Books from University of Texas Press
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Mr. America: The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon
By John D. Fairciple of his fellow English strongman George Hackenschmidt, Jowett believed that “development and strength go hand in hand,” since “a real orthodox strongman . . . must have the physique.” But he made clear his choice “between the two”: ...
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The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space
By William David Estrada... also see David R. Chan, “Los Angeles and the Chinese,” in Chinese New Year Book (Los Angeles: Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 1975), 21. 58. Bingham, “Saga of the Los Angeles Chinese,” 142. 59. Cheng and Kwok, “Golden Years,” 34–35.
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Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
By David William FosterRipstein is unquestionably one of Mexico's top five current filmmakers (for an overview of his career see Noriega and Ricci's "Retrospective"). In telling the story of La Manuela, a transvestite prostitute who is killed by one of her ...
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Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb
By William A. OwensFalls County, in the black waxy belt that extends down through the center of Texas, is bald prairie, with rich, well-watered land, good for raising corn and cotton. Bedichek described his neighbors as "the nester type" — farmers living ...
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Letters of Roy Bedichek
By William A. OwensHe was a nester on land that had been open range for grazing and cattle driving. The feud between nesters and free-rangers, nothing new on the Texas plains, had been intensified by the introduction of barbed wire in the late seventies.
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Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot, White House Aide, and Personal Confidant
By James U. Cross, Denise Gamino, Gary RiceBrigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh had been Air Force aide to President Kennedy and continued in that role for a short time with President Johnson. Johnson had had trouble with McHugh from the get-go. On the day Kennedy was shot, ...
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Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico: The Sequence of Technological Change
By William E. DoolittleIn this comprehensive study, William E. Doolittle synthesizes and extensively analyzes all that is currently known about the development and use of irrigation technology in prehistoric Mexico from about 1200 B.C. until the Spanish conquest ...
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William Goyen: Selected Letters from a Writer’s Life
By William Goyenreview of,99 Stuart, Jesse,334, 335n Stuhlmann, Gunther, 297n Styron, William, 408 Suhrkamp. SeeBibliothek Suhrkamp The SuicideAcademy (Stern), 332n Swayne, Ruth,304, 305n Sweet Birdof Youth (Williams), 307n Tate, Allen,187,191, ...
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Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews
By William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons... come from that Deep South. interviewer: The House of Breath came out at the same time as other celebrated works—Styron's, Capote's, Mailer's. Did you feel part of a writing generation? goyen: I felt immensely apart.
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The Laws of Slavery in Texas: Historical Documents and Essays
By Randolph B. Campbell, William S. Pugsley, Marilyn P. Duncan... The (Styron), 1–2 Cooper v. Blakey, 166n59 crimes: by blacks against fellow blacks, 64–65, 76, 165n33; capital offenses, 59–65, 67, 161n2, 162n24; executions of slaves, 59–60, 62–64, 165n33, 172n38; felony trials of blacks, 73, ...
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Wetland and Riparian Areas of the Intermountain West: Ecology and Management
By Mark C. McKinstry, Wayne A. Hubert, Stanley H. AndersonLikewise , removal of peripheral vegetation through cultivation or grazing may reduce spring runoff by reducing the amount of trapped snow ( Millar 1969^ ) . Working in small wetlands , Millar ( 1971 ) found that the rate of water loss ...
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The Fictional Christopher Nolan
By Todd McgowanOn their first night in Nightmute, Hap confronts Will with his pending deal with internal affairs. Even though Hap has no plans to implicate Will in his testimony, Will insists that the deal would represent a complete betrayal.
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Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily
By Laura PfuntnerHorden and Purcell 2000:89–122; Purcell 2005. 34. As Osborne (2005:13) emphasizes, “What is important about towns is not that they necessarily do or involve anything in particular, but that they make possible a whole range of economic, ...
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Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination
By Alexa Weik von MossnerAnd, as Kang Liao explains in his monograph on Buck (1997), the Chinese literary traditions she inherited “favor fast-moving action, simplicity of style and vocabulary. . . . The point of view is always the omniscient third, ...
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Country Music USA: 50th Anniversary Edition
By Bill C. Malone, Tracey LairdHis clear, resonant tenor voice and precise diction were almost unique in country music, and his CD of 2000, one endless night, was a superb collection of songs written by his old friends Butch Hancock, Willis Alan Ramsey, John Hiatt, ...
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Avedon at Work: In the American West
By LAURA WILSONTerugblik op de reis die de Amerikaanse fotograaf in 1979 door het westen van de V.S. maakte, en die leidde tot de fototentoonstelling 'In the American West' in 1985.
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Here, Our Culture Is Hard: Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize
By Laura McClusky(Wilson 1974: 1) The style of this ethnography differs from previous studies of Maya in Belize. This style has various names. Oscar Lewis calls it "ethnographic realism" (Lewis 1959 :18).3 Carter Wilson (1974) uses the term ...
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The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition
By Nancy A. WalkerThese are , of course , Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own ( 1929 ) and Adrienne Rich's " When We Dead Awaken : Writing as Re - Vision ” ( 1971 ; in On Lies , Secrets , and Silence ) . Woolf spends much of her long , eloquent essay ...
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Red Desert: History of a Place
By Annie Proulx, Martin StupichWyoming ground squirrels are important prey for many mammalian and avian predators, especially when the vulnerable and abundant young squirrels Wyoming ground squirrel burrows are sufficiently large and ubiquitous to serve as cover for ...
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Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State
By Leigh ClemonsJames Duncan and David Ley, eds., Place/Culture/Representation (New York: Routledge, 1993); Foote, Shadowed Ground; Linenthal, Sacred Ground; and Kirk Savage, “The Past in the Present,” Harvard Design Review (Fall 1999): 14–19. 6.