University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Lethal Injection
Capital Punishment in Texas during the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Few state issues have attracted as much controversy and national attention as the application of the death penalty in Texas. In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has led the nation in passing death sentences and executing prisoners. The vigor with which Texas has implemented...
The Impact of Global Warming on Texas
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
When The Impact of Global Warming on Texas was first published in 1995, it discussed climate change as a likely future phenomenon, predicted by scientific studies. This entirely rewritten second edition presents evidence that early climate change impacts can now be observed and identifies the threats...
Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song
A Texas Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Texas, the 1930s—the years of the Great Depression. It was the Texas of great men: Dobie, Bedichek, Webb, the young Américo Paredes. And it was the Texas of May McCord and "Cocky" Thompson, the Reverend I. B. Loud, the Cajun Marcelle Comeaux, the black man they called "Grey Ghost," and all the other...
Texas Bobwhites
A Guide to Their Foods and Habitat Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Northern bobwhites are one of the most popular game birds in the United States. In Texas alone, nearly 100,000 hunters take to the field each fall and winter to pursue wild bobwhite quail. Texas is arguably the last remaining state with sufficient habitat to provide quail-hunting opportunities on...
Texas Mushrooms
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Hundreds of species of mushrooms flourish in Texas, from the desert and semiarid regions of West Texas to the moist and acid soils of East Texas, where species that can also be found in South America live alongside those that might be spotted in Malaysia and Europe. Texas Mushrooms was the first—and...
Venomous Snakes of Texas
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Texas has about one hundred twenty native species and subspecies of snakes, fifteen of which are venomous. Since 1950, Texans have turned to the Poisonous Snakes of Texas pamphlet series published by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for help in identifying these snakes and for expert advice...
Vascular Plants of Texas
A Comprehensive Checklist Including Synonymy, Bibliography, and Index
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Everyone with a professional interest in the flora of Texas will welcome this checklist of the vascular plants. This comprehensive list also includes crops, persistent perennials, and naturalized plants and encompasses over 1,000 changes to the previous (Hatch, 1990) checklist. The authors have arranged...
Grasses, Pods, Vines, Weeds
Decorating with Texas Naturals
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Purple three-awn.Tree of heaven.Alamo vine.Narrowleaf cattail.These exotic and fanciful names conjure up visions of lush foliage, colorful grasses, and dense plant life. They are, in fact, names of native and naturalized Texas plants—grasses, pods, vines, and weeds. Lovely and all-too-often overlooked...
by Leland C. Bement
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. Archaeological studies over the past eighty years have reconstructed their subsistence, technology, and settlement patterns, but until...
Indians, Cattle, Ships and Oil
The Story of W. M. D. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Indian trader, rancher, harbor developer, oil impresario—these are the many worlds of one of the least chronicled but most fascinating characters of the American West. In the early, bustling years of the frontier, a brazen young man named William McDole Lee moved from Wisconsin to Kansas and then to...
Kindler of Souls
Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
In September 1930, the New York Times published a list of the clergy whom Rabbi Stephen Wise considered "the ten foremost religious leaders in this country." The list included nine Christians and Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston, Texas. Little-known today, Henry Cohen was a rabbi to be reckoned with, a...
First Available Cell
Desegregation of the Texas Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Decades after the U.S. Supreme Court and certain governmental actions struck down racial segregation in the larger society, American prison administrators still boldly adhered to discriminatory practices. Not until 1975 did legislation prohibit racial segregation and discrimination in Texas prisons....
East Texas Lumber Workers
An Economic and Social Picture, 1870-1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In 1950 a million Texans—more than a tenth of the entire population of the state—lived in a region where one family in every two earned less than $2,000 a year. Composing that region are the thirty-two counties of northeastern Texas in which the lumber industry is concentrated. In eleven of these...
Geometry in Architecture
Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Pioneer Texas Buildings opened people's eyes when it was first published in 1968. At a time when "progress" meant tearing down the weathered houses, barns, churches, and stores built by the original settlers of Central Texas, this book taught people to see the beauty, simplicity, and order expressed...