University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by Donald C. Hodges
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Formal anarchist organizations disappeared in Mexico after the 1910 Revolution, but anarchist principles survive in the popular resistance movements against the post-revolutionary governments. In this book, Donald Hodges offers the first comprehensive treatment of the intellectual foundations, history,...
Montana Ghost Dance
Essays on Land and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Montana has been the "last best place" for so many people. A century ago, Native Americans gathered here to perform the Ghost Dance-a last, doomed attempt to make white settlers vanish and bring back the old ways of life. Today, people are still pouring into Montana, looking for the pristine wilderness...
Watching the Traffic Go By
Transportation and Isolation in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
As twentieth-century city planners invested in new transportation systems to deal with urban growth, they ensured that the automobile rather than mass transit would dominate transportation. Combining an exploration of planning documents, sociological studies, and popular culture, Paul Fotsch shows...
Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
Gender, Law, and Economy in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What did it mean to be a woman in colonial Spanish America? Given the many advances in women's rights since the nineteenth century, we might assume that colonial women had few rights and were fully subordinated to male authority in the family and in society—but we'd be wrong. In this provocative study,...
Border Contraband
A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande...
Brazilians Working With Americans/Brasileiros que trabalham com americanos
Cultural Case Studies/Estudos de casos culturais
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Doing business internationally requires understanding not only other languages, but even more so the business practices and cultures of other countries. In the case of Brazilians working with Americans, a fundamental difference for all parties to understand is that Brazilian business culture is based...
by Joseph J. Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Many language books are boring—this one is not. Written by a native English speaker who learned Spanish the hard way—by trying to talk to Spanish-speaking people—it offers English speakers with a basic knowledge of Spanish hundreds of tips for using the language more fluently and colloquially,...
Remembering the Hacienda
Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa—Quichua-speaking indigenous people—worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. In Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change...
Organic Management for the Professional
The Natural Way for Landscape Architects and Contractors, Commercial Growers, Golf Course Managers, Park Administrators, Turf Managers, and Other Stewards of the Land
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Can you manage the landscape of a golf course, city park, or corporate campus without synthetic fertilizers and toxic pesticides? Absolutely! Organic landscaping is not only possible on a large scale, but it also makes sense both economically and environmentally. It promotes healthy soils and plants,...
Organic Lawn Care
Growing Grass the Natural Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
A lush green lawn is one of the great pleasures of the natural world, whether it's right outside your front door or on a majestic fairway at a legendary golf course. But anyone who has tried to grow the perfect lawn the conventional way knows it requires an endless cycle of watering and applying synthetic...
Spanish Memory Book
A New Approach to Vocabulary Building
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Using mnemonics is an age-old technique for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. In Spanish Memory Book, William Harrison and Dorothy Welker offer original mnemonic rimes that are by turns amusing, ironic, pathetic, sentimental, and sardonic to help students and independent learners acquire...
Science among the Ottomans
The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Scholars have long thought that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval era, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and technologically isolated, losing interest in innovation and placing the empire on a path toward stagnation and decline. Science among the Ottomans challenges this widely accepted...
The Okapi
Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Congo-Zaire contains Africa's largest remaining tracts of intact rain forest, making it one of the most important regions for biodiversity conservation. Its Ituri Forest is home to plants and animals native to nowhere else on earth, including the elusive and little-known okapi.In this popularly written...
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater
Artistic Developments in the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
From "green" pop and "clean" cinema to halal songs, Islamic soaps, Muslim rap, Islamist fantasy serials, and Suficized music, the performing arts have become popular and potent avenues for Islamic piety movements, politically engaged Islamists, Islamic states, and moderate believers to propagate their...