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Out of the Cloister
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.
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.
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.
Voices of Change in the Spanish American Theater
An Anthology
Edited by William I. Oliver
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.
The Gerbil in Behavioral Investigations
Mechanisms of Territoriality and Olfactory Communication
By Del Thiessen and Pauline Yahr
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.
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.
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.
Gondal's Queen
A Novel in Verse
By Emily Jane Brontë; Edited by Fannie E. Ratchford
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
Elites and Economic Development
Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities
By John Walton
University of Texas Press
A detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Siren and the Seashell
And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry
University of Texas Press
A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.
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.
The Galveston Era
The Texas Crescent on the Eve of Secession
By Earl Wesley Fornell; Illustrated by Lowell Collins
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.
Moroccan Islam
Tradition and Society in a Pilgrimage Center
University of Texas Press
A study of maraboutism in Morocco.
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
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.
Heredity, Environment, and Personality
A Study of 850 Sets of Twins
By John C. Loehlin and Robert C. Nichols
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.
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
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.
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.
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.
Urban Latin America
The Political Condition from Above and Below
By Alejandro Portes and John Walton
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.
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.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 16
Sources Cited and Artifacts Illustrated
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Margaret A.L. Harrison
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.
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.
Evolution of Desert Biota
Edited by David W. Goodall
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.
The Yanoama Indians
A Cultural Geography
University of Texas Press
This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.
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.
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.
Dramatists in Revolt
The New Latin American Theater
Edited by Leon F. Lyday and George W. Woodyard
University of Texas Press
Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater.
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.
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.
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.
Three Authors of Alienation
Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier
By M. Ian Adams
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.
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.
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.
A Dream of Arcadia
Anti-Industrialism in Spanish LIterature, 1895–1905
By Lily Litvak
University of Texas Press
A Dream of Arcadia is the first work to explore Spain’s fertile and imaginative Art Nouveau.
The Concept of Academic Freedom
Edited by Edmund L. Pincoffs
University of Texas Press
Essays on the conceptual issues underlying the battle for academic freedom.
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