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Lethal Injection
Capital Punishment in Texas during the Modern Era
University of Texas Press
An in-depth examination of the policies that have led Texas to execute more prisoners than any other state in the country.
Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas
By Paul Barton
University of Texas Press
A comparative history of Mexican-American Protestants that describes how they have created a truly indigenous, authentic, and empowering faith tradition in the Mexican-American community.
Women Writing Plays
Three Decades of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive overview of women's playwriting in English and a celebration of the most respected award given to women playwrights.
Return to the Center
Culture, Public Space, and City Building in a Global Era
University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking look at what cities built in the Hispanic tradition can teach us about effectively using central public spaces to foster civic interaction, neighborhood identity, and a sense of place.
Realer Than Reel
Global Directions in Documentary
University of Texas Press
A state-of-the-art overview of global documentary programming ranging from independent films to "reality" TV shows such as Big Brother and Survivor.
Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive study of Olmec foodways and subsistence patterns and their relation to the development of institutionalized leadership.
Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice
Voices from El Barrio
University of Texas Press
Oral histories of that recount Chicanas' experiences with the U.S. criminal justice system and the impact that the war on drugs is having on their lives.
Water and Ritual
The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers
University of Texas Press
A pathbreaking investigation of how water and the rituals that invoked an abundant supply of rain were the keys to political power among the ancient Maya.
Texas Monthly On . . .
Texas Women
By editors of Texas Monthly; Introduction by Evan Smith
University of Texas Press
From the pages of Texas Monthly, a collection of articles by notable writers that celebrate the diversity and strength of Texas women.
Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia
Conversations with Writers and Artists
University of Texas Press
Lively, thought-provoking interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights.
La Vida Brinca
University of Texas Press
Iconic images of Hispanic life that tell an allegorical and deeply personal story of Mexican history and spirituality.
In the Eyes of God
A Study on the Culture of Suffering
By Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo; Translated by Jessica C. Locke
University of Texas Press
One of Mexico's leading intellectuals offers a major treatise on the history and meaning of suffering and how the idea of suffering helps to shape contemporary political thought.
Guatemaltecas
The Women's Movement, 1986–2003
University of Texas Press
The first history of the Guatemalan women's movement and how it has responded to the forces of democratization and globalization.
Growing Up in a Culture of Respect
Child Rearing in Highland Peru
By Inge Bolin
University of Texas Press
A beautifully written ethnography that reveals how villagers in one of the world's most rugged and poverty-stricken regions rear their children to be exceptionally respectful, well-adjusted, and academically talented.
Experiencing Nature
The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution
University of Texas Press
The never-before-told story of how Spain helped initiate the modern scientific era by collecting empirical data in order to commodify and control the natural resources of its American empire.
Between Heaven and Texas
By Wyman Meinzer; Introduction by Sarah Bird
University of Texas Press
One of Texas's most distinguished landscape photographers captures the drama and power of the Texas sky, accompanied by reflections on skies, clouds, and our own internal weather from some of the state's finest writers.
A Hanging in Nacogdoches
Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870-1916
University of Texas Press
The story of a legal lynching in the heart of East Texas.
The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine
The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley
Edited by Edward T. Cotham
University of Texas Press
A rare diary illustrated with previously unpublished period drawings that records some of the most important naval campaigns of the Civil War.
The Religion of the Etruscans
Edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon
University of Texas Press
A major, first-time-in-English overview of Etruscan religion, which was the distinguishing characteristic of this ancient Italian civilization.
The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy
By Casey Dué
University of Texas Press
A study of captive women's laments that shows how classical dramatists used empathy to pierce the barrier between the Greek and barbarian worlds.
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Intervening Acts
By Vicky Unruh
University of Texas Press
The first multi-country study of Latin American women writers of the 1920s and 1930s, a key period that paved the way for the "Boom" generation of the 1960s and 1970s.
Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On
My Life in Music
University of Texas Press
A delightful autobiography by a living legend in jazz and blues.
Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1
Greek History, 480-431 BC—the Alternative Version
Translated by Peter Green
University of Texas Press
A new English translation of Diodorus' history of the Greek world during the Periclean era, and an iconoclastic reappraisal of this undervalued historian by one of the world's leading Classicists.
Whose School Is It?
Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City
University of Texas Press
The story of a new community charter school, told by one of its founders.
White Metropolis
Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001
University of Texas Press
The first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.
The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid
University of Texas Press
A fresh look at one of the masterpieces of Latin literature and how it contributes to a new visual culture and a new mythology of imperial Rome.
The Geometry of Modernism
The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats
University of Texas Press
A fresh, engaging study of one of modernism's most pivotal movements.
The Director and Other Stories from Morocco
University of Texas Press
New stories about modern Morocco and its people by critically acclaimed author Leila Abouzeid.
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