Texas A M University Press: 358 books
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley
Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border. Bisected by the international boundary line, the valley drew American investors determined to harness the nearby...
by Matthew Minson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Do you really need to pay that outstanding balance with the hospital? Do you know the differences between a nurse practitioner, a physician’s assistant, a physician, and a paramedic? Did you realize that not all hospitals can treat your stroke, heart attack, or trauma with equal speed and effectiveness?...
by Wallace J. Nichols, Brad Nahill, Melissa Gaskill
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Sea turtle populations around the world are endangered, and in recent years tourism has been a critical element in worldwide efforts to save them. More travelers seek meaningful experiences that bring them close to nature and wildlife, and opportunities to interact with and help sea turtles now exist...
Del Pueblo
A History of Houston's Hispanic Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Though relatively small in number until the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Houston'sHispanic population possesses a rich and varied history that has previously not been readily associated in the popular imagination with Houston. However, in 1989, the first edition of Thomas H. Kreneck’s Del...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant nation.
As Transnational Indians in the North American West...
Synchronicity
Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at
http://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/88024/Cambray_Synchronicity_9781603441438_txt.pdf?sequence=4
In 1952 C. G. Jung published a paradoxical hypothesis on synchronicity that marked an attempt to expand the western world’s...
Mesquite
History, Growth, Biology, Uses, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Global problem or treasure? This question has accompanied the widespread and controversial mesquite tree wherever it grows and is studied around the world. In this comprehensive reference to the genus Prosopis, rangeland scientist Rodney Bovey has gathered and synthesized years of research in a book...
by Dr. Ann Belford Ulanov
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Analyst and author Ann Belford Ulanov draws on her years of clinical work and reflection to make the point that madness and creativity share a kinship, an insight that shakes both analysand and analyst to the core, reminding us as it does that the suffering places of the human psyche are inextricably—and,...
by Roel R. Lopez, Michael L. Morrison, Israel D. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This introductory textbook to wildlife habitat ecology and management offers students and practitioners the basic tools to understand, plan, implement, measure, analyze, and document efforts to improve habitat for wildlife.
Providing a step-by-step guide that is adaptable to a range of environmental...
White-Tailed Deer Habitat
Ecology and Management on Rangelands
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
The original, 2006 edition of Timothy Edward Fulbright and J. Alfonso Ortega-S.’s White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands was hailed as “a splendid reference for the classroom and those who make their living from wildlife and the land” and as “filling a niche that is...
by Matthew Green, Daniel Martinez, Jeremy Slack
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The “American Dream” means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility. Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes,...
Photographing Big Bend National Park
A Friendly Guide to Great Images
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
With its combination of desert and mountain landscapes, the dramatic canyons of the Rio Grande, ancient pictographs, and remnants of pioneer ranch life, Big Bend National Park presents a wealth of subjects to the photographic eye. Add early morning and late evening sunlight, summer thunderstorms,...
Race?
Debunking a Scientific Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race.
To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical...
Forty Years Master
A Life in Sail and Steam
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Winner, 2016 the John Lyman Book Award, sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History.
During Daniel O. Killman’s more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide,...