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Giving Voice to Stones

Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature

University of Texas Press

Barbara McKean Parmenter explores the roots of Western and Zionist images of Palestine, then draws upon the work of Palestinian writers to trace how they have represented their experience of home and exile since the First World War.

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German Seed in Texas Soil

Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas

University of Texas Press

Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled.

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Adventures with a Texas Naturalist

By Roy Bedichek; Introduction by Rick Bass; Illustrated by Ward Lockwood
University of Texas Press

A classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world.

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The Social Production of Urban Space

University of Texas Press

A landmark work in urban studies.

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The Jumanos

Hunters and Traders of the South Plains

University of Texas Press

The first full-length study of this native North American people.

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The House on the Beach

A Novel

University of Texas Press

This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century.

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Mexican Literature

A History

University of Texas Press

This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective.

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Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico

From the Aztecs to Independence

University of Texas Press

A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history.

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Border Healing Woman

The Story of Jewel Babb as told to Pat LittleDog (second edition)

University of Texas Press

The story of Jewel Babb, from her early years as a tenderfoot ranch wife to her elder years as a desert healing woman.

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The Birds of South America

Vol. II, The Suboscine Passerines

University of Texas Press

A major reference work on South American birds.

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Hollywood TV

The Studio System in the Fifties

University of Texas Press

This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of television and its narrative forms.

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The Writing of Elena Poniatowska

Engaging Dialogues

University of Texas Press

Readings of Poniatowska's work from a variety of critical approaches.

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More Tales of a Low-Rent Birder

By Pete Dunne; Illustrated by Keith Hansen; Introduction by Kenn Kaufman
University of Texas Press

Twenty-five essays on birds and birding.

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Claytie and the Lady

Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas

University of Texas Press

The first in-depth look at how gender affected the 1990 Texas governor's race.

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Flintknapping

Making and Understanding Stone Tools

University of Texas Press

The most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available, and the only one written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making them.

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Doctor Mary in Arabia

Memoirs

University of Texas Press

The memoir of a medical missionary who worked in the Middle East from the 1930s to the 1970s.

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A Natural State

Essays on Texas

University of Texas Press

In this remarkable collection of essays, Stephen Harrigan explores, with an unfailing depth of feeling, the human longing to feel at home in the world of nature.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe

Faith and Empowerment among Mexican-American Women

University of Texas Press

The role of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the lives of second-generation Mexican-American women.

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Birds and Other Wildlife of South Central Texas

A Handbook

University of Texas Press

This handbook offers a concise natural history of Central Texas and a complete checklist of all native and naturalized vertebrate animals, including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, as well as invertebrates that include butterflies and land

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The War of the Fatties and Other Stories from Aztec History

University of Texas Press

This collection of nearly all of Salvador Novo's Aztec-related writings,taken together, provides a delightful introduction to Novo’s later works and a light-hearted, historically accurate introduction to Aztec culture.

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Senhora

Profile of a Woman

University of Texas Press

In this Brazilian novel, originally published in 1875, the heroine uses newly inherited wealth to "buy back" and exact revenge on the fiancé who had left her for a woman with a more enticing dowry.

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Principles of Adaptation for Film and Television

University of Texas Press

In this practical, hands-on guide, veteran TV and screenwriter Ben Brady unlocks the secrets of the adaptation process, showing aspiring writers and writing teachers how to turn any kind of narrative material into workable, salable screenplays for film an

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Iphigenia

(The diary of a young lady who wrote because she was bored)

University of Texas Press

A novel about a passionate woman who lacks the money to establish herself in the liberated, bohemian society she craves.

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Daughter of Damascus

A Memoir

By Siham Tergeman; Translated by Andrea Rugh
University of Texas Press

A personal account of a Syrian woman's youth in Damascus in the 1940s.

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Contemporary Short Stories from Central America

University of Texas Press

This volume collects some of the best short fiction from the six Spanish-speaking countries of Central America--Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

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America's First Cuisines

University of Texas Press

A detailed description of the cuisines of the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca.

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The Word of Islam

University of Texas Press

This anthology includes writings central to Islamic thought, some translated earlier but here redone, and others which have never before appeared in any Western language.

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The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest

Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers

University of Texas Press

The development and effectiveness of a farmworkers' advocacy group.

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Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art

By Gay Robins; Illustrated by Ann S. Fowler
University of Texas Press

This book argues that innovation and stylistic variation played a significant role in ancient Egyptian art.

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Native Plants for Southwestern Landscapes

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive guide to landscaping dry environments with native plants.

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Habitat Conservation Planning

Endangered Species and Urban Growth

University of Texas Press

This pioneering study focuses on a new tool for resolving the land-use conflict--the creation of habitat conservation plans.

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National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

University of Texas Press

The first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood.

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Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter

University of Texas Press

Twenty-nine pieces dating from before 1932, including several on Mexican themes.

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History and Society in Central America

University of Texas Press

The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s.

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Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song

MPB, 1965-1985

University of Texas Press

A critical study of MPB (música popular brasileira), a term that refers to varieties of urban popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, incorporating samba, Bossa Nova, and new materials.

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Toward a Philosophy of the Act

University of Texas Press

Rescued in 1972 from a storeroom in which rats and seeping water had severely damaged the fifty-year-old manuscript, this text is the earliest major work (1919-1921) of the great Russian philosopher M. M. Bakhtin.

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The New Latin American Cinema

A Continental Project

University of Texas Press

This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema.

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Irene Rice Pereira

Her Paintings and Philosophy

University of Texas Press

The first intellectual history of a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" ima

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In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution

Contemporary Mexican History, 1910–1989

University of Texas Press

The first history of 20th-century post-revolutionary Mexico.

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Café con leche

Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela

University of Texas Press

An exploration of whether or not historical facts actually support the popular perception that Venezuelans have achieved a racial democracy in which people of all races live free from prejudice and discrimination.

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Architecture in Texas

1895-1945

University of Texas Press

This book is the first comprehensive survey of Texas architecture of the first half of the twentieth century.

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Spanish Memory Book

A New Approach to Vocabulary Building, Junior Edition

University of Texas Press

Original mnemonic rhymes appropriate in subject matter and skill level for junior high and high school students to help them acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary.

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The Euro-American Cinema

University of Texas Press

This literate and lively study explores the spread of American culture into international cinema as reflected by the collision and partial merger of two important styles of filmmaking: the Hollywood style of stars, genres, and action, and the European art

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Chapters on Marriage and Divorce

Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh

University of Texas Press

Three compilations of responses to questions about family law given by two prominent Muslim jurists of the ninth century.

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Transforming Modernity

Popular Culture in Mexico

University of Texas Press

An examination of popular culture -- merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them?

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The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie

University of Texas Press

A study of the use of drugs, poisons, and chemicals in Christie’s fiction.

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Apache Reservation

Indigenous Peoples and the American State

University of Texas Press

In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development of the reservation system and its contemporary relationship to the American state, with comparisons to similar phenomena in Canada, Australia, and South Africa.

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The History of Capitalism in Mexico

Its Origins, 1521–1763

By Enrique Semo; Translated by Lidia Lozano
University of Texas Press

This book argues that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the basic dynamic of Mexico's social and economic development.

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Danger All Around

Waste Storage Crisis on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast

University of Texas Press

The first comprehensive look at the selection and environmental impact of municipal and petrochemical waste storage sites along the Texas and Louisiana coasts.

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Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul

Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition

University of Texas Press

In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western Empire, Gaul, to better understand the shift from Roman to Germanic power that occurred in the region during the fifth century A.D.

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