Trinity University Press: 154 books
The WPA Guide to Georgia
The Peach State
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...
Deep in the Heart of San Antonio
Land and Life in South Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Char Miller's collection of essays provides an insightful survey of San Antonio and South Texas. The essays are grouped into six thematic sections: an overview; natural and environmental history; water issues; urban development; politics; and the city's future. Miller describes the First Friday Art Walks...
José María de Jesús Carvajal
The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Both a biography of the titular Mexican reformer and a study of the events that shaped the Mexican-U.S. border, this book examines the challenges faced by Carvajal during the turbulent decades of the early to mid-19th century. A key figure in the violent struggle against the conservative factions that...
Tides
The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide;...
In the Sun's House
My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community-those on the reservation assumed...
Wisdom for a Livable Planet
The Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Forn
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The author profiles the work of eight visionaries who have dedicated their lives to various environmental issues. Each story provides a portrait of an individual's valiant and inspiring campaign to improve the conditions for life on our planet. Taken together, the work of these people points the way...
Green Laurels
The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In Green Laurels, Donald Culross Peattie combines his extensive knowledge of history's foremost naturalists with his personal observations about the subject to form what the New York Herald Tribune calls "a delightful book...one would not wish to miss on any account." This piece is accurate and precise...
Getting to Grey Owl
Journeys on Four Continents
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Writer, teacher, and adventurer Kurt Caswell has spent his adult life canoeing, hiking, and pedaling his way toward a deeper understanding of our vast and varied world. Getting to Grey Owl: A Man's Journey across Four Continents chronicles over twenty years of Caswell’s travels as he buys a rug...
by Donald Culross Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Flowering Earth is an extraordinary work in which Peattie explores the origin and significance of plant life with an unmatched sense of astonishment and reflection. According to The New York Times, his prose in Flowering Earth is pervaded by a continuous sense of beauty and illuminative insight,”...
A Muse and a Maze
Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
With his characteristic genius for finding connections between writing and the stuff of our lives, Peter Turchi ventures into new and even more surprising territory. In A Muse and a Maze, Turchi draws out the similarities between writing and puzzle-making and its flip-side, puzzle-solving. As he teases...
The WPA Guide to Tennessee
The Volunteer 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...
The WPA Guide to Kentucky
The Bluegrass 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...
Spurs Nation
Major Moments in San Antonio Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
From the Memorial Day Miracle to coach Gregg Popovich's legendary leadership to winning five NBA championships, the San Antonio Spurs have brought excitement to the Alamo City and the greater NBA family since 1976. As the team with the most rabid and loyal fan base in basketball history, Spurs Nation...
San Antonio 1718
Art from Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Three hundred years ago San Antonio was founded as a strategic outpost of presidios and missions on the edge of northern New Spain, imposing Spanish political and religious principles on this contested, often hostile region. The city’s many Catholic missions bear architectural witness to the time...