University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
Regulation in the White House
The Johnson Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Regulation in the White House is an examination of regulatory policy and its development in the Johnson administration and the first comprehensive study of any presidency and regulation. Based upon a thorough analysis of presidential papers in the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, the book investigates the...
Danger Pay
Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
"You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and other publications. In this intensely thoughtful memoir, Spencer Mitchell probes the motivations that impelled her, a single, Jewish woman, to document...
by B.C. Robison
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
No matter where you see birds in the city—in parks or woodlands, on power lines or in parking lots—they are the natural soul of the urban landscape. They enhance the city and the lives of those who watch them. Nature writer B. C. Robison and wildlife photographer John Tveten have teamed up to produce...
Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez
The Rocky-Shore Fishes of the Gulf of California, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
First published in 1979, this guide has become the standard resource for scientists, divers, and spearfishers interested in the fishes of the tropical Pacific Coast. The authors have revised and updated this edition to include the most current taxonomic information, additional species descriptions, and new illustrations.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 10 and 11
Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 and3
Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Sista, Speak!
Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts...
Vietnam Veteranos
Chicanos Recall the War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
One of the most decorated groups that served in the Vietnam War, Chicanos fought and died in numbers well out of proportion to their percentage of the United States' population. Yet despite this, their wartime experiences have never received much attention in either popular media or scholarly studies....
by Thad M. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Bulb gardening in the southwestern and southern United States presents challenges unknown in cooler climates. Bulbs that turn Holland into a kaleidoscope of color droop and fade in our mild winters, hot summers, and uncertain rainfall. Yet hundreds of native and naturalized species of bulbs thrive in...
e-mail trouble
love and addiction @ the matrix
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
In this daring, postmodern autobiography, S. Paige Baty recounts her search for love and community on the Internet. Taking Jack Kerouac's On the Road as a point of departure, Baty describes both an actual road trip to meet the object of an e-mail romance and the cyber-search for connection that draws...
by Josh Ozersky
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars’ worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person—Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside café in Corbin, Kentucky, Harland Sanders...
Merle Haggard
The Running Kind
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Merle Haggard has enjoyed artistic and professional triumphs few can match. He’s charted more than a hundred country hits, including thirty-eight number ones. He’s released dozens of studio albums and another half dozen or more live ones, performed upwards of ten thousand concerts, been inducted...
John Prine
In Spite of Himself
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs “ Angel from Montgomery,” “ Sam Stone,” and “ Paradise” to the classic country music parody “ You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” John Prine is a songwriter’s songwriter. Across five decades, Prine has created critically acclaimed...
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Life of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has held pivotal roles in the evolution and revolutions of modern Latin American literature. Perhaps surprisingly, no complete history of Vargas Llosa's works, placed in biographical and historical context,...