Trinity University Press: 154 books
Trinity University
A Tale of Three Cities
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Since its founding in 1869 by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Trinity University has been engaged in realizing the dreams of its founders to become a University of the highest order.” In Trinity University: A Tale of Three Cities, R. Douglas Brackenridge, professor emeritus of religion at...
by Trinity University Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Selections from Trinity University Press's best books of 2014. Includes excerpts from Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico by M. M. McAllen, The Osage Orange Tree by William Stafford and Dennis Cunningham, Early Morning by Kim Stafford, Outside by Barry Lopez and Barry Moser, Unchopping...
by Coleen Grissom
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
In a collection of musings that is as much historical record and a memoir, Coleen Grissom provides a unique view of life on and off an American university campus. As an administrator and faculty member at Trinity University in San Antonio for over five decades, Grissom has seen the feminist movement...
by Coleen Grissom
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
As an administrator and teacher at San Antonio's Trinity University for five decades, Coleen Grissom saw the rise of feminism, the sexual revolution, and the tragic deaths of students, friends, and family. This varied collection assembles the best of her speeches probing these and other timely issues,...
by Barry Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
The six stories in Outside show Barry Lopez’s majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our exterior and interior landscapes, these stories offer profound insight into the relationships between humans and...
The WPA Guide to Connecticut
The Constitution State
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the...
Words without Walls
Writers on Addiction, Violence, and Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Writing programs in prisons and rehabilitation centers have proven time and again to be transformative and empowering for people in need. Halfway houses, hospitals, and shelters are all fertile ground for healing through the imagination and can often mean the difference for inmates and patients between...
The WPA Guide to Alabama
The Camellia State
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the...
Death Watch
A View from the Tenth Decade
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Gerald Stern, National Book Award-winning poet, creates a powerful new prose book in his ninth decades, as he contemplates mortality. In his characteristic audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic style, Stern looks back at his life and forward to how he will end his days.
Will he...
The Shaping of Us
How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2019
Author went to Brown University
First edition published in the US
Author owns Space Works Consulting with offices in the Bay Area and the UK
Audience for book includes; Professors, graduate students, undergraduate students in these disciplines in Architecture, design, landscape...
San Antonio Uncovered
Fun Facts and Hidden Histories
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
It has been said that every Texan has two hometowns: his own and San Antonio. Its charm, colorful surroundings, and diverse cultures combine to make the Alamo City one of the most interesting places in Texas and the nation. In San Antonio Uncovered, Mark Rybczyk examines some of San Antonio’s legends...
Laika's Window
The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight...
Nobody Home
Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively-globally, locally, and in their personal lives-and these changing conditions...
A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape
Meditations on Ruin and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The title cloud of Matt Donovan’s A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape refers to the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that in 79 AD buried the city of Pompeii under twenty feet of ash. It’s no surprise, then, that Donovan found the sacred ruins a site of inspiration and power, using their legacy...