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Harvesting Haiti

Reflections on Unnatural Disasters

University of Texas Press

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.

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The Entablo Manuscript

Water Rituals and Khipu Boards of San Pedro de Casta, Peru

University of Texas Press

A unique study of an Andean community’s water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performed.

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In the Land of the Patriarchs

Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements

University of Texas Press

An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.

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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

University of Texas Press

A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs that changed the course of American music.

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Why Mariah Carey Matters

University of Texas Press

The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey,

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The New Public Art

Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s

University of Texas Press

Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.

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Winifred Sanford

The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

University of Texas Press

The first comprehensive biography of one of Texas’s most important female writers—made complete with examples of her work, excerpts from her private papers, and eighteen previously unpublished letters from her mentor, H. L. Mencken.

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Pastures of the Empty Page

Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

Edited by George Getschow
University of Texas Press

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life

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Ghostlight

University of Texas Press

A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story.

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Electrifying Mexico

Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City

University of Texas Press

A detailed social history of technological change arguing that ordinary Mexicans, spurred by state electrification initiatives, became agents of scientific advance and in the process fostered a modernist political sensibility.

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Duchess of Palms

A Memoir

University of Texas Press

A “fifties girl” tells the fascinating story of her marriages to novelist Billy Lee Brammer and Congressman Bob Eckhardt, and how these relationships propelled her into the multifaceted life she has led on her own terms.

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The Empire of Effects

Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism

University of Texas Press

How one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism.

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Danger Pay

Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994

University of Texas Press

An engrossing memoir in which a photojournalist records both the precursors to today’s conflicts in the Middle East and her own deeply felt conviction that news coverage of the region actually increases the conflicts there.

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Shifting Sands

Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands

University of Texas Press

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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The Value Gap

Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere

University of Texas Press

How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.

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Saeculum

Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought

University of Texas Press

How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives.

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Super Bodies

Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact

University of Texas Press

An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives.

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Selling Science Fiction Cinema

Making and Marketing a Genre

University of Texas Press

How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.

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Astros and Asterisks

Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained

University of Texas Press

An in-depth and multiperspectival look at the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and its roots in the culture of baseball fandom.

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The Comitán Valley

Sculpture and Identity on the Maya Frontier

University of Texas Press

An exploration of the understudied sculpture of the Maya frontier.

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Labors of Fear

The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work

University of Texas Press

How work and capitalism inspire horror in modern film.

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Resurrecting Tenochtitlan

Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City

University of Texas Press

How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan.

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Kainua (Marzabotto)

Edited by Elisabetta Govi
University of Texas Press

Leading scholars examine Etruscan culture and society through recent archaeological findings in Kainua.

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Why Tammy Wynette Matters

University of Texas Press

How Tammy Wynette channeled the conflicts of her life into her music and performance.

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Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters

University of Texas Press

A stirring defense of Sinéad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her.

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Quantum Criminals

Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan

University of Texas Press

A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan.

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Channeling Knowledges

Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds

University of Texas Press

How water enables Caribbean and Latinx writers to reconnect to their pasts, presents, and futures.

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Reclaiming the Americas

Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory

University of Texas Press

How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas.

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Predatory Economies

The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia

University of Texas Press

A study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela.

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Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey

University of Texas Press

An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys’ experiences of circumcision.

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