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Books Are Made Out of Books
A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that "books are made out of books," but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary...
Horton Foote
A Literary Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Young Man from Atlanta and Academy Awards for the screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird and the original screenplay Tender Mercies, as well as the recipient of an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of The Trip to Bountiful and the William Inge...
A Thousand Deer
Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
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—"the...
Gay as a Grig
Memories of a North Texas Girlhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Ellen Bowie Holland grew up in a house at Weatherford, Texas, that had the "motherly look of a large and gallant hen hovering over too many chicks" and that was inhabited by a "lively, warm-hearted family." This book is her record of the "whole world of little things which enriched young lives" in...
Let the People In
The Life and Times of Ann Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
When Ann Richards delivered the keynote of the 1988 Democratic National Convention and mocked President George H. W. Bush—"Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth"—she instantly became a media celebrity and triggered a rivalry that would alter the course...
The United States and the Atlantic Community
Issues and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The restiveness among some members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as to its structure and functions was an indication not of the failure of NATO, but of a need for a new adjustment to the changes that had developed in world conditions since the organization was established. Such was the...
Herschel at the Cape
Diaries and Correspondence of Sir John Herschel, 1834-1838
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Sir John Herschel, one of the founders of Southern Hemisphere astronomy, was a man of extraordinarily wide interests. He made contributions to botany, geology, and ornithology, as well as to astronomy, chemistry, and mathematics. Throughout his scientific career he kept a diary, recording his public...
Valley Interfaith and School Reform
Organizing for Power in South Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Can public schools still educate America's children, particularly in poor and working class communities? Many advocates of school reform have called for dismantling public education in favor of market-based models of reform such as privatization and vouchers. By contrast, this pathfinding book explores...
Buenos Aires
400 Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Buenos Aires has been called the Paris of Latin America, and the comparison is just, for in style of life and city design Buenos Aires resembles not only the City of Light but also the other great world capitals—London, Rome, New York. Buenos Aires: 400 Years attests to the long, diverse, and fascinating...
Barbara Jordan
Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Revered by Americans across the political spectrum, Barbara Jordan was "the most outspoken moral voice of the American political system," in the words of former President Bill Clinton, who awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994. Throughout her career as a Texas senator, U.S....
Texans in Revolt
The Battle for San Antonio, 1835
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
While the battles of 1836—the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto—are wellknown moments in the Texas Revolution, the battle for Bexar in the fall of 1835 is often overlooked. Yet this lengthy siege, which culminated in a Texan victory in December 1835, set the stage for those famous events and for the...
by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More...
Gondal's Queen
A Novel in Verse
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
In Gondal’s Queen, Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford presents a cycle of eighty-four poems by Emily Jane Brontë, for the first time arranged in logical sequence, to re-create the “novel in verse” which Emily wrote about their beloved mystical kingdom of Gondal and its ruler, Augusta Geraldine Almeda,...
Tangweera
Life and Adventures among Gentle Savages
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In the 1980s, conflicts between the Miskito people of Nicaragua's eastern coast and the Sandinistas drew international attention. Indeed, the Miskitos' struggle to defend their cultural autonomy and land rights points out a curious historical anomaly. This native group has long had closer ties to British...