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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.
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.
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.
Checkerboards and Shatterbelts
The Geopolitics of South America
By Philip Kelly
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
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana
By Norma Iglesias Prieto; Translated by Michael Stone and Gabrielle Winkler; Introduction by Henry A. Selby
University of Texas Press
Stories and testimonials about women who work in assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Play of Mirrors
The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
By Sylvia Caiuby Novaes; Translated by Izabel Murat Burbridge
University of Texas Press
Focusing on the Bororo people of west-central Brazil, this book addresses the construction of self-identity through interethnic interaction.
Public Policy and Community
Activism and Governance in Texas
Edited by Robert H. Wilson
University of Texas Press
Six case studies about how low-income citizens have successfully affected public policy.
Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains
By Vance T. Holliday; Introduction by Thomas R. Hester
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Texas Tortes
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.
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.
After the Cold War
Essays on the Emerging World Order
Edited by Keith Philip Lepor
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.
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.
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.
Women of Color
Mother-Daughter Relationships in 20th-Century Literature
Edited by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
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.
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.
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.
How Writing Came About
University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking theory on the origins of writing, now presented for a general audience.
Hanif Kureishi
Postcolonial Storyteller
University of Texas Press
This book is the first critical biography of Hanif Kureishi.
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.
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.
Color and Cognition in Mesoamerica
Constructing Categories as Vantages
University of Texas Press
Linguistic data on color names from speakers of 116 Mesoamerican languages.
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.
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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