University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by John Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
A breathtaking country of rugged mountain peaks, uninhabited desert, and spectacular river canyons, Big Bend is one of the United States' most remote national parks and among Texas' most popular tourist attractions. Located in the great bend of the Rio Grande that separates Texas and Mexico, the park...
Pachangas
Borderlands Music, U.S. Politics, and Transnational Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A uniquely Tejano version of the old-fashioned political barbeque, the traditional South Texas pachanga allowed politicians to connect with voters in a relaxed setting where all could enjoy live music and abundant food and drink along with political speeches and dealmaking. Today's pachanga still...
Self-organization and Dissipative Structures
Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The contributions to this volume attempt to apply different aspects of Ilya Prigogine's Nobel-prize-winning work on dissipative structures to nonchemical systems as a way of linking the natural and social sciences. They address both the mathematical methods for description of pattern and form as they...
Mexican American Youth Organization
Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Among the protest movements of the 1960s, the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) emerged as one of the principal Chicano organizations seeking social change. By the time MAYO evolved into the Raza Unida Party (RUP) in 1972, its influence had spread far beyond its Crystal City, Texas, origins....
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States
A Field Guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
The weather patterns and topography of America's Gulf Coast create favorable growing conditions for thousands of species of mushrooms, but the complete region has generally gone unchartered when it comes to mycology. Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States at last delivers an in-depth, high-quality, user-friendly...
Technology and Place
Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Yet, despite its promise, the very institutions...
by Arthur Liebman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In the 1960s, when students everywhere were coming alive politically, and when the Latin American student activist in particular became as archetypal of radicalism as the Latin American dictator was of repression, Puerto Rican students remained strangely silent. With the exception of FUPI, a radical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This book presents penetrating observations by six authorities on the personality development of children for the enlightenment of parents, teachers, and others who have a vital interest in children.In the first paper, the late Harold E. Jones, a professor of psychology and the director of the Institute...
Habitat Conservation Planning
Endangered Species and Urban Growth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
As environmental awareness grows around the world, people are learning that a diversity of species and the habitat to support them is necessary to maintain the ecological health of the earth. At the same time, however, the pressure to develop wildlife habitat for human settlement and economic gain...
Environmental Studies of a Marine Ecosystem
South Texas Outer Continental Shelf
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Environmental Studies of a Marine Ecosystem reports the temporal and spatial variation of both the living and nonliving resources of the south Texas outer continental shelf. As the last major study to have been conducted before the Ixtoc oil spill in 1979, it is of great importance as a record of...
The Chora of Croton 1
The Neolithic Settlement at Capo Alfiere
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations and surveys in ancient territories (chorae) in southern Italy. This wide-ranging investigation, which covers a large number of sites and a time period...
Ambassadors at Sea
The High and Low Adventures of a Diplomat
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
In 1969, Henry Catto was selling insurance in San Antonio, Texas. Just twenty years later, he presented his credentials as ambassador to the Court of St. James's to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, at Buckingham Palace. In this engaging memoir, he retraces his journey from Texas outsider to Washington...
The Chora of Metaponto 2
Archaeozoology at Pantanello and Five Other Sites
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations in the ancient territory (chora) of Metaponto, now located in the modern province of Basilicata on the southern coast of Italy. This wide-ranging investigation,...
Gustav Dresel's Houston Journal
Adventures in North America and Texas, 1837-1841
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010