University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Bat Bomb
World War II's Other Secret Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
It was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific— All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan's major cities. As the bats went to roost, a million fires would flare up in remote crannies of the wood and paper buildings...
Places in the World a Person Could Walk
Family, Stories, Home, and Place in the Texas Hill Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Spring-fed creeks. Old stone houses. Cedar brakes and bleached limestone. The Hill Country holds powerful sway over the imagination of Texans. So many of us dream of having our own little place in the limestone hills. The Hill Country feels just like home, even if you've never lived there.This beautifully...
Clovis Blade Technology
A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Around 11,000 years ago, a Paleoindian culture known to us as "Clovis" occupied much of North America. Considered to be among the continent's earliest human inhabitants, the Clovis peoples were probably nomadic hunters and gatherers whose remaining traces include camp sites and caches of goods stored...
Messages from the Wild
An Almanac of Suburban Natural and Unnatural History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Seeking a closer connection with nature than the manicured lawns of suburbia, naturalist Fred Gehlbach and his family built a house on the edge of a wooded ravine in Central Texas in the mid-1960s. On daily walks over the hills, creek hollows, and fields of the ravine, Gehlbach has observed the cycles...
Lord Byron's Cain
Twelve essays and a text with variants and annotations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron's notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen "from Kentish town to Pisa." From...
Energy
The Life of John J. McKetta Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Energy recounts the life of Dr. John J. McKetta Jr., a first-generation Ukrainian American coal miner who worked his way up from the mines to become the world's foremost energy expert, a university dean, an encyclopedia editor, and one of the most widely known and respected professors in his field....
by Bill Wittliff
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
When last we saw the boy Papa in The Devil’s Backbone, he had finally learned the fate of his missing Momma and his vicious daddy, Old Karl. But hardly has he concluded that quest before another one is upon him. Now a white-haired man with a hangman’s noose around his neck and death in his eye—o’Pelo...
Maury Maverick
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Maury Maverick was possibly the first liberal United States Congressman from Texas to achieve national and even international stature. A dedicated Democrat, he was ready to attack Franklin D. Roosevelt whenever he felt that Roosevelt was flagging in his enthusiasm for reform. He was honest to the point...
Machado de Assis
Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) never left Brazil and rarely traveled outside his native city of Rio de Janeiro, yet he is widely acknowledged by those who have read him as one of the major authors of the nineteenth century. His works are full of subtle irony, relentless psychological insights,...
by Barry A. Crouch
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated area with little support from headquarters.
Jacob's Well
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Originally published in 1984, Stephen Harrigan's passionate, emotionally intense second novel takes readers deep into the mysterious passageways of a Central Texas aquifer—and of the human heart. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking
Authentic Recipes for Dieters, Diabetics, and All Food Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Just about everyone loves Mexican food, but should you eat it if you want to manage your weight or diabetes? Yes, absolutely! There are literally hundreds of authentic Mexican dishes that are naturally healthy—moderate in calories, fat, and sugar—and completely delectable. In Naturally Healthy...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Since its first publication in 1991, this history of early San Antonio has won a 1992 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society and a Presidio La Bahía Award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas.
Dear Dirt Doctor
Questions Answered the Natural Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Howard Garrett has converted gardeners throughout Texas and beyond to gardening the natural way without chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. In this revised and updated edition of The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening, he uses a question-and-answer format to present a wealth of new information...