Books from Southern Methodist University Press
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God's Dogs: A Novel in Stories
By Mitch WielandFerrell Swan has fled the shambles of his life in Ohio for the vast and empty landscape of Idaho’s high desert. Here he tries to escape his past and its...
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Early Texas Homes
By Dorothy Kendall Bracken, Maurine Whorton RedwayPhotos and descriptions of examples of different kinds of architecture found in Texas.
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Acceptable Losses: A Novel
By Edra ZieskZiesk's debut novel is a story of loss and the effort to replace what is lost with love. Set in a small New Jersey shore town, the narrative traces the...
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Tales of Frontier Texas, 1830-1860
By John Q. AndersonSixty-five sketches included in this volume. Tales from newspapers and magazines of the period.
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Images of Australia: 100 Films of the New Australian Cinema
By Neil RattiganImages of Australia: 100 Films of the New Australian Cinema
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Selected One-act Plays of Horton Foote
By Horton FooteGathers seventeen short plays set in the small Texas town of Harrison.
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Paul and the Legacies of Paul
By William S. BabcockChallenging the widespread thesis that the apostle Paul was largely excluded or diminished by the traditions that would define Christian orthodoxy, the essays in this volume trace the position Paul...
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Gaining Ground in College Writing: Tales of Development and Interpretation
By Richard H. HaswellHaswell's approach incorporates original research, the post-positive philosophers of human change such as Habermas and Gadamer, and new information about adult development. His analysis serves teachers of writing by untangling...
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The Names of the Lost
By Liza WielandThree teenage girls relive their own private anguish as they relate their personal experiences against the background of the murder of children in Atlanta.
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The Price You Pay: Stories
By Ellen WinterWinter's fictional landscape--whether it's the Arizona desert or snowy New England--is peopled with renegades and drifters. Sometimes itchy feet make them go, other times an aching heart, but there's an...
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Nuremberg: German Views of the War Trials
By Georg Grimm, Wilbourn E. BentonA compilation of writings from various German authors, most previously published.
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Spheres of Love: Toward a New Ethics of the Family
By Stephen Garrard PostPost (Case Western Reserve U.) integrates insights from ethics, theology, history, and sociology in this discussion of love within and outside the family. He argues for a new nuclear familialism...
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Desperate Measures
By James HannahDesperate Measures
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Economic Development and International Trade: A Perspective
By Paul D. ZookEconomic Development and International Trade: A Perspective
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Talking a Good Game: Inquiries Into the Principles of Sport
By Spencer K. WertzTalking a Good Game: Inquiries Into the Principles of Sport