University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Life of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has held pivotal roles in the evolution and revolutions of modern Latin American literature. Perhaps surprisingly, no complete history of Vargas Llosa's works, placed in biographical and historical context,...
by John Valdimir Price
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Many of the seemingly bland assertions and bald statements of the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume contain more than the mind immediately perceives. Author John Valdimir Price contends that an understanding of Hume's writings cannot be separated from an understanding of his life. By examining...
Friedrich Schleiermacher
The Evolution of a Nationalist
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Nationalism was a driving, moving spirit in the nineteenth-century Germany of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Jerry F. Dawson, through his thoughtful and well-wrought study of Friedrich Schleiermacher, provides an insight into contemporary nationalistic movements and the people who have a part in them....
Vasconcelos of Mexico
Philosopher and Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
José Vasconcelos—lawyer, politician, writer, educator, philosopher, prophet, and mystic—was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the intellectual life of twentieth-century Mexico. Vasconcelos was driven by the desire to gain a complete and comprehensive vision of reality,...
The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One
How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In this expert insider’s account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs—in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of their industries—use to defraud companies for their personal gain. Recounting the investigations...
The Fifth Sun
Aztec Gods, Aztec World
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. The Fifth Sun represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it—Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent;...
by Sandra Chung
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian makes an outstanding contribution to both Polynesian and historical linguistics. It is at once a reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking,...
The Color of Love
Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family....
by Lance deHaven-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service—and possibly even senior...
by Roxanne Kuter Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Why does one talented individual win lasting recognition in a particular field, while another equally talented person does not? While there are many possible reasons, one obvious answer is that something more than talent is requisite to produce fame. The "something more" in the field of architecture,...
Sanctioning Modernism
Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar reconstruction—and it eventually won widespread acceptance. But as the limitations of conventional conceptions of modernism became apparent, modern architecture...
Twentieth Century-Fox
The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935–1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little threat to industry juggernauts such as Paramount and MGM. In the years that followed however, guided by executives Darryl F. Zanuck and Spyros Skouras, it soon emerged as one of the most important...
Super Black
American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic...
Max Ernst and Alchemy
A Magician in Search of Myth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, M. E....