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Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures
Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences
Edited by William C. Schieve and Peter M. Allen
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.
Nabokov's Fifth Arc
Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work
Edited by J. E. Rivers and Charles Nicol
University of Texas Press
This volume both explores and symbolizes Nabokov's continuing life in literary history.
The Prague School
Selected Writings, 1929-1946
Edited by Peter Steiner
University of Texas Press
Essays by noted figures in the Prague Linguistic Circle.
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.
Origins of Pre-Columbian Art
University of Texas Press
A fresh look at ancient cultural history in the Americas and the Pacific basin.
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.
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.
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.
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1
Archaeology
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker and Jeremy A. Sabloff
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).
The House at Work
Edited by Joseph Cooper and G. Calvin Mackenzie
University of Texas Press
A complete overview of the complex functioning and dynamics of Congress, drawing upon both real-life experience and organization theory.
The Garden in Winter and Other Poems
University of Texas Press
A book of poems by a Texas writer.
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.
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.
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.
The Population of the South
Structure and Change in Social Demographic Context
Edited by Dudley L. Poston and Robert H. Weller
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.
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.
Exploring the Johnson Years
Edited by Robert A. Divine
University of Texas Press
An introduction to the Lyndon B. Johnson administration and to the LBJ Library’s more than thirty million separate documents.
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.
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.
Environmental Studies of a Marine Ecosystem
South Texas Outer Continental Shelf
Edited by R. Warren Flint and Nancy N. Rabalais
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.
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."
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.
Federalism and Regional Development
Case Studies on the Experience in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany
Edited by George W. Hoffman
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
The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction
By Tony Hilfer
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.
Judge and Jury in Imperial Brazil, 1808–1871
Social Control and Political Stability in the New State
By Thomas Flory
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.
And Other Neighborly Names
Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore
Edited by Richard Bauman and Roger D. Abrahams
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas.
The Politics of Population in Brazil
Elite Ambivalence and Public Demand
By Peter McDonough and Amaury DeSouza
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.
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.
Now You Hear My Horn
The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, 1820–1887
By James Wilson Nichols; Edited by Catherine W. McDowell
University of Texas Press
A fast-moving, fascinating frontier history by a man who was really there.
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
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.
Cow People
University of Texas Press
Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves.
Meyerhold at Work
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
The Territorial Experience
Human Ecology as Symbolic Interaction
By E. Gordon Ericksen; Introduction by Herbert Blumer
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Chicano Authors
Inquiry by Interview
By Bruce-Novoa
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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