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The Bear and His Sons

Masculinity in Spanish and Mexican Folktales

University of Texas Press

How two men tell common Hispanic folktales, and how their stories present different ways of being a man in their respective cultures.

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Simple Things Won't Save the Earth

University of Texas Press

In this provocative book, J. Robert Hunter asserts that using catchy slogans and symbols to sell the public on environmental conservation is ineffective, misleading, and even dangerous.

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Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico

Edited by Edward R. Burian; Introduction by Ricardo Legoretta
University of Texas Press

A critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects.

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Checkerboards and Shatterbelts

The Geopolitics of South America

University of Texas Press

In this study, Philip Kelly maps the geopolitics of South America, a continent where relative isolation from the power centers in North America and Eurasia and often forbidding internal terrain have given rise to a fascinating and unique geopolitical stru

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Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora

Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana

University of Texas Press

Stories and testimonials about women who work in assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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The Play of Mirrors

The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other

University of Texas Press

Focusing on the Bororo people of west-central Brazil, this book addresses the construction of self-identity through interethnic interaction.

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Public Policy and Community

Activism and Governance in Texas

University of Texas Press

Six case studies about how low-income citizens have successfully affected public policy.

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Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains

University of Texas Press

Vance T. Holliday synthesizes the data from earlier studies with his own recent research to offer the most current and comprehensive overview of the geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains during the earliest human occupation.

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From Viracocha to the Virgin of Copacabana

Representation of the Sacred at Lake Titicaca

University of Texas Press

How Andean myths of cosmic and ethnic origins centered on Lake Titicaca evolved from pre-Inca times to the enthronement of the Virgin of Copacabana in 1583.

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A Place in the Rain Forest

Settling the Costa Rican Frontier

University of Texas Press

The story of how a Costa Rican rainforest was settled, and the settlement's cost to the ecosystem.

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The Terror of the Machine

Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border

University of Texas Press

This interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras.

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Wings over the Mexican Border

Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big Bend

University of Texas Press

Against a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II comes this compelling look at the rise of U.S. combat aviation at an unlikely proving ground—a remote airfield in the rugged reaches of the southwestern Tex

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The Texas City Disaster, 1947

University of Texas Press

In this book, Hugh W. Stephens draws on official reports, newspaper and magazine articles, personal letters, and interviews with several dozen survivors to provide the first full account of the 1947 disaster at Texas City.

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The Image in Dispute

Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography

Edited by Dudley Andrew
University of Texas Press

In this volume, experts in film studies and art history take up the debate, begun by philosopher Walter Benjamin, about the power and scope of the image in a secular age.

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Texas Tortes

By Arthur L. Meyer; Illustrated by John A. Wilson; Introduction by Alain LeNôtre
University of Texas Press

Forty-three original, kitchen-tested recipes for fruit, nut, and chocolate tortes, cassati, tarts and pies, cheesecakes, and other classic European desserts, taking advantage of fresh Texas ingredients.

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Intermediate Spanish Memory Book

A New Approach to Vocabulary Building

University of Texas Press

The Intermediate Spanish Memory Book makes use of a series of mnemonic jingles that are by turns playful, sardonic, touching, and heroic to help both students and independent learners acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary.

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After the Cold War

Essays on the Emerging World Order

University of Texas Press

Twenty world leaders assess the possibilities and perils of the new strategic, political, and economic interrelationships that are emerging around the world.

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Surviving in Two Worlds

Contemporary Native American Voices

By Lois Crozier-Hogle, Darryl Babe Wilson, and Ferne Jensen; By (photographer) Giuseppe Saitta; Edited by Jay Leibold; Introduction by Greg Sarris
University of Texas Press

A collection of 26 interviews with Native American leaders.

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Soldiers of Misfortune

The Somervell and Mier Expeditions

University of Texas Press

The story of the Republic of Texas's ill-fated expeditions against Mexico.

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Jake

By Jake Pickle and Peggy Pickle; Introduction by Ann Richards
University of Texas Press

Jake Pickle tells the story of a lifetime in public service, including thirty-one years as Representative for Texas’ Tenth Congressional District.

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Women of Color

Mother-Daughter Relationships in 20th-Century Literature

University of Texas Press

This collection of original essays explores the mother-daughter relationship as it appears in the works of African, African American, Asian American, Mexican American, Native American, Indian, and Australian Aboriginal women writers.

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Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690

University of Texas Press

An English translation of Chapa's Historia de Nuevo León, the first history of the region that eventually became Texas and northeastern Mexico.

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Migrant Song

Politics and Process in Contemporary Chicano Literature

University of Texas Press

In this pathfinding study of Chicano literature, Teresa McKenna specifically explores how these works arise out of social, political, and psychological conflict and how the development of Chicano literature is inextricably embedded in this fact.

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How Writing Came About

University of Texas Press

A groundbreaking theory on the origins of writing, now presented for a general audience.

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Hanif Kureishi

Postcolonial Storyteller

University of Texas Press

This book is the first critical biography of Hanif Kureishi.

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Desegregating Texas Schools

Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High

By Robyn Duff Ladino; Introduction by Alwyn Barr
University of Texas Press

The first full account of the Mansfield, Texas school integration crisis of 1956.

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Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon

The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization

University of Texas Press

A new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems.

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Color and Cognition in Mesoamerica

Constructing Categories as Vantages

University of Texas Press

Linguistic data on color names from speakers of 116 Mesoamerican languages.

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Pericles on Stage

Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays

University of Texas Press

Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes’ eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades.

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Doin’ Drugs

Patterns of African American Addiction

University of Texas Press

This book explores historical patterns of African American alcohol and drug use from pre-slavery Africa to present-day urban America.

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