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Sound Design and Science Fiction
University of Texas Press
A contemporary study of the rise of sound design and its relationship to science fiction cinema.
Poison Arrows
North American Indian Hunting and Warfare
University of Texas Press
A provocative, comprehensive survey of organic compounds used as poisons—on arrows and spears, in food, and even as insecticides—by numerous Native American tribes.
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History
Volume 2: Performing the Caribbean Experience
Edited by Malena Kuss
University of Texas Press
The second book in a major four-volume work focusing on the musical legacies of the New World.
Lines in the Sand
Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay
University of Texas Press
A sweeping examination of the Texas Legislature’s controversial 2003 redistricting plan, whose effects continue to reverberate far beyond the state.
Kindler of Souls
Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas
University of Texas Press
The definitive portrait of a legendary Texas rabbi, written by his grandson.
John Graves, Writer
Edited by Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon
University of Texas Press
The first book to focus on the entire life and work of John Graves, author of Goodbye to a River and arguably Texas’s most beloved and respected writer.
Exploring the Big Bend Country
By Peter Koch and June Cooper Price
University of Texas Press
One of the Big Bend’s most respected photographer-naturalists conducts a personal tour of the natural and human history of the region in words and photographs.
Bonfire of Roadmaps
By Joe Ely
University of Texas Press
Acclaimed singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely creates an authentic picture in verse and drawings of a musician’s life on the road.
Before Fidel
The Cuba I Remember
University of Texas Press
A powerfully written memoir of personal and political coming-of-age in pre-Castro Cuba.
Women on a Journey
Between Baghdad and London
By Haifa Zangana; Translated by Judy Cumberbatch
University of Texas Press
A novel by a Kurdish-Iraqi writer that gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women’s experiences of political repression, violence, exile, and the yearning for peace.
The Dance of Freedom
Texas African Americans during Reconstruction
University of Texas Press
Twelve essays by noted Reconstruction-era historian Barry A. Crouch which explore the African American experience in Texas following emancipation.
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Tex[t]-Mex
Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America
University of Texas Press
An original, provocative, and highly entertaining deconstruction of familiar Mexican stereotypes in American popular culture.
Ross Sterling, Texan
A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company
University of Texas Press
An autobiography by former Texas governor and oilman, Ross Sterling.
Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate
University of Texas Press
A major new analysis and interpretation of the surviving body of ancient Mexican divinatory codices.
Brazilians Working With Americans/Brasileiros que trabalham com americanos
Cultural Case Studies/Estudos de casos culturais
By Orlando R. Kelm and Mary E. Risner
University of Texas Press
Ten bilingual case studies based on actual business situations successfully illustrate many of the cultural issues that arise when North American businesspeople work in Brazil.
A Tribal Order
Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen
By Shelagh Weir
University of Texas Press
A unique examination of the tribal politics and state-tribe relationship within a Yemen community that for centuries has disproved Western stereotypes.
Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms
Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography
University of Texas Press
A major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and Southeastern United States.
Youth Culture in Global Cinema
Edited by Timothy Shary and Alexandra Seibel
University of Texas Press
Seventeen essays by film scholars from eleven countries consider how young people are represented in films around the world.
Tragedy Offstage
Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens
University of Texas Press
An evocative study of the actions through which Athenians expressed compassion for those who suffered—as well as the limits of their pity.
The Gardens of Sallust
A Changing Landscape
University of Texas Press
In this ambitious work, Kim Hartswick undertakes the first comprehensive history of the Gardens of Sallust from Roman times to the present, as well as its influence on generations of scholars, intellectuals, and archaeologists.
Seeing and Being Seen
The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond
University of Texas Press
An ethnographic study of the morality and self-identity of the Q'eqchi' people of Livingston, Guatemala.
Science in Latin America
A History
Edited by Juan José Saldaña; Translated by Bernabé Madrigal
University of Texas Press
Eleven leading Latin American historians provide the first comprehensive overview of the history of science in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present.
Ritual and Power in Stone
The Performance of Rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan Style Art
University of Texas Press
A masterful art historical analysis of how Late Preclassic (300 BC to AD 250) rulers in Chiapas, Mexico, created an elite visual language to express political and supernatural authority which spread through much of the Maya world.
On the Edge of the Law
Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border
By Chad Richardson and Rosalva Resendiz
University of Texas Press
A sociological study of issues ranging from health care to immigration to criminal justice drawn from interviews conducted by the Borderlife Research Project at the University of Texas–Pan American.
Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America
Edited by Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw
University of Texas Press
A collection of original essays on ten modern Latin American heroes, their legacies, and the societies that produced them.
Demosthenes, Speeches 60 and 61, Prologues, Letters
Translated by Ian Worthington
University of Texas Press
Works by or attributed to the greatest orator of classical antiquity, which illuminate Athenian culture and politics in the 330s and 320s BC.
The Solaris Effect
Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film
University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking study of how modern American filmmakers are using the "art film" model to explore the power of nature versus the power of art.
Rancheros in Chicagoacán
Language and Identity in a Transnational Community
By Marcia Farr
University of Texas Press
An ethnolinguistic portrait focusing on the language and identity of transnational ranchero Mexicans.
Monumental Ambivalence
The Politics of Heritage
University of Texas Press
A masterful examination of the "monumental ambivalence" that results when private and public interests compete to control and benefit from archaeological and historical sites.
Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt
University of Texas Press
This beautiful, richly illustrated book highlights 200 of the most magnificent and important Egyptian objects in the collections of the British Museum.
La ütz awäch?
Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language
University of Texas Press
An innovative language-learning guide that will help students, researchers, and professionals in many fields quickly develop basic communication skills in one of the four major Mayan languages.
Every Intellectual's Big Brother
George Orwell's Literary Siblings
By John Rodden
University of Texas Press
John Rodden uses the concept of reception history to shed new light on the way the memory of George Orwell has shaped and been shaped by the intellectuals of the last fifty years.
Ethnographic Film
Revised Edition
University of Texas Press
A new, thoroughly updated edition of a classic volume on visual anthropology.
Dissident Women
Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas
University of Texas Press
In this timely ethnographic study, nine Mexican and U.S. anthropologists examine the achievements of and challenges facing women participating in the Zapatista movement.
After Hitchcock
Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality
Edited by David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer
University of Texas Press
Thirteen original essays by leading film scholars reveal the richness and variety of Alfred Hitchcock’s legacy as they trace his shaping influence on particular films, filmmakers, genres, and even on film criticism.
Woman with a Movie Camera
My Life as a Russian Filmmaker
University of Texas Press
A fascinating autobiography that tells the intertwining stories of one of Russia’s best-known documentary filmmakers and the eventful half century of Russian history she has recorded.
Weeping Mary
By O. Rufus Lovett; Introduction by Anne Wilkes Tucker
University of Texas Press
In the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, and Helen Levitt, this photo essay of a rural African American community tells a universal story of the human condition.
The Texas Book
Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University
Edited by Richard A. Holland
University of Texas Press
An informal, highly readable history of the University of Texas at Austin told through the stories of some of its most colorful characters and era-defining events.
Remembering the Hacienda
Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador
University of Texas Press
A pathfinding study of how indigenous peasants experienced, responded to, and remember the often-harsh conditions of servitude in Ecuador's haciendas.
Jungle of the Maya
By Douglas Goodell; Introduction by Archie Carr
University of Texas Press
A stunning photographic portrait of and popular introduction to one of the Western Hemisphere’s most abundant yet fragile tropical forests.
Corruption in Cuba
Castro and Beyond
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive analysis of corruption in Cuba, and prescriptions for minimizing it in the post-Castro era.
Aryan Cowboys
White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, 1970–2000
University of Texas Press
A startling analysis of how modern white supremacists have co-opted the mythology and environment of the American West to position their cause among historically American ideals.
Texas Zydeco
By Roger Wood
University of Texas Press
The definitive account, in words and pictures, of how the most formative players and moments in modern zydeco history developed in Texas, especially Houston.
Latinos and American Law
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
University of Texas Press
A historical overview and analysis of fourteen landmark Supreme Court cases that have significantly affected Latino rights in such areas as education, the administration of criminal justice, voting rights, employment, and immigration.
French Verbs Made Simple(r)
University of Texas Press
An easier, yet more complete approach to learning French verbs than 501 French Verbs
Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air
Legends of West Texas Music
University of Texas Press
Interviews with twenty-five West Texas musicians and artists who seek to answer the question, why do so many innovative musicians come from Lubbock?
Evil Arabs in American Popular Film
Orientalist Fear
University of Texas Press
A timely look at American popular films made between 1973 and 2001 that use Arabs, their landscapes, and their cultures as villains—and what these depictions of “evil” Arabs reveal about American fears and insecurities.
Big Bend National Park
By Laurence Parent and Joe Nick Patoski
University of Texas Press
The first and only comprehensive photographic and word portrait of Big Bend National Park, created by one of Texas's foremost landscape photographers and a noted national travel writer.
Kaqchikel Chronicles
The Definitive Edition
Translated by Judith M. Maxwell and Robert M. Hill
University of Texas Press
An authoritative translation of and commentary on primary sixteenth-and seventeenth-century source documents for understanding Kaqchikel Maya history.
Alien Constructions
Science Fiction and Feminist Thought
University of Texas Press
A probing examination of how science fiction literature and film has presented feminist debates about difference, globalization, and technoscience.
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