Texas A M University Press: 358 books
Zenith
In the White House with George H. W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Zenith: In the White House with George H. W. Bush is the third in Ambassador Untermeyer’s series of books based on his personal journals compiled during his tenure in the service of George H. W. Bush, first as vice president, then as president. The present work begins with Bush’s election in November...
Chimney Swift Towers
New Habitat for America's Mysterious Birds
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Chimney Swifts, birds that nest and roost in chimneys, have been historically abundant in North America. But by the late 1980s, the number of swifts migrating to North America from the Amazon River Basin had declined.
A growing number of people across North America are now constructing nesting...
by Lynn E. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
As oil was washing up on the shores of Louisiana, covering shorebirds and their nests and eggs after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Lynn Barber decided to write this book to heighten awareness, not only of the plight of bird species that are declining in numbers every year, but also of the ways in...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico
Distribution, Ecology, Paleoecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In 1981, Woods Hole researcher C. Wylie Poag published the book Ecological Atlas of the Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico.
In this new volume, Poag has revised and updated the atlas, incorporating three decades of extensive data collections from the open Gulf and from an additional...
The Soul of Art
Analysis and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
The beginnings of art are lost in the dim reaches of prehistory, eons before humans began recording and codifying their experiences in writing. And yet philosophers, artists, and historians have for centuries noted the intimate and perhaps inseparable relationship between human consciousness and the...
From Winston with Love and Kisses
The Young Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
A delightful and illuminating journey through the early years of Winston Churchill, From Winston with Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill weaves together strands of Churchill’s early writing, mature recollections and reflections on childhood, and the comments of the author, Churchill’s granddaughter....
Night Hunters
The AC-130s and Their Role in US Airpower
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In Night Hunters, air power historian William P. Head provides the first detailed study of the development and deployment of the AC-130 gunship. While other airframes and other types of close air support (CAS) and interdiction weapon systems preceded or flew with the AC-130s, this four-engine cargo...
Long Journeys Home
American Veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In the modern history of American veterans, it is sometimes difficult to separate myth from fact. The men and women who served in World War II are routinely praised as heroes; the “Greatest Generation,” after all, triumphed over fascism and successfully reentered postwar society. Veterans of the...
Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding
The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia.
Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated...
When Good Gardens Go Bad
Earth-Friendly Solutions to Common Garden Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Gardens do not take care of themselves. Poor soil, pests, disease, fungus, and inclement weather can ruin plants and a gardener’s zeal. In When Good Gardens Go Bad, veteran author and pioneer organic gardener Judy Barrett offers safe, practical, and inexpensive advice for handling common garden...
Deportation in the Americas
Histories of Exclusion and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance, editors Kenyon Zimmer and Cristina Salinas have compiled seven essays, adapted from the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that deeply consider deportation policy in the Americas and its global effects.
These...
The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations
Establishing the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Did Obama create such high expectations that they actually hindered his ability to enact his agenda? Should we judge...
The Great Silent Majority
Nixon's 1969 Speech on Vietnamization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
In his televised and widely watched speech to the nation on November 3, 1969, Pres. Richard M. Nixon introduced a phrase—“silent majority”—and a policy—Vietnamization of the war effort—that echo down to the present day. Nixon’s appearance on this night framed the terms in which much...