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elcome to an exciting new publishing season for Texas A&M Press! In this catalog, we are pleased to announce the inaugural volumes for three new book series, established in cooperation with supportive foundations, individuals, and academic programs at this and other outstanding universities. From the Galveston campus of Texas A&M, under the general editorship of professors Stephen J. Curley and William J. Merrell, comes our new Marine, Maritime, and Coastal Books series, starting with A Worldwide Travel Guide to Sea Turtles, by eminent authors Wallace J. Nichols, Brad Nahill, and Melissa Gaskill, on page 12. The Seventh Generation: Survival, Sustainability, Sustenance in a New Nature, is a thoughtprovoking new series under general editor M. Jimmie Killingsworth, who himself contributes the first book in the series, Facing It: Epiphany and Apocalypse in the New Nature, announced on page 16. Three members of the Press’s Advancement Board and their spouses have championed a third new series, announced on page 10, called T he Spirit of Sport. We are certain these new series will enhance the range and importance of our list, joining other fine books that you have come to expect from Texas A&M University Press. Thank you for your interest and patronage.
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COV ER The life-size facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man. Courtesy of StudioEIS, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History From the book Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz (See page 3)
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The long-awaited findings from the scientific study of one of the most complete ancient human skeletons ever found in North America . . .
Kennewick Man
The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton
Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz Almost from the day of its accidental discovery along the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State in July 1996, the ancient skeleton of Kennewick Man has garnered significant attention from scientific and Native American communities as well as public media outlets. This volume represents a collaboration among physical and forensic anthropologists, archaeologists, geologists, and geochemists, among others, and presents the results of the scientific study of this remarkable find. Scholars address a range of topics, from basic aspects of osteological analysis to advanced research focused on Kennewick Man’s origins and his relationships to other populations. Interdisciplinary studies, comprehensive data collection and preservation, and applications of technology are all critical to telling Kennewick Man’s story. Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton is written for a discerning professional audience, yet the absorbing story of the remains, their discovery, their curation history, and the extensive amount of detail that skilled scientists have been able to glean from them will appeal to interested and informed general readers. These bones lay silent for nearly nine thousand years, but now, with the aid of dedicated researchers, they can speak about the life of one of the earliest human occupants of North America.
978-1-62349-200-7 hardcover $60.00s 978-1-62349-234-2 ebook 81/2x11. 688 pp. 328 color, 35 b&w photos. 49 line art. 10 maps. 34 graphs. Index. Anthropology. Archaeology. October
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Peopling of the Americas Publications, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the First Americans
DOUGLAS W. OWSLEY is the division head for physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. He has identified remains from news-making crime scenes, mass disasters, and war zones. In addition to forensic casework, he is conducting extensive research on historic and prehistoric populations from North America. RICHARD L. JANTZ is professor emeritus in the department of anthropology and director emeritus of the forensic anthropology center at the University of Tennessee. His primary research focus is metric variation among modern humans.
Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast Edited by Claude Chapdelaine 978-1-60344-790-4 hardcover $68.00s 978-1-60344-805-5 ebook
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La Belle, the Ship That Changed History Edited by James E. Bruseth
After two decades of searching for La Salle’s lost ship La Belle, Texas Historical Commission (THC) divers in 1995 located a shipwreck containing historic artifacts of European origin in the silty bottom of Matagorda Bay, off the coast of Texas. The first cannon lifted from the waters bore late seventeenthcentury French insignias. The ill-fated La Belle had been found. Under the direction of then-THC Archeology Division Director James Bruseth, the THC conducted a full excavation of the water-logged La Belle. The conservation was subsequently completed at Texas A&M University’s Conservation Research Laboratory, resulting in preservation of more than one million artifacts from the wreck. An official naval vessel granted to La Salle by the king of France in 1684, La Belle is still considered a sovereign naval vessel belonging to the French government under international maritime law. A formal agreement negotiated by the French Republic, the Musée national de la Marine, the US Department of State, and the THC allows the ship and artifacts to remain in Texas permanently and to be housed in an exhibit at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, opening October 2014. This richly illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibit.
978-1-62349-033-1 paper $19.95 978-1-62349-084-3 ebook 81/2x11. 104 pp. 135 color photos. American History. Exploration/Settlement. Archaeology. Nautical Archaeology. October
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Published for Bullock Texas State History Museum
JAMES E. BRUSETH, guest curator and catalog editor, is the former director of the archeology division at the Texas Historical Commission, which sponsored the excavation of La Belle. Bruseth directed the excavation and serves as the project’s principal investigator. He is coauthor of From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle (Texas A&M University Press, 2005). He lives in Austin.
From a Watery Grave The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck, La Belle James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner 978-1-58544-347-5 cloth $39.95 978-1-58544-431-1 paper $24.95 978-1-60344-869-7 ebook The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle Robert S. Weddle 978-1-58544-121-1 cloth $29.95
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Buried in New York City for more than two hundred years. . .
The Ship That Held Up Wall Street The Ronson Ship Wreck
Warren C. Riess with Sheli O. Smith In January 1982, archaeologists conducting a pre-construction excavation at 175 Water Street in Lower Manhattan found the remains of an eighteenth-century ship. Uncertain of what they had found or what its value might be, they called in two nautical archaeologists—Warren Riess and Sheli Smith—to direct the excavation and analysis of the ship’s remains. As it turned out, the mystery ship’s age and type meant that its careful study would help answer some important questions about the commerce and transportation of an earlier era of American history. The Ship that Held Up Wall Street: The Ronson Shipwreck tells the whole story of the discovery, excavation, and study of what came to be called the “Ronson ship site,” named for the site’s developer, Howard Ronson. Entombed for more than two hundred years, the Princess Carolina proved to be the first major discovery of a colonial merchant ship. Years of arduous analytical work have led to critical breakthroughs revealing how the ship was designed and constructed, its probable identity as a vessel built in Charleston, South Carolina, its history as a merchant ship, and why and how it came to be buried in Manhattan. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series
WARREN C. RIESS, a research associate professor in the departments of history, anthropology, and marine sciences at the University of Maine, was principal investigator of the Ronson ship site. SHELI O. SMITH is director of program-based learning development for anthropology with the PAST Foundation, and was co-investigator of the Ronson project. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.
978-1-62349-188-8 hardcover $29.00 978-1-62349-226-7 ebook 81/2x11. 128 pp. 37 b&w photos. 17 line art. Glossary. Index. Nautical Archaeology. Archaeology. American History. December
RELATED INTEREST The Western River Steamboat Adam I. Kane 978-1-58544-322-2 cloth $39.95s 978-1-58544-343-7 paper $19.95
The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West Annaliese Corbin 978-1-58544-484-7 unjacketed cloth $45.00x 978-1-58544-516-5 paper $19.95
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Marfa Flights
Aerial Views of Big Bend Country Paul V. Chaplo
Take an unforgettable sky excursion over Big Bend with photographer Paul Chaplo as he captures the shapes, textures, and colors of the craggy, weathered landforms people usually see only from the ground—and some places no photographer has gone before. Flying from Marfa, and hanging precariously from the open door of an aircraft, Chaplo shares a hawk's eye view of a fiercely beautiful region, revealing the stark and magnificent landscapes carved by the force of eons of wind and water on the arid, mountainous country along the Rio Grande. Number Twenty-six: Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
978-1-62349-168-0 flexbound $29.95 978-1-62349-178-9 ebook 10x10. 192 pp. 121 color photos. Map. Index. Photography. Big Bend, Nature. Nature Travel. September
PAUL V. CHAPLO is a professional photographer specializing in corporate and architectural photography. His creative work has been exhibited in museums around the country, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. He lives in Arlington, Texas.
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Breathtaking views of the rugged Texas Big Bend country from the air . . .
RELATED INTEREST Big Bend Landscapes Dennis Blagg 978-1-58544-202-7 cloth $40.00
Photographing Big Bend National Park A Friendly Guide to Great Images Kathy Adams Clark 978-1-60344-817-8 flexbound $19.95 978-1-60344-823-9 ebook
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“Courthouse cupolas, backstage dressing rooms, historic attics, museum collections, lighthouse stairwells, railroad cabooses, drivein projection booths, ghost towns, diners, and dance halls; Smith, it would seem, has photographed them all.”—from the introduction by E. Dan Klepper
On the Road with Texas Highways A Tribute to True Texas
J. Griffis Smith Introduction by E. Dan Klepper Foreword by Charles J. Lohrmann In a short line of Texas Highways distinguished photo editors, J. Griffis Smith has been described by a fellow photographer as a “galactic force,” reveling in taking pictures of everything Texas wherever the magazine’s assignments took him, all with the goal of inspiring “folks to travel.” Celebrating the roaming life of a professional magazine photographer, Texas Highways has joined with Smith to assemble a collection of signature images from three decades of work, including memorable pictures of Texas icons, landscapes, people, and historical and cultural destinations. An essay by E. Dan Klepper conveys a sense of how photo editors have worked at Texas Highways and how Griff Smith’s quirky, creative nature has helped to shape the magazine's style and message. J. GRIFFIS SMITH is the photo editor at Texas Highways magazine in Austin, where he has worked for thirty years.
978-1-62349-183-3 flexbound $29.95 978-1-62349-199-4 ebook 10x11. 224 pp. 294 color photos. Index. Photography. Heritage Travel. Texana Gift Books. September
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New in paperback
Texas A&M University A Pictorial History, 1876–1996, Second Edition
Henry C. Dethloff
The Swaim-Paup-Foran Spirit of Sport Series Sponsored by James C. ’74 & Debra Parchman Swaim, Nancy & T. Edgar Paup ’74, and Joseph Wm. & Nancy Foran
This expanded edition of Texas A&M University: A Pictorial History gives a panoramic view of Texas A&M, from its infancy as a college with 48 agricultural and mechanical (engineering) students to today's diverse campus of more than forty thousand students. Captured in full-color photographs are the modern university, its buildings, its far-reaching programs, and its students. The book is also a gallery of Aggie greats—on the battlefields of five wars; on the athletic fields; in industry, agriculture, science, and civic leadership. Historical photos show visits by Presidents William H. Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George H. W. Bush; preparations for military actions of World Wars I and II; the 1939 national championship football team; and the campus filming of the 1943 World War II movie “We’ve Never Been Licked.” Number Sixty-three: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
HENRY C. DETHLOFF, an emeritus professor of history at Texas A&M University, is author or coauthor of more than twenty books on American, economic, and business history. 978-1-62349-245-8 paper $24.95 81/2x11. 248 pp. 40 color, 356 b&w photos. Aggie Books. September
Announcing a New Series Celebrating “The Spirit of Sport” With the generous sponsorship of James C. ’74 and Debra Parchman Swaim, Nancy and T. Edgar Paup ’74, and Joseph Wm. and Nancy Foran, Texas A&M University Press is proud to announce a new book series focusing on the evolving nature, structures, and motivations underlying sport in modern societies, including their cultural and economic impacts. The series will examine all aspects of collegiate sports, including individual and team sports at Texas A&M and peer institutions, as well as high school and post-collegiate sports, both amateur and professional, throughout the world.
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Where to go around the world to see, help, and experience sea turtles . . .
A Worldwide Travel Guide to Sea Turtles Wallace J. Nichols, Brad Nahill, and Melissa Gaskill
Sea turtle populations around the world are endangered, and in recent years tourism has been a critical element in worldwide efforts to save them. More travelers seek meaningful experiences that bring them close to nature and wildlife, and opportunities to interact with and help sea turtles now exist at locations around the globe, from remote beaches to urban labs. In A Worldwide Travel Guide to Sea Turtles, a scientist, a conservationist, and a journalist have come together to provide a guide to the places where people can view sea turtles and participate in authentic conservation projects. Covering five continents and including the South Pacific and Caribbean, the authors direct readers to the parks, reserves, and research sites where they can responsibly observe turtles in the wild, especially nesting beaches where people can see female sea turtles lay eggs and hatchlings make their harrowing journey from nest to sea. Options for on-site lodging and other amenities are included, if available, as well as details of other nearby attractions that travelers may wish to include in their itineraries. Marine, Maritime, and Coastal Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University at Galveston
WALLACE J. NICHOLS is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences. He is past president of the International Sea Turtles Society and is the author of Blue Mind. He resides in the San Francisco area. BRAD NAHILL, of Beaverton, Oregon, is cofounder and director of SEE Turtles, a nonprofit organization seeking to protect sea turtles and other wildlife through conservation tourism. MELISSA GASKILL is a professional journalist with more than twenty-five years of experience writing about the outdoors, nature, and science. She lives in Austin.
978-1-62349-161-1 flexbound $25.00 978-1-62349-174-1 ebook 53/4x81/2. 240 pp. 31 color photos. 8 maps. Index. Nature Travel. Conservation. Wildlife. September
RELATED INTEREST Wildlife Watching in America's National Parks A Seasonal Guide Gary W. Vequist and Daniel S. Licht 978-1-60344-814-7 flexbound $25.00 978-1-60344-827-7 ebook
Announcing a New Series Marine, Maritime, and Coastal Books Sponsored by Texas A&M University at Galveston From the marine and maritime branch campus of Texas A&M University and under the general editorship of Stephen J. Curley and William J. Merrell, Texas A&M University Press is pleased to launch a new series of books on marine, maritime, and coastal issues, worldwide. The series will embrace diverse subjects and disciplines, including business and trade, resource management and policy, science, history, engineering, and tourism, and the editors welcome works written for professional, scientific, scholarly, and general audiences.
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From lightning whelks to tiny shells not easily visible to the naked eye . . .
Texas Seashells A Field Guide
John W. Tunnell Jr., Noe C. Barrera, and Fabio Moretzsohn Walking along the beach and picking up seashells is a favorite pastime enjoyed by millions of people every year. This field guide covers three hundred of the better-known or more common seashells found on Texas coastlines, and anyone interested in identifying and collecting shells along Texas bays and Gulf coast beaches will find Texas Seashells an essential companion. With more than 600 detailed and data-rich color photographs, each species with at least two views, Texas Seashells is sure to make shell identification fun, quick, and easy. Those new to collecting can get started with the introductory chapters on building your shell collection, local laws and regulations protecting this resource, seashell clubs, adopting a “Sheller’s Creed,” and basic seashell taxonomy. A glossary is also included for technical terms not defined in the text. Although this field guide is for seashells found along the Texas coast, it will also be useful in other regions of the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean. Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, sponsored by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi
JOHN W. TUNNELL JR. is associate director and endowed chair of biodiversity and conservation science at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, and regents’ professor, Fulbright scholar, and retired professor of biology at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. NOE C. BARRERA is a malacologist and microphotographer at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. FABIO MORETZSOHN is an assistant research scientist in systematics and conservation of marine invertebrates at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
978-1-62349-167-3 flexbound $25.00 978-1-62349-196-3 ebook 51/2x81/2. 352 pp. 302 color photos. Table. Bib. Index. Coastal Texas. Field Guides. December
RELATED INTEREST Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells Identification, Ecology, Distribution, and History John W. Tunnell Jr., Jean Andrews, Noe C. Barrera, and Fabio Moretzsohn 978-1-60344-141-4 hardcover $50.00 978-1-60344-337-1 ebook
The Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast A Geologist Answers Questions about Sand, Storms, and Living by the Sea John B. Anderson 978-1-58544-561-5 paper $24.95 978-1-60344-274-9 ebook
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From molecules to ecosystems, and headwaters to ocean . . .
Texas Aquatic Science Rudolph A. Rosen
New in paperback
The Book of Texas Bays Jim Blackburn Photography by Jim Olive
Courtesy Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
This classroom resource provides clear, concise scientific information in an understandable and enjoyable way about water and aquatic life. Spanning the hydrologic cycle from rain to watersheds, aquifers to springs, rivers to estuaries, ample illustrations promote understanding of important concepts and clarify major ideas. Aquatic science is covered comprehensively, with relevant principles of chemistry, physics, geology, geography, ecology, and biology included throughout the text. Emphasizing water sustainability and conservation, the book tells us what we can do personally to conserve for the future and presents job and volunteer opportunities in the hope that some students will pursue careers in aquatic science. Texas Aquatic Science, originally developed as part of a multi-faceted education project for middle and high school students, can also be used at the college level for non-science majors, in the home-school environment, and by anyone who educates kids about nature and water. River Books, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
RUDOLPH A. ROSEN is a professor at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. He is author of Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising (Texas A&M University Press, 2012). 978-1-62349-193-2 flexbound $24.95 978-1-62349-227-4 ebook 7x10. 233 pp. 140 color photos. Glossary. Index. Water. Natural History. Education. December
In a dazzling tribute to the Texas coast, conservationist and lawyer Jim Blackburn has teamed with photographer Jim Olive to provide the most intimate and important portrait yet of Texas bays and of those who work for their wise use and preservation. The Book of Texas Bays is a personal account of legal battles won and lost, but it is also a fine work of natural history by someone who has a deep spiritual connection to the Texas coast and all it has to offer. For the new paperback edition, Blackburn looks back in a preface that takes stock of what has and has not been accomplished since the book first appeared. Number Six: Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi
JIM BLACKBURN, an attorney specializing in environmental law at Blackburn & Carter Law Firm in Houston, is professor of the practice in the civil and environmental engineering department at Rice University, where he directs the university-wide minor in energy and water sustainability and co-directs the SSPEED Center, a severe storm research organization. 978-1-60344-782-9 flexbound $35.00 978-1-60344-275-6 ebook 81/2x10. 304 pp. 116 color photos. 26 maps. 32 figs. Index. Coastal Texas. Water. Nature Photography. October
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“One can make bad wine out of good grapes, but one cannot make good wine out of bad grapes.”
Growing Grapes in Texas
From the Commercial Vineyard to the Backyard Vine Jim Kamas
In this complete and approachable manual on grape growing in Texas, Jim Kamas asks the essential question all potential growers need to answer: Why do you want to plant a vineyard? Outlining the challenges and risks to all who think viticulture is a weekend hobby, Kamas then identifies the state’s current grape growing regions and covers everything the commercial or home producer needs to know in order to have a successful vineyard. Well-illustrated text offers chapters on site choice and design, rootstock and fruiting varieties, pruning and training strategies, canopy and floor management, and disease and pest control. Kamas thoroughly explores grapevine horticulture, including the systematics, morphology, nutrition, and water needs of the genus Vitus. Finally, he addresses the issues of equipment and infrastructure before closing with some advice about vineyard-winery relations. Kamas was trained as a student in the grape growing country of western New York by some of the “best viticultural minds” in the US, and grape and wine lovers from all parts of the country will find this book a valuable resource. Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series
JIM KAMAS, based in Fredericksburg, is assistant professor and extension horticulturist in the department of horticultural sciences and AgriLife Extension Service at Texas A&M University. He is also coauthor of The Texas Peach Handbook.
GrapeS GROWING
IN TEXAS
From the Commercial Vineyard to the Backyard Vine
JIM KAMAS
978-1-62349-180-2 flexbound $25.00 978-1-62349-223-6 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 162 color photos. 10 maps. 3 figs. 3 tables. Glossary. Index. Agriculture. Horticulture. Fruits/Vegetables. November
RELATED INTEREST Texas Peach Handbook Jim Kamas and Larry A. Stein 978-1-60344-266-4 flexbound $24.95 978-1-60344-291-6 ebook
The Texas Tomato Lover's Handbook William D. Adams Photography by William D. Adams, and Deborah J. Adams 978-1-60344-239-8 flexbound $25.00 978-1-60344-240-4 ebook
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Coming to terms with the “new nature� . . . without losing hope . . .
Facing It
Epiphany and Apocalypse in the New Nature M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological angst, M. Jimmie Killingsworth seeks alternative images and episodes to invoke presence without crippling the hope for survival and sustenance in places and communities of value. In deft, highly accessible prose, Killingsworth takes the reader through a Cold-War childhood, an adolescence colored by anti-war and ecological activism, and an adulthood darkened by terrorism and climate change. Inviting us on walks through tame suburbias (riddled with environmental abuse) and wild deserts and mountains (shadowed by industrial development), he celebrates the survival of natural beauty and people living close to the earth while questioning truisms associated with both economic advancement and environmental purity. Above all, this book invites the reader to face it: to look with wideopen eyes on a new nature that will never be the same, but that continues to offer opportunities for renewal and advancement of life. The Seventh Generation: Survival, Sustainability, Sustenance in a New Nature A Wardlaw Book
M. JIMMIE KILLINGSWORTH is professor and former head of the English department at Texas A&M University. A Walt Whitman scholar and award-winning author, nature writer, and Texas Master Naturalist, Killingsworth has written or cowritten eleven books.
978-1-62349-145-1 paper with flaps $30.00 978-1-62349-177-2 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. Bib. Index. Nature Writing. Literary Nonfiction. September
Forthcoming in the series, works by: Diana Ashe University of North Carolina Wilmington James Guignard Mansfield University Ann McCutchan University of North Texas Andrew McMurry University of Waterloo Jennifer Westerman Appalachian State University
Announcing a New Series The Seventh Generation Survival, Sustainability, Sustenance in a New Nature According to a Native American concept of sustainability, everyone alive is the seventh generation. All decisions should respect the memory of the previous three generations and account for the well being of the next three. We stand in the middle, thinking of how our actions and attitudes can both reflect ancestral values and shape our legacy for the future. In an age of global climate change, habitat loss, urbanization, and energy crises, Texas A&M University Press and general editor M. Jimmie Killingsworth invite authors from a variety of disciplines to set aside their narrow specializations and speak to a wide audience in their own voices on what it means to make a lasting and positive contribution in the new nature.
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Power and Control in the Imperial Valley
Winner, 2014 Robert A. Calvert Prize
Pesos and Dollars
Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900–1940
Entrepreneurs in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1880–1940
Benny J. Andrés Jr.
Alicia M. Dewey
The commercial world of South Texas between 1880 and 1940 provided an attractive environment for many seeking to start new businesses, especially businesses that linked the markets and finances of the United States and Mexico. Entrepreneurs regularly crossed the physical border in pursuit of business. But more important, more complex, and less well-known were the linguistic, cultural, and ethnic borders they navigated daily as they interacted with customers, creditors, business partners, and employees. Drawing on her expertise as a bankruptcy lawyer, historian Alicia M. Dewey tells the story of how a diverse group of entrepreneurs, including Anglo-Americans, ethnic Mexicans, and European and Middle Eastern immigrants, created and navigated changing business opportunities along the Texas-Mexico border between 1880 and 1940. Connecting the Greater West Series
ALICIA M. DEWEY is an associate professor of history at Biola University in La Mirada, California. 978-1-62349-175-8 cloth $49.95s 978-1-62349-209-0 ebook 6x9. 384 pp. 16 b&w photos. 2 maps. 6 figs. 7 tables. Bib. Index. Borderlands Studies. Western History. Texas History. Business History. October
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the ImperialMexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border. Bisected by the international boundary line, the valley drew American investors determined to harness the nearby Colorado River to irrigate a million acres on both sides of the border. The “conquest” of the environment was a central theme in the history of the valley. Colonization in the valley began with the construction of a sixty-mile aqueduct from the Colorado River in California through Mexico. Initially, Mexico held authority over water delivery until settlers persuaded Congress to construct the All-American Canal. Control over land and water formed the basis of commercial agriculture and in turn enabled growers to use the state to procure inexpensive, plentiful immigrant workers. Connecting the Greater West Series
BENNY J. ANDRÉS JR. is an assistant professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He holds a PhD from the University of New Mexico. 978-1-62349-197-0 cloth $43.00s 978-1-62349-219-9 ebook 6x9. 288 pp. 14 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Borderlands Studies. Agriculture. Water. December
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“We bring good things to life.”
Electric City
General Electric in Schenectady Julia Kirk Blackwelder
For seven decades the General Electric Company maintained its manufacturing and administrative headquarters in Schenectady, New York. Electric City: General Electric in Schenectady explores the history of General Electric in Schenectady from the company’s creation in 1892 to the present. As one of America’s largest and most successful corporations, GE built a culture centered around the social good of technology and the virtues of the people who produced it. At its core, GE culture posited that engineers, scientists, and craftsmen engaged in a team effort to produce technologically advanced material goods that served society and led to corporate profits. Scientists were discoverers, engineers were designers and problem solvers, and craftsmen were artists. Historian Julia Kirk Blackwelder has drawn on company records as well as other archival and secondary sources and personal interviews to produce an engaging and multi-layered history of General Electric’s workplace culture and its planned (and actual) effects on community life. Her research demonstrates how business and community histories intersect, and this nuanced look at race, gender, and class sets a standard for corporate history. Number Twenty-four: Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History
JULIA KIRK BLACKWELDER is an emerita professor at Texas A&M University, where she previously served as head of the history department and as associate dean. She is the author of three books: Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation (2003); Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900–1995 (1997); and Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929–1939 (1984). She is a Schenectady County native and currently a resident of Ballston, New York.
978-1-62349-186-4 cloth $35.00s 978-1-62349-221-2 ebook 6x9. 288 pp. 26 b&w photos. Index. Business History. History of Technology. November
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“The production of every single barrel of exportable oil, wherever it may be in the World, is a matter of definite concern to us as Americans.”—Everette Lee DeGolyer, in a confidential address given to the Brookings Institution, April 19, 1943
Oilfield Revolutionary The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer Houston Faust Mount II
Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats—and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil exploration. Though not a politician, he played an important role in the national politics of energy. Though trained as a geologist, he became an important business executive. DeGolyer left his stamp on oil exploration and his name on a number of philanthropic institutions, including the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. This account of DeGolyer’s life, at once readable and yet authoritative, covers the period from his training with the United States Geological Survey in the American West, to his geological exploration of Mexico during the Revolution of the 1910s, his pioneering investment in geophysical prospecting technologies, and his work on behalf of the United States government in World War II, including a ground-breaking secret mission to the Middle East. Houston Mount develops his account of the career of Everette Lee DeGolyer in a way that provides a useful lens through which to examine the rising fortunes of earth scientists in the oil industry and in government—a process for which DeGolyer’s spectacular career was both an exemplar and a catalyst.
978-1-62349-182-6 cloth $32.95 978-1-62349-224-3 ebook 6x9. 384 pp. 28 b&w photos. 7 line art. 7 maps. Bib. Index. Biography. Business History. History of Technology. October
RELATED INTEREST "King of the Wildcatters" The Life and Times of Tom Slick, 1883–1930 Ray Miles 978-1-58544-399-4 paper $19.95
Number Twenty-three: Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History
HOUSTON FAUST MOUNT II is an assistant professor of history at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. His PhD is from Southern Methodist University.
Claytie The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter Mike Cochran 978-1-58544-634-6 cloth $24.95 978-1-60344-450-7 ebook
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Protesting oppression through art . . .
Ofrenda
Liliana Wilson's Art of Dissidence and Dreams Edited by Norma E. Cantú
Ofre`nda
LILIANA WILSON’S art of dissidence and dreams
Liliana Wilson’s art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice. Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by the political turmoil and repression in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s and who have become self-exiled artists working outside of Chile but who are still tied to the political period and to its issues and concerns. From a working class family that struggled financially, Wilson nonetheless was able to study law, which facilitated her successful immigration to the United States in 1977. She moved to Texas and in Austin found a cultural oasis that permitted her art to blossom. Now, after some thirty years of artistic work in Texas, she is recognized as a major Latina artist, whose influence extends beyond US borders. A crusader for justice and against oppression, she paints and draws in various media and has become an inspiration for younger artists concerned with not only political repression and inequality but also individual fear and despair. Ofrenda: Liliana Wilson’s Art of Dissidence and Dreams highlights some of Wilson’s most representative works, accompanied by biographical background and scholarly interpretation. Number Seventeen: Joe and Betty Moore Texas Art Series
LILIANA WILSON was born in Valparaíso, Chile. She earned a law degree in Chile and studied art at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University). Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States. NORMA E. CANTÚ, volume editor, is a professor of Latina/Latino Studies and English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She previously edited Moctezuma's Table: Rolando Briseño's Mexican and Chicano Tablescapes (Texas A&M University Press, 2010), among other works.
norma e. cantú
editor
978-1-62349-191-8 cloth $60.00 978-1-62349-222-9 ebook 8x10. 160 pp. 60 color, 5 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Art. Borderlands Studies. December
RELATED INTEREST Moctezuma's Table Rolando Briseño's Mexican and Chicano Tablescapes Edited by Norma E. Cantú 978-1-60344-183-4 cloth $42.00 978-1-60344-313-5 ebook Santa Barraza Artist of the Borderlands Santa C. Barraza Edited by Maria Herrera-Sobek 978-0-89096-906-9 cloth $40.00
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Capturing Nature
The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodríguez Patsy Pittman Light
". . . a graphically gorgeous, fascinating work that both profiles Rodríguez and documents the remarkable breadth of his work, which reached across the United States from 1924 through the early 1950s. . . . Light places Rodríguez's work firmly in artistic, cultural, and historical context, providing an excellent introductory overview of the development of trabajo rustico or faux bois work in Europe, Mexico, and among other artists in the United States, and his contemporaries, such as Rivera, Orozco, and others. . . . Even the most casual reading of Capturing Nature cannot fail to impress anyone with Rodríguez's prodigious ability and focused creative energy."—San Antonio Express-News “The book is ultimately a catalog of the work of Dionicio Rodríguez, beautifully illustrated in a way that gives the reader a feel for his sculptural legacy. A new appreciation will follow from perusing this book, and from visiting Rodríguez sculptures with fresh senses.”—Arkansas Democrat Gazette “Ms. Light thoroughly conveys the charms of the art and the artist, noting that his sense of humor clearly showed through pieces such as the conch shell entrance wall at the Eddingston Court apartments in Port Arthur and the fountain embellished with human faces at Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis.” —Dallas Morning News Number Twelve: Rio Grande/Río Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions
PATSY PITTMAN LIGHT, artist and former public school teacher and college lecturer, served as chair of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Commission and has researched and written the nominations for National Register of Historic Places listings, as well as Texas Historical Commission Markers. She resides in San Antonio.
978-1-62349-248-9 flexbound $27.95 978-1-60344-844-4 ebook 91/2x10. 152 pp. 111 color photos, 22 b&w photos. Color painting. 4 b&w drawings. Map. Art. Borderlands Studies. October
RELATED INTEREST Texas State Parks and the CCC The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps Cynthia A. Brandimarte and Angela S. Reed 978-1-60344-819-2 cloth $25.00 978-1-60344-825-3 ebook
Healing Landscapes A Journey from the Big Thicket to the Big Bend Jeanne Norsworthy 978-1-58544-140-2 cloth $29.95
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The Galveston That Was
Howard Barnstone Photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ezra Stoller Afterword by Peter Brink “Of all the books about Galveston, one of the best continues to be architect Howard Barnstone’s The Galveston That Was, published many years ago. This poignant and vivid record of the great mansions and public buildings of the historic island city by the late Houston architect is credited as being a catalyst in the preservation and restoration movement in Galveston.”—Houston Chronicle “This beautiful picture book about nineteenth-century Galveston architecture is also a book about how Galveston’s historic buildings were saved.”—Historic Preservation “The compelling power of The Galveston That Was comes from both Barnstone’s text and the photographs by Cartier-Bresson and Stoller. . . . The Galveston That Was probes the present on the same level as the past. It disquiets and unsettles us, asking us to establish ourselves, wherever we are, by building what we care about and caring about what we build.”—Bloomsbury Review Number Five: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
HOWARD BARNSTONE was a visiting critic at Yale University’s School of Architecture and a professor in the College of Architecture at the University of Houston. HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON is considered one of the major artists of the twentieth century, having covered many of the world’s biggest events, from the Spanish Civil War to the French uprisings in 1968. His photography has been featured in major exhibits around the world. EZRA STOLLER was a distinguished architectural photographer whose work is included in museum collections around the world.
978-1-62349-247-2 flexbound $38.00 81/2x11. 248 pp. 107 duotone photos. 17 drawings. Architecture. Photography. Texas History. October
RELATED INTEREST Galveston Architecture Guidebook Stephen Fox and Ellen Beasley 978-0-89263-346-3 paper $17.95
The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston An Architectural and Social History Ellen Beasley 978-1-58544-582-0 cloth $39.95
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Available again from Texas A&M University Press Winner, 1992 Citation Award, San Antonio Conservation Society
Houston’s Forgotten Heritage Landscape, Houses, Interiors, 1824–1914
Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton, Barrie M. Scardino Bradley, Sadie Gwin Blackburn, and Katherine S. Howe This ambitious book tells a richly detailed story of Houston home life and culture from the settlement of Harrisburg and Houston in the 1820s and 1830s to World War I, when rapid economic development and modernization began to spell demolition for many notable nineteenth-century houses and public buildings. The authors discuss landscape and horticulture, the development of domestic architecture, the evolution of home interiors, and domestic life, and its influence on the social and cultural fabric of the city. “Houston’s Forgotten Heritage stands out because of its integration of architecture, landscape, social history, and interior design, along with the authors’ ability to place Houston within the broader context of American history.”—Texas Architect “ . . . a solidly researched, enlightening work.”—Houston Chronicle Number Two: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
DOROTHY KNOX HOWE HOUSTON is a direct descendant of Jane Birdsall and John Richardson Harris, the family for whom Harris County is named. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and holds a Master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of the Junior League of Houston and is active in numerous other civic and cultural group. She is also the author of The Houston Club and its City. BARRIE M. SCARDINO BRADLEY has served as executive director of the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects, as editor of Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston, and as architectural archivist of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center at the Houston Public Library. She now resides in Beaumont, Texas. She is also the coauthor of Clayton’s Galveston. SADIE GWIN BLACKBURN is a direct descendant of Harvey Allen and holds two degrees from Rice University. KATHERINE S. HOWE is director of the Rienzi and Dora Maar House at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
978-1-62349-246-5 hardcover $50.00 81/2x11. 408 pp. 275 b&w photos. 7 maps. 2 charts. Gift Books. Architecture. Texas History. October
RELATED INTEREST Houston The Unknown City, 1836–1946 Marguerite Johnston 978-1-60344-523-8 paper $29.95
Houston’s Hermann Park A Century of Community Barrie Scardino Bradley 978-1-62349-036-2 cloth $45.00 978-1-62349-109-3 ebook
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The complete story of the Battle of the Tenaru, as told by both sides. . .
Victory Fever on Guadalcanal Japan's First Land Defeat of World War II William H. Bartsch
Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use. The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The attack that followed would prove to be the first of four attempts by the Japanese over six months to retake the airfield, resulting in some of the most vicious fighting of the Pacific War. During one such battle on the night of August 20–21, 1942, Marines wiped out Ichiki’s men, who—imbued with “victory fever”—had expected a quick and easy victory. William H. Bartsch draws on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official war records, including those translated from Japanese sources, to offer an intensely human narrative of the failed attempt to recapture Guadalcanal’s vital airfield. Number 147: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
WILLIAM H. BARTSCH, a former United Nations development economist and independent consultant now exclusively researching and writing on the Pacific War, lives in Reston, Virginia. He is the author of three previous books published by Texas A&M University Press: Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots on the Philippines, 1941–1942, December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor, and Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941–1942. His website is www.writingthepacificwar.com.
978-1-62349-184-0 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-220-5 ebook 6x9. 320 pp. 39 b&w photos. 7 maps. Glossary. Bib. Index. World War II. Marine Corps. Military History. November
RELATED INTEREST Doomed at the Start American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941–1942 William H. Bartsch 978-0-89096-679-2 paper $29.95s
December 8, 1941 MacArthur's Pearl Harbor William H. Bartsch 978-1-60344-741-6 paper $36.95 978-1-60344-662-4 ebook
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Every Citizen a Soldier The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World War II
William A. Taylor
New in paperback Beginning in 1943, US Army leaders such as John M. Palmer, Walter L. Weible, George C. Marshall, and John J. McCloy mounted a sustained and vigorous campaign to establish a system of universal military training (UMT) in America. Fearful of repeating the rapid demobilization and severe budget cuts that had accompanied peace following World War I, these leaders saw UMT as the basis for their postwar plans. As a result, they promoted UMT extensively and aggressively. In Every Citizen a Soldier: The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World War II, William A. Taylor illustrates how army leaders failed to adapt their strategy to the political realities of the day and underscores the delicate balance in American democracy between civilian and military control of strategy. This story is vital because of the ultimate outcome of the failure of the UMT initiative: the birth of the Cold War draft. Number 146: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
WILLIAM A. TAYLOR is an assistant professor of security studies at Angelo State University. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he previously served in the US Marine Corps. 978-1-62349-146-8 cloth $39.95s 978-1-62349-169-7 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 12 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Cold War. Military History. American History. Army. September
Art from the Trenches
America's Uniformed Artists in World War I Alfred Emile Cornebise
Since ancient times, wars have inspired artists and their patrons to commemorate victories. When the United States finally entered World War I, American artists and illustrators were commissioned to paint and draw it. These artists’ commissions, however, were as captains for their patron: the US Army. The eight men—William J. Aylward, Walter J. Duncan, Harvey T. Dunn, George M. Harding, Wallace Morgan, Ernest C. Peixotto, J. Andre Smith, and Harry E. Townsent—arrived in France early in 1918 with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). Alfred Emile Cornebise presents here the first comprehensive account of the US Army art program in World War I. The AEF artists saw their role as one of preserving images of the entire aspect of American involvement in a way that photography could not. Number Twenty: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
ALFRED EMILE CORNEBISE is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley and author of several books about the military and its use of the media in World War I. 978-1-62349-202-1 flexbound $35.00 978-1-62349-203-8 ebook 10x10. 176 pp. 8 b&w photos. 66 tinted plates. Art. Military History. World War I. November
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Rudder
Cold Days in Hell
From Leader to Legend
Thomas M. Hatfield
American POWs in Korea William Clark Latham Jr.
Whether scaling the seemingly insurmountable cliffs of Pointe du Hoc with his advance assault troops during the Normandy invasion, restoring integrity to the Texas Land Office, or overseeing transitions in an academic institution with hallowed traditions during a time of contentious cultural change, James Earl Rudder (1910–1970) forged a legacy of wartime gallantry and peacetime leadership that commands continuing respect. Rudder: From Leader to Legend pays tribute to a man who exemplified leadership, vision, and courage. “ . . . an engrossing biography . . . Hatfield has crafted a carefully researched and well-written book.”—Journal of America's Military Past Number 115: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
THOMAS M. HATFIELD is the director of the Military History Institute in the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he lectures on World War II and is Dean Emeritus of Continuing Education. The former president of two colleges, he was a military intelligence officer and is an internationally recognized scholar on World War II. 978-1-60344-262-6 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-244-1 paper $24.95 978-1-60344-264-0 ebook 6x9. 528 pp. 68 b&w photos. 8 maps. Bib. Index. World War II. Biography. September
In Cold Days in Hell: American POWS in Korea William Clark Latham Jr. seeks to correct misperceptions about the captivity of Korean War POWs, six decades after their return home. Relying on memoirs, trial transcripts, debriefings, declassified government reports, published analysis, and media coverage, plus conversations, interviews, and correspondence with several dozen former prisoners, he provides a detailed account of their captivity and offers valuable insights into an ongoing issue: the conduct of prisoners in the hands of enemy captors and the rules that should govern their treatment. Number 141: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
WILLIAM C. LATHAM JR. is an author and course director at the United States Army Logistics University at Fort Lee, Virginia. He served 22 years in the United States Army and has written extensively about military affairs. Latham's research contributed directly to the posthumous nomination of Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun for the Medal of Honor. 978-1-62349-205-2 paper $24.95 978-1-60344-751-5 ebook 6x9. 336 pp. 26 b&w photos. 6 maps. Fig. Bib. Index. Korean War. Cold War. American History. Military History. October
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Reframing the Matamoros Campaign of the US-Mexican War . . .
Two Armies on the Rio Grande
The First Campaign of the US-Mexican War Douglas Murphy
The opening campaign of the US-Mexican War transformed the map of each nation and shaped the course of conflict. Armed with a broad range of Mexican military documents and previously unknown US sources, Douglas Murphy provides the first balanced view of early battles such as Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He reassesses previously covered territory and also poses new questions.
Courtesy of Library of Congress
Why did Mexico establish its defenses south of the Rio Grande while claiming territory north of the river? What was Mexico’s strategy in the campaign against the United States? What factors most affected Mexico’s defeat? In confronting these questions, Murphy shows that the campaign was a complex chess match with undercurrents of political intrigue, economic motivations, and personal animosities as much as military action. Two Armies on the Rio Grande will transform our understanding of the US-Mexican War. Number 148: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
DOUGLAS MURPHY is park historian and chief of operations at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park. He also serves as an adjunct professor of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville.
978-1-62349-189-5 cloth $45.00s 978-1-62349-225-0 ebook 6x9. 356 pp. 11 b&w photos. 8 maps. Bib. Index. Military History. Mexican War. Military History, Texas. November
RELATED INTEREST On the Prairie of Palo Alto Historical Archaeology of the US–Mexican War Battlefield Charles M. Haecker and Jeffrey G. Mauck 978-1-60344-158-2 paper $29.95s 978-1-60344-355-5 ebook Mexican War Journal and Letters of Ralph K. Kirkham Edited by Robert Ryal Miller 978-0-89096-537-5 paper $16.95s
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Linking the federal to the local . . .
LBJ and Grassroots Federalism Congressman Bob Poage, Race, and Change in Texas Robert Harold Duke
LBJ and Grassroots Federalism: Congressman Bob Poage, Race, and Change in Texas reveals the local ramifications of federal policy. Three case studies in the rising career of Lyndon B. Johnson show this in action: LBJ's formative experience as a New Dealer directing the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas; his key role as senate majority leader in breaking the deadlock to secure funds for the Lake Waco dam project; and the cumulative effect of his Great Society policies on urban renewal and educational reform among the Mexican American community in Waco. In each of these initiatives, Bob Poage—though far more politically conservative than Johnson—served as a conduit between LBJ and citizen activists in Poage’s congressional district, affirming the significance of grassroots engagement even during an era usually associated with centralization. Robert Harold Duke's careful analysis in LBJ and Grassroots Federalism also offers a unique insight into a transformational period when the federal government broke down barriers and opened doors to the engagement of African Americans and Mexican Americans in community planning processes and social policy. Number 122: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
ROBERT HAROLD DUKE recently retired as assistant professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. Holding a PhD from Western Michigan University, he has previously served as a public school educator, both in the classroom and as a superintendent.
978-1-62349-172-7 cloth $45.00s 978-1-62349-185-7 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 20 b&w photos. 4 maps. Bib. Index. American History. Texas History. Political Science. September
RELATED INTEREST The Austin-Boston Connection Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937–1989 Anthony Champagne, Douglas B. Harris, James W. Riddlesperger Jr., and Garrison Nelson 978-1-60344-116-2 cloth $50.00x 978-1-60344-120-9 paper $27.95s 978-1-60344-326-5 ebook LBJ’s American Promise The 1965 Voting Rights Address Garth E. Pauley 978-1-58544-574-5 cloth $29.95x 978-1-58544-581-3 paper $16.95 978-1-60344-500-9 ebook
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Our Fighting Governor
The Life of Thomas M. Campbell and the Politics of Progressive Reform in Texas Janet Schmelzer
At the apex of progressive reform in Texas from 1907 to 1911, Thomas M. Campbell served as the state’s chief executive. Closely associated with former Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg, Campbell played a central role in reviving the Hogg reform movement and building a strong record of progressive laws in areas such as social welfare, public education, and tax reform. In the broader context of southern progressivism, Campbell was a leading progressive governor much like Hoke Smith of Georgia, Benjamin Comer of Alabama, Charles B. Aycock of North Carolina, and Andrew Jackson Montague of Virginia. This full biography of Campbell’s life and political career shines a light on his contributions and successes as well as his failures and shortcomings. In Our Fighting Governor, Janet Schmelzer explores Campbell’s life, political career, and legacy. At the same time, she provides new insight into the inner workings of the Texas Democratic Party at the turn of the twentieth century. She uncovers Campbell’s political philosophy and the importance of his leadership that guided the agenda for progressive reform, resulted in the passage of reform legislation, and marked him as a southern progressive governor. Number 123: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
JANET SCHMELZER is professor of history at Tarleton State University and the author of Where the West Begins. She resides in North Richland Hills, Texas.
978-1-62349-181-9 cloth $45.00s 978-1-62349-210-6 ebook 6x9. 320 pp. 11 b&w photos. Map. Bib. Index. Biography. Texas Political History. October
RELATED INTEREST The Texas Left The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism Edited by David O'Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison 978-1-60344-175-9 cloth $45.00x 978-1-60344-189-6 paper $23.95s 978-1-60344-370-8 ebook
Twilight of the Texas Democrats The 1978 Governor's Race Kenneth Bridges 978-1-60344-009-7 cloth $39.95s 978-1-60344-408-8 ebook
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Culture in the American Southwest The Earth, the Sky, the People
Keith L. Bryant Jr.
Finalist, 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, presented by the New Mexico Book Co-op
Turmoil on the Rio Grande
History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865 William S. Kiser From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of Southwestern "high culture" in Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, The Sky, The People. Decade by decade and city by city, Bryant charts the growth of cultural institutions and patronage as he describes the contributions of artists and performers and of the elites who support them. Bryant focuses on the significant role women played as leaders in the formation of cultural institutions and as writers, artists, and musicians. The text is enhanced by more than fifty photographs depicting the interplay between the people and the land and the culture that has resulted. Number Twelve: Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
KEITH L. BRYANT JR, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Akron, has published in Southwest history for over thirty years. His studies have included regional architecture, art, and cultural institutions. He also authored a biography of the American Impressionist painter William Merritt Chase. He resides in Bryan. 978-1-62349-207-6 paper $24.95 978-1-62349-208-3 ebook 6x9. 392 pp. 62 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Western History. October
“Turmoil on the Rio Grande superbly chronicles the history of the valley during the crucial and eventful years from the beginning of the war with Mexico to the end of the Civil War. Kiser has a brisk writing style that makes the book both enjoyable and exciting.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly " . . . an engaging and diligent account that greatly enhances the state's understanding of its southern portion. If the quality of his first work is any indication, other books by this young man will soon enhance the shelves of Western history."—Pasatiempo “Mining an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, including archived collections and government documents, the author reveals the many ways in which the Mesilla Valley figured in the expansionist goals of the South.”—Journal of Arizona History Number Thirty-eight: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
WILLIAM S. KISER is a graduate student at Arizona State University. He is also the author of the award-winning Dragoons in Apacheland: Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861. 978-1-60344-296-1 cloth $35.00s 978-1-62349-204-5 paper $22.95 978-1-60344-685-3 ebook 6x9. 304 pp. 16 photos. 10 maps. Bib. Index. Western History. Civil War. September
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The Howling of the Coyotes Reconstruction Efforts to Divide Texas Ernest Wallace
Winner, 2008 Kemper Williams Prize for best book in Louisiana History
Colonial Natchitoches
A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier H. Sophie Burton and F. Todd Smith In The Howling of the Coyotes: Reconstruction Efforts to Divide Texas, Ernest Wallace was among the first to chronicle attempts by radical reconstructionists to divide the state, a move their critics derisively referred to as the "howling of the coyotes." He traces the interplay of the division issue with partisan politics and with other controversies in the reconstruction convention.
“This wonderful new micro history of colonial Natchitoches builds on earlier studies to . . . give us a snapshot of life on the Louisiana frontier, one solidly based on archival research, which greatly enhances our understanding of an important chapter in Louisiana history. This is social history at its best and deserving of a place on reading lists in Louisiana history courses.”—Louisiana History
This classic work will be a primary source for historians who have revisited this topic.
“Their meticulous analysis of the social and economic components of a frontier settlement through nearly a century lays bare the fabric of its development.”—The Advocate
“ . . . a model monograph from the pen of a senior scholar.”—Western Historical Quarterly “ . . . the first scholarly treatment on the history of efforts to divide Texas from 1844 to the present.” —Journal of the West “The style is lucid and straightforward, the story interesting, the research exhaustive.” —Pacific Historical Review ERNEST WALLACE was the author of many books and articles on Texas history, Horn Professor of History Emeritus at Texas Tech University, and former president of the Texas State Historical Association. 978-1-62349-249-6 paper $19.95s 6x9. 232 pp. Illus. Maps. Appendix. Bib. Index. Texas History. September
“ . . . blazes new historiographical ground by providing an in-depth community study of Natchitoches during the eighteenth century.”—Journal of American History Number Twenty-nine: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
H. SOPHIE BURTON earned her doctorate in Latin American history from Texas Christian University and is the author of numerous articles on colonial Louisiana. F. TODD SMITH, a professor of history at the University of North Texas, is the author of five books, including his latest, Louisiana and the Gulf South Frontier, 1500– 1821. They both live in Dallas, Texas. 978-1-62349-206-9 paper $19.95 978-1-60344-437-8 ebook 55/8x91/4. 232 pp. 4 maps. 50 tables. Bib. Index. Ethnic Studies. Southern History. September
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Refining the definition of Clovis . . .
Clovis
On the Edge of a New Understanding
Edited by Ashley M. Smallwood and Thomas A. Jennings New research and the discovery of multiple archaeological sites predating the established age of Clovis (13,000 years ago) provide evidence that the Americas were first colonized at least one thousand to two thousand years before Clovis. These revelations indicate to researchers that the peopling of the Americas was perhaps a more complex process than previously thought. The Clovis culture remains the benchmark for chronological, technological, and adaptive comparisons in research on peopling of the Americas. In Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding, volume editors Ashley Smallwood and Thomas Jennings bring together the work of many researchers actively studying the Clovis complex. The contributing authors presented earlier versions of these chapters at the Clovis: Current Perspectives on Chronology, Technology, and Adaptations symposium held at the 2011 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Sacramento, California. In seventeen chapters, the researchers provide their current perspectives of the Clovis archaeological record as they address the question: What is and what is not Clovis? Peopling of the Americas Publications, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the First Americans
ASHLEY M. SMALLWOOD is director of the Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archaeological Laboratory in the department of anthropology at the University of West Georgia. She is coeditor, with Mike Waters, of Clovis Lithic Technology: Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas. THOMAS A. JENNINGS, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of West Georgia, is also coeditor of Clovis Lithic Technology.
978-1-62349-201-4 hardcover $50.00s 978-1-62349-228-1 ebook 81/2x11. 288 pp. 30 b&w photos. 27 maps. 28 line art. 24 figs. Index. Anthropology. Archaeology. December
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Paleoamerican Origins Beyond Clovis Edited by Robson Bonnichsen, Bradley T. Lepper, Dennis Stanford, and Michael R. Waters 978-1-60344-812-3 paper $45.00s
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Paleoamerican Odyssey
Edited by Kelly E. Graf, Caroline V. Ketron, and Michael R. Waters As research continues on the earliest migration of modern humans into North and South America, the current state of knowledge about these first Americans is continually evolving. Especially with recent advances in human genomic studies, both of living populations and ancient skeletal remains, new light is being shed in the ongoing quest toward understanding the full complexity and timing of prehistoric migration patterns. Paleoamerican Odyssey collects thirty-one studies presented at the 2013 conference by the same name, hosted in Santa Fe, New Mexico, by the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University. Providing an up-to-date view of the current state of knowledge in paleoamerican studies, the research gathered in this volume, presented by leaders in the field, focuses especially on late Pleistocene Northeast Asia, Beringia, and North and South America, as well as dispersal routes, molecular genetics, and Clovis and pre-Clovis archaeology. Peopling of the Americas Publications, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the First Americans
KELLY E. GRAF is an assistant professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University and research affiliate of the Center for the Study of the First Americans. CAROLINE V. KETRON is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Texas A&M University. MICHAEL R. WATERS is a professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University, director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans, and executive director of the North Star Archaeological Research Program.
978-1-62349-192-5 paper $45.00s 978-1-62349-233-5 ebook 81/2x11. 584 pp. 126 b&w photos. 42 line art. 56 maps. 58 graphs. Index. Archaeology. Anthropology. September
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What lies at the core of being a sister or having a brother?
Brothers and Sisters
Archetype and Reality
Henry Abramovitch Foreword by David H. Rosen
Now available in a new Texas A&M University Press edition . . .
War
A Primer for Christians Joseph L. Allen
Growing up, we typically spend more time with our brothers and sisters than we do with our parents. In an age of divorce, mobility, and alienation, the sibling bond is often the only one that really lasts.
War: A Primer for Christians provides a concise introduction to the main approaches that Christians have taken toward war and examines each approach critically.
Given that brothers and sisters are such a fundamental aspect of human existence, it is remarkable that they have received so little in-depth attention in the field of psychology.
Some Christians have supported their country's wars as crusades of good against evil. Others, as pacifists, have rejected participation in or support for any war. Still others have followed the just-war tradition in holding that it can be justifiable under some conditions to resort to war, but that then Christian love must limit the conduct of war.
Henry Abramovitch’s Brothers and Sisters explores the tension between the myth and reality of brothers and sisters in a variety of cultures and through the poignant brother-sister stories in the Bible. Abramovitch looks at the developmental sequence in the sibling relationship as brothers or sisters struggle to find their place with each other, concluding with a very personal account of his own relationship with his brother and sister. Number Nineteen: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology
HENRY ABRAMOVITCH is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist, anthropologist, and medical educator. He is the founding president of the Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology and a professor in the department of medical education at the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv University. 978-1-62349-190-1 cloth $27.95 978-1-62349-218-2 ebook 51/2x81/2. 176 pp. Bib. Index. Analytical Psychology. October
In an updated preface and new afterword, Allen explores aspects of current international relations that have a special bearing on the context of war. “Joseph Allen’s War: A Primer for Christians is just that: a succinct, fair-minded, wonderfully reasoned, and accessible account of the major Christian traditions on war—Just War, Holy War, and the Pacifist renunciation of violence. His book is also a primer in the further sense, that it will prime the pump for further discussion and debate as to when wars are just and how a nation might keep the means employed under restraints.”—William F. May JOSEPH L. ALLEN is professor emeritus of Christian ethics at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. 978-1-62349-243-4 paper $12.95s 978-1-62349-252-6 ebook 51/2x81/2. 80 pp. Religion. Philosophy. Military History. September
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On History's Trail
Speeches and Essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009–2012 Light Townsend Cummins Foreword by Larry McNeill
On History’s Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 2009–2012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cummins’s time as the State Historian of Texas, when he spoke to dozens of groups across the Lone Star State and beyond. The subjects include the settlement of Canary Islanders in Texas and Louisiana, the Red River War, Dallas sculptress Allie V. Tennant, the “hometown” of Audie Murphy, and much more. While wide-ranging in time and place, this collection emphasizes the importance of biography and the individual in Texas history, never losing the warmth and humanity that is Cummins’s hallmark. The most important point of On History’s Trail, though, is the most valuable lesson Cummins learned while State Historian: The history of Texas is alive and well today. There are more people reading and researching the history of the state than ever before. The range of topics in this volume shows the viability, breadth, and range of the state’s remarkable history.
978-1-62511-023-7 paper $30.00 6x9. 300 pp. 12 b&w photos. Texas History. Historiography. American History. Texana. Biography. October
LIGHT TOWNSEND CUMMINS is Bryan Professor of History at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He is the author or editor of several books on Texas and Louisiana history, including Emily Austin of Texas 1795–1851 (TCU Press, 2009), which won the Liz Carpenter Award from the Texas State Historical Association for research in the history of women. LARRY McNEILL is an Austin attorney and past president of the Texas State Historical Association.
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Tejano Epic Essays in Honor of Félix D. Almaráz, Jr Edited by Arnoldo De León 978-0-87611-203-8 paper $19.95
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Red Water, Black Gold
The Canadian River in Western Texas, 1920–1999 Margaret A. Bickers
Red Water, Black Gold: The Canadian River in Texas 1920–1999 tells the story of the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle. It is a tale of grand designs, high hopes, deep holes, politics, fishing, follies, foibles, and environmental change. Although efforts had been made to tap the Canadian River’s waters before 1920, the discovery of oil in the Panhandle gave new urgency to the search for permanent water supplies. Additionally, the spread of groundwater irrigation amid the discovery of the limits of Ogallala Aquifer spurred regional interests to tap the Canadian. But overestimates of the river’s flow and unfamiliarity with the critical role groundwater played in maintaining that flow led to complications and frustrations, culminating in a lawsuit over the location of the banks of a seemingly waterless river. This book is a valuable addition to the water history of Texas and the American West and to the growing body of worldwide regional water histories. Combining traditional historical sources with hydrology, climatology, and geology, Red Water, Black Gold complicates the traditional story of top-down water management as well as telling the thus-far untold story of the Canadian River in Texas. MARGARET A. BICKERS, an independent historian from Amarillo, holds a PhD in history from Kansas State University and is a winner of the Excellence in West Texas History Fellowship. In Red Water, Black Gold she combined her expertise in western and environmental history with a personal depth of knowledge gained from growing up in the Canadian River watershed and the ten years she spent flying over the region as a pilot.
978-1-62511-002-2 paper $30.00 6x9. 300 pp. 10 b&w photos. 2 maps. American History. Environmental History. Western History. Texas History. History of Technology. October
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Road, River, and Ol’ Boy Politics A Texas County’s Path from Farm to Supersuburb Linda Scarbrough 978-0-87611-202-1 cloth $39.95 978-0-87611-235-9 paper $22.95
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Deep in the Art of Texas A Century of Paintings and Drawings Edited by Michael W. Duty
J. P. Bryan, whose monumental collection of Texas art is the source of this traveling exhibition, determined that he would collect only those artists who had actually participated in the settlement of Texas—not artists who imagined the events after they were history. Thus, as editor Michael Duty observes, Deep in the Art of Texas constitutes not just a tour of Texas artists, but a virtual tour of the romantic history and vast geography of the state itself. Recognition that art is an essential part of Texas culture came late. Ron Tyler points out that if you searched art in the first edition of the Handbook of Texas, you discovered that it was “a small town in eastern Mason County.” The lively essays here—by Bryan, Duty, and Tyler, the former director of the Amon Carter Museum—do more than illuminate the works themselves: they shed light on the creators and collectors of Texas art from the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth. Deep in the Art of Texas pulls pieces from the Torch Energy Advisors Collection of Texas Art, which showcases the likes of Charles Franklin “Frank” Reaugh and Robert Julian Onderdonk. The collection is housed at Torch Energy Advisors Inc. in Houston. The former executive director of the National Western Art Foundation in San Antonio, MICHAEL W. DUTY has over thirty years experience working with museums throughout the country. The author of two award-winning books, The Cowboy Artists of America and Western Traditions: Contemporary Artists of the American West, Duty owns Michael Duty Fine Art in Dallas.
978-0-87565-562-8 cloth $35.00 10x10. 120 pp. 71 color photos. Art. Photography, Texas. Texana Gift Books. Exploration/Settlement. August
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Fair Park Deco Art and Architecture of the Texas Centennial Exposition Jim Parsons and David Bush 978-0-87565-501-7 cloth $40.00
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On Becoming an Architect A Memoir
Frank D. Welch A vivid memory and sharp focus on sensory detail— particularly sights, sounds, emotions—enable Frank Welch to narrate the extraordinary story of his life with great richness and insight. From his boyhood in Sherman, Texas, through his education at Texas A&M in the 1950s and his first professional ventures, Welch’s story is a remarkable memoir of how he became one of the Southwest’s most important architects. Mentored by Harry Ransom, Welch and his fellow architecture students, traveling in two-door sedans with “Property of Texas A&M College” stenciled on the door panels, made pilgrimages around the country to tour important architectural sites and meet many of the nation’s most prominent architects. Among them were Frank Lloyd Wright, whom the group met in Arizona at Taleisin West. In Chicago, Welch and his classmates met Mies van der Rohe. And on the Pacific coast, Charles Eames gave the group breakfast at his home on a bluff overlooking the ocean. Welch’s postgraduate years in Europe and his professional career in Texas are beautifully rendered in a volume richly illustrated with sketches, photographs, and floor plans of some of the most intriguing architectural gems in the Southwest. In 1959, FRANK D. WELCH opened his first office: the origins of Frank Welch & Associates, a firm that has been recognized with over fifty design excellence awards. He has served as lecturer, visiting critic, and interim professor at many institutions, and is the author of Philip Johnson & Texas. Raised in Sherman, Texas, Welch now resides in Dallas where he continues to practice architecture.
978-0-87565-601-4 cloth $45.00 10x10. 256 pp. 300 b&w photos. Architecture. Memoir. October
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Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks Carol Roark Photographs by Byrd Williams 978-0-87565-143-9 cloth $42.50
Fort Worth Then and Now Carol Roark Photographs by Rodger Mallison Foreword by Douglas Harman 978-0-87565-245-0 cloth $45.00
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El Paso 120 Mark A. Paulda
Mark Paulda, accomplished photographer and wandering wayfarer, doesn’t just showcase scenery in El Paso 120; he makes a powerful statement: “El Paso is not at the edge but instead at the very center of some remarkably amazing landscape.” Paulda subverts the notion that El Paso is merely a desert city in the middle of nowhere by taking his audience on journeys to striking destinations within a 120-mile radius of the border city. Alongside photographs of mountainous locales like the Hueco Tanks, Paulda includes photos of such variety that some might not believe these locales are within a two-hour drive of El Paso. The breathtaking White Sands of the Tularosa Basin are only ninety-five miles to the north; the untouched rivers, delta, and lake of Elephant Butte, merely one hundred and twenty miles away. Paulda has captured these and many more stunning settings in gorgeous color. By capturing the magnitude of these sublime landscapes with aerial shots, and bringing viewers to the heart of each scene with ground shots, Paulda reveals the grandeur of a terrain that, for many of us, has been off the map. A long-time resident of El Paso, MARK PAULDA’s photographic career has brought him many accolades, including finalist, 2008/2010/2011 International Travel Photographer of the Year; semi-finalist, Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year; semi-finalist, landscape at the Venice International Photo Awards; and third prize, Prix de la Photographie Paris.
978-0-87565-602-1 cloth $35.00 12x9. 96 pp. 115 color photos. Photography. Photography, Texas. September
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El Paso in Pictures Frank Mangan 978-0-87565-350-1 cloth $29.95
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Women of Thunder Jerry Craven
In an attempt to regain a youthful innocence, Vietnam Veteran Tom Seal returns to El Tigrito, Venezuela, hoping to find his childhood friend, Rosa Rojas, nearly two decades after Tom’s family returned to the United States. Tom longs to recreate an adventure he and Rosa shared when they were young and to return to the “Eden of their childhood” they had stumbled upon as children. But the ensuing eighteen years have changed not only the jungle, but the two friends as well. Departing for the jungle in the rainy season, Tom and Rosa try to regain the same joy and happiness they had experienced so many years ago, but instead they are beset by howler monkeys, flesh-eating butterflies, the Jungle People, and perhaps most dangerous of all—the ghosts of their own painful pasts. JERRY CRAVEN, Director of Lamar University Press and Ink Brush Press and Editor-in-Chief of Amarillo Bay, is on the writing faculty at Lamar University. An experienced traveler to exotic places around the world, including Agra, Venezuela, Delhi, and Khazakhstan, he is an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, short stories, and poetry.
978-0-87565-599-4 paper $22.95 978-0-87565-590-1 ebook 6x9. 288 pp. Fiction. November
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The Chicken Hanger Ben Rehder 978-0-87565-436-2 paper $23.95 978-0-87565-495-9 ebook $15.95
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Restaurantes, rumba y más
If in Later Years
Ronald E. Moore
A Gringo's Guide to Latino Fort Worth Peter Szok
Taking us well off the beaten path, Peter Szok guides readers on a cultural journey through Latino Fort Worth that will make your stomach—and heart— hunger for more. Szok sets the stage for Fort Worth as more than just cowboys and cattle. With mouthwatering descriptions, Szok highlights the best Latino restaurants with foods like barbacoa, birria, and elote. For the dancers, Szok highlights the best dance spots while offering insight into Latino clothing traditions like the pointy boots (botas picudas) in style throughout dance halls like Escapada 2001 and OK Corral, where they play norteño, banda, cumbia, and other Latino music. And for a taste of Latino history, Szok highlights churches, barber shops, botanicas, and more. With so much to explore, A Gringo’s Guide to Latino Fort Worth will make any reader fall in love with Fort Worth. PETER SZOK is a graduate of Tulane University, where he received a PhD in modern Latin American history and specialized in ethnicity, nationalism, and popular culture. Szok is an associate professor of history at TCU, where he teaches classes on Afro-Latin American history, indigenous movements, and Central America. 978-0-87565-598-7 paper $9.95 978-0-87565-504-8 ebook 41/2x61/2. 96 pp. Mexican American Studies. Texana Gift Books. Cultural Studies. October
If in Later Years is filled with poems of depth and insight that provoke, engage, surprise, and astound. Reading Ron Moore’s second collection of poetry takes readers on journeys around the world and back through the ages of time. Each poem is written with great insight, learning, and craft, and each invites multiple readings and reflection. From a Tibetan monk sitting in silence and contemplating the atom to a love affair with Buenos Aires, Moore takes his readers on journeys that are both personal and profound. While each poem has its own voice and beauty, Moore shapes all of them with lyrical and mindful skill. Unafraid to tackle the hard questions of philosophy, aesthetics, consciousness, and art, he uses his poems to delve into themes of desire, loss, love, beauty, and the distant horizons of the mind. RONALD E. MOORE earned degrees in philosophy and finance from TCU. His first book of poetry, Alterity, was published in 2007. His work has appeared in descant, the Langdon Review, and the anthology 8 Voices. Before retiring, he was a health care executive for thirty years and now serves on several philanthropic boards and foundations. An accomplished musician and intrepid traveler (104 countries), he is also a human rights advocate and patron of the arts. Moore resides in Fort Worth. 978-0-87565-600-7 cloth $19.95 978-0-87565-604-5 ebook 6x9. 96 pp. Poetry. October
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The Life of Coach Chuck Curtis
New from Patrick Dearen . . .
From the Spread Formation to Spreading the Word
Patrick Dearen
The Big Drift
Chuck Curtis as told to Brian Honea
Assistant football coach for Southern Methodist University and head coach at the University of Texas at Arlington, Chuck Curtis was born in Midlothian, Texas, on July 15, 1935, to farmers John and Ellie Curtis. From humble beginnings in the throes of the Great Depression, Chuck Curtis would go on to become one of the most successful quarterbacks in TCU history, one of Texas football’s most interesting figures, and an Elder of the Palo Pinto Cowboy Church. Through conversations with his collaborator, Brian Honea, Coach Curtis chronicles his greatest achievements on and off the field—from playing backup quarterback for the New York Giants under offensive coordinator Vince Lombardi and defensive coordinator Tom Landry, to banking and ranching with Mickey Mantle. These conversations also reveal the man behind the legend—one who was divorced, nearly committed suicide, and eventually found salvation through the grace of God and the love of his wife Carole and daughter Kim. BRIAN HONEA has written and published the sports books Ahmo Power: The Story of the 1977 Texas 2A State Champion Wylie Pirates and Moon Shots and Short Hops: and Everything in Between. Honea lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where he works as a freelance writer and editor and is an avid fan of the Texas Rangers. 978-0-87565-603-8 paper $20.00 978-0-87565-605-2 ebook 6x9. 96 pp. 12 b&w photos. Index. Sports. Memoir. August
Will Brite is a Slash Five cowboy working in the Middle Concho region of Texas in the winter of 1884 when a blizzard descends upon him—the likes of which he has never seen. Trapped under his horse and entangled in a barbed wire fence, Will finds an unexpected (and unwelcome) savior in the form of Zeke Boles, a former slave on the run from a bloody, guilt-filled past. In Zeke’s dark features Will sees a reflection of the haunting memories he has been trying to escape for so long, but he reluctantly offers him shelter for the night at the Slash Five camp. Little does he know that their lives will be inexorably linked in the spring of ’85 through what will be one of the most brutal roundups of the nineteenth century. Follow Will, Zeke, and the rest of the Slash Fives as they ride through West Texas in search of stray cattle in an unforgettable tale of love, redemption, and true grit. PATRICK DEAREN, a recognized authority on the Texas Pecos River country, is the author of twenty books, including eleven novels, and has been honored by the Western Writers of America, the West Texas Historical Association, and the Permian Historical Society. A ragtime pianist and backpack enthusiast, he currently lives in Midland, Texas, with his wife Mary. 978-0-87565-570-3 paper $22.95 978-0-87565-577-2 ebook 6x9. 192 pp. Texana. Western Fiction. October
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Bad Company and Burnt Powder Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest Bob Alexander
Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. Covered herein are the stories of Cal Aten, John Hittson, the Millican boys, Gid Taylor and Jim and Tom Murphy, Alf Rushing, Bob Meldrum and Noah Wilkerson, P. C. Baird, Gus Chenowth, Jim Dunaway, John Kinney, Elbert Hanks and Boyd White, and Eddie Aten. Within these pages the reader will meet a nineteen-year-old Texas Ranger figuratively dying to shoot his gun. He does get to shoot at people, but soon realizes what he thought was a bargain exacted a steep price. Another tale is of an old-school cowman who shut down illicit traffic in stolen livestock that had existed for years on the Llano Estacado. He was tough, salty, and had no quarter for cow-thieves or sympathy for any mealy-mouthed politicians. He cleaned house, maybe not too nicely, but unarguably successful he was. Then there is the tale of an accomplished and unbeaten fugitive, well known and identified for murder of a Texas peace officer. But the Texas Rangers couldn't find him. County sheriffs wouldn't hold him. Slipping away from bounty hunters, he hit Owlhoot Trail. Number Thirteen: Frances B. Vick Series
BOB ALEXANDER began a policing career in 1965 and retired as a special agent with the US Treasury Department. He is the author of Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten (winner of WWHA Best Book Award); Riding Lucifer's Line: Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border; and Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874–1901, all published by UNT Press. He lives in Maypearl, Texas.
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Bob Alexander is at his best, relating lawman/outlaw tales in his breezy, colloquial style. Bob’s focus is on the outlaws and lawmen unfamiliar to most readers, although they seem as courageous and quick-triggered as many gunmen who are far better known.”—Bill O'Neal, State Historian of Texas and author of The Johnson-Sims Feud
978-1-57441-566-7 cloth $32.95 978-157441-580-3 ebook 6x9. 512 pp. 106 b&w photos. Notes. Bib. Index. Western History. Texas Rangers. July
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Winchester Warriors Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874–1901 Bob Alexander 978-1-57441-310-6 paper $19.95
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Goodbye Gluten
Happy Healthy Delicious Eating with a Texas Twist Kim Stanford and Bill Backhaus
There are many gluten-free cookbooks on the market, but none like Goodbye Gluten! Roughly one-third of people in the US are either gluten intolerant or have celiac disease, and for these people, eating gluten can make them sick—very sick. The engaging team of Kim Stanford and Bill Backhaus represents both these audiences, and together they have developed over two hundred flavorful and tempting recipes for all types of dishes, from appetizers to desserts. Goodbye Gluten is both a cookbook and shopping guide for people who do not want gluten in their diets and are tired of missing out on their favorite foods. In each recipe the authors use everyday brand names that can be found at your local grocery store, which means you no longer have to check labels to decipher if a product is gluten-free. Another appeal of the book is its use of Texas and Tex-Mex flavors to add a kick to what can be bland fare. Goodbye Gluten makes it easy to live the gluten-free lifestyle, because it is not just a diet, but a lifestyle. With thirty color photos of the completed dishes, even the most dedicated bread-lover will want to get into the kitchen and start cooking. Number Four: Great American Cooking Series
KIM STANFORD grew up in North Texas, lives in Austin, where she runs a catering business, and loves Southern home cooking. Her gluten-free pie was featured on the Food Network. BILL BACKHAUS is a "cook's cook" who was diagnosed with celiac disease in 1981. He is a lawyer in Dallas.
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The most compelling aspect of the cookbook is its use of name brands. The authors have done the homework on labels, so the reader doesn’t have to. They also have a clear, playful voice that’s appealing and accessible.”—Kim Pierce, co-author of Phytopia Cookbook and contributor to Dallas Morning News
978-1-57441-578-0 paper $21.95 978-1-57441-588-9 ebook 9x9. 224 pp. 30 color illustrations. Index. Cookbooks. October
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The View from the Back of the Band The Life and Music of Mel Lewis
Chris Smith Foreword by John Mosca Afterword by John Riley Mel Lewis (1929–1990) was born Melvin Sokoloff to Jewish Russian immigrants in Buffalo, New York. He first picked up his father’s drumsticks at the age of two and at seventeen he was a full-time professional musician. The View from the Back of the Band is the first biography of this legendary jazz drummer. For over fifty years, Lewis provided the blueprint for how a drummer could subtly support any musical situation. While he made his name with Stan Kenton and Thad Jones, and with his band at the Village Vanguard, it was the hundreds of recordings that he made as a sideman and his ability to mentor young musicians that truly defined his career. Away from the drums, Lewis's passionate and outspoken personality made him one of jazz music's greatest characters. It is often through Lewis's own anecdotes, as well as many from the musicians who knew him best, that this book traces the career of one of the world’s greatest drummers. Previously unpublished interviews, personal memoirs, photos, musical transcriptions, and a selected discography add to this comprehensive biography. Number Ten: North Texas Lives of Musician Series
CHRIS SMITH was raised in Iowa and began playing the drums at age eight. He holds degrees from Northern Illinois University and Manhattan School of Music, and a doctorate from University of Northern Colorado. He is currently a professional drummer and educator in New York, frequently giving master classes throughout the US.
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Smith did a fine job. The research is meticulous and his insights into the music of Mel Lewis are good ones.”—Bruce Klauber, author of World of Gene Krupa: That Legendary Drummin' Man This is the best and most complete tracking of Lewis's career.”—John Riley, author of The Art of Bop Drumming and holder of Lewis' chair at the Village Vanguard
978-1-57441-574-2 cloth $24.95 978-1-57441-587-2 ebook 6x9. 384 pp. 31 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Music. Biography. October
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A Deeper Blue The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt Robert Earl Hardy 978-1-57441-285-7 paper $14.95
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The Upshaws of County Line An American Family Richard Orton
Guss, Felix, and Jim Upshaw founded the community of County Line in the 1870s in northwest Nacogdoches County, in deep East Texas. As with hundreds of other relatively autonomous black communities created at that time, the Upshaws sought a safe place to raise their children and create a livelihood during Reconstruction and Jim Crow Texas. In the late 1980s photographer Richard Orton visited County Line for the first time and became aware of a world he did not know existed as a white man. He went down the rabbit hole, so to speak, and met some remarkable people there who changed his life. The more than 50 duotone photographs and text convey the contemporary experience of growing up in a "freedom colony." Covering a period of twenty-five years, photographer Richard Orton juxtaposes his images with text from people who grew up in and have remained connected to their birthplace. Thad Sitton's foreword sets the community in historical context and Roy Flukinger points out the beauty of the documentary photographs. This book should appeal to anyone interested in American or Texas history, particularly the history of African Americans in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. The book should also be of interest to anyone with an appreciation for documentary photography, including students and teachers of photography. RICHARD ORTON was born in Nacogdoches and raised in Midland. He became mesmerized by photography after seeing an image materializing in a development tray. After two years in the Peace Corps, he settled in Austin, Texas, where he worked with nonprofits before becoming a photographer for the Texas House of Representatives. He moved back to Nacogdoches in 2007.
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There are giants in the earth and other 'presences' at County Line, and when you look closely at the photos of Orton perhaps you can sense some of them.”—from the Foreword by Thad Sitton This book reveals significance in the lives of ordinary people who, when closely examined, are not ordinary at all.”—O. Rufus Lovett, photographer for Weeping Mary
978-1-57441-571-1 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-584-1 ebook 10x8. 144 pp. 59 duotones. Index. Photography. November
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Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
The Year of Perfect Happiness Becky Adnot-Haynes
The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes's debut collection explore the secret lives of people—how they deal with the parts of themselves that they choose not to share with their closest confidants—and with the world. A pole-vaulter practices his sport only before dawn. A recently divorced woman signs up for a hallucinogenic drug excursion in the Arizona desert. An uncertain girlfriend goes out into the world wearing a false pregnancy belly. In The Year of Perfect Happiness, the universe is recognizable but slightly askew, a world whose corners can be peeled back to reveal the strange and often comic outcomes of acting out your most self-destructive desires. Number Thirteen: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
BECKY ADNOT-HAYNES grew up in Gainesville, Florida, and holds a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati, where she worked as an editor for The Cincinnati Review. Her stories have appeared in literary journals such as The Missouri Review, The Indiana Review, The Literary Review, West Branch, and PANK, and she was the winner of Hobart’s Buffalo Prize for short fiction. She lives in Cincinnati.
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In The Year of Perfect Happiness, Becky Adnot-Haynes puts her smart and funny prose to expert use, patiently delving the radiant mysteries we keep from strangers, from ourselves, from the people we love the most: Our joys and sorrows, our hidden hurts and unforgettable mistakes and untellable secrets, secrets which Adnot-Haynes's excellent stories suggest we want only to be forced to share, craving the moment when we're at last revealed in all our imperfect but stunning humanity.”—Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods and judge
978-1-57441-565-0 paper $14.95 978-1-57441-579-7 ebook 51/2x81/2. 192 pp. Collection of Short Fiction. November
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Out of Time Geoff Schmidt 978-1-57441-319-9 paper $14.95
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New in paperback
Texas Ranger N. O. Reynolds, the Intrepid Chuck Parsons and Donaly E. Brice
Winner, Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, Texas State Historical Association
Women and the Texas Revolution Edited by Mary L. Scheer
In this second edition, historians Chuck Parsons and Donaly E. Brice present a complete picture of N. O. Reynolds (1846–1922), a Texas Ranger who brought a greater respect for the law in Central Texas. Reynolds began as a sergeant in famed Company D, Frontier Battalion in 1874. He served honorably during the Mason County “Hoo Doo” War and was chosen to be part of Major John B. Jones's escort, riding the frontier line. In 1877 he arrested the Horrells, who were feuding with their neighbors, the Higgins party, thus ending their Lampasas County feud. Shortly thereafter he was given command of the newly formed Company E of Texas Rangers. Also in 1877 the notorious John Wesley Hardin was captured; N.O. Reynolds was given the responsibility to deliver Hardin to trial in Comanche, return him to a safe jail during his appeal, and then escort him safely to the Huntsville penitentiary. Number Fourteen: Frances B. Vick Series
CHUCK PARSONS is the author of Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger; The Sutton-Taylor Feud, John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger, Pioneer Rancher; and coauthor of A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West. He lives in Luling, Texas. DONALY E. BRICE is the author of The Great Comanche Raid and coauthor of The Governor's Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870–1873. He lives in Lockhart, Texas. 978-1-57441-572-8 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-585-8 ebook 6x9. 464 pp. 81 b&w photos. Map. Notes. Bib. Index. Texas Rangers. Biography. August
While there is wide scholarship on the Texas Revolution, there is no comparable volume on the role of women during that conflict. Most of the many works on the Texas Revolution include women briefly in the narrative, such as Emily Austin, Suzanna Dickinson, and Emily Morgan West (the Yellow Rose), but not as principal participants. Women and the Texas Revolution explores these women in much more depth, in addition to covering the women and children who fled Santa Anna’s troops in the Runaway Scrape, and examining the roles and issues facing Native American, black, and Hispanic women of the time. “[This] is a needed, educational, and enjoyable anthology that can be used in a variety of studies— women's history, that of the Revolution, or early Texas. This book will be equally attractive to the non-academic world, as it contains all the ingredients in a great book—love, death, turmoil, survival, defeat, and victory.”—East Texas Historical Journal MARY L. SCHEER is an associate professor and chair of the history department at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. She is also a former Fulbright Scholar to Germany. Scheer has authored The Foundations of Texan Philanthropy and co-edited with John Storey Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History (UNT Press). 978-1-57441-469-1 cloth $24.95 978-1-57441-577-3 paper $16.95 978-1-57441-459-2 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 15 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Texas Women's History. September
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A Day For Dancing
The Life and Music of Lloyd Pfautsch Kenneth W. Hart
After earning his theology degree from Union Seminary in New York, Lloyd Pfautsch (1921–2003) found his true calling in church music. He was invited to Southern Methodist University in 1958 to start their graduate program in sacred music and remained there for 34 years. Outside the university, he formed the Dallas Civic Chorus and led it for 25 years. He was nationally known for his conducting and the quality of the musicians he produced as well as for his compositions, many of which are illustrated here with his handwritten notations. This is the first biography of this important figure, and it is told from the viewpoint of a longtime colleague and friend. Aligned with the biography, Hart analyzes some of Pfautsch's hundreds of compositions. This is the definitive work on one of the most influential American choral musicians of the twentieth century. Number Nine: North Texas Lives of Musician Series
KENNETH W. HART holds graduate degrees from Union Theological Seminary and The University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. He has conducted award-winning choirs and university choirs around the globe. For eighteen years he was Director of Sacred Music at Southern Methodist University, where he became a lifelong friend of Lloyd Pfautsch. 978-1-57441-567-4 cloth $24.95s 978-1-57441-581-0 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 26 b&w illus. Appendices. Notes. Bib. Index. Music. Biography. November
Jade Visions
The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro Helene LaFaroFernández Foreword by Don Thompson Introduction by Gene Lees
Jade Visions is the first biography of one of the twentieth century’s most influential jazz musicians, bassist Scott LaFaro. Best known for his landmark recordings with Bill Evans, LaFaro played bass a mere seven years before his life and career were tragically cut short by an automobile accident when he was only 25 years old. Told by his sister with the assistance of well-known jazz experts including Gene Lees, this book uniquely combines family history with insight into LaFaro's music. “Fernandez's insightful comments about her brother offer far more than jazz scholars have ever known about this significant and somewhat enigmatic figure in the history of jazz.”—Bill Milkowski, author of Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius “[T]his is a book no serious enthusiast for LaFaro or his music can afford to be without.”—Jazzwise Number Four: North Texas Lives of Musician Series
HELENE LA FARO-FERNÁNDEZ was born in Irvington, New Jersey, but spent most of her youth in Geneva, New York. In 1957 she joined her brother Scott in Los Angeles and has made her home there ever since. 978-1-57441-575-9 paper $18.95 978-1-57441-357-1 ebook 6x9. 352 pp. 25 b&w illus. Notes. Discography. Bib. Index. Biography. Music. August
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Conducting Concerti A Technical and Interpretive Guide David Itkin
This book examines 43 great concerti and discusses, in detail, the technical, aural, rehearsal, and intra-personal skills that are required for “effortless excellence.” Maestro Itkin wrote this book for conductors first encountering the concerto repertoire and for those wishing to improve their skills on this important, and often understudied, literature. Often misunderstood is the fact that both the physical technique and the score study process require a substantially different and more nuanced approach than with the major symphonic repertoire. In short, this is the book that Itkin wished had been available when he was a student and young professional. “This book is truly wonderful, lucid and intelligent. Would that many of Maestro Itkin’s colleagues devoted such attention to mere concerti!”—Misha Dichter “This is a ‘must own’ book for any conductor or conducting student.”—Samuel Adler, Professor of Composition, the Juilliard School Born in Portland, Oregon, DAVID ITKIN's conducting career includes more than eight hundred symphonic, operatic, and theatrical performances worldwide and throughout North America. He is currently Music Director and Conductor with the Abilene Philharmonic and Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of North Texas. 978-1-57441-570-4 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-583-4 ebook 6x9. 416 pp. Notes. Index. Music. September
Three Decades of Engendering History Selected Works of Antonia I. Castaneda
Edited by Linda Heidenreich with Antonia I. Castañeda Original Interviews by Luz María Gordillo Conclusion by Deena J. González Three Decades of Engendering History collects ten of Antonia I. Castañeda’s best articles, including the widely circulated article “Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769–1848,” in which Castañeda took a direct and honest look at sex and gender relations in colonial California, exposing stories of violence against women as well as stories of survival and resistance. Other articles included are the prize-winning “Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History,” and two recent articles, “Lullabies y Canciones de Cuna” and “La Despedida.” The latter two represent Castañeda’s most recent work excavating, mapping, and bringing forth the long and strong post-WWII history of Tejanas. Finally, the volume includes three interviews with Antonia Castañeda that contribute the important narrative of her lived experience—the “theory in the flesh” and politics of necessity that fueled her commitment to transformative scholarship that highlights gender and Chicanas as a legitimate line of inquiry. Number Nine: Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series
LINDA HEIDENREICH is associate professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman, and the author of “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern California. 978-1-57441-568-1 cloth $39.95s 978-1-57441-569-8 paper $19.95s 978-1-57441-582-7 ebook 6x9. 400 pp. 10 b&w photos. Map. Notes. Bib. Index. Western History. December
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Short Call Snippets from the Smallest Places in Texas, 1935–2000 Joyce Gibson Roach
Folktales from the Helotes Settlement John Igo
978-1-57441-573-5 cloth $19.95 978-1-57441-586-5 ebook 51/2x81/2. 160 pp. 15 b&w illus. Texas Folklore. December
978-1-57441-589-6 cloth $19.95 978-1-57441-590-2 ebook 51/2x81/2. 160 pp. 15 b&w illus. Texas Folklore. December
The TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY has been publishing a regular volume of folklore research (our PTFS series) for the past several decades. Most of these books are what we call miscellanies, compilations of the works of multiple folklorists, and they feature articles on many types of lore. UNT Press has also published over twenty “Extra Books,” which are single-author manuscripts that examine a more focused topic.
Joyce Gibson Roach has collected “snippets” of stories, recipes, and traditions of life in Turtle, Texas, which represents many small towns—and the people who inhabit them. Many of the younger generations leave such towns, finding both place and society crumbling. Those who’ve stayed are finding new and interesting ways to put themselves and their places back together. Both the short and long pieces herein are about the folks who’ve elected to stay generation after generation, knowing that for them wherever they’ve stayed is still the Home Place. The characters’ viewpoints are personal, sometimes agreeing with facts found in history books and sometimes not. Number Twenty-four: Texas Folklore Society Extra Book
Folktales from the Helotes Settlement is a collection of personal memories from the Folklore Society’s longest active member, who first joined more than fifty years ago. Here we find legends, customs, and beliefs of the people of the Helotes Settlement near San Antonio. These stories capture the lore of a place similar to lots of other places—our places. They’re familiar to us all because, when we get right down to it, the Helotes Settlement is not very different from wherever we’re from. Number Twenty-five: Texas Folklore Society Extra Book
JOHN IGO is an award-winning poet and author of many books and plays. He won an Emmy in 1985 for his writing for a one-hour documentary.
JOYCE GIBSON ROACH is the author of The Cowgirls from UNT Press. She lives in Keller, Texas.
New in paperback
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II Sarah Byrn Rickman
978-1-57441-576-6 paper $19.95 978-1-57441-375-5 ebook 6x9. 352 pp. 35 b&w illus. Notes. Biography. Military History. World War II. Women's Studies. July
She flew the P-51 and the P-38, but the four-engine B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. Nancy Harkness Love recruited and led the first twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the US. Her pilots ferried aircraft across the United States when male pilots were in short supply. Love checked out on 23 military aircraft and was the first woman to fly several of them. Young women serving today as combat pilots owe much to Love for creating the opportunity for women to serve. Number Four: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
SARAH BYRN RICKMAN is a former journalist with a Masters in Creative Writing. She lives in Centerville, Ohio.
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Ever Remember The Days of 1913–14 John Pearce
Alma Caldwell’s diary provides the perspective of teenagers in 1913 and 1914. It begins in the summer of 1913 when activities for young people were abundant, reluctantly chronicles Alma's return to high school for a junior year, hurtles through the heartbreak of a chilling winter, and rockets full blast into the spring and early summer of 1914. The diary’s focus is on Alma and her new boyfriend, Emmet Thornton, and how their lives play out. Interspersed are clips from two newspapers, the Sulphur Springs Gazette (1862–1928) and the Commerce Journal (1891–present), and magazine clippings illustrating special moments in Alma’s life during the time of the diary.
Ever Remember The Days of 1913–1914
John Pearce
This is a teenager taking a pencil and writing of love, disappointment, secrets never to be revealed, and joy in an age compared to the present in terms of a young person’s changing social life— silent movies churned out like never before, Model T Fords that were being subject to new laws, frequent passenger train rides, and the heartbeat of US entertainment seen under a tent named the Chautauqua and Lyceum Courses.
978-1-933337-61-6 paper $19.99 6x9. 98 pp. 43 b&w photos. Texas History. September
JOHN PEARCE is a retired college football coach. He lives in Sugar Land, Texas with his wife Jaime.
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Love and War The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball Edited by Donald S. Frazier and Andrew Hillhouse 978-1-933337-42-5 cloth $59.95
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An Evening With Venus
Prostitution During the American Civil War John Jackson Gaines
During the Civil War era, American society faced a number of challenges. Issues of morality and gender roles emerged as areas of contention concerning prostitution. Because of the social constraints on women during the period, females found themselves with limited skills and economic opportunities to provide for themselves. Many sold sex as a means of survival. Soldiers left home for a cause, but many also sought adventure that led to prostitutes. Peer pressure and a sense of new found freedom brought many soldiers to seek out sex workers. Without an official policy regulating prostitution for either the Union army or the Confederate army, officers relied on their own beliefs or priorities in crafting orders relating to prostitution. The sex trade also came under the scrutiny of moral reformers and military doctors. While prostitution and the spread of venereal diseases likely did not affect the duration of the war, the sex trade made a significant impact on the short term social status and long term health of thousands of people. JOHN JACKSON GAINES lives in Lubbock Texas.
An evening with
Venus Pros i ng the Amtitution Duirl War erican Civ
John Gaines
978-1-933337-62-3 paper $24.99 6x9. 228 pp. 19 b&w illus. Military History. October
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Two Years Before the Paddlewheel Charles F. Gunther, Mississippi River Confederate Edited by Bruce S. Allardice and Wayne L. Wolf 978-1-933337-52-4 cloth $29.95
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From the author of The Lobsterman's Daughter . . .
The Women of Harvard Square Michael Lieberman
The women of Harvard Square are smart, sassy, and sexy. There's Agnes, who with her boyfriend Maynard provides the inspiration for her best friend Diana’s new play that turns into a steamy, boundary-bending sendup. As for Agnes and Diana, don't even try to imagine their shenanigans. You'll want to meet Agnes's grandmother Abigail, who at eighty-seven is still feisty and more than a little naughty—and Adriana, her daughter and Agnes’s mother, who receives a shocking gift from her old Radcliffe roommate. That’s Olympia, the award-winning novelist, who gets the scare of her life when she decides to set her new novel in Pittsburgh and visits. Did I mention Beverly, the long, tall Texan who came to Harvard for college and never left—and never left Texas behind? Oh, and Henrietta, whose imagination is so outrageous and dark that she will soon get her own novel.
What the women of Harvard Square are saying about Mike Lieberman:
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Agnes Lubeck: “Mike Lieberman is a master.” Diana Endicott: “I’m on board with what he has done. This guy gets it.” Beverly Ardmore: “He’s nothing but a pimp. It’s all the more outrageous because we're both Texans.” Abigail Lubeck: “I thought I would be only an old person, Agnes’s creaky grandmother. But he gave me a great role to play, and you know what? He threw in a vibrator as well. He knows how to honor older women.” Henrietta Markham: “Mike Lieberman gave me more than I deserve. He gave me motive and opportunity as the crime folks say—and with them sex and, well . . . I’ll let you read The Women of Harvard Square.” MICHAEL LIEBERMAN is a retired research physician and the author of six books of poems and two previous novels, Never Surrender—Never Retreat and The Lobsterman's Daugher, both published by Texas Review Press. He lives in Houston with his wife, the writer Susan A. Lieberman.
RELATED INTEREST Far-From-Equilibrium Conditions Michael Lieberman 978-1-933896-12-0 paper $12.95
Never Surrender—Never Retreat A Novel of Medical Politics in Texas Michael Lieberman 978-1-933896-81-6 paper $22.95 978-1-937875-80-0 ebook
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From the winner of the 2003 George Garrett Fiction Prize
No Asylum
Steve Sherwood A mysterious woman comes out of the wheat fields late one night to complicate the life of Chief Ranger Aldo Springer, recently banished to Fort Pawnee National Historical Site in central Kansas. She demands asylum and backs up her demand by threatening to jump from the highest point in the historical site—a crow’s nest halfway up the hundred-foot mast of the fort’s flag pole. Against his judgment, Springer conceals her from the security forces of the state hospital, from which she escaped, and risks everything he cherishes to pursue a murderer along a cold trail. “In this well-conceived and vivid manuscript, the charming Aldo Springer, Chief Park Ranger at Fort Pawnee National Historic Site in Kansas, is in the awkward position of providing cover for Amanda Lowenthal, a 28-year-old escapee from the Pawnee State Hospital for the criminally insane, who murdered her family when she was fourteen. This is a genuinely successful piece of storytelling and character development. It’s humorous and well-paced and structures plausible scenes of intensity and moments of tenderness.”—Publisher’s Weekly “Steve Sherwood's finely crafted No Asylum is about escape. Those who escape justice need to be imprisoned. Those in prisons, most often of their own making, need to escape. Aldo Springer, a National Park Service ranger, divorced, banished from his beloved Rocky Mountains to the Fort Pawnee National Historic site in Kansas, and loathed by his superintendent, lives without much hope. Serving time in this purgatory, a particularly hot summer in Kansas, he learns to act on his instincts, broaden his heart, take chances, and escape to the small slice of heaven he can create from truth, trust, and love.”—Thomas Fox Averill STEVE SHERWOOD won the 2003 TRP George Garrett Fiction Prize with his novel Hardwater. His latest book of stories and personal essays will appear in 2014. Steve is the director of the William L. Adams Center for Writing at Texas Christian University, where he has taught writing courses since 1988.
978-1-68003-000-6 paper $18.95 978-1-68003-001-3 ebook 51/2x81/2. 240 pp. Fiction. October
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A brief history of the Browning Automatic Rifle . . .
Browning Automatic Rifle Paul Ruffin and Bob Conroy
This book traces the evolution of the Browning Automatic Rifle from the Model of 1918, first to face combat in World War I, through its various configurations in all arenas of combat all the way to the present-day1918 A3 SLR developed and manufactured by Ohio Ordnance Works. The Browning Automatic Rifle, known simply as the BAR, was a shoulder-fired light machine gun fed by a twenty-round box magazine of 30-06, the same ammunition used by the 1903 Springfield. Weighing in at under twenty pounds, it could easily be carried by one soldier, who could drape a bandolier with twelve magazines over his shoulder, giving him a total of 260 rounds (counting those in the mounted magazine). Generally accompanied by at least one companion carrying an additional bandolier with twelve magazines, the BAR man could exercise some serious firepower. Used sparingly during World War I because of the United States’ late entry into the war, it played a major role during World War II and the Korean Conflict, offering a very reliable combination of rapid fire and penetration. Few weapons of war ever pressed into service have offered the romantic allure of the BAR. Ohio Ordnance Works, Inc. manufactures a semi-automatic version of this rifle, the 1918 A3, keeping alive this icon of American military weaponry. The only one of its kind in production anywhere in the world, it is manufactured with some of the original USGI WWI and WWII parts. Only the highest quality Ohio Ordnance original and USGI standard parts are used in its production. The heart of the 1918 A3 is the receiver made from 8620 steel casting that has been carburized and induction heat treated. The castings are machined on state-of-the-art CNC machining centers. Every rifle is fully assembled, inspected, test-fired, and re-inspected under the direct supervision of a master armorer. PAUL RUFFIN is Texas State University System Regents' Professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He is the author of two novels, five collections of stories, five books of essays, and seven collections of poetry. BOB CONROY has worked in the firearms industry for over fifteen years as an employee of Ohio Ordnance Works, Inc., where as vice president he handles sales, marketing, and business development.
978-1-937875-81-7 paper $10.95 978-1-937875-82-4 ebook 6x9. 120 pp. Military History. September
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The new M240 SLR . . .
M240 Machine Gun
Paul Ruffin and Bob Conroy The M240 Machine Gun traces the development of the weapon, currently the primary medium-weight machine gun of our military, through the latest configuration, the M240 SLR, designed and manufactured by Ohio Ordnance. When the United States military determined during the late 1970s that it was time to find a replacement for older machine guns in the services, they initiated an extensive search for a weapon that would fire the 7.62 Nato round and prove economical, adaptable in many configurations, relatively lightweight, accurate, and more reliable than its predecessors. The clear winner was the Belgium-made Fabrique Nationale MAG, later adapted and renamed the M240, a belt-fed 7.62 air-cooled weapon easily adapted for use on ground vehicles, aircraft, and seagoing craft and light enough to be carried and operated by a single soldier. Today the M240 is the primary medium machine gun of our armed forces and of many of our allies across the globe. “Relatively few fully transferable MAGs are in civilian hands, and the cost of a transferable MAG of any sort is upward of $70,000. Ohio Ordnance Works (OOW) is offering a semi-automatic-only version of the M240 as its M240 SLR (for self-loading rifle). The M240 SLR is a mix of original M240 components and parts designed and manufactured by OOW. The right sideplate, which is the receiver according to the BATFE, is thicker than the military M240 and the interior parts have been reduced accordingly to ensure that fully automatic components cannot be inserted. Further, the SLR cannot accept a military trigger group or operating rod.”—National Rifle Association Staff PAUL RUFFIN is Texas State University System Regents' Professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He is the author of two novels, five collections of stories, five books of essays, and seven collections of poetry. BOB CONROY has worked in the firearms industry for over fifteen years as an employee of Ohio Ordnance Works, Inc., where as vice president he handles sales, marketing, and business development.
978-1-937875-83-1 paper $8.95 978-1-937875-84-8 ebook 6x9. 80 pp. Army. November
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The poets of North Carolina . . .
Southern Poetry Anthology, VII: North Carolina
Edited by Jesse Graves, Paul Ruffin, and William Wright Robert Morgan and Kathryn Stripling Byer, Al Maginnes and Cathy Smith Bowers, Thomas Raine Crowe and Michael McFee, as well as many new voices. . . Indeed, the variegation of the Tar Heel State’s landscapes, as well as its rich history, is reflected through the myriad voices of its contemporary verse. As with other volumes of The Southern Poetry Anthology, this book—full of a wide gamut of poetic styles and approaches—will appeal to many readers, prove an excellent teaching resource for North Carolina students of literature, and serve as the definitive poetic document for North Carolina for many years. Conceived by Series Editor William Wright in 2003, The Southern Poetry Anthology is a projected twelve-to-sixteen volume project celebrating established and emerging poets of the American South, published by Texas Review Press. Inspired by single-volume anthologies such as Leon Stokesbury’s The Made Thing, Gil Allen’s A Ninety-Six Sampler, and Guy Owen and Mary C. Williams’ Contemporary Southern Poetry: an Anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology aspires to provide readers with a documentary-like survey of the best poetry being written in the American South at the present moment. Specifically, the editors' goals are twofold: first, to re-establish poetry of the South as a major presence in American literature, and second, to include a greater range of poets from the South to introduce a new poetic geography, a fresh corpus of what we understand to be “Southern Poetry.” JESSE GRAVES, the author of two collections of poetry released by TRP, is from Johnson City, Tennessee. PAUL RUFFIN is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who teaches at Sam Houston State University. WILLIAM WRIGHT, editor and poet and editor of this series, is from Marietta, Georgia.
978-1-937875-87-9 paper $22.95 978-1-937875-88-6 ebook 51/2x81/2. 232 pp. Poetry. November
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Williamson says it hot again!
Say It Hot, Volume II: Industrial Strength Essays on American Writers Eric Miles Williamson
Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and issues of interest to artists and academics. A companion volume to Say It Hot, these essays are brutally honest and acutely intelligent. From the book: “Literary authors these days no longer make livings off their work. Their books are not to be found in bookstores, and the books are rarely printed by major New York publishing houses. No one reads their works except for other literary authors and the professors who are evaluating their tenure and promotion folders at the colleges and universities at which they are employed, and it’s a minor miracle if a literary book from a small press sells a thousand copies. Fiction writers from wealth write about writing or they write about the ridiculous “sufferings” of the rich. Fiction writers from the lower classes write about the primordial filth from which they’ve physically escaped but from which they’ll never mentally be able to leave behind. Like war veterans, people who’ve fought it out in the miasma of poverty and blue- collar hell can never get the stink out of their skins, try as they may. Just like people who haven’t been to war can spot vets who have, middle-class people and the rich can spot people who’ve grown up poor, no matter what their position in life or the quality of their designer suits. Those suits just don’t fit right, and the neckties make them fidget and sweat. What the well-heeled authors and the working-class writers have in common is that they’ve been trained not to pronounce moral judgment.” ERIC MILES WILLIAMSON is author of three internationally acclaimed novels, a short story collection which won the PEN/Oakland Award, and three books of criticism. He is Fiction Editor of Texas Review, Senior Editor of Boulevard, and Associate Editor of American Book Review. Professor of English at the University of Texas, Pan American, he lives in McAllen, Texas.
978-1-68003-002-0 paper $22.95 978-1-68003-003-7 ebook 51/2x81/2. 296 pp. Essays. October
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Winner, 2013 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
Winner, Texas Review Press Poetry Breakthrough, Tennessee
The Garden of the Fugitives
Beauty Strip William Kelley Woolfitt
Ashley Mace Havird
An Ivorybill in Arkansas, which human guilt has conjured up from extinction; mud daubers toting “stunned spiders” to their nests on a screened porch in Louisiana; a whale shark off the Yucatan whose spots tell its story in indecipherable Braille; conchs harvested from an undersea garden in the Caymans; stray dogs in Athens, ancient gods in disguise—the lives of these creatures and others entwine with ours in The Garden of the Fugitives.
Beauty Strip considers the landscapes and living things of Appalachia, protests the industrialization that leaves ruin in its wake, and celebrates the human capacity to remake, redeem, and find shelters and homes. Part sketchbook, part dreambook, Beauty Strip maps and ruminates on, haunts and is haunted by, the mountaintop removal sites and mill towns, the salt-works and bloomeries, that have scarred the land from West Virginia to Virginia to Tennessee.
Loosely based on the story of Eve, this collection of poems takes the reader from Eden into a fallen world. Exploring the tense relationships between women and men, mothers and daughters, and human beings and other species, these poems lead to Pompeii’s memorial to the “ash people” in The Garden of the Fugitives, where parents and children, inside their husks of plaster, never stop dying to the singing of bees.
Our Lady of the Mills The painter dodges the filthy clumps, despises their chilblained faces, rabbit-eyes, broken teeth. He eases into the stone church, the one work he will give them: the virgin, charcoal-lined, comfort for the people in their hours at the furnace and the spools. With paregoric and tonic bitters, he endures the church’s stained light, cold arches, and eye-sockets. Empty, unpainted, the dreadful ovals will tell what she felt when she touched her son, cool and rigid as marble awaiting the chisel, pale as threadbare muslin, spilt cream.
WISTERIA Oozing perfume, the vine kills exquisitely in such high style. The trees have no idea what’s happening to them. ASHLEY MACE HAVIRD has published two award-winning chapbooks. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana. 978-1-68003-006-8 paper $8.95 978-1-68003-007-5 ebook 51/2x81/2. 80 pp. Poetry. September
WILLIAM KELLEY WOOLFITT is a resident of Cleveland, Tennessee. 978-1-68003-010-5 paper $8.95 978-1-68003-011-2 ebook 51/2x81/2. 80 pp. Poetry. September
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New from Sarah Cortez . . .
From the winner of the TRP 2002 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize . . .
Goodbye, Mexico: Poems of Remembrance
The Gold Piano
Stephen March
Edited by Sarah Cortez
This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence. Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San Miguel You see their silhouettes along the stone wall or arm in arm below the glow of garden lights huddled like foothills, earth you could plant maize in. Cowboy hats and serapes, the smell of beer and cinnamon churros. You think of family and language how the music rolls through your hips to the sweat behind your knees. How it rushes through you, to a place you still don’t know. —Lois P. Jones SARAH CORTEZ, resident of Houston and member of the Texas Institute of Letters, is the author of two poetry collections, How to Undress a Cop and Cold Blue Steel, and winner of the PEN Texas literary award in poetry. 978-1-68003-004-4 paper $22.95 978-1-68003-005-1 ebook 51/2x81/2. 160 pp. Poetry. October
The Gold Piano tells the story of Emerson Wainwright, a young man whose idyllic life in a small North Carolina town is turned upside down after his father is caught on videotape in a homosexual act at the county hospital. To escape from his hometown and its painful memories, Emerson enrolls at an under-funded historically black college a hundred miles away, attending on a minority grant. As the only white student living on campus, he struggles with his loneliness and his role as an outsider. His relationship with his roommate, a black activist from Brooklyn, is challenged when Emerson begins to fall in love with Zena, a gifted black artist. The novel’s final scenes bring a quiet but hopeful sense of resolution to Emerson’s quest to define himself and find his place in the world. STEPHEN MARCH lived in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, until his recent death. An accomplished musician, he authored a number of books of fiction, among them the novel Hatteras Moon (2013) and a collection of stories, Tell Him You Saw Me. Armadillo won the TRP Clay Reynolds Novella Prize in 2002. 978-1-68003-008-2 paper $22.95 978-1-68003-009-9 ebook 51/2x81/2. 312 pp. Fiction. December
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Winner, 2013 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize
New collection from 2010 Texas State Poet Laureate . . .
Sourdough
Constant State of Leaping
Benjamin Ludwig
Karla K. Morton
Lucas has inherited his mother's bakery, as well as her obsession for baking sourdough: a bread conceived by wild strains of yeast, and ripened until its flavor becomes both pungent and startling. Running the family business was a safe bet for Lucas, and a lucrative one at that; but when he finds that his soul has become infused with the same untamable character of the sourdough itself, he discovers that a safe bet can be the most dangerous thing a person can dare to make. “The masterful way Benjamin Ludwig establishes and stays true to an analogy ultimately sells the integrity of the idea and creates a continuing sense of surprise in a subject that has been exhaustively treated and in two characters who are less than perfect, but who somehow are remarkable in their ordinariness and the genuine passion they find for each other and in their journey of self-discovery. The truth is that I didn’t want to like this story, but Ludwig made me love it by remaining faithful to his characters and allowing them to carry the tale, while they develop and round out into credible and evocative, convincingly empathetic individuals who moved me with the genuineness of their hearts.”— Clay Reynolds, Series Judge BENJAMIN LUDWIG serves as a teacher-coach and curriculum developer in Dover, New Hampshire. His work appears in peer-reviewed education journals and in small literary magazines. He is also the founder of WriteGuide.com. 978-1-68003-014-3 paper $10.95 978-1-68003-015-0 ebook 51/2x81/2. 96 pp. Fiction. November
This collection, Morton’s tenth, is a bold book of poetry delving into risks. It’s the moving forward; the constant discovery of new things. Using a combination of quotes, mythological images, and exquisite metaphors from nature, Morton delivers poems that describe the absolute urgency of giving one’s heart over to life, the burning drive to have faith in the world, the insistence that everything, in its own way, is holy. This book is unfettered joy. Tending Fires I wanted to write a sonnet last night, because that’s what lovers do, but the fire needed tending, and all I could think of were your shoulders, and that’s not romantic, so I put on another log, and thought about that hot summer day underneath that oak, when our shoulders brushed, and I blushed at the nearness of you, and how we made love that night . . . still . . . that’s not what I wanted to write . . . But it’s you; you, my love. You are my night and my morning, and the hot coals beneath these logs . . . hear them hiss and whisper like cicadas—cicadas of the trees, and the summer, and of all things that burn. KARLA K. MORTON, resident of Denton and 2010 Texas Poet Laureate, is a member and Councilor of the Texas Institute of Letters. 978-1-68003-012-9 paper $8.95 978-1-68003-013-6 ebook 51/2x81/2. 80 pp. Poetry. September
Stephen F. Austin State University Press
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Honey Bucket Charlie
Illustrated by Benjamin Comeau Edited by Charles D. Jones Introduction by Lewis H. Carlson Based on a series of one hundred pen and ink drawings by Captain Benjamin Comeau, a POW at Camp #1 in Korea from 1950–53, Honey Bucket Charlie contains letters Comeau wrote during his time in the prison camp, as well as photographs and interviews with his son, brother, and grandson. From Central Texas, Comeau enlisted in the Marine Corps during World War II, was wounded at Iwo Jima, left the Marine Corps and then joined the army in time for service as an infantryman in the Korean War. He was taken as a POW by the Chinese in November of 1951 and remained a prisoner until June of 1953. Comeau remained in the army and later served a year in Vietnam. He was an extraordinary man who has left us an equally extraordinary group of drawings describing his time as a POW. Honey Bucket Charlie has an introductory chapter by author and scholar Lewis Carlson.
BENJAMIN COMEAU was from Central Texas and joined the army after fighting in World War II as a marine. An infantryman in the Korean War, Comeau was captured and spent two years in a Korean POW Camp. LEWIS H. CARLSON’s books include We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II American and German Prisoners of War. He lives in Michigan. CHARLES D. JONES, a printmaker, is the director of LaNana Creek Press and Regents Professor of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University.
978-1-62288-050-8 paper with flaps $35.00 10x10. 140 pp. 100 illustrations. Photographs. Art. Military History. November
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My Black Angel, Blues Poems and Portraits Kim Addonizio Illustrated by Charles D. Jones
My Black Angel, Blues Poems and Portraits pairs the blues poems of Kim Addonizio with woodcut effigies based on images of a number of significiant blues musicians with the intent of creating “duets” of image and text, each spread becoming a visual composition and each element amplifying the other. Created by Charles D. Jones, the woodcuts are in direct response to the poetry. The limited edition book features 24 poems and 26 images printed directly from wooden blocks on Hahnemühle’s Biblio paper, with additional images for the delux edition printed onto Sekishu, a fine Japanese paper. Jones uses the Optima font, printing from photopolymer plates. KIM ADDONIZIO lives in Oakland, California. She is the author of five books of poetry, including Tell Me (BOA Editions), which was a National Book Award Finalist. Her most recent collection is Lucifer at the Starlite (W. W. Norton). She has two books on writing, also from Norton: The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within. A selected poems compilation, Two Losers Stand on a Corner, was published in Arabic by Kalima Press. In the Box Called Pleasure, a short story collection, was published by FC2. Addonizio has also authored two novels, Little Beauties and My Dreams Out in the Street (Simon & Schuster). For more information, visit www.kimaddonizio.com.
978-1-62288-047-8 limited edition $450.00x 101/2x141/2. 64 pp. 26 woodcut prints. Art. Poetry. September
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Trade edition now available from LaNana Creek Press
Landscapes with Horses
Mark Sanders Illustrations by Charles D. Jones Landscapes with Horses conjoins the work of two artists: the poetry of Mark Sanders and the illustrations of woodcutter and book artisan Charles Jones. The LaNana Creek Press editions of this handpressed, handbound collaboration features over a dozen of Jones’s exquisite woodcuts and twenty of Sanders’s poems. The combination is a feast of imagery, both visual and written, and fine-press book enthusiasts and fans of poetry will find much to admire. Jones’s woodcuts show the range of horse energies, from wildness to repose, and Sanders’s verse places horses and humans in spiritual and emotional proximity in such fashion that acclaimed poet and novelist, Kelly Cherry, once called Sanders the best horse poet since Virginia poet Henry Taylor. Landscapes with Horses is an intimate collection; readers will understand both the artist and the poet better for reading the work, but readers will also see themselves transcended into the varied, powerful landscapes this book brings to life. MARK SANDERS is the author of a number of poetry collections, including Conditions of Grace: New and Selected Poems. His work has been widely published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. A long-time native of Nebraska’s plains, he currently calls Nacogdoches home. CHARLES D. JONES is the author and artist of the prize-winning memoir, Chopper Blues, a collection of prose and illustrations commemorating his involvement in the first wave of combat Marines to Vietnam in 1965. He is Professor Emeritus of Art from Stephen F. Austin State University. 978-1-62288-068-3 cloth $25.00 978-1-62288-059-1 limited edition $1,250.00x 10x8. 60 pp. 12 woodcut prints. Poetry. Art. September
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If Not Me, Who?
Heaven's Messengers and the Conquest of Mexico
What one Man Accomplished in his Battle for Equality
Wendell H. Baker Sr. Edited by Milton Jordan and Bruce Glasrud
If Not Me, Who?What One Man Accomplished in His Battle for Equality covers the life of civil rights activist and civic leader Wendell H. Baker Sr. from his birth to eighty plus years of age. Both Baker's life and his book were singularly critical achievements. This newly edited edition of Baker's If Not Me, Who? includes materials from two other authors—retired Texas Southern University scholar Naomi W. Lede, whose work originally was also published in Baker’s original book, and political leader and consultant James A. Baker, who learned from Wendell Baker and his brother that they were distant cousins. WENDELL H. BAKER SR. was born in West Walker County, Texas. Baker served as a teacher and principal in the Huntsville Independent School District and was partly responsible for spurring integration at Sam Houston State University. MILTON JORDAN is a native Texan, born in Waco and reared in East Texas and Houston. He graduated from Southwestern University with a BA in history and received a Master of Divinity degree from Southern Methodist University. A past president of the East Texas Historical Association, he is retired and lives in Georgetown. BRUCE GLASRUD is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, East Bay; retired dean in the School of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University; and a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association. 978-1-62288-072-0 paper $22.00 6x9. 140 pp. 17 b&w photos Political Science. African American Studies. September
Donald E. Chipman
Heaven's Messengers begins with the death of six young people—three in Mexico, two in the United States, and one in Spain. All are admitted to heaven by St. Peter and given special assignments to interview six important personages in the conquest of Mexico: Hernando Cortés, Pedro de Alvarado, and Martín López (the last far less well known, but he was a master carpenter and boat builder who constructed thirteen small vessels that were launched on Lake Texcoco and provided a naval component that proved vitally important to the success of the conquest); Doña Marina and Isabel Moctezuma, both Aztec women); and Leonor Cortés Moctezuma. The six messengers are miraculously returned to life and placed in the century of conquest with specific assignments—to illustrate how three men steeped in Roman Catholicism and three pagan women become worthy. DONALD E. CHIPMAN is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of North Texas. A specialist in the history of colonial Mexico and Spanish Borderlands in the American Southwest, he is the author or coauthor of seven books. In 2003, on orders of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Chipman received appointment for his work on Spain in America as a lord /knight in the Order of Isabel la Católica, the highest honor the Spanish government can confer on a non-Spaniard. 978-1-62288-049-2 paper $25.00 7x10. 220 pp. Literary Novel. September
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The Blue Hour before Sunrise Kimberly D. Verhines
A sister's perspective on the infamous Barrow gang . . . Bonnie and Clyde and Marie
A Sister’s Perspective on the Notorious Barrow Gang Jonathan Davis
Kimberly Verhines’s The Blue Hour before Sunrise is a brave work of literary nonfiction. Unflinchingly, Verhines explores the events that led to the loss of her 19-year-old son and the harrowing territories of grief and hard-won resolution that followed in the long aftermath of his death. Few answers exist to explain the facts of his dependence on illegal steroids, how such dependence skewed his image of self and self-worth, or how he determined suicide was an appropriate choice, to end his own pain and, perhaps he thought, the pain he brought those who loved him. Verhines confronts the facts, fearfully but imperatively needful. Doubtless, the subject matter of The Blue Hour before Sunrise is difficult. A mother’s journey after a child’s death is wrought with agony, anxiety, and a pervading loneliness too populated by psychological ghosts. On the other side, we resurrect into the thin light that can only be hope, only be a promise of life renewed. KIMBERLY VERHINES received her MA in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Houston-Clear Lake and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. She lives in Nacogdoches. 978-1-936205-74-5 paper $16.95 51/2x81/2. 280 pp. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. November
Jonathan Davis's long awaited book reveals a sister's perspective of her brothers and their gang, the sometimes uncomfortable relationships among family members, and a glimpse into what it was like to live in the media's constant scrutiny and distortion. “I had known Marie since autumn, 1993, after both of us had worked on a documentary titled Remembering Bonnie and Clyde. She brought in the 'death shirt' and other items to be photographed for this program. I watched her being interviewed and was impressed by the story she had to tell. A few days afterward, I sent Marie a small thank-you card with a note telling her how much I enjoyed meeting her and that if I could ever be of assistance, she should call. I didn’t expect a response, but shortly thereafter, Marie called and asked to meet with me, and thus began one of the richest and most interesting times of my life.”—Jonathan Davis JONATHAN DAVIS was born in Evansville, Indiana. In the early autumn of 1993, he made the acquaintance of Marie Barrow when they both worked on a documentary concerning the Barrow Gang. From that time until her passing in early 1999, Marie and Jonathan worked on several Barrow-related projects, such as the manuscript and the nationally-publicized auction of Clyde's death shirt and other family items. Jonathan has also appeared on several national programs concerning Bonnie and Clyde. He currently resides in Dallas, TX. 978-1-936205-12-7 cloth $24.95 6x9. 300 pp. 20 b&w photos. Criminal Justice. Memoir. Literary Nonfiction. September
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La Cerca Piero Fenci
978-1-62288-026-3 paper with flaps $24.00 81/2x81/2. 80 pp. 50 color photos. Sculpture. Art. September
La Cerca, Fenci's solo exhibition opened at the state museum in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico. The exhibition, which includes twenty-four ceramic pieces, a 5-foot-by-9-foot drawing and several smaller drawings, is the culmination of two years of work, both on the art and in negotiations with the museum officials. All of the works in some way or another deal with defense strategies, and so Fenci chose the Spanish translation for "The Wall" as the exhibition's title. In addition to this photographed collection of Fenci's work are essays by David A. Lewis, Scott Robinson, Adan Saenz, and others. Since 1975 PIERO FENCI has been a teacher and the head of the ceramics department at Stephen F. Austin State University.
White River R. F. McEwen
978-1-62288-067-6 paper $13.95 5x8. 88 pp. 20 b&w line drawings. Young Readers Fiction. Western Fiction. September
“White River is a raw cut portion of story telling that resurrects a past thought forever gone. The cleanest effect of McEwen’s skill is how he disappears as his specific breed of ancestors resurrects in tongue to tell their story with truth and power. These cowboys and Indians and aunts and uncles who populate White River revive a world where such men and women existed. The author's gift for conjuring this recent past in its authentic context, with lean, effortless poetry, is magical.”—David Rooks R.F. MCEWEN is an arborist and associate professor of Language and Literature at Chadron State College. He is the author of Heartwood (Slow Tempo Press, 1995). He received his PhD in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His poetry has been published, among other places, in Prairie Schooner, Kansas Quarterly, and South Dakota Review.
The Quiet Time Dimitri Keriotis
In the same vein as Paul Theroux and Robert Olen Butler, some of these stories take place in foreign countries—Zaire (Congo) and Greece—and center on interactions between a host nation and an American visitor. Others are set in the US in the modes of Alice Munro and Tobias Wolff, focusing on human relationships.
978-1-62288-073-7 paper $16.00 6x9. 164 pp. Anthology of Short Stories. September
Each story reveals a main character’s moral center in the face of unexpected events, some of which seem trivial, others vital. DIMITIRI KERIOTIS has served as fiction editor for Quercus Review and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire. He and his family live in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
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BAYOU BEND is the Museum of Fine Arts Houston house museum for American decorative arts and paintings. Displayed in the former home of Houston civic leader and philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882–1975), the collection is one of the finest showcases of American furnishings, silver, ceramics, and paintings in the world. The house is situated on 14 acres of organically maintained gardens in Houston’s historic River Oaks neighborhood.
American Material Culture and the Texas Experience
American Material Culture and the Texas Experience
Bayou Bend Collection
Bayou Bend Collection
David B. Warren Symposium, Volume 1
David B. Warren Symposium, Volume 2
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presented the inaugural David B. Warren Symposium “American Material Culture and the Texas Experience” in 2007. Bayou Bend, one of the great cultural treasures in the state of Texas, is renowned for its superb collection of American decorative arts and paintings.
This volume following the proceedings of the second David B. Warren Symposium opens with a discussion on the “roots of home” by architect and historian Russell Versaci. The essay journeys across the American South, examining the wide range of architectural styles that developed there during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
This volume of proceedings is introduced by the paper Warren presented at the first conference, an essay that provides a firm basis and raison d’etre for the symposium’s overall theme, chronicling Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg’s life-long effort to bring American colonial and Federal objects— material culture—to Texas.
Building on Versaci’s introduction of the Germanic tradition behind the Texas rock house style, Kenneth Hafertepe delves into a study of these mid-nineteenth-century houses that were built by German immigrants to central Texas—examining how the living spaces were arranged, and what materials and methods were used in their construction.
Additional papers by distinguished scholars Margaretta M. Lovell, the symposium’s keynote speaker, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Lonn Taylor, and Jill Beute Koverman round out the collection, placing the pre1900 material culture of Texas, the lower South, and the Southwest within a national and international context.
Three art historical essays by Sam Ratcliffe, Maurie D. McInnis, and Michael R. Grauer follow, demonstrating the equally broad range of influences and traditions identified in art produced in Texas, the South, and the Southwest prior to 1900.
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The Civil War and the Material Culture of Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest
New
Itinerant and Immigrant Artists and Artisans in 19th-Century Texas David B Warren Symposium, Volume 4 Bayou Bend Collection
David B Warren Symposium, Volume 3
Bayou Bend Collection The third biennial David B. Warren Symposium, held in 2011, commemorated the sesquicentennial of the start of the American Civil War. A cadre of distinguished scholars gathered to examine the material culture of the Civil War era. This volume presents four insightful essays that explore this topic in relation to trade along the Mississippi Valley, the visual history of the plantation, the movement of precious objects through wartime looting, and the role of cotton as a fundamental textile within and beyond the US South. The book opens by setting the stage for the Civil War with an essay by Jason T. Busch that explores ways in which the Mississippi River was transformed in the 1850s from a line of travel to a route of cultural and artistic exchange. John Michael Vlach, Dana Byrd, Katie Knowles, and William Hosley focus on the subtheme of changes in materal culture in the South and Texas driven by the Civil War.
This volume includes five papers presented at the fourth Biennial David B. Warren Symposium: “American Material Culture and the Texas Experience� in 2013. The conference focused on the theme of itinerant and immigrant artisans and artists living and working around the state in the nineteenth century. Ron Tyler opened the symposium with a keynote address, discussing the cultural reasons for itinerant and immigrant artists and artisans within the framework of nineteenth-century Texas and border history. Scholar D. Jack Davis, author David Haynes, historical architect Mario L. Sanchez, and art expert Heather White discuss early Texas silversmiths and photography, evolution and cultural continuity in the building of South Texas, and Thomas Allen sketches. 978-0-89090-180-9 paper $19.95 51/2x81/2. 150 pp. 30 paintings. 20 color photos. 50 b&w images. 25 drawings and prints. 5 maps. 9 tables. Art. September
978-0-89090-176-2 paper $19.95 51/2x81/2. 111 pp. 37 color, 11 b&w photos. 37 paintings. 13 drawings. Map. Notes. Art. Available
Bayou Bend
Collection and Gardens
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
978-0-89090-178-6 paper $19.95 81/2x11. 100 pp. 127 color, 29 b&w photos. Painting. 3 b&w maps. Color map. 21 color thumbnails. Art. Available
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policy, please contact Sales Manager David (d-neel@ For information on discount schedules and Neel our returns tamu.edu, 888-559-8033). policy, please contact Sales Manager David Neel (d-neel@ tamu.edu, 888-559-8033).
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corresponding Sales Representatives or directly Texas Retailers and wholesalers should direct orders totothe A&M University Press. Prepayment or anddirectly completion of corresponding Sales Representatives to Texas aA&M creditUniversity application are required from new customers on Press. Prepayment and completion of first orders. Books are sold to retailers and wholesalers at a credit application are required from new customers on tradeorders. discounts except for those marked with an "s" or at first Books are sold to retailers and wholesalers "x" (short discount). trade discounts except for those marked with an "s" or "x" (short discount).
Returns Policy, Retailers and Wholesalers 1. Books returned full credit must be received by the Returns Policy, for Retailers and Wholesalers Texas A&M University Press not must less than three months 1. Books returned for full credit be received by the
from of University purchase and notnot more after Texas date A&M Press less than than two threeyears months date purchase. fromof date of purchase and not more than two years after 2. Books returned must be clean, salable copies of current date of purchase. editions. booksbemust be salable so marked andofdefects 2. BooksDefective returned must clean, copies current clearly indicated. editions. Defective books must be so marked and defects clearly indicated.
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3. All postage on returns must be paid by the dealer. 4. to return not by required. 3. Publisher's All postage permission on returns must be paid the dealer. 5. number or copytomust accompany return. 4. Invoice Publisher's permission return not required. Otherwise will applied 50% of thereturn. retail price 5. Invoice credit number orbe copy mustataccompany
All prices subject to change without notice. All prices subject to change without notice.
of the book.credit will be applied at 50% of the retail price Otherwise 6. the Books returned in damaged condition because of of book. dealer labeling/marking or inadequate protection 6. Books returned in damaged condition because while of at dealer'slabeling/marking business or in transit from dealer will be returned dealer or inadequate protection while at for no credit. Postage and handling must be paid by the dealer's business or in transit from dealer will be returned dealer. for no credit. Postage and handling must be paid by the dealer.
Libraries Libraries may order directly from Texas A&M University Libraries Press. Most books available to Texas libraries at a University 20% disLibraries may orderare directly from A&M count. Library orders be shipped with at anainvoice. Press. Most books are will available to libraries 20% discount. Library orders will be shipped with an invoice.
Examination copies An examination copies copy will be sent on request to a profesExamination
sor sidering acopy bookwill for be class room tion. An con examination sent on adop request to The a profesrequest must include of theadop course andThe its sor consid ering a bookthe forname classroom tion. es ti mat ed en roll ment. Terms: ps are com pli men request must include the name of the course andtary its when the re quest is ac com pa nied by pay ment of $6.00 to estimated enrollment. Terms: ps are complimentary cover when postre age/han hcs with an voice;tothe the quest isdling. accom pawill niedbe bysent payment of in $6.00 cover invoice will dling. be canhcs celedwill if the Marwith ketinganDe ment postage/han be sent inpart voice; the receives will an order ten iforthe more erwise invoice be canfor celed Marcop keties. ing Oth Depart ment the hardan covorder er exam tion be pur receives forina ten or copy moremay copies. Othchased erwise or re turned. the hardcover examination copy may be purchased or returned.
DOMESTIC POSTAGE: $6.00 POSTAGE FOR DOMESTIC FIRST BOOKPOSTAGE: $6.00 POSTAGE $1.00 FOR EACHFOR FIRST BOOK BOOK ADDITIONAL $1.00 FOR EACH FOREIGN POSTAGE: ADDITIONAL BOOK $11.00 PER BOOK FOREIGN POSTAGE: $11.00 PER BOOK
SUBTOTAL SUBTOTAL SHIPPING SHIPPING SUBTOTAL SUBTOTAL
$ $ $ $ $ $
8.25% SALES TAX
on shipments to texasSALES address es 8.25% TAX on shipments to texas addresses
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EDITORIAL OFFICES (for publishers in the Texas Book
Consortium)
Southern Methodist University Press
P.O. Box 750415 • Dallas, Texas 75275-0415 Telephone: 214-768-1432 • FAX: 214-768-1428
State House Press / McWhiney Foundation Press Buffalo Gap • Box 818 Buffalo Gap, Texas 79508 Telephone: 325-572-3974 • FAX: 325-572-3991
Stephen F. Austin State University Press
P.O. Box 13007 SFA Station • Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3007 Telephone: 936-468-1078 • FAX: 936-468-2190 sfapress@sfasu.edu
Texas Christian University Press
P.O. Box 298300 • Fort Worth, Texas 76129 Telephone: 817-257-7822 • FAX: 817-257-5075 tcupress@tcu.edu
Texas Review Press
Sam Houston State University Department of English P.O. Box 2146 Huntsville, Texas 77341-2146 Telephone: 936-294-1992 • FAX: 936-294-3070
Texas State Historical Association Press
1155 Union Circle, #311580 Denton, Texas 76203-5017 Telephone: 940-369-5200 • FAX: 940-369-5248
University of North Texas Press
1155 Union Circle, # 311336 • Denton, Texas 76203-5017 Telephone: 940-565-2142 • FAX: 940-565-4590
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Chickman Associates Jeff Chickman, Greg Chickman, Ken Eveleigh 8562 Kelso Drive Huntington Beach, California 92646 Telephone: 714-962-4897 FAX: 714-962-4891, jeffchickman@earthlink.net
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Blue4Books Ian Booth, Nicholas Booth, Scott Bartlett 8333 Jersey Avenue North Brooklyn Park, Minnesota 55445 Telephone: 763-744-6921 FAX: 312-624-7927, ian@blue4books.com
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University Marketing Group David K. Brown, Jay Bruff 675 Hudson Street, 4N New York, New York 10014 Telephone: 212-924-2520 FAX: 212-924-2505, davkeibro@mac.com
HAWAII, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND THE PACIFIC ISL ANDS
Royden Muranaka East-West Export Books (EWEB) c/o University of Hawaii Press 2840 Kolowalu Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Telephone: 808-956-8830 FAX: 808-988-6052, royden@hawaii.edu
LATIN AMERICA
US PubRep, Inc. Craig Falk 311 Dean Drive Rockville, Maryland 20851-1144 Telephone: 301-838-9276 FAX: 301-838-9278, craigfalk@aya.yale.edu
CANADA
Scholarly Book Services Inc. 289 Bridgeland Ave., Unit 105 Toronto, ON M6A 1Z6 Telephone: 1-800-847-9736 FAX: 1-800-220-9895 customerservice@sbookscan.com
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