Texas A M University Press: 358 books
Marfa Flights
Aerial Views of Big Bend Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Take an unforgettable sky excursion over Big Bend with photographer Paul Chaplo as he captures the shapes, textures, and colors of the craggy, weathered landforms people usually see only from the ground—and some places no photographer has gone before. Flying from Marfa, and hanging precariously...
An Anxious Peace
A Cold War Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
By any measure, Hans Mark was a warrior of the Cold War. Born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1929, he spent his early childhood in Vienna before escaping the Nazi Anschluss in 1938 and eventually emigrating to the United States, settling in New York. He graduated from high school in 1947, went west to attend...
The Broken Spoke
Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
James and Annetta White opened the Broken Spoke in 1964, then a mile south of the Austin city limits, under a massive live oak, and beside what would eventually become South Lamar Boulevard. White built the place himself, beginning construction on the day he received his honorable discharge from the...
by Warren Curtis Riess, Sheli O. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
In January 1982, archaeologists conducting a pre-construction excavation at 175 Water Street in Lower Manhattan found the remains of an eighteenth-century ship.
Uncertain of what they had found or what its value might be, they called in two nautical archaeologists—Warren Riess and Sheli...
Unprecedented Power
Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
As President Obama began to unveil sweeping government programs to restore the crippled economy, the public and media drew numerous comparisons with the actions of Franklin Roosevelt, who faced the grim prospects of the Great Depression almost eighty years earlier. Steven Fenberg tells the story of Jesse...
I've Been Out There
On the Road with Legends of Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
In the 1950s, as the leader of the Upsetters, the original backing band for rock pioneer Little Richard, Grady Gaines first exposed the music world to his unique brand of “honkin’,” bombastic, attitude-drenched saxophone playing.
In the years that followed, the Upsetters became the backing...
The Perfect Fence
Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became...
My Life in Progressive Politics
Against the Grain
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection—these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s.
In this timely memoir,...
by Leroy G. Dorsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Among Theodore Roosevelt’s many initiatives, one of the most important accomplishments was his effort to convince the nation that conserving the environment was crucial to its continued existence. Years of national tours, presidential edicts, and policy wrangling culminated in an unprecedented conference...
Wiki at War
Conflict in a Socially Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been branded “public enemy number one” by some in the United States for posting...
Fallen Stars
Five American Athletes Who Died in Military Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In the spring of 2002, motivated by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, National Football League stalwart Patrick Daniel Tillman turned down a multimillion-dollar contract to join the US Army. Two years later, he died while serving his country in the mountains of Afghanistan. In the process,...
Champion of the Barrio
The Legacy of Coach Buryl Baty
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Buryl Baty (1924–1954) was a winning athlete, coach, builder of men, and an early pioneer in the fight against bigotry. In 1950, Baty became head football coach at Bowie High School in El Paso and quickly inspired his athletes, all Mexican Americans from the Segundo Barrio, with his winning ways...
Feeding the World
Agricultural Research in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The astounding success of agricultural research has enabled farmers to produce increasingly more—and more kinds—of food throughout the world. But with a projected 9 billion people to feed by 2050, veteran researcher Gale Buchanan fears that human confidence in this ample supply, especially in...
Farming across Borders
A Transnational History of the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution,...