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Television Talk
A History of the TV Talk Show
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive history of the first fifty years of television talk, replete with memorable moments from a wide range of classic talk shows, as well as many of today's most popular programs.
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Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil"
Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945)
University of Texas Press
In addition to the many details that this volume adds to Brazilian history, it illuminates the character of a man who sacrificed professional advancement and emolument in the interest of fighting for justice and charity.
Planning the Family in Egypt
New Bodies, New Selves
University of Texas Press
How Egyptian family planning policies navigate between the Westernized state and traditional Islamic groups.
Narrative Threads
Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu
Edited by Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton
University of Texas Press
In this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings?
Mixing Race, Mixing Culture
Inter-American Literary Dialogues
Edited by Monika Kaup and Debra Rosenthal
University of Texas Press
An examination of the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency, racial and cultural disjunction, in the literatures of the Americas.
Latino Images in Film
Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance
University of Texas Press
In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of images of Latinos in U.S. popular culture
Delirio—The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel
The Buried History of Nuevo León
University of Texas Press
How the folktales of Nuevo León encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity that have been lost, repressed, or fetishized in "legitimate" histories of the region.
Deconstructing the American Mosque
Space, Gender, and Aesthetics
University of Texas Press
The history and theory of Muslim religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950.
Geometry in Architecture
Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today
By Clovis Heimsath; Foreword by Louis Kahn; Photographs by Maryann Heimsath; Other adaptation by Lisa Hardaway
University of Texas Press
The Early Poetry of Robert Graves
The Goddess Beckons
University of Texas Press
In this study of Graves’s early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality: reason and predictability.
Driving Visions
Exploring the Road Movie
University of Texas Press
This book traces the generic evolution of the road movie with respect to its diverse presentations, emphasizing it as an "independent genre" that attempts to incorporate marginality and subversion on many levels.
Brown Tide Rising
Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse
University of Texas Press
Applying the insights of cognitive metaphor theory to an extensive natural language data set drawn from hundreds of articles in the Los Angeles Times and other media, Santa Ana reveals how metaphorical language portrays Latinos as invaders, outsiders, bur
Before the Volcano Erupted
The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America
Edited by Payson D. Sheets
University of Texas Press
Complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at Cerén, "the Pompeii of the New World".
Antiphon the Athenian
Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists
University of Texas Press
This book convincingly argues that Antiphon the orator and Antiphon the Sophist were the same person.
Sista, Speak!
Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy
University of Texas Press
How this valorization of "proper" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women—the author's grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself.
Remembering the Alamo
Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol
University of Texas Press
How the Alamo's transformation into an American cultural icon helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
University of Texas Press
How recent Mexican cinema has focused on Mexico City as a protagonist in its own right.
The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions
University of Texas Press
To paint a more complete portrait of the missions as they once were, Jacinto Quirarte here draws on decades of on-site and archival research to offer the most comprehensive reconstruction and description of the original art and architecture of the six rem
Staying Sober in Mexico City
University of Texas Press
An ethnography of an Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in Mexico City.
States of Nature
Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
University of Texas Press
This book traces the history of the intersections between nature, economy, and nation in the Spanish Caribbean through a history of the agricultural and botanical sciences.
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