In this collection of innovative, thought-provoking essays, established and emerging scholars consider the sea changes taking place within Chicana/o scholarship, the shifting racial and political boundaries of Chicana/o communities, and new perspectives o

Presenting a proven technique for screenwriting centered on a character’s flaws and strengths, an expert screenwriting coach shows writers exactly how to construct screenplays that tell compelling, satisfying stories.

Tracing the whole sweep of Mary J. Blige’s career through the critically acclaimed 2014 album, The London Sessions, this is the first serious look at the music and cultural impact of one of the most important musical artists to emerge in the past quarter

In the spirit of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love, Madonnaland takes us on a revelatory road trip through the quirky hinterlands of celebrity and fandom and the quest to make music that matters in the face of relentless commercialism.

Entre Guadalupe y Malinche is the first-ever collection of Tejana literary and artistic production, gathering the writings of more than fifty authors and the artwork of eight artists.

This pioneering contribution to visual culture studies reveals how banana plantation workers and their families used photography to visually assert their identities and rights as citizens, despite being outmatched by a powerful multinational corporation.

The first complete, state-of-the-art organic gardening handbook for Texas.

Now back in print—the second volume in the acclaimed Brazos Trilogy by John Graves, who is widely acknowledged as Texas’s most beloved writer.

Now back in print—the third volume in the acclaimed Brazos Trilogy by John Graves, who is widely acknowledged as Texas’s most beloved writer.

In this extensively illustrated field guide, two of the state’s most knowledgeable herpetologists present the first complete identification guide to all thirty-one native and established exotic turtle species in Texas, as well as the American Alligator.