Texas A M University Press: 358 books
Tattooed on My Soul
Texas Veterans Remember World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
For more than forty years the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University has dutifully gathered the flesh-and-blood memories of the World War II generation in the state of Texas.
Tattooed on My Soul brings together seventeen of the most compelling narratives from Baylor’s extensive collection...
by Loren K. Ammerman, Christine L. Hice, David J. Schmidly
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
With all new illustrations, color photographs, revised species accounts, updated maps, and a sturdy flexible binding, this new edition of the authoritative guide to bats in Texas will serve as the field guide and all-around reference of choice for amateur naturalists as well as mammalogists, wildlife...
by James B. Blackburn Jr., Jim Olive
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
In a dazzling tribute to the Texas coast, conservationist and lawyer Jim Blackburn has teamed with photographer Jim Olive to give us the most intimate and important portrait yet of Texas bays and of those who work for their wise use and preservation. While giving life and sustenance to plants, animals,...
The Texas Landscape Project
Nature and People
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
The Texas Landscape Project explores conservation and ecology in Texas by presenting a highly visual and deeply researched view of the widespread changes that have affected the state as its population and economy have boomed and as Texans have worked ever harder to safeguard its bountiful but limited...
Lost, Texas
Photographs of Forgotten Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
In Lost, Texas: Photographs of Forgotten Buildings, Bronson Dorsey takes us on a tour of old, abandoned buildings in Texas that evoke the mystique of bygone days and shifting population patterns. With a skilled photographer’s eye, he captures the character of these buildings, mostly tucked away...
Living Witness
Historic Trees of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
In a beautiful tribute to the natural heritage of the Lone Star State, photographer Ralph Yznaga celebrates the strong connections between Texans and their trees. Inspired by the old Texas Forest Service book, Famous Trees of Texas, Yznaga has captured the continuing attachment we have to these...
Herping Texas
The Quest for Reptiles and Amphibians
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Coiled beneath discarded trash or rocky slabs, basking along river edges, and tucked into rock cuts beside the highway, reptiles and amphibians constantly surround us. While many people go out of their way to avoid snakes or shudder at the thought of touching a toad, herpers take to the field armed...
Texas Seashells
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Walking along the beach and picking up seashells is a favorite pastime enjoyed by millions of people every year. This field guide covers three hundred of the better-known or more common seashells found on Texas coastlines, and anyone interested in identifying and collecting shells along Texas bays...
Undaunted
A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Elise Waerenskjold is known to fans of Texas women writers as "the lady with the pen," from the title of a book of her writings. A forward-looking journalist, she sent letters and articles back to Norway that encouraged others to follow her footsteps to Texas, where a small colony of Norwegian...
The Blues Come to Texas
Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick's Unfinished Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
From October 1959 until the mid-1970s, Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick collaborated on what they hoped to be a definitive history and analysis of the blues in Texas. Both were prominent scholars and researchers—Oliver had already established an impressive record of publications, and McCormick was...
Outsider Art in Texas
Lone Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Texas looms large: big skies, vast plains, large cities. The Lone Star State often inspires a heightened sense of place in its citizens that rivals or surpasses that of New Yorkers. This is frequently reflected in the art of Texas—paintings of bluebonnet fields, longhorn cattle, and scenes from...
Faded Glory
A Century of Forgotten Military Sites in Texas, Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Each of the wars fought by Texans spawned the creation of scores of military sites across the state, from the lonely frontier outpost at Adobe Walls to the once-bustling World War II shipyards of Orange. Today, although vestiges of the sites still exist, many are barely discernible, their once-proud...
Austin to ATX
The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers, and Geeks Who Transformed the Capital of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
In this gonzo history of the “City of the Violet Crown,” author and journalist Joe Nick Patoski chronicles the modern evolution of the quirky, bustling, funky, self-contradictory place known as Austin, Texas. Patoski describes the series of cosmic accidents that tossed together a mashup of outsiders,...
by Cary D. Wintz, Larry P. Knight, Kenneth W. Howell
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The history of South Texas is more racially and ethnically complex than many people realize. As a border area, South Texas has experienced some especially interesting forms of racial and ethnic intersection, influenced by the relatively small number of blacks (especially in certain counties), the...