Trinity University Press: 154 books
Maximilian and Carlota
Europe's Last Empire in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
In this new telling of Mexico’s Second Empire and Louis Napoléon’s installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life.From 1861 to...
by Donald Culross Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
"A volume for a lifetime" is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining...
The WPA Guide to Colorado
The Highest 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 Montana
The Big Sky 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...
The WPA Guide to Arizona
The Grand Canyon 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 Idaho
The Gem 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 Oregon
The Beaver 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...
Hi Mom, Send Sheep!
My Life as the Coyote and After
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
At 47, Tim Derk had long been the San Antonio Spur’s crowd-pleasing Coyote and was widely regarded as the NBA’s funniest, most inventive mascot. Then, as the Spurs were headed toward their third championship, Derk suffered a massive stroke and his seemingly charmed existence was shattered. Here,...
Coming of Age at the End of Nature
A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity’s...
Moral Ground
Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Moral Ground brings together the testimony of over eighty visionaries-theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers-to present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibility to our planet....
by Donald Culross Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Cargoes and Harvests, famed naturalist Donald Culross Peattie’s first book, eloquently explores agriculture and trade within America’s past using thoughtful language that is well ahead of its time. Originally published in 1926, Peattie takes readers on a compelling adventure through the socioeconomic...
The Land's Wild Music
Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest William, and James Galvin
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
At the heart of The Land's Wild Music is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of place - Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin - author Mark Tredinnick considers how writers transmute the power of nature...
100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. In this family of two parent teachers, with its intermittent celebration of talking recklessly,” there was a code of...
Maps of the Imagination
The Writer as Cartographer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities. The author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices...