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Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
University of Texas Press
An English translation of a Mayan history of Yucatan.
Facts as I Remember Them
The Autobiography of Rufe LeFors
By Rufe LeFors; Edited by John Allen Peterson
University of Texas Press
LeFors's life story, set down near the end of his long and adventurous life, is the best sort of insider's history, the chronicle of a life lived fully amid the exciting events and rough landscape of the frontier's final years.
Big and Bright
A History of the McDonald Observatory
University of Texas Press
Based on personal reminiscences and archival material, as well as published historical sources, Big and Bright is one of the few histories of a major observatory, unique in its focus on the human side of the story.
The Southeast Maya Periphery
Edited by Patricia A. Urban and Edward M. Schortman
University of Texas Press
Spanning over two thousand years of Maya prehistory, from the Middle Preclassic through the Classic and the poorly understood Postclassic, the papers in this volume address such topics as epigraphy and iconography, architecture, site planning, settlement
White House Operations
The Johnson Presidency
University of Texas Press
This exploration of Lyndon B. Johnson’s highly personalized White House operations provides far-reaching implications for the nature of effective presidential management.
Theatre for Youth
Twelve Plays with Mature Themes
Edited by Coleman A. Jennings and Gretta Berghammer
University of Texas Press
This book examines twelve plays that deal with mature themes: aging, death and dying, conformity, sexuality, divorce, moral culpability
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4
Ethnohistory
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker and Ronald Spores
University of Texas Press
A review of research in Mesoamerican colonial ethnohistory.
Mary, Michael, and Lucifer
Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico
University of Texas Press
A modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy.
Industry, the State, and Public Policy in Mexico
By Dale Story
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the political and economic role of industrial entrepreneurs in postwar Mexico.
Alex Sweet's Texas
The Lighter Side of Lone Star History
By Alexaner Edwin Sweet; Edited by Virginia Eisenhour
University of Texas Press
A selection of Sweet's humorous essays about Texas.
South by Southwest
24 Stories from Modern Texas
Edited by Don Graham
University of Texas Press
These Texas stories are among the best produced by the state’s writers in the mid-twentieth century.
Poetics of Change
The New Spanish-American Narrative
By Julio Ortega; Translated by Galen D. Greaser
University of Texas Press
This book brings together Ortega’s most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, García Márquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.
The São Paulo Law School and the Anti-Vargas Resistance (1938-1945)
University of Texas Press
The São Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country’s leadership; this book tells about the school's role in Brazilian historical events.
The Art of Reciting the Qur'an
University of Texas Press
By examining Muslim attitudes toward the Qur'an, the institutions that regulate its recitation, and performer-audience expectations and interaction, Kristina Nelson, a trained Arabist and musicologist, casts new light on the significance of Qur'anic recit
The Language Parallax
Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy
University of Texas Press
Paul Friedrich's The Language Parallax argues persuasively that the "locus and focus" of differences among languages lies not so much in practical or rational aspects as in the complexity and richness of more poetic dimensions—in the nuances of words, or
Mexican American Fertility Patterns
By Frank D. Bean and Gray Swicegood
University of Texas Press
This study examines Mexican American fertility patterns in the decade 1970-1980.
Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico
University of Texas Press
Roderic Camp’s examination of intellectuals in Mexico is the first study of a Latin American country to detail the structure of intellectual life, rather than merely considering intellectual ideas.
Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine
University of Texas Press
In this culmination of over twenty years of research, the author employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.
Every Sun That Rises
Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake
Edited by Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad
University of Texas Press
The oral history of a lifelong resident of Caddo Lake.
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 3
Literatures
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker and Munro S. Edmonson
University of Texas Press
This third volume of the Supplement is devoted to the aboriginal literatures of Mesoamerica, a topic receiving little attention in the original Handbook.
State and Opposition in Military Brazil
University of Texas Press
A rich description of the long and tortuous attempt by the Brazilian military government to create a workable “national security state” in the face of determined and resilient opposition.
South American Indian Languages
Retrospect and Prospect
Edited by Harriet E. Manelis Klein and Louisa R. Stark
University of Texas Press
This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, surveying past research, providing data and analysis gathered from past and current research, and suggesting p
The Voice of the Masters
Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature
University of Texas Press
A timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.
Letters of Roy Bedichek
Edited by William A. Owens and Lyman Grant
University of Texas Press
Prefaced by a biographical sketch, this volume presents a collection of Bedichek letters that give us an insight into his literary and creative development.
Islam against the West
Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism
University of Texas Press
This book gives a unique perspective on the interwar history of the Middle East; by telling the life story of one man, it illuminates the political and cultural struggles of an era.
Dance across Texas
By Betty Casey
University of Texas Press
Internationally known dance instructor and writer Betty Casey takes an informal look at the history of Texas dancing and tells how to do more than twenty traditional Texas dances.
Presidential Management of Science and Technology
The Johnson Presidency
University of Texas Press
This book addresses the relationship between scientists, few of whom have political backgrounds, and presidents, few of whom are knowledgeable in matters of science and technology.
Government and Society in Rural Palestine, 1920-1948
By Ylana Miller
University of Texas Press
This study seeks to go beyond attributions of responsibility to investigate the concrete conditions which determined and limited Palestinian Arab actions between 1920 and 1948.
Despite this Flesh
The Disabled in Stories and Poems
Edited by Vassar Miller
University of Texas Press
An anthology of fiction and poetry about people with motor and sensory disabilities.
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