Texas A M University Press imprint: 357 books
"Execute against Japan"
The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
“ . . . until now how the Navy managed to instantaneously move from the overt legal restrictions of the naval arms treaties that bound submarines to the cruiser rules of the eighteenth century to a declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan immediately after the attack on Pearl...
The People of Palomas
Neandertals from the Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Southeastern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The Neandertal site of the Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, located in Murcia in southeastern Spain, is unique in several respects. One of its most important contribution to the field of Anthropology, however, may be that it has yielded of the remains of at least 17 Neandertals, adding appreciable...
War
A Primer for Christians
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
War: A Primer for Christians provides a concise introduction to the main approaches that Christians have taken toward war and examines each approach critically.
Some Christians have supported their country's wars as crusades of good against evil. Others, as pacifists, have rejected participation...
Flying Man
Hugo Junkers and the Dream of Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Hugo Junkers (1859–1935) was a German engineer and aircraft designer generally credited as the pioneer of all-metal airplanes. His company, Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, more commonly referred to simply as “Junkers,” became a major German aircraft manufacturer based in Dessau. From...
Kennewick Man
The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Almost from the day of its accidental discovery along the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State in July 1996, the ancient skeleton of Kennewick Man has garnered significant attention from scientific and Native American communities as well as public media outlets. This volume represents a...
Wildlife Watching in America's National Parks
A Seasonal Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
From the Great Smoky Mountains to Point Reyes National Seashore, America’s national parks are home to some of nature’s great wildlife spectacles. Here, Gary W. Vequist and Daniel S. Licht, two veterans of the National Park Service, focus on twelve animals that have been imperiled and at risk,...
Network of Bones
Conjuring Key West and the Florida Keys
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Both a far-removed place of refuge for the fringe of society and a high-status vacation destination, the Keys remain a legendary yet fragile place, still threatened by a human-made disaster, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Likewise, Key West, Florida, can be many things to many people, evoking...
The Shore Is a Bridge
The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Lake Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
With humans moving easily from water to land, the archaeology of the shore should likewise be seamless. This principle of the “seamlessness” of human interaction with the maritime environment undergirds author Ben Ford’s sweeping survey. In The Shore Is a Bridge: The Maritime Cultural Landscape...
Money for the Cause
A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
There has never been a greater need for raising the funds necessary to promote the causes that will help build a sustainable future. In Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising, veteran nonprofit executive director Rudolph A. Rosen lays out field-tested approaches that have been...
by Celia Sandys
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
“ . . . notable for its depiction of young Churchill, warts and all, as a very human character . . . .”—New York Times
“A bestseller in the UK, this portrait of Winston Churchill, written by his granddaughter, unapologetically presents the future prime minister as an action hero in...
by Natalie H. Wiest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Within about seventy-five miles of downtown Houston, some 1,500 miles of rivers, creeks, lakes, bayous, and bays await discovery. Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways, by longtime paddler Natalie Wiest, is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to experience Houston’s well-watered landscape...
Combat Talons in Vietnam
Recovering a Covert Special Ops Crew
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Combat Talons in Vietnam is a personal account of the first use of C-130s in the Vietnam War. It provides an insider’s view of crew training and classified missions for this technologically advanced aircraft. Many covert missions over North Vietnam were successful, but one night, John Gargus, a...
Where's the Moon?
A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
When you lose your parents just as you have left home for graduate school—glad to finally be away from a life and place you found stifling—how do you make your way in a world with no home to go back to? For Ann McCutchan, whose parents died in a car accident when she was twenty-three, the answer...
Holy Ground, Healing Water
Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Lake, Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Most people would not consider north central Kansas’ Waconda Lake to be extraordinary. The lake, completed in 1969 by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for flood control, irrigation, and water supply purposes, sits amid a region known—when it is thought of at all—for agriculture and, perhaps...