Trinity University Press: 154 books

Cover of The WPA Guide to Maryland

The WPA Guide to Maryland

The Old Line State

by Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 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...
Cover of Dreaming Red

Dreaming Red

Creating ArtPace

by Linda Pace, Jan Jarboe Russell, Eleanor Heartney
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014

Since its founding in 1993 by the late Pace Foods heiress Linda Pace, Artpace has become one of the premiere foundations for contemporary art. An artist residency program based in San Antonio, Texas, Artpace's goal is to give artists time and space in which to imagine new ways to work. Each year, nine...
Cover of The WPA Guide to Wyoming

The WPA Guide to Wyoming

The Cowboy State

by Federal Writers' Project
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...
Cover of The WPA Guide to Alaska

The WPA Guide to Alaska

The Last Frontier State

by Federal Writers' Project
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...
Cover of The WPA Guide to Nevada

The WPA Guide to Nevada

The Silver State

by Federal Writers' Project
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...
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In the Country of Empty Crosses

The Story of a Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico

by Arturo Madrid, Miguel Gandert
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012

Arturo’s Madrid’s homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This New Mexico is a land of struggle and dispute,...
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Terra Antarctica

Looking into the Emptiest Continent

by William Fox
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011

How does the human mind transform space into place, or land into landscape? For more than three decades, William L. Fox has looked at empty landscapes and the role of the arts to investigate the way humans make sense of space. In Terra Antarctica, Fox continues this line of inquiry as he travels to...
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One-Way Tickets

Writers and the Culture of Exile

by Alicia Borinsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012

In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and language, and the brilliant works produced under the discomforts...
Cover of Literary Washington, D.C.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012

The public face of Washington-the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," the monumental buildings of the Triangle-rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life. But, beneath the surface there are countless...
Cover of Stealing History
by Gerald Stern
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012

In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling pieces that constitute a kind of diary of a mind, Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical. Creating...
Cover of The WPA Guide to Utah

The WPA Guide to Utah

The Beehive State

by Federal Writers' Project
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...
Cover of Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book
by Dean Young, Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011

Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and...
Cover of Saving Creation

Saving Creation

Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III

by Christopher J. Preston
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011

Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the “father of environmental ethics.” Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in evolutionary biology and Christianity, Rolston has followed an immensely interesting life course. In this compelling biography, Rolston’s story is traced...
Cover of The Ranch That Was Us
by Becky Crouch Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

Braiding strands of earthen insight with uproarious storytelling, Texas Hill Country legendary author Becky Patterson recreates the history of the Steiler Hill Ranch in twenty-four anecdotal chapters interspersed with original artwork. The result is a mixture of memoir and montage, treasure chest and...
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