Books from Univ of TX + ORM

Polk and the Presidency
By Charles A. McCoy
This book assumes that the presidential power-role, though expressed in the Constitution and prescribed by law, is not a static role but a dynamic one, shaped and developed by a president’s personal reaction to the crises and ...
Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
By Judith E. Smith
In Becoming Belafonte, Judith E. Smith presents the first full-length interpretive study of this multitalented artist.
Hemingway on Love
By Robert W. Lewis
Hemingway’s early work was destructive of romantic love, says Lewis; the work of his middle career was crucial in his exploration for the supreme love and the means to whatever peace and happiness man may achieve.
From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter
By Seamus McGraw
It’s impossible to read this work without nodding or wincing or even crying.” —Patrick Skinner, detective, Savannah, Georgia “From a Taller Tower is a careful, even cathartic, look at mass shooters and the culture that ushers them ...
Is This America?: Katrina as Cultural Trauma
By Ron Eyerman
... American veteran of civil rights struggles, posed the question “Is this America?” on the pages of Newsweek, he was speaking rhetorically. Of course this is America, this is New Orleans in the state of Louisiana! But did this look like ...
The Amazing Armadillo: Geography of a Folk Critter
By Larry L. Smith, Robin W. Doughty
This informative book traces the spread of the nine-banded armadillo from its first notice in South Texas late in the 1840s to its current range east to Florida and north to Missouri.
Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
By Sam Shepard, Johnny Dark
Despite the publicity his work and life attracted, however, Shepard remained a strongly private man who said many times that he would never write a memoir.
Cuba—Going Back
By Tony Mendoza
In this book he presents over eighty evocative photographs accompanied by a beautifully written text that mingles the voices of many Cubans with his own to offer a compelling portrait of a resilient people awaiting the inevitable passing of ...
The Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing
By Frank J. Lipp
For this edition, Frank Lipp has written a new preface in which he comments on the relationship of Mixe religion to current theoretical understandings of present-day Middle American folk religions.
Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
By Luana Ross
. . This book will be of tremendous import to a broad, interdisciplinary audience.” —Franke Wilmer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Montana State University
Border Odyssey: Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide
By Charles D. Thompson
In a quest to capture a real-life, close-up view of the land where so many have been kicked, cussed, spit on, arrested, detained, trafficked, or killed—and the subject that has been debated for decades by politicians and ...
Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys: Texas Politics, 1929–1932
By Norman D. Brown
... Texas , see Cullen and Wilkison , The Texas Right ; Alan J. Watt , Farm Workers and the Churches : The Movement in ... racial dynamics of cotton farming in Central Texas that led to a specific construction of whiteness . See The White ...
Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas
By Joe C. Truett, Daniel W. Lay
... hogs, he would say, 'Suey! Go find 'em, Ruff' and Ruff . . . would hunt hogs. He would find every hog in the region where he hunted. If he was taken out at night he wouldn't hunt anything but coons, possums, and wildcats. “At that time ...
Frederic Remington and the West: With the Eye of the Mind
By Ben Merchant Vorpahl
This body of work, as the author demonstrates, demands to be regarded as an interrelated whole. Here guilt, shame, and personal failure are honestly articulated, and death itself is confronted as the artist’s chief subject.
Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two
By Garcilaso de la Vega
... fountains, the water being brought to them from various directions. They had golden pipes, and some of the fountainheads were of stone, while others were tanks of gold and silver in which the sacrifices were washed according to their ...
Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues
By David Dann
With scenes that are as electrifying as Bloomfield’s solos, this is the story of a life lived at full volume. “Feels like one of the last great untold classic-rock tales, right up through Bloomfield’s mysterious passing.” ―Rolling ...
Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, & the Master Symbol
By Richard R. Flores
... the 1950s. Between 1920 and 1956 five major films were made of the Alamo battle: Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo (1926); Heroes of the Alamo (1937); The Man from the Alamo (1953); Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955); and ...
Sam Houston's Texas
By Sue Flanagan
With engaging text, extensive quotations, and more than 100 striking photographs, this volume captures the world of the iconic Texas Revolutionary.
Saving Migrant Birds: Developing Strategies for the Future
By John Faaborg
... Neotropical migrants and what is good for turkey, deer, and quail, as well as migrants that like edge. Much of this ... chase away the species that had large area requirements or when enough trees were put into the prairies to chase away ...
Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500–1618
By Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Following a map of the city’s principal landmarks, Guy Fitch Lytle provides a compact historical background for Jeffrey Chipps Smith's detailed discussions of the city’s social and artistic significance.