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Taking the Waters in Texas
Springs, Spas, and Fountains of Youth
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive history of Texas' healing springs.
Stories in Red and Black
Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs
University of Texas Press
This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre.
Lysias
Translated by S. C. Todd
University of Texas Press
This volume contains all the complete works and eleven of the largest fragments attributed to Lysias, the leading speechwriter of the generation (403–380 B.C.) after the Peloponnesian War.
Ecology and Management of Cowbirds and Their Hosts
Studies in the Conservation of North American Passerine Birds
Edited by James N. M. Smith, Terry L. Cook, Stephen I. Rothstein, Scott K. Robinson, and Spencer G. Sealy; Introduction by Paul R. Ehrlich
University of Texas Press
Forty essays by most of the principal authorities on the biology and management of cowbirds.
Colonial Angels
Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750
University of Texas Press
How writing by and about colonial religious women participated in the transformation of Spanish culture into Mexican, and the role that gender played in imposing the Spanish empire in Mexico.
Borges and His Fiction
A Guide to His Mind and Art
University of Texas Press
An introduction to the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer.
Black Tides
University of Texas Press
In this highly readable autobiography, Hayes describes his evolution as a scientist, his work in coastal oil spill contingency planning and clean up, and his personal philosophy of one's relationship with nature.
Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations
By Vine Deloria and David E. Wilkins
University of Texas Press
Two prominent scholars of American Indian law and politics undertake a full historical examination of the relationship between Indians and the United States Constitution that explains the present state of confusion and inconsistent application in U.S. Ind
The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish
University of Texas Press
This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication.
The Folds of Parnassos
Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis
University of Texas Press
This book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social and political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable.
Star Gods of the Maya
Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples.
Cooperation and Community
Economy and Society in Oaxaca
University of Texas Press
This book examines the ways in which the people of an Oaxacan village practice traditional cooperative and reciprocal relationships.
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
University of Texas Press
Gender issues in thirteen Brazilian films made (with one exception) after the 1985 return to constitutional democracy and elimination of censorship.
Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome
University of Texas Press
Andrew M. Riggsby thoroughly investigates the types of cases heard by the public courts to offer a provocative new understanding of what has been described as "crime" in the Roman Republic and to illuminate the inherently political nature of the Roman pub
Cinema of Anxiety
A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism
University of Texas Press
Vincent F. Rocchio combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with narratology and Marxist critical theory to examine the previously neglected relationship between Italian Neorealist films and the historical spectators they address.
The Opal Desert
Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest
By Peter Wild
University of Texas Press
In this spirited, personal, beautifully written book, Peter Wild explores the lives and works of sixteen writers whose words have shaped our visions of the opalescent deserts of the American Southwest.
The Mexican American Orquesta
Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict
By Manuel Peña
University of Texas Press
The evolution of the orquesta in the Southwest from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through its pinnacle in the 1970s and its decline since the 1980s.
The Diaries of Nikolay Punin
1904-1953
By Nikolay Punin; Edited by Sidney Monas
University of Texas Press
The first English translation of ten diary notebooks that art critic Nikolay Punin wrote between 1915 and 1936.
Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas
University of Texas Press
By combining dramatic, real-life incidents, biographical sketches, and historical background, the authors bring to life famous (and sometimes infamous) people of Spanish Texas.
Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing
Imperial Politics in the American Southwest
University of Texas Press
How Mexico attempted to control its American emigrants in the early 20th century.
Understanding Misunderstandings
A Practical Guide to More Successful Human Interaction
University of Texas Press
Why many common types of misunderstandings arise and how they can be avoided or corrected.
Islam's Political Culture
Religion and Politics in Predivided Pakistan
University of Texas Press
An examination of the political dimension of Islam in predivided Pakistan (1947–1971).
Eight Plays for Children
The New Generation Play Project
Edited by Coleman A. Jennings; Introduction by Suzan L. Zeder
University of Texas Press
This book provides the full text of the plays produced through the NGPP.
Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door
A Big Bend Memoir
By Etta Koch and June Cooper Price
University of Texas Press
A woman's life in the Big Bend in the 1940s.
The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger
By Luce Irigaray; Translated by Mary Beth Mader
University of Texas Press
In this complex, lyrical, meditative engagement with the later work of the eminent German philosopher, Irigaray critiques Heidegger's emphasis on the element of earth as the ground of life and speech and his "oblivion" or forgetting of air.
Pobre Raza!
Violence, Justice, and Mobilization among México Lindo Immigrants, 1900-1936
University of Texas Press
This book examines the response of Mexican immigrants to Anglo American prejudice and violence early in the twentieth century.
Men and Popular Music in Algeria
The Social Significance of Raï
University of Texas Press
A popular music form as a lens for viewing Algerian society.
Earth, Water, and Sky
A Naturalist's Stories and Sketches
University of Texas Press
In these popularly written, often lyrical essays, Johnsgard describes some of his most fascinating encounters with birds.
Disputes and Democracy
The Consequences of Litigation in Ancient Athens
University of Texas Press
This study uses Athenian court speeches to trace the consequences for both disputants and society of individuals’ decisions to turn their quarrels into legal cases.
A Vaquero of the Brush Country
The Life and Times of John D. Young
By John D. Young and J. Frank Dobie
University of Texas Press
This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature.
The Kin Who Count
Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840
University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking study of family life among the upper classes of the Ottoman Empire in the pre-modern and early modern period.
Machado de Assis
Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer
Edited by Richard Graham
University of Texas Press
This book is designed not only to call new attention to this Brazilian master but also to raise questions about the nature of literature itself and current alternative views on how it can be approached.
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman
From Termagant to Odalisque
By Mohja Kahf
University of Texas Press
How the image of Muslim women changed in Western literature from medieval times to the Romantic era.
Exchange and the Maiden
Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy
By Kirk Ormand
University of Texas Press
Insights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage, gleaned from the plays of Sophocles.
Women in Television News Revisited
Into the Twenty-first Century
By Judith Marlane; Introduction by Howard Rosenberg
University of Texas Press
Seventy of the foremost women in television news reflect on their professional successes, the personal and professional sacrifices that often bought those successes, and the barriers that still confront women in the news business.
Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
University of Texas Press
How the state's desire for a racially and culturally homogenous society has been deployed through images of womanhood that promote the notion of an idealized, acculturated female body.
Xicoténcatl
An anonymous historical novel about the events leading up to the conquest of the Aztec empire
Edited by Guillermo Castillo-Feliú
University of Texas Press
Written as Spain’s New World colonies fought for their independence in the early nineteenth century, Xicoténcatl stands out as a beautiful exposition of an idealized New World about to undergo the tremendous changes wrought by the Spanish Conquest.
The Okapi
Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire
By Susan Lyndaker Lindsey, Mary Neel Green, and Cynthia L. Bennett; Introduction by Jane Goodall; Illustrated by Mary Neel Green
University of Texas Press
In this popularly written book, three long-time observers of the okapi present a complete, contemporary natural history of this appealing relative of the giraffe.
The Green Republic
A Conservation History of Costa Rica
University of Texas Press
A readable history of how Costa Rica established a national park system as a response to rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems.
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