Trinity University Press: 154 books
Talking on the Water
Conversations about Nature and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
During the 1980s and 1990s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and artists from a broad array of disciplines. Over a period of ten years, White conducted interviews with the writers, scientists,...
I've Heard the Vultures Singing
Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself on daring solo skis down the wild slopes of Mount Rainier, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was in her thirties. I've Heard the Vultures Singing...
The Jane Effect
Celebrating Jane Goodall
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
In her nearly sixty-year career as a groundbreaking primatologist and a passionate conservationist, Jane Goodall has touched the hearts of millions of people. The Jane Effect: Celebrating Jane Goodall is a collection of testimonies by her friends and colleagues honoring her as a scientific pioneer, an...
On the Edge
Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Char Miller examines this borderland region through a native's eyes and contemplates its considerable conflicts. Internal to the various US states and Mexico's northern tier,...
Home Ground
Language for an American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly complex and often disturbing natural world...
Dream Song
The Life of John Berryman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Dream Song is the story of John Berryman, one of the most gifted poets of a generation that included Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Dylan Thomas. Using Berryman's unpublished letters and poetry, as well as interviews with those who knew him intimately, Paul Mariani captures...
The Osage Orange Tree
A Story by William Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The Osage Orange Tree, a never-before-published story by beloved poet William Stafford, is about young love complicated by misunderstanding and the insecurity of adolescence, set against the backdrop of poverty brought on by the Great Depression. The narrator recalls a girl he once knew. He and Evangeline,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
In this eclectic anthology, more than 20 scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen practitioners, attest to how paying attention to nature can be a healing antidote to the hectic and harrying pace of our lives. Throughout this provocative and uplifting book, writers describe their various experiences...
The Burning Island
Myth and History of the Hawaiian Volcano Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Westerners-from early missionaries to explorers to present-day artists, scientists, and tourists-have always found volcanoes fascinating and disturbing. Native Hawaiians, in contrast, revere volcanoes as a source of spiritual energy and see the volcano goddess Pele as part of the natural cycle of a continuously...
River of Traps
A New Mexico Mountain Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures - Hispanic and Anglo - meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s,...
Animal Amigos!
Artsy Creatures in English y Español
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
What better way to learn animal names than with eye-catching works of art. With work from across Latin America and beyond, children will become armchair world travelers and art connoisseurs. This bilingual edition introduces early readers, and earlier listeners, to animals in both English and Spanish.
Hello, Círculos!
Shapes in English y Español
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
What better way to learn shapes than with eye-catching works of art? With art from across Latin America and beyond, children will become armchair world travelers and art connoisseurs. This bilingual edition introduces early readers, and even earlier listeners, to shapes in both English and Spanish.
1, 2, 3, SÍ!
Numbers in English y Español
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
What better way to learn how to count than with eye-catching works of art? From fanciful folk Mexican puppets, Egyptian eyes, and lively masks to golden antiquities, Olmec era sculpture, and European paintings, children will become armchair world travelers while being introduced to the world of art and...