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School Choice Tradeoffs
Liberty, Equity, and Diversity
University of Texas Press
An overview of the issues in school choice.
Latin Politics, Global Media
Edited by Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord
University of Texas Press
Thirteen well-known media experts examine how the intersection of globalization and democratization has transformed media systems and policies throughout Latin America.
The Medium of the Video Game
Edited by Mark J. P. Wolf; Introduction by Ralph H. Baer
University of Texas Press
The first thorough investigation of the video game as an artistic medium.
Tejano South Texas
A Mexican American Cultural Province
University of Texas Press
How Texans of Mexican ancestry have established a cultural province in this Texas-Mexico borderland that is unlike any other Mexican American region.
Once Upon a Time in Texas
A Liberal in the Lone Star State
University of Texas Press
In this fast-paced, often humorous memoir, David Richards remembers the players, the strategy sessions, the legal and political battles, and the wins and losses that brought significant gains in civil rights, voter rights, labor law, and civil liberties to the people of Texas from the 1950s to the 1990s.
A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology
Religion and Justice
University of Texas Press
This first-of-its-kind volume adds the perspectives, realities, struggles, and spiritualities of U.S. Latinas to the larger feminist theological discourse.
Oil in Texas
The Gusher Age, 1895-1945
University of Texas Press
A chronicle of the explosive growth of the Texas oil industry, from the first commercial production at Corsicana in the 1890s through the vital role of Texas oil in World War II.
Messages from the Wild
An Almanac of Suburban Natural and Unnatural History
University of Texas Press
A composite, day-by-day almanac of the life cycles of a semiwild natural island in the midst of urban Texas.
Border Radio
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition
By Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford
University of Texas Press
The eventful history of border radio, from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s.
Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya
A Guide
University of Texas Press
This field guide highlights nearly 100 species of plants and animals that were significant to the ancient Maya and that continue to inhabit the Maya region today.
William Faulkner
Self-Presentation and Performance
University of Texas Press
How Faulkner put himself forth through written performances and displays based in and expressive of his emotional biography.
Valley Interfaith and School Reform
Organizing for Power in South Texas
University of Texas Press
How community organizing and activism in support of public schools in one of America’s most economically disadvantaged regions has engendered impressive academic results.
The Road to El Cielo
Mexico's Forest in the Clouds
University of Texas Press
The story of a conservation effort in Mexico's cloud forest.
Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator
By Patrick L. Cox; Introduction by Edward M. Kennedy
University of Texas Press
The first in-depth biography of a Texas senator.
Clovis Blade Technology
A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas
By Michael B. Collins and Marvin Kay
University of Texas Press
This book offers the first comprehensive study of a little-known aspect of Clovis culture—stone blade technology.
Among Women
From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World
Edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger
University of Texas Press
This book explores a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt.
Veni, Vidi, Video
The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
University of Texas Press
The history of the rise of home video as a mass medium.
Translating the Garden
University of Texas Press
In this book, Ghanoonparvar allows readers to watch him in the process of translating Shahrokh Meskub’s Goftogu dar Bagh (Dialogue in the Garden) from Persian into English.
The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
Edited by Seth L. Wolitz
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis.
Recovering History, Constructing Race
The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans
University of Texas Press
Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers the first interpretive racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from prehispanic times to the present.
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