Texas A M University Press: 358 books
The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context
An Archaeological Find and Its Mediterranean Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
When Shelley Wachsmann began his analysis of the small ship model excavated by assistants of famed Egyptologist W. M. F. Petrie in Gurob, Egypt, in 1920, he expected to produce a brief monograph that would shed light on the model and the ship type that it represented. Instead, Wachsmann discovered...
by Randall James Sasaki
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire, Randall Sasaki provides a starting point for understanding the technology of the failed Mongol invasion of Japan in 1281 CE, as well as the history of shipbuilding in East Asia. He has created a timber category database, analyzed methods of joinery,...
Glorious Gulf of Mexico
Life Below the Blue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Stunned by widespread ignorance about the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Macondo oil spill, underwater photographer Jesse Cancelmo decided to turn his camera on the marine life of this 600,000 square mile international sea that connects five US states, six Mexican states, and the island nation...
by Quinn Dombrowski
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Drupal is a free and open-source content management framework. It is, like many web platforms, the “backbone” behind a website, invisible to front-end users but critical to the foundation, organization, and presentation of content. As more scholars and students seek to make their research available...
Migration-Trust Networks
Social Cohesion in Mexican US-Bound Emigration
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In an important new application of sociological theories, Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal offers fresh insights into the ways in which social networks function among immigrants who arrive in the United States from Mexico without legal documentation. She asks and examines important questions about the commonalities...
Woman President
Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imagining—and thus, the electing—of a woman as president? Examining both major-party and third-party campaigns by women, including the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, the authors of Woman President: Confronting...
Coffins of the Brave
Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
In Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812, archaeologist Kevin J. Crisman and his fellow contributors examine sixteen different examples of 1812-era naval and commercial shipbuilding. They range from four small prewar vessels to four 16- or 20-gun brigs, three warships of much greater...
Born on the Island
The Galveston We Remember
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In sixty-seven exquisite watercolors and drawings, nationally famous architect Eugene Aubry captures on paper the sensibilities, the memories, and the grace that evokes Galveston, especially for those who are BOI (“born on the island”). Commissioned by the Galveston Historical Foundation, these...
Clovis
On the Edge of a New Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
New research and the discovery of multiple archaeological sites predating the established age of Clovis (13,000 years ago) provide evidence that the Americas were first colonized at least one thousand to two thousand years before Clovis. These revelations indicate to researchers that the peopling...
Pandas to Penguins
Ethical Encounters with Animals at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Perhaps nothing about nature calls to us as deeply as wild animals. To see an enormous whale leaping out of the water, the eerily human eyes of a gorilla, or the comical waddle of a penguin; to hear the ethereal howl of a wolf or majestic roar of a lion—these experiences change us. Around the world,...
Turmoil on the Rio Grande
History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations.
When Mexican...
by Terry C. Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Concho Valley, named from the abundant mussel shells found in its principal river by seventeenth-century Spanish explorers, occupies a transitional position between the Chihuahuan Desert to the west and the Balcones Canyonlands to the east. As veteran field biologist and educator Terry C. Maxwell...
by Richard A. Davis Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Much of the world’s population lives within thirty miles of a coast, and beaches are perhaps the most popular tourist destinations worldwide. The Gulf of Mexico is no exception: Millions of people make their homes nearby, and many of them spend considerable time at the beach, joined by millions...
by Richard A. Boisvert, James W. Bradley, John G. Crock
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The Far Northeast, a peninsula incorporating the six New England states, New York east of the Hudson, Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Maritime Provinces, provided the setting for a distinct chapter in the peopling of North America. Late Pleistocene Archaeology...