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Jungle of the Maya
By Douglas Goodell; Introduction by Archie Carr
University of Texas Press
A stunning photographic portrait of and popular introduction to one of the Western Hemisphere’s most abundant yet fragile tropical forests.
Corruption in Cuba
Castro and Beyond
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive analysis of corruption in Cuba, and prescriptions for minimizing it in the post-Castro era.
Aryan Cowboys
White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, 1970–2000
University of Texas Press
A startling analysis of how modern white supremacists have co-opted the mythology and environment of the American West to position their cause among historically American ideals.
Texas Zydeco
By Roger Wood
University of Texas Press
The definitive account, in words and pictures, of how the most formative players and moments in modern zydeco history developed in Texas, especially Houston.
Latinos and American Law
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
University of Texas Press
A historical overview and analysis of fourteen landmark Supreme Court cases that have significantly affected Latino rights in such areas as education, the administration of criminal justice, voting rights, employment, and immigration.
French Verbs Made Simple(r)
University of Texas Press
An easier, yet more complete approach to learning French verbs than 501 French Verbs
Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air
Legends of West Texas Music
University of Texas Press
Interviews with twenty-five West Texas musicians and artists who seek to answer the question, why do so many innovative musicians come from Lubbock?
Evil Arabs in American Popular Film
Orientalist Fear
University of Texas Press
A timely look at American popular films made between 1973 and 2001 that use Arabs, their landscapes, and their cultures as villains—and what these depictions of “evil” Arabs reveal about American fears and insecurities.
Big Bend National Park
By Laurence Parent and Joe Nick Patoski
University of Texas Press
The first and only comprehensive photographic and word portrait of Big Bend National Park, created by one of Texas's foremost landscape photographers and a noted national travel writer.
Kaqchikel Chronicles
The Definitive Edition
Translated by Judith M. Maxwell and Robert M. Hill
University of Texas Press
An authoritative translation of and commentary on primary sixteenth-and seventeenth-century source documents for understanding Kaqchikel Maya history.
Alien Constructions
Science Fiction and Feminist Thought
University of Texas Press
A probing examination of how science fiction literature and film has presented feminist debates about difference, globalization, and technoscience.
Women Embracing Islam
Gender and Conversion in the West
Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk
University of Texas Press
Ten essays by leading historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and theologians that probe Western women's motivations for converting to Islam.
The Politics of Sentiment
Imagining and Remembering Guayaquil
University of Texas Press
A multi-faceted exploration of the inhabitants of Guayaquil, Ecuador, through the lenses of politics, race relations, labor movements, Modernism, and the poetry of Medardo Angel Silva.
Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture
University of Texas Press
A pioneering analysis of Moche visual iconography that sheds new light on this ancient Peruvian society's beliefs about sex, death, and the afterlife.
Palaces and Power in the Americas
From Peru to the Northwest Coast
Edited by Jessica Joyce Christie and Patricia Joan Sarro
University of Texas Press
A wide-ranging look at the relationship between political power and architecture in the Americas.
Outsider in the Promised Land
An Iraqi Jew in Israel
University of Texas Press
A revealing collection of published and unpublished writings on Israel's struggle to become a nation, as documented by a young Jewish journalist recently arrived from Iraq.
Leavin' a Testimony
Portraits from Rural Texas
University of Texas Press
Eloquent photographs and oral histories of the last generation, black and white, who grew up in the segregated South.
Caesar in Gaul and Rome
War in Words
University of Texas Press
A fresh interpretation of Julius Caesar's Gallic War that focuses on Caesar's construction of national identity and his self-presentation.
Amazigh Arts in Morocco
Women Shaping Berber Identity
University of Texas Press
An unprecedented examination of the relationships of art, gender, and identity among the Amazigh (Berber) people of Morocco.
Who Guards the Guardians and How
Democratic Civil-Military Relations
Edited by Thomas C. Bruneau and Scott D. Tollefson
University of Texas Press
An in-depth study of current civil-military relations in democratic countries worldwide.
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