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A Study of Organizational Dilemmas

University of Texas Press

One of the first systematic, empirical studies of religious orders in the United States and one of the few sociological investigations of convents and the changes occurring within them.

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The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945

University of Texas Press

This volume not only brings to light several important women poets but also represents the discovery of a tradition of women writers.

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Anthropology and History in Yucatán

Edited by Grant D. Jones
University of Texas Press

A collection of ten essays that offer interpretations of the survival and adaptation of lowland Maya culture from its earliest contact with the Spanish to the 1970s.

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Voices of Change in the Spanish American Theater

An Anthology

University of Texas Press

A selection of plays that are representative of a fresh spirit and of societal pressures and changes in Spanish American culture.

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The Gerbil in Behavioral Investigations

Mechanisms of Territoriality and Olfactory Communication

University of Texas Press

In this comprehensive account of olfactory communication and territorial behavior in the Mongolian gerbil, Del Thiessen and PaulineYahr provide the first detailed study of the neurological and physiological mechanisms that control these basic functions.

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The Art of Life

Studies in American Autobiographical Literature

University of Texas Press

This volume defines an original theory of autobiographical writing and provides intriguing analyses of major American works of literature.

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Osip Mandelstam

Selected Essays

Translated by Sidney Monas
University of Texas Press

The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent Mandelstam's major poetic themes and his thought on literature, language and culture, and the work and place of the poet.

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Gondal's Queen

A Novel in Verse

University of Texas Press

A cycle of eighty-four poems by Emily Jane Brontë, for the first time arranged in logical sequence, to re-create the “novel in verse” which Emily wrote about their beloved mystical kingdom of Gondal and its ruler, Augusta Geraldine Almeda, who brought tra

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Elites and Economic Development

Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities

University of Texas Press

A detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America.

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Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos

Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas

University of Texas Press

Two volumes of African American folk tales collected in Texas.

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Science and Ceremony

The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres

University of Texas Press

This book constitutes the first major appraisal of the work and influence of C. E. Ayres.

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Aspects of English Sentence Stress

University of Texas Press

Using a working definition of stress as subjective impression of prominence, the author attempts to formulate general principles that will predict the relative prominence of different words in particular utterances—what might be called the syntax of stress.

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Hamlet's Castle

The Study of Literature as a Social Experience

University of Texas Press

A theoretical and practical examination of the interactions that take place in a literary classroom.

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The Siren and the Seashell

And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry

By Octavio Paz; Translated by Lysander Kemp and Margaret Sayers Peden; Illustrated by Barry Moser
University of Texas Press

A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

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The Making of a History

Walter Prescott Webb and The Great Plains

University of Texas Press

The first biographically oriented study of a man regarded as one of the twentieth century's major western historians.

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The Galveston Era

The Texas Crescent on the Eve of Secession

University of Texas Press

A study of the Texas Gulf Coast on the eve of the Civil War, centering on the charming and contradictory city of Galveston.

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Moroccan Islam

Tradition and Society in a Pilgrimage Center

University of Texas Press

A study of maraboutism in Morocco.

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Man Across the Sea

Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts

University of Texas Press

Originally delivered at a symposium held in May 1968 during the national meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, these essays offer differing points of view and considerable evidence on the pros and cons of pre-Columbian contact between the Old W

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Current Thought in Musicology

Edited by John W. Grubbs
University of Texas Press

These nine papers constitute a broad overview of the direction of music scholarship in the 1970s.

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Heredity, Environment, and Personality

A Study of 850 Sets of Twins

University of Texas Press

This volume reports on a study of 850 pairs of twins who were tested to determine the influence of heredity and environment on individual differences in personality, ability, and interests.

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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

By Horacio Quiroga; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden; Introduction by George D. Schade
University of Texas Press

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.

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Constituent and Pattern in Poetry

University of Texas Press

A collection of essays on literature and language, built on the assumption that works of literature have existence in the real world and that they may be analyzed in a fashion that is not totally subjective.

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American Folklife

Edited by Don Yoder
University of Texas Press

This unique collection of essays dedicated to the presentation of American tradition broadens our understanding of the regional differences and ethnic folkways that color American life.

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Urban Latin America

The Political Condition from Above and Below

University of Texas Press

This book is an attempt to integrate research on Latin American social organization within a single theoretical framework: development as fundamentally a political problem.

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Under the Rainbow

Nature and Supernature among the Panare Indians

University of Texas Press

This ethnographic study of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is the first extensive look at a tribe of this region of the Amazonia.

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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 16

Sources Cited and Artifacts Illustrated

University of Texas Press

This volume is a reference for citations in Volumes 1-11 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, listing all the bibliographical entries cited and detailing the location (at the time of original publication) of the owner of each pre-Columbian American artifact illustrated.

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Citizens for Decency

Antipornography Crusades as Status Defense

University of Texas Press

The first systematic, comprehensive, and theory-oriented study of antipornography crusades and one of the few studies that analyze movements to resist change.

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Evolution of Desert Biota

University of Texas Press

Written by specialists in the field, the papers in this volume explore evolution of animals and plants on the deserts of North America, South America, and Australia.

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The Yanoama Indians

A Cultural Geography

University of Texas Press

This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.

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The Comic Spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca

University of Texas Press

How this Spanish poet and playwright uses humor to try to come to terms with what he sees as the essentially hopeless condition of humankind.

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Fields of the Tzotzil

The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas

University of Texas Press

The first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system.

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Dramatists in Revolt

The New Latin American Theater

University of Texas Press

Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater.

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The Spanish American Novel

A Twentieth-Century Survey

University of Texas Press

John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality.

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A Search for Solvency

Bretton Woods and the International Monetary System, 1941-1971

University of Texas Press

Based on extensive research in previously unavailable sources, A Search for Solvency relates intriguing and often complicated issues of economic analysis and diplomatic history.

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A Mexican Family Empire

The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867

University of Texas Press

A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America—the latifundio of the Sánchez Navarros.

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Three Authors of Alienation

Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier

University of Texas Press

How three twentieth-century Latin American authors treat the themes of alienation, disgust with life, and the feeling of nothingness arising from the conditions of modern society.

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Literary Diseases

Theme and Metaphor in the Italian Novel

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive analysis of the metaphorical and symbolic force of disease in modern Italian literature.

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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15

Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Parts Three and Four

University of Texas Press

These volumes contain ethnohistorical sources from the indigenous tradition, including prose and pictorial materials, a checklist of repositories, a title and synonymy index, and an annotated bibliography on native sources.

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A Dream of Arcadia

Anti-Industrialism in Spanish LIterature, 1895–1905

University of Texas Press

A Dream of Arcadia is the first work to explore Spain’s fertile and imaginative Art Nouveau.

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The Concept of Academic Freedom

University of Texas Press

Essays on the conceptual issues underlying the battle for academic freedom.

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