University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
by Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Tatiana Proskouriakoff, a preeminent student of the Maya, made many breakthroughs in deciphering Maya writing, particularly in demonstrating that the glyphs record the deeds of actual human beings, not gods or priests. This discovery opened the way for a history of the Maya, a monumental task that Proskouriakoff...
Private Property and the Endangered Species Act
Saving Habitats, Protecting Homes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Our whole nation benefits from the preservation of natural habitats and their diversity of animal and plant species—yet small groups of private landowners often bear most of the costs of setting land aside for conservation purposes. This imbalance has generated many conflicts since the passage of...
David Lynch Swerves
Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Beginning with Lost Highway, director David Lynch “swerved” in a new direction, one in which very disorienting images of the physical world take center stage in his films. Seeking to understand this unusual emphasis in his work, noted Lynch scholar Martha Nochimson engaged Lynch in a long conversation...
by Pamela I. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Preventing teen pregnancy has become a national goal, but a one-size-fits-all strategy for achieving it may never be found. Because varying social and cultural factors lead to pregnancy among different ethnic/class groups, understanding these factors is essential in designing pregnancy prevention programs...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
This volume presents significant developments in the field of Montague Grammar and outlines its past and future contributions to philosophy and linguistics. The contents are as follows:Introduction by Steven Davis and Marianne MithunEmmon Bach, "Montague Grammar and Classical Transformational Grammar"Barbara...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In 1981, under the editorship of Victoria Bricker, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work Handbook of Middle American Indians. These supplements are intended to update scholarship in various areas and to cover topics of current interest that may not have been...
Citizen's Primer for Conservation Activism
How to Fight Development in Your Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Is there anything you can do when development threatens your local forest, beach, prairie, or wetland? Yes, there is. Across America, citizen activists are fighting and winning battles against unwanted development in their own communities. To help you resist the urban sprawl and absentee landowners that...
Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes
A Guided Tour across a Decade of American Independent Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The legendary figure who launched the careers of Spike Lee, Michael Moore, and Richard Linklater offers a no-holds-barred look at the deals and details that propel an indie film from a dream to distribution.
by Ben Brady, Lance Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
This unique, comprehensive introduction to screenwriting offers practical advice for the beginning writer, whether college student or freelancer. Based on their experience as professional writers and as teachers in a large, successful screenwriting program at California State University, Northridge,...
History and Silence
Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
"It is so rare and refreshing to read a Roman history book which recognizes and celebrates the sheer difficulty of writing history, and the vulnerability of each solution." —Times Literary Supplement "This is one of the most interesting and original books about the Later Roman Empire that I have ever...
Preparing the Mothers of Tomorrow
Education and Islam in Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
From the late nineteenth century onward, men and women throughout the Middle East discussed, debated, and negotiated the roles of young girls and women in producing modern nations. In Palestine, girls' education was pivotal to discussions about motherhood. Their education was seen as having the potential...
Water and Light
A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992.
by June Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In this inviting guide, June Osborne and Barbara Garland follow a year in the life of the Northern Cardinal with a fact-filled text and glowing color photographs. They describe how cardinals stake out territory and choose mates, find a nesting site and incubate their eggs, feed the young and prepare...
The Cradle of Erewhon
Samuel Butler in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In 1859, Samuel Butler, a young Cantabrigian out of joint with his family, with the church, and with the times, left England to hew out his own path in New Zealand. At the end of just five years he returned, with a modest fortune in money and an immense fortune in ideas. For out of this self-imposed...