US officials, and foreign investors in a struggle to control the country’s natural wealt
Mano Dura
The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador
By Sonja Wolf
University of Texas Press
A preeminent authority on El Salvador’s street gangs reports on three nongovernmental organizations that, advocating for human rights, have attempted to reform the country’s gang policy—only to be stifled by sweeping, politically popular Mano Dura (Iron F
Cattle in the Backlands
Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics
University of Texas Press
Bringing much-needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about the impacts of ranching in the tropics, this book explores how cattle raising transformed a remote region of Brazil economically, socially, and environmentally.
At the Crossroads
Diego Rivera and his Patrons at MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and the Palace of Fine Arts
University of Texas Press
Offering a unique look at the controversies surrounding Diego Rivera’s mural Man at the Crossroads, this book examines how Rivera’s artwork represented conflicting ideas during the 1930s and how art is leveraged to enact change.
Learning from Bogotá
Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
University of Texas Press
Learning from Bogotá illuminates how a former “drug capital” has been transformed into a “pedagogical city,” where redesigned public spaces teach residents how to reconnect with one another and become more engaged citizens
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