Texas A M University Press: 358 books
Footprints in Aggieland
Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The “dean” of development officers in Texas, if not the entire nation, Bob Walker has been instrumental in raising hundreds of millions of dollars for Texas A&M University, including many of the largest gifts in the university’s history. He provides through this book many instructive and sometimes...
Harsh Country, Hard Times
Clayton Wheat Williams and the Transformation of the Trans-Pecos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Clayton Wheat Williams—West Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War, and avocational historian—was a risk taker, who both reflected and molded the history of his region. His life spanned a dynamic period in Texas history when automobiles replaced horse-drawn wagons, electricity...
Texas Aggies in Vietnam
War Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
From its inception, graduates of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now Texas A&M University, have marched off to fight in every conflict in which the United States has been involved. The Vietnam War was no different. The Corps of Cadets produced more officers for the conflict in...
Texas A&M University
A Pictorial History, 1876-1996, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
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 forty-eight agricultural and mechanical (engineering) students to today's diverse campus of more than forty thousand students.
Captured in full-color...
by Natalie Ornish
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition...
by Chuck Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Thomas C. (Pidge) Robinson came to Texas from Virginia at the age of 27, fleeing a feud with a neighbor who opposed Robinson’s amorous intentions toward the neighbor’s sister. He joined the Texas Rangers in 1874, serving with legendary Capt. Leander H. McNelly’s Washington County Volunteer Militia...
Impeached
The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
In 1917, barely into his second term as governor of Texas, James E. Ferguson was impeached, convicted, and removed from office. Impeached provides a new examination of the rise and fall of Ferguson’s political fortunes, offering a focused look at how battles over economic class, academic freedom,...
Together We Can
Pathways to Collective Leadership in Agriculture at Texas A&M
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Together We Can recounts effective strategies for institutional change and focuses on collective leadership within the land-grant university system, with reflections on Hiler’s long and successful career in academic leadership, both at Texas A&M University and within the larger Texas A&M...
by William Henry Kellar, Barbara Bush
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In 2012, Richard E. Wainerdi retired as president and chief executive officer of the Texas Medical Center after almost three decades at the helm. During his tenure, Wainerdi oversaw the expansion of the center into the world’s largest medical complex, hosting more than fifty separate institutions....
by Robert B. Shaw, Paul M Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
In this new, complete Guide to Texas Grasses, Robert B. Shaw and the team at the Texas A&M University Institute of Renewable Natural Resources provide an indispensable reference to the world’s most economically important plant family. After discussing the impact of grass on our everyday lives...
The Texas Right
The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right,...
Texans and War
New Interpretations of the State's Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Beginning with tribal wars among Native Americans before Europeans settled Texas and continuing through the Civil War, the soil of what would become the Lone Star State has frequently been stained by the blood of those contesting for control of its resources. In subsequent years and continuing to...
Famous Trees of Texas
Texas A&M Forest Service Centennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Famous Trees of Texas was first published in 1970 by the Texas Forest Service (now Texas A&M Forest Service), an organization created in 1915 and charged with protecting and sustaining the forests, trees, and other related natural resources of Texas.
For the 100-year anniversary of TFS,...
by Lawrence E. Estaville, Kristine Egan, Dr. Abel Galaviz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
With almost two hundred pages of original demographic and health-related maps that display county-by-county and regional information covering everything from the distribution of pharmacies, trauma centers, and emergency rooms to the number of lung, colon, and breast cancer patients in major metropolitan...