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Dreaming in Russian
The Cuban Soviet Imaginary
University of Texas Press
This intriguing book provides an extraordinary tour of the Eastern European influence on Cuban culture and the multifaceted legacy of Soviet oppression and idealism.
Digital Ethnography
Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
By Natalie M. Underberg and Elayne Zorn
University of Texas Press
Here is a state-of-the-art primer on digital applications for social scientists, with explorations of the emerging field of hypermedia ethnography.
Barbecue Crossroads
Notes and Recipes from a Southern Odyssey
By Robb Walsh
University of Texas Press
The James Beard Award–winning author of the best-selling Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook and acclaimed documentary photographer O. Rufus Lovett take us on an extraordinary odyssey from Texas to the Carolinas and back to tell the story of Southern barbecue, past, present, and future—complete with more than seventy recipes.
Another Steven Soderbergh Experience
Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood
University of Texas Press
Through in-depth investigation of Soderbergh’s work in film, television, and video, as well as an extensive interview with the filmmaker, this book offers a new model of film authorship in the twenty-first century that emphasizes its fundamentally collabo
Unsettled/Desasosiego
Children in a World of Gangs/Los niños en un mundo de las pandillas
University of Texas Press
Culminating thirty years of photographing gang members and their families, award-winning photojournalist Donna De Cesare uncovers the effects of decades of war and gang violence on the lives of youths in Central America and in refugee communities in the U
The Keepers of Water and Earth
Mexican Rural Social Organization and Irrigation
By Kjell I. Enge and Scott Whiteford
University of Texas Press
This study of the Tehuacán Valley in the state of Puebla highlights different strategies to manipulate the local implementation of federal government programs and raises important questions about the meaning of the phrase "locally controlled development."
The Fight to Save Juárez
Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War
University of Texas Press
Presenting a range of viewpoints that spans from high-level Mexican and U.S. officials to ordinary narcos and family members of victims, this portrait of Mexico’s bloodiest city offers a gripping, firsthand perspective on the drug war that has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007
Structures in the Stream
Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By Todd Shallat
University of Texas Press
Todd Shallat examines the turbulent first century of the dam and canal building Corps and follows the agency's rise from European antecedents through the boom years of river development after the American Civil War.
Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle
University of Texas Press
The biography of a nineteenth-century Egyptologist.
Inside the Wire
Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons
University of Texas Press
Renowned documentary photographer Bruce Jackson presents a profoundly moving, irreplaceable portrait of the southern prison farm and the men who lived and labored on these relics of the American slave plantation.
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