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Life on the Hyphen
The Cuban-American Way
University of Texas Press
With fascinating insights into how both ordinary and famous Cuban-Americans, including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, Gloria Estefan, and José Kozer, have lived “life on the hyphen,” this is an expanded, updated edition of the classic, award-winning study of
Last Launch
Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis
By Dan Winters
University of Texas Press
Powerfully evoking the unquenchable American spirit of exploration, award-winning photographer Dan Winters chronicles the final launches of Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor in this stunning photographic tribute to America’s space shuttle program.
Indie, Inc.
Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s
By Alisa Perren
University of Texas Press
Pioneering the field of media industry studies, Indie, Inc. explores how Miramax changed the landscape not only of independent filmmaking but of Hollywood itself during the 1990s.
Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900–1600
University of Texas Press
Correlating climate change and archaeological data, an award-winning historian offers the first comprehensive overview of how the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age significantly impacted the Native cultures of the American Southwest, Southern Pl
Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes
Themes and Variations from Prehistory to the Present
By Mary Strong
University of Texas Press
Taking a new approach to traditional Andean art that links prehistory with the present, this book illustrates the ongoing legacy of the past in contemporary art and the importance of art not only as a way of expressing religious ideas rooted in nature, bu
Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors
University of Texas Press
This first focused analysis of veterans’ experiences in ancient Greece offers a fresh, “bottom-up” perspective on important military and political aspects of early Hellenistic history.
Photographing the Mexican Revolution
Commitments, Testimonies, Icons
By John Mraz
University of Texas Press
With almost 200 photographs, many never before published, and an authoritative text that delves into the motivations and aesthetics of the photographers who took them, this is the most ambitious and historically accurate visual record of the Mexican Revol
Organic Management for the Professional
The Natural Way for Landscape Architects and Contractors, Commercial Growers, Golf Course Managers, Park Administrators, Turf Managers, and Other Stewards of the Land
University of Texas Press
Nationally acclaimed organic gardening expert Howard Garrett offers detailed, proven instructions for designing and managing large-scale landscapes organically.
Iranians in Texas
Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity
University of Texas Press
A vivid exploration of ethnic identity and political mobility among Iranian immigrants and their descendants in Texas in the wake of the 1978–1979 revolution and its American aftermath, including heightened xenophobia after 9/11 and the response of the Bu
Independent for Life
Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America
University of Texas Press
Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and a team of experts on aging, architecture, construction, health, finance, and politics offer the first comprehensive overview of the possibilities and challenges in helping seniors live independently to a very old ag
Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Collector
Secessionist Prints from the Turn of the Century
University of Texas Press
One of the world’s leading authorities on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright unveils a previously unknown collection of art prints that reveals Wright’s artistic affinities with the modernism of the European Secessionist movements
Enforcement at the EPA
High Stakes and Hard Choices, Revised Edition
University of Texas Press
Now revised and updated through the Clinton and second Bush administrations, Enforcement at the EPA is the definitive history and assessment of the Environmental Protection Agency’s role as America’s environmental watchdog.
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream
By Josh Ozersky
University of Texas Press
This engrossing biography of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC founder Harland Sanders tells a uniquely American story of a dirt-poor striver with unlimited ambition who launched one of the world’s most successful brands—and then ended up as a mere symbol for th
American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism
More Than a Prayer
University of Texas Press
Examining the intellectual output of female American Muslim writers and scholars since 1990, Hammer demonstrates that the themes at the heart of women’s writings are central to the debates of modern Islam worldwide.
The Texas Book Two
More Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University
Edited by David Dettmer
University of Texas Press
Continuing the story begun in The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University, this richly illustrated volume offers a highly readable, in-depth exploration of the personalities and events that have made the University of Texas at A
The Modern Maya
Incidents of Travel and Friendship in Yucatán
University of Texas Press
This magnificent ethnographic photo-essay presents the modern Maya of Yucatán who—resilient, resourceful, creative, and armed with intimate knowledge of the place where they live—have survived centuries of upheaval
Texas Furniture, Volume One
The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880, Revised edition
University of Texas Press
Back in print for the first time in thirty years and thoroughly updated, Texas Furniture is the definitive guide to the state’s rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and the craftsmen who produced it.
Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome
Edited by Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell
University of Texas Press
Using a wealth of evidence from legal, literary, and medical texts, as well as art, architecture, ritual, and material culture, the contributors to this volume offer the first extensive study of the private and public roles of mothers in the Classical wor
Inequity in the Technopolis
Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin
University of Texas Press
A ten-year longitudinal study of the impact of national, state, and local programs that address issues of digital divide and digital inclusion in Austin, Texas.
Dwight Yoakam
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
By Don McLeese
University of Texas Press
Award-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of the electrifying artist who has most successfully bridged the disparate worlds of commercial country and alternative/Americana/roots music, Dwight Yoakam.
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