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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ecology and Management of Cowbirds and Their Hosts

Studies in the Conservation of North American Passerine Birds

University of Texas Press

Forty essays by most of the principal authorities on the biology and management of cowbirds.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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The Opal Desert

Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest

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.

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The Mexican American Orquesta

Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict

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.

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The Diaries of Nikolay Punin

1904-1953

University of Texas Press

The first English translation of ten diary notebooks that art critic Nikolay Punin wrote between 1915 and 1936.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door

A Big Bend Memoir

University of Texas Press

A woman's life in the Big Bend in the 1940s.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A Vaquero of the Brush Country

The Life and Times of John D. Young

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.

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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.

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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.

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Western Representations of the Muslim Woman

From Termagant to Odalisque

University of Texas Press

How the image of Muslim women changed in Western literature from medieval times to the Romantic era.

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Exchange and the Maiden

Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy

University of Texas Press

Insights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage, gleaned from the plays of Sophocles.

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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.

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Water and Light

A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef

University of Texas Press
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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.

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Xicoténcatl

An anonymous historical novel about the events leading up to the conquest of the Aztec empire

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.

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The Okapi

Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire

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.

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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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