Texas A M University Press: 358 books

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Deer of the Southwest

A Complete Guide to the Natural History, Biology, and Management of Southwestern Mule Deer and White

by Jim Heffelfinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

Author Jim Heffelfinger presents a wide array of data in a reader-friendly, well-organized way. With a clear mission to make his information not only helpful, but entertaining and attractive as well, each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of understanding deer. The clear, detailed table of contents...
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by Bill Sarpalius
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018

As a boy in Houston, Bill Sarpalius, his brothers, and their mother lived an itinerant life. Bill dug food out of trashcans, and he and his brothers moved from one school to the next. They squatted in a vacant home while their mother, affectionately called “Honey,” battled alcoholism and suicidal...
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Without Getting Killed or Caught

The Life and Music of Guy Clark

by Tamara Saviano
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016

Winner, 2016 the Belmont Book Award, Sponsored by the International Country Music Conference For more than forty years, Guy Clark wrote and recorded unforgettable songs. His lyrics and melodies paint indelible portraits of the people, places, and experiences that shaped him. He has served as...
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I'll Be Here in the Morning

The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt

by Brian T. Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011

The writer of such influential songs as “Pancho and Lefty,” “To Live’s to Fly,” “If I Needed You,” and “For the Sake of the Song,” Townes Van Zandt exerted an influence on at least two generations of Texas musicians that belies his relatively brief, deeply troubled life. Indeed,...
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Commander and Builder of Western Forts

The Life and Times of Major General Henry C. Merriam, 1862-1901

by Jack Stokes Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012

  During his thirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to prominence in the Western army, and exerted significant influence on the American West by establishing military posts, protecting rail lines,...
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Mighty, Mighty Matadors

Estacado High School, Integration, and a Championship Season

by Al Pickett
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Strongly inviting comparisons with the movie Remember the Titans, this book by veteran sports journalist and author Al Pickett is an inspiring, insider account of the Lubbock Estacado Matadors, who came together for love of a sport to become Texas State AAA High School football champions in their...
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by Kenneth Hafertepe
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015

This richly illustrated book tracks the evolution of Fredericksburg architecture and guides readers through the streets of this once-westernmost German settlement in America, pointing out the log, fachwerk, and stone buildings that housed the town’s full-time residents, its weekenders, and the businesses...
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Columns to Characters

The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age

by Peter Baker, Martha Joynt Kumar, Rita Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter...
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St. Philip's College

A Point of Pride on San Antonio's Eastside

by Marie Pannell Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013

In 1898, St. Philip’s Normal and Industrial School opened its doors in San Antonio, offering sewing classes for black girls. It was the inaugural effort in a program, founded by the West Texas diocese of the Episcopal Church, to educate and train former slaves and other African Americans in that...
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by Kate Sayen Kirkland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire client William Marsh Rice had died unexpectedly in New York City. Baker rushed to New York, where he unraveled a plot to murder Rice and plunder his estate....
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by J. Luz Sáenz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

“I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty.” Thus José de la Luz Sáenz ends his account of his military service in France and Germany in 1918. Published in Spanish in 1933, his annotated book of diary...
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Militarizing the Border

When Mexicans Became the Enemy

by Miguel Antonio Levario
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. Militarizing...
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Hillingdon Ranch

Four Seasons, Six Generations

by David K Langford, Lorie Woodward Cantu
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

In 1885, San Antonio architect Alfred Giles began buying the land that would become Hillingdon Ranch, eventually accumulating 13,000 acres near the town of Comfort in Kendall County. As the property passed to succeeding generations, the holdings got smaller, and more family members shared a stake in...
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When Things Went Right

The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration

by Hon. Chase Untermeyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

When Things Went Right is a colorful and insightful portrait of Washington at the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era (November 1980–March 1983) as lived and recorded by an insider in his personal journal. Chase Untermeyer was a Texas state legislator and former journalist when called to national...
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