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Screening the Gothic
By Lisa Hopkins
University of Texas Press
Exploring how the Gothic has been deployed in contemporary films.
News from the New American Diaspora
and Other Tales of Exile
University of Texas Press
Short stories that depict the range of Jewish life in twentieth-century America.
Nationalist Voices in Jordan
The Street and the State
University of Texas Press
How the “Arab street” helped forge the national identity of Jordan.
Demosthenes, Speeches 18 and 19
Translated by Harvey Yunis
University of Texas Press
Two of the most famous and influential speeches by the greatest orator of classical antiquity.
Birds of Tropical America
A Watcher's Introduction to Behavior, Breeding, and Diversity
By Steven Hilty; Illustrated by Mimi Hoppe Wolf
University of Texas Press
The guide to neotropical bird behavior that picks up where field guides leave off.
Mexican Americans and World War II
Edited by Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez
University of Texas Press
A celebration of the overlooked contributions of the 750,000 Mexican American veterans of the “Greatest Generation”
Peregrine Falcon
Stories of the Blue Meanie
By James H. Enderson; Illustrated by Robert Katona
University of Texas Press
A leading expert on the peregrine falcon tells the story of the birds’ dramatic decline and spectacular recovery.
Indian Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction
First Nations' Voices Speak Out
University of Texas Press
A social study examining the harmful stereotyping of First Nations peoples in television science fiction.
Freedom Colonies
Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
University of Texas Press
An authoritative text and historical and contemporary photographs that bring independent African American communities out of the shadows of history.
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil
Santana de Parnaíba, 1580–1822
University of Texas Press
How families adapted to rural life on the Brazilian frontier.
Conversations with Texas Writers
Edited by Frances Leonard and Ramona Cearley; By (photographer) Ramona Cearley; Introduction by Joe Holley
University of Texas Press
The largest single-volume collection of interviews with 50 of Texas’s most important writers—including a photo and bibliography for each author.
In the Maw of the Earth Monster
Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use
Edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer
University of Texas Press
This volume gathers papers from twenty prominent Mesoamerican archaeologists, linguists, and ethnographers to present a state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use in Mesoamerica from Pre-Columbian times to the present.
Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Indígenas de México
Volume One/Tomo Uno: Prose/Prosa
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages.
The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity
University of Texas Press
Studying the relationship between national identity and failure, John Ochoa revisits the foundational texts of Mexican intellectual and literary history, the “national monuments,” and offers a new vision of the pivotal events that echo throughout Mexican
Species at Risk
Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands
Edited by Jason F. Shogren
University of Texas Press
In this book, lawyers, economists, political scientists, historians, and zoologists come together to assess the challenges and opportunities for using economic incentives as compensation for protecting species at risk on private property.
Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century
Textual Disruptions
University of Texas Press
Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, Kuhnheim explores how recent Spanish American poetry participates in the fundamental cultural debates of its time.
Palestinians Born in Exile
Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland
University of Texas Press
This original ethnography records the experiences of Palestinians born in exile who have emigrated to the Palestinian homeland.
Narratives of Greater Mexico
Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Héctor Calderón looks at seven Chicana and Chicano writers whose narratives constitute what he terms an American Mexican literature.
Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History
University of Texas Press
How five prominent Roman historians disclosed events that had been deliberately shrouded in secrecy and silence.
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