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Country Music USA

50th Anniversary Edition

University of Texas Press

The essential companion to the 2019 Ken Burns documentary on country music, in which Bill Malone appears as a featured historian, this fiftieth-anniversary edition of Country Music USA traces the music from the early days of radio into the new millennium.

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What Every Teen Should Know about Texas Law

University of Texas Press

Back in print and completely updated, this practical, easy-to-understand guide covers the most common areas of law that affect young adults, including driving, employment, renting, relationships, and minor criminal offenses.

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As Far as You Can See

Picturing Texas

By Kenny Braun; Introduction by S. C. Gwynne
University of Texas Press

One of the few photography books that portrays the full range of Texas’s natural landscapes, this volume presents fresh, often unexpected views of the state’s scenic beauty by one of its leading outdoor photographers.

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Words of Passage

National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants

University of Texas Press

This innovative ethnography analyzes the discourse about Mexican-US migration in both a sending and a receiving community and shows how this discourse affects the lives and sense of national belonging of nonmigrants.

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Walmart in the Global South

Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains

University of Texas Press

With empirical case studies of Walmart’s entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world’s largest private employer has had to adapt its labor practices and supply chain operations to meet local conditions.

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The Senses of Democracy

Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America

University of Texas Press

Tracing the evolution of “sense work” in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change.

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Public Pages

Reading Along the Latin American Streetscape

University of Texas Press

The first broad survey of contemporary print culture in Latin America, this study demonstrates how public reading programs invite civic participation and promote social integration as the region becomes increasingly democratic.

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Red Line

By Charles Bowden; Introduction by James Galvin
University of Texas Press

Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge—and decaying at its center.

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Desierto

Memories of the Future

By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William deBuys
University of Texas Press

A forerunner of Charles Bowden’s acclaimed books about the harsh life in the Southwestern borderlands, Desierto offers seven essays that combine the lore of the gypsy scholar, the incantatory power of a prose shaman, and the bracing cussedness of the old-style American maverick.

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