Texas A M University Press: 358 books
Building an Ark for Texas
The Evolution of a Natural History Museum
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Recounted through the eyes of a major participant, this book tells the story of the Dallas Museum of Natural History from its beginning in 1922 as a collection of specimens celebrating the plants and animals of Texas to its metamorphosis in 2012 as the gleaming Perot Museum of Nature and Science....
Caddo
Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In a stunning tribute to one of Texas’ most enigmatic waterways, a veteran East Texas historian and a professional photographer have together created an homage to a lake like no other—half Texas, half Louisiana, a swampy labyrinth of bald cypress and water plants filled with mystery, legend, and...
by David K Langford, Rick Bass, Myrna Langford
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
While fog does not come easily or frequently to Central Texas, when it does, it inspires moments of quiet and reflection. David K. Langford captures those moments here in stirring images of the comings and goings of fog on Hillingdon Ranch, family land that has benefited from the stewardship of six...
Rice University
One Hundred Years in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
“From its founding, Rice University has been an institution devoted to making a strong impact on the world,” according to current president David Leebron. Nestled near Houston’s cultural heart, Rice University is characterized by seriousness of purpose as well as by such quirky traditions as...
Fire in the Sea
Bioluminescence and Henry Compton's Art of the Deep
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet’s strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry “Hank” Compton (1928–2005) of the Texas Parks...
by Wes Ferguson, Jacob Croft Botter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
For eighty-seven miles, the swift and shallow Blanco River winds through the Texas Hill Country. Its water is clear and green, darkened by frequent pools. Wes Ferguson and Jacob Botter have paddled, walked, and waded the Blanco. They have explored its history, people, wildlife, and the natural beauty...
The Color of Being/El Color del Ser
Dorothy Hood, 1918-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Born in Bryan, Texas, and raised in Houston, Dorothy Hood won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1930s, then worked as a model in New York to earn money for classes at the Art Students League. On a whim, she drove a roadster to Mexico City with friends in 1941 and ended...
Heads above Water
The Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Since the 1950s, competing interests for use of Edwards Aquifer resources—the primary source of water for more than two million people in south central Texas—were at war. They had tried many times to resolve their differences about how to conserve, allocate, and use the water, but had always failed.
Finally,...
La Belle
The Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Vessel of New World Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
In 1995, Texas Historical Commission underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of La Salle’s La Belle, remnant of an ill-fated French attempt to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River that landed instead along today’s Matagorda Bay in Texas. During 1996–1997, the Commission...
Secrets in the Dirt
Uncovering the Ancient People of Gault
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
The Gault archaeological complex, located in Central Texas, is one of the most important and extensive sites for the study of Clovis culture in North America, commonly dated between 11,000 and 13,500 years ago. Indeed, according to author Mary S. Black, recent discoveries at the site by veteran archaeologist...
by Sonia Hernández
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women’s labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women’s labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital...
by Arturo Longoria
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
More than two million acres of sand, born and blown from an ancient sea beginning about ten thousand years ago, stretch across eight counties in deep South Texas. Known as the Coastal Sand Plain, the Texas Coastal Sand Sheet, or just the Sand Sheet, it is a region of few people, little rainfall, and...
We Never Retreat
Filibustering Expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812-1822
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The term “filibuster” often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century—invasion of foreign lands by private military forces.
Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given...
Telling Border Life Stories
Four Mexican American Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEVoices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest....