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Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures

Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences

University of Texas Press

The contributions to this volume attempt to apply different aspects of Ilya Prigogine's Nobel-prize-winning work on dissipative structures to nonchemical systems as a way of linking the natural and social sciences.

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Nabokov's Fifth Arc

Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work

University of Texas Press

This volume both explores and symbolizes Nabokov's continuing life in literary history.

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The Prague School

Selected Writings, 1929-1946

Edited by Peter Steiner
University of Texas Press

Essays by noted figures in the Prague Linguistic Circle.

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A Woman to Deliver Her People

Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive study of Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism.

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Origins of Pre-Columbian Art

University of Texas Press

A fresh look at ancient cultural history in the Americas and the Pacific basin.

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Modernization and the Working Class

The Politics of Legitimacy

University of Texas Press

Combining classical social theory, historical evidence, and survey data, Waisman explores the relationship between the degree of modernization and the legitimacy of the capitalist social order.

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Amy, Wendy, and Beth

Learning Language in South Baltimore

University of Texas Press

A lively in-depth study of how three young children from an urban working-class community learned language under everyday conditions.

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The Dialogic Imagination

Four Essays

University of Texas Press

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel.

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Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1

Archaeology

University of Texas Press

Detailed reports from the directors of many of the most significant archaeological projects of the mid-twentieth century in Mesoamerica, along with discussions of three topics of general interest (the rise of sedentary life, the evolution of complex culture, and the rise of cities).

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Rattlesnakes

University of Texas Press

A collection of folklore about rattlesnakes.

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The House at Work

University of Texas Press

A complete overview of the complex functioning and dynamics of Congress, drawing upon both real-life experience and organization theory.

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The Garden in Winter and Other Poems

University of Texas Press

A book of poems by a Texas writer.

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Workers from the North

Plantations, Bolivian Labor, and the City in Northwest Argentina

University of Texas Press

This book sets the Argentina-Bolivia experience of migration in historical perspective by examining the macro-level factors that influenced social change in both countries and brought streams of migration into Argentina.

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Russian Dramatic Theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists

An Anthology

University of Texas Press

This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics of drama and the theater from 1828 to 1914.

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Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission

University of Texas Press

A detailed look at the Railroad Commission and the politics of petroleum in Texas.

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The Population of the South

Structure and Change in Social Demographic Context

University of Texas Press

The articles in this book, the majority of which were originally presented at the Southern Regional Demographic Group meeting in 1976, deal with fertility, mortality, migration, and the factors that influence these components.

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The Indian Christ, the Indian King

The Historical Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual

University of Texas Press

A critique of postconquest historiography about the Maya that challenges major assumptions about the relationship between myth and history implicit in structuralist interpretations.

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Exploring the Johnson Years

University of Texas Press

An introduction to the Lyndon B. Johnson administration and to the LBJ Library’s more than thirty million separate documents.

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The Sign in Music and Literature

Edited by Wendy Steiner
University of Texas Press

A unique gathering of semiotic approaches to art: from Saussurian linguistics to transformational grammar, from Prague School aesthetics to Peircean pragmatism, from structuralism to poststructuralism.

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I’ll Tell You a Tale

An Anthology

University of Texas Press

This is a collection of more than fifty stories about the old Southwest.

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Environmental Studies of a Marine Ecosystem

South Texas Outer Continental Shelf

University of Texas Press

The last major study of the living and nonliving resources of the south Texas outer continental shelf to have been conducted before the Ixtoc oil spill of 1979.

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The British Soldier in America

A Social History of Military Life in the Revolutionary Period

University of Texas Press

In her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide insight into the soldier's "life and mind."

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Beyond Spoon River

The Legacy of Edgar Lee Masters

University of Texas Press

As the first full-length critical study of Edgar Lee Masters, Beyond Spoon River is important not only for its reevaluation of this American poet and his work but also for its valuable insights into central questions of aesthetics, regionalism, and the nature and meaning of literary influence.

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Federalism and Regional Development

Case Studies on the Experience in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany

University of Texas Press

The result of the first German-American geography seminar, held at the University of Texas in September 1979, this book deals with the impact of geographic policy planning by various governmental agencies in both the Federal Republic of Germany and the Un

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The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction

University of Texas Press

Drawing upon the philosophical theories of William James, Dewey, and Mead and focusing upon major works by Whitman, Stein, Howells, Dreiser, and Henry James, Anthony Hilfer explores how these authors have structured their characters' consciousness, their purpose in doing so, and how this presentation controls the reader's moral response.

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Judge and Jury in Imperial Brazil, 1808–1871

Social Control and Political Stability in the New State

University of Texas Press

An analysis of the Brazilian lower-court system in the nineteenth century, where the private interests of society and the public interests of the state intersected.

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And Other Neighborly Names

Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore

University of Texas Press

A collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas.

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The Politics of Population in Brazil

Elite Ambivalence and Public Demand

University of Texas Press

This book examines the attitudes toward population planning of Brazilian government officials and other elites—bishops, politicians, labor leaders, and business owners—in comparison with mass public opinion.

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The Ben Lilly Legend

University of Texas Press

The Ben Lilly Legend brings back to life a great American hunter—the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record.

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Now You Hear My Horn

The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, 1820–1887

University of Texas Press

A fast-moving, fascinating frontier history by a man who was really there.

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Notes in Banach Spaces

Edited by H. Elton Lacey
University of Texas Press

These lectures in functional analysis cover several aspects of Banach spaces, a conceptualization of complete normed linear spaces developed by Stefan Banach in 1932, and include a number of topics which had never before been treated in expository form. They were presented as a part of the University of Texas Mathematics Department Seminars in Analysis series in 1977–1979

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Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina

Córdoba in the Liberal Era

University of Texas Press

An examination of the occupational, residential, educational, and economic patterns of mobility of some four thousand men, women, and children who resided in Córdoba, Argentina's most important interior city, between the 1870s and World War I.

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Cow People

University of Texas Press

Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves.

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Meyerhold at Work

By Paul Schmidt; Translated by Ilya Levin and Vern McGee
University of Texas Press

Focusing on Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold’s postrevolutionary career, Paul Schmidt has assembled in this book journals, letters, reminiscences, and, of special interest, actual rehearsal notes that build a fascinating, intimate picture of Meyerhold

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The Territorial Experience

Human Ecology as Symbolic Interaction

University of Texas Press

Ericksen gives us a fresh perspective on human ecology by reconstructing the discipline in a way that genuinely reflects the realities of our territorial life.

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Nomad

George A. Custer in Turf, Field, and Farm

Edited by Brian W. Dippie
University of Texas Press

Fifteen letters that George Armstrong Custer contriuted to the New York-based sportsman's journal Turf, Field and Farm under the pseudonym Nomad.

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From Ballot to Bench

Judicial Elections and the Quest for Accountability

University of Texas Press

A searching scrutiny of the criticisms raised against judicial elections.

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Domestic Intelligence

Monitoring Dissent in America

University of Texas Press

The 1970s revealed a number of infamous and sometimes illegal practices used by federal law enforcement agencies to monitor political dissent in the United States; this volume examines the tension between the need to protect privacy and political dissent

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Institutional Economics

The Changing System

University of Texas Press

Wendell Gordon presents the philosophy of economic institutionalism clearly and evocatively, in the tradition of the pragmatism of Peirce, James, and Dewey.

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Chicano Authors

Inquiry by Interview

University of Texas Press

Fourteen leading Chicano authors respond to questions about their personal and educational backgrounds, their perception of the role of the Chicano writer, and their evaluation of the literary, linguistic, and sociocultural significance of Chicano literature.

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