University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Border Healing Woman
The Story of Jewel Babb as told to Pat LittleDog (second edition)
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
The story of Jewel Babb, from her early years as a tenderfoot ranch wife to her elder years as a desert healing woman, has enthralled readers since Border Healing Woman was first published in 1981. In this second edition, Pat LittleDog adds an epilogue to conclude the story, describing the mixed blessings that publicity brought to Jewel Babb before her death in 1991.
The Herb Garden Cookbook
The Complete Gardening and Gourmet Guide, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Indulge your senses with the lively flavors, vivid colors, and tantalizing aromas of fresh herbs. This comprehensive guide gives you creative, festive recipes as well as valuable gardening information. With Lucinda Hutson's expert advice you'll discover how to:Grow robust and flavorful herbs using...
by J. Robert Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
We drive cars with "Save the Whales" bumper stickers, buy aerosol sprays that advertise "no chlorofluorocarbons," and wear T-shirts made from organically grown cotton. All of these "earth friendly" choices and products convince us that we are "thinking globally,...
Making Ecuadorian Histories
Four Centuries of Defining Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In Ecuador, as in all countries, archaeology and history play fundamental roles in defining national identity. Connecting with the prehistoric and historic pasts gives the modern state legitimacy and power. But the state is not the only actor that lays claim to the country's archaeological patrimony,...
I Ask for Justice
Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Given Guatemala’s record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their grievances...
The Teabo Manuscript
Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Among the surviving documents from the colonial period in Mexico are rare Maya-authored manuscript compilations of Christian texts, translated and adapted into the Maya language and worldview, which were used to evangelize the local population. The Morely Manuscript is well known to scholars, and now...
The Magic Key
The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Mexican Americans comprise the largest subgroup of Latina/os, and their path to education can be a difficult one. Yet just as this group is often marginalized, so are their stories, and relatively few studies have chronicled the educational trajectory of Mexican American men and women. In this interdisciplinary...
When Writing Met Art
From Symbol to Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
From the New York Times review of the Dallas Opera's performance of Orlando furioso and the international symposium on Baroque opera: ". . . it was a serious, thoughtful, consistent and imaginative realization of a beautiful, long-neglected work, one that fully deserved all the loving attention it received....
Spectatorship
Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Media platforms continually evolve, but the issues surrounding media representations of gender and sexuality have persisted across decades. Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism has published groundbreaking articles on gender and sexuality, including...
Brought to You By
Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
This book is a history of how television advertising rose to become a defining force in American culture in the two decades after World War II.
The Lieutenant Nun
Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastián, dressed as a man, and, in her own words, "went hither and thither, embarked, went into port, took to roving, slew, wounded, embezzled, and roamed about."...
Americans All
Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Cultural diplomacy—"winning hearts and minds" through positive portrayals of the American way of life—is a key element in U.S. foreign policy, although it often takes a backseat to displays of military might. Americans All provides an in-depth, fine-grained study of a particularly successful instance...