Books from Trinity University Press

In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio
By David R. Johnson
A Political and Economic History of San Antonio David R. Johnson ... permits to “any citizen or contractor properly qualified” to lay “private sewer mains” when there were no city mains in the front or rear of a petitioner's house.
Dreaming Red: Creating ArtPace
By Jan Jarboe Russell, Linda Pace, Eleanor Heartney
... 290 Sikander, Shahzia, 22 Intimacy, 24, 25, 284 Sims, Lowery, 62 Skowhegan (Maine), 12 Smith, Alexis, 109 Smith, David, 146 Smith, Kiki, 109 Snyder, Hills, 84, 108 Sone, Yutaka, 20–21 Double Six, 283 Spaztek Aztec, 244 Spencer, Rev.
Baseball in the Lone Star State: The Texas League's Greatest Hits
By David King, Tom Kayser
Hornsby was managing his second team in the Texas League; he had started the 1941 season at Oklahoma City in 1941 but had “resigned” in late June after a disappointing 31–37 start. Fort Worth hired Hornsby to replace Bob Linton, ...
Self-Portrait with Dogwood
By Christopher Merrill
Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. Hallock, Thomas. From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina ...
Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
By Paul Mariani
... 491 Emily Clark Balch contest, 437 Encounter, 402 “Enemies of the Angels, The” (Berryman), 132, 133 Engel, Brenda, 255, 256 Engel, Monroe, 252, 255 England, 28, 52, 57, 58–87, I Io, I 15, I 19, 120, 121, 160, 20I Engle, Paul, 210, ...
Mary Bonner: Impressions of a Printmaker
By Mary Carolyn Hollers George
Austin, Texas: Students' Association of the University of Texas, 1904, 1905, 1906. City Directory of Austin, 1905-06. Austin, Texas: J. B. Stephenson, 1905. General Directory of the City of San Antonio, 1901-09.
Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage
By Lewis F. Fisher
... San Antonio ExpressNews, July 24, 1980; Dick Merkel, “Legislators move to transfer mission park tide,” San Antonio ExpressNews, Feb. 28, 1981; Tom Nelson, “Missions Park plans in danger,” San Antonio ExpressNews, Feb. 24, 1982, 1.
Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists
By Donald Culross Peattie
When he actually attended a public gathering, a great hall full of scientists at his appearance rose like a sea before a mighty wind, and applauded with the sound of thunder. One wonders how Emma liked the fame of her husband.
Powering a City: How Energy and Big Dreams Transformed San Antonio
By Catherine Nixon Cooke
At the center of San Antonio’s growth from a small pioneering town to a major western metropolis sits CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned energy utility in the United States...
Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III
By Christopher J. Preston
See also biology monarch butterfly, 61, 71 moral agent, 174 Moran, Thomas, 157 Morrill Act, 103 Morris, Simon Conway, 198–99, 205 Moscow, 50, 154 mosses, Rolston's discovery of, 135–36 Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 2 Mount Mitchell, ...
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
By Jonathan White
Seeing a horseman spearing salmon, Latimer ventured onto the sand. The horseman began to make for shore, but Latimer lingered. “My steps were arrested by the sound of a horse galloping,” he continues, “and as I turned the rider called ...
The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
By Rebecca Solnit
The Abalone Alliance, whose name was inspired by new england's antinuclear Clamshell Alliance, began protesting Diablo Canyon Power Plant on the central California coast. At the August 7, 1977, demonstration against the poorly designed ...
Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book
By Marvin Bell, Christopher Merrill, Dean Young
Those 80 poems are collected in this book, penned by authors who represent some of the best and brightest the world of poetry has to offer.
The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition
By Mark Menjivar
Along the way he documented his findings to create a physical archive that contains hundreds of objects (rings, underwear, food items, clovers, horses, pigs, herbs, rainbows, lottery strategies, seeds, day trader insights, statues, patches, ...
The Changing Face of San Antonio: An Insider's View of an Emerging International City
By Nelson W. Wolff
Robert L. B. Tobin became a casualty of the battle when the Commissioners Court did not reappoint him in 1961. His attorney and fellow board ... The burden fell on newly elected county judge Blair “Bruzzie” Reeves to find an answer.
Dreaming Red: Creating ArtPace
By Jan Jarboe Russell, Linda Pace, Eleanor Heartney
... thomas Hirschhorn, and bjarne melgaard. but it is to arte povera specifically and the works of such American artists as David Hammons, mike kelley, and paul mcCarthy that Sauter's work owes its great99.3 est debt.
Cornyation: San Antonio's Outrageous Fiesta Tradition
By Amy L. Stone
Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 began as a parade in honor of the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto and has evolved into an annual Mardi Gras-like festival...
The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawai'i's Endangered Ecosystems
By Pamela Frierson
Palmer hired a vessel named the Ka'alokai, captained by F. D. Walker, who would later gain fame by shipwrecking with his family on Midway Atoll. The naturalists of the 1891 Rothschild expedition identi ed the owering shrubs the captain ...
The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest William, and James Galvin
By Mark Tredinnick
Richard Smith, which stayed in the Smith family until the present generation, when his descendants caved in to ... It is a dismal and familiar tale: pesticides and fertilizers leach into earth and creeks, pollute the water table, ...
Remedios: The Healing Life of Eva Castellanoz
By Joanne B. Mulcahy
As the red rock cliffs rise around us, Eva grows more exuberant about our destination. “It's so beautiful!” We turn off onto a winding mountain road, ascend a gravel path, and park. Beyond an incline treacherous with loose rock stands a ...