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A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove (Southwes...
$52.97
Bill Wittliff's A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove presents images created during the filiming of the reonwned miniseries Lonesome Dove. Author: Wittliff, Bill Publisher: University of Texas Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0292713118 ISBN-13: 9780292713116..
A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove (Southwester...
$38.49
Widely acclaimed as the greatest Western ever made, Lonesome Dove has become a true American epic. Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was a New York Times best seller, with more than 2.5 million copies currently in print. The Lonesome Dove miniseries has drawn millions of viewers and won ..
A John Graves Reader (Southwestern Writers Collect...
$9.23
Since the publication of his haunting, elegiac Goodbye to a River in 1960, John Graves has become one of Texas' most beloved writers, whose circle of loyal readers extends far beyond the borders of his home state. A "regional" writer only by virtue of his gift for vividly evoking the spirit of the l..
A John Graves Reader (Southwestern Writers Series)
$9.08
Product DescriptionSince the publication of his haunting, elegiac Goodbye to a River in 1960, John Graves has become one of Texas' most beloved writers, whose circle of loyal readers extends far beyond the borders of his home state. A "regional" writer only by virtue of his gift for vividly evoking ..
A Law for the Lion: A Tale of Crime and Injustice ...
$12.92
"Esto no es cosa de armas" (this is not a matter for weapons). These were the last words of Don Francisco Gutiérrez before Alonzo W. Allee shot and killed him and his son, Manuel Gutiérrez. What began as a simple dispute over Allee's unauthorized tenancy on a Gutiérrez family ranch near Laredo, Texa..
A Mansion in the Sky: And Other Short Stories (CME...
$35.81
Writing before and since the Iranian Revolution, Goli Taraghi publishes both in Iran and abroad. In this collection of stories, she poignantly describes her childhood in Tehran and portrays the experience of exile with her family. She was one of the first Iranian women to receive critical recognitio..
A Mexican Family Empire: The Latifundio of the Sá...
$45.02
Perhaps no other institution has had a more significant impact on Latin American history than the large landed estate-the hacienda. In Mexico, the latifundio, an estate usually composed of two or more haciendas, dominated the social and economic structure of the country for four hundred years. A Mex..
A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last U...
$11.32
Traveling with ornithologists John O'Neill and Ted Parker on two separate expeditions into the Peruvian rain forest, Don Stap gives a firsthand account of the gritty realities and unexpected triumphs of fieldwork in the South American jungle. He describes the thrill of discovering previously unknown..
A Political Education: A Washington Memoir
$9.61
This insider's view of Washington in the 1950s and 1960s, of the tumultuous presidency of Lyndon Johnson, and of the conflicts and factions of the president's staff has become a political classic since its original publication in 1972. In this reissue, Harry McPherson adds a new preface in which he ..
A Rainbow of Gangs: Street Cultures in the Mega-Ci...
$9.08
With nearly 1,000 gangs and 200,000 gang members, Los Angeles holds the dubious distinction of being the youth gang capital of the United States. The process of street socialization that leads to gang membership now cuts across all ethnic groups, as evidenced by the growing numbers of gangs among re..
A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her ...
$17.61
Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to l..
A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and t...
$18.34
In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass's family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country-"t..
Adventures with a Texas Naturalist (Texas Classics...
$12.30
A classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world. This reprint contains a new introduction by noted nature writer Rick Bass. Author: Bedichek, Roy Publisher: University of Texas Press Binding: Paperback..
Aesthetics of Film (Texas Film Studies Series)
$15.33
Winner, A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic BookA concise, lively, and readable summary of classical and contemporary film theory, Aesthetics of Film is the work of experts who are defining the parameters of film criticism internationally. First published in French (L'Esthetique du film) in 1983,..
Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the Riv...
$9.74
Far into the Atlantic Ocean, the outflow from the Amazon River creates a "sweet sea" of fresh water. At the river's mouth, a vast delta of river channels and marshes, floodplain and upland forests, open and scrub savannas, floating meadows, and mangrove swamps hosts an astonishingly diverse assembla..
America's First Cuisines
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After long weeks of boring, perhaps spoiled sea rations, one of the first things Spaniards sought in the New World was undoubtedly fresh food. Probably they found the local cuisine strange at first, but soon they were sending American plants and animals around the world, eventually enriching the cui..
American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebu...
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Since 1975, when the U.S. government adopted a policy of self-determination for American Indian nations, a large number of the 562 federally recognized nations have seized the opportunity to govern themselves and determine their own economic, political, and cultural futures. As a first and crucial s..
Andean Entrepreneurs: Otavalo Merchants and Musici...
$18.19
Native to a high valley in the Andes of Ecuador, the Otavalos are an indigenous people whose handcrafted textiles and traditional music are now sold in countries around the globe. Known as weavers and merchants since pre-Inca times, Otavalos today live and work in over thirty countries on six contin..
Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya: A Guide
$15.34
A growing interest in all things Maya brings an increasing number of visitors to prehistoric Maya ruins and contemporary Maya communities in Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras, the Yucatán Peninsula, and the southern areas of Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico. For these visitors and indeed e..
Anson Jones: The Last President of Texas
$22.51
This is the story of a New Englander who came penniless to Mexican Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the turbulent disorders of settlement, revolution, political experimentation, and statehood.Within a year of his arrival, Anson Jones was successful..
Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the ...
$9.61
The sudden influx of significant numbers of Latinos to the rural Midwest stems from the recruitment of workers by food processing plants and small factories springing up in rural areas. Mostly they work at back-breaking jobs that local residents are not willing to take because of the low wages and f..
Archaeoastronomy in pre-Columbian America
$62.55
Archaeoastronomy in pre-Columbian America Author: Aveni, Anthony F. (editor) Publisher: University of Texas Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0292703104 ISBN-13: 9780292703100..
Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride as Air For...
$10.46
Product DescriptionWhen Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted to go somewhere, there was no stopping him. This dynamic president called for Air Force One as others summon a taxi-at a moment's notice, whatever the hour or the weather. And the man who made sure that LBJ got his ride was General James U. Cross,..
Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays ...
$16.11
Art and Answerability contains three of Mikhail Bakhtin's early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates, lectures, demonstrations, and manifesto writing of the period. Because they predate works that have alread..
Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconq...
$26.04
In villages and towns across Spain and its former New World colonies, local performers stage mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances to massive street theatre lasting several days. The festival tradition officially celebrates the triumph of Span..