Texas A M University Press: 358 books

Cover of Birding Hot Spots of Santa Fe, Taos, and Northern New Mexico
by Judith Liddell, Barbara Hussey
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

In their second guide to birding in New Mexico, Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey share their experiences and intimate knowledge of the best places to find birds in and around Santa Fe and other areas in northern New Mexico. Following the same format as their book on the Albuquerque area, the...
Cover of The Cy Young Catcher
by Doug Wedge, Charlie O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015

During fifteen seasons in the major leagues, Charlie O’Brien was battery-mate to thirteen pitchers who won the Cy Young Award, presented each year by the Baseball Writers Association of America. To put that accomplishment in perspective, Hall of Fame catchers Johnny Bench and Yogi Berra each...
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Nature Watch Austin

Guide to the Seasons in an Urban Wildland

by Jim Weber, Lynne M. Weber
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011

Ducks in January . . . bats in March . . . rain lilies in April . . . meteors in August . . . the predictable appearance of fauna and flora allows humans to experience the natural cycles in the environment, no matter how urban the setting. In Nature Watch Austin, avid amateur naturalists Lynne and...
Cover of The Economics of Higher Education in the United States
by Jordan Hensley, Stanley N. Katz, Bruce A. Kimball
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019

In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students,...
Cover of Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015

Despite the obvious geographic importance of eastern Asia in human migration, its discussion in the context of the emergence and dispersal of modern humans has been rare. Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia focuses long-overdue scholarly attention on this under-studied...
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Chicana/o Struggles for Education

Activism in the Community

by Guadalupe San Miguel Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013

Much of the history of Mexican American educational reform efforts has focused on campaigns to eliminate discrimination in public schools. However, as historian Guadalupe San Miguel demonstrates in Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activisim in the Community, the story is much broader and more varied...
Cover of Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans
by Julie Leininger Pycior
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2014

The legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements. In Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans, Julie...
Cover of Wildlife Ecology and Management in Mexico
by Raul Valdez, Dr. José Alfonso Ortega-Santos
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019

Mexico is the fourteenth largest country in the world and ranks fifth in biodiversity. Located in the transition zone between the temperate and tropical regions of North and South America, Mexico is an important migratory corridor for wildlife and also provides wintering habitat for several species...
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Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone

Teaching, Writing, and Living above the Marcellus Shale

by James S. Guignard
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015

Before the dust settles, as many as 100,000 natural gas wells may be drilled into the Marcellus Shale on more than 20,000 well pads in Pennsylvania. Living on seven acres above the shale, Jimmy Guignard tells his story as an English professor grappling with the meaning of place and the power...
Cover of The Clinton Presidency and the Constitutional System
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

Presidential scholars, former and current policymakers, and a former president bring varied insights and analyses to consider the impact, influence, and legacy of the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, the “'New Democrat' from Hope, Arkansas." In the eight years between 1993 and...
Cover of Every Citizen a Soldier

Every Citizen a Soldier

The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World War II

by William A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Beginning in 1943, US Army leaders such as John M. Palmer, Walter L. Weible, George C. Marshall, and John J. McCloy mounted a sustained and vigorous campaign to establish a system of universal military training (UMT) in America. Fearful of repeating the rapid demobilization and severe budget cuts...
Cover of The Martial Imagination

The Martial Imagination

Cultural Aspects of American Warfare

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Martial experiences and the mythologies that surround them have profoundly affected the ways in which Americans think of themselves. Wars identify the heroes who help define national character, provide the stories for the grand narratives of belonging and sacrifice, and serve as markers for essential...
Cover of Native but Foreign

Native but Foreign

Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands

by Brenden W. Rensink
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018

Winner, 2019 Spur Award for Best Historical Nonfiction Book, sponsored by Western Writers of America In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining...
Cover of Geoarchaeology and Radiocarbon Chronology of Stone Age Northeast Asia
by Vladimir V. Pitul'ko, Elena Yu. Pavlova
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

This English translation of a work previously published in Russian (Geoarkheologiya i radiouglerodnaya khronologiya kamennogo veka Severo Vostochnoi Azii, St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2010) presents an overview of the Paleolithic archaeology of Northeast Asia, with emphasis on geoarchaeological and radiocarbon-based...
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