Bøger udgivet af Texas Christian University Press,U.S.

"Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers covers thirty-five years of interviews with writers including Max Apple, Greg Bear, Jamaica Kincaid, Ron Hansen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jennifer Egan, Madison Smartt Bell, Elizabeth Crook, Robert Stone, and many others. Conducted at the time the writer's latest book was published, each interview displays the kind of depth and fascinating detail that can only be achieved when the interviewer comes equipped with a deep, broad knowledge of his subject's work. The resulting conversations range over a spectrum of contemporary and classic fiction and poetry, revealing much about the writers' impulses, backgrounds, and sources of inspiration. Talk Talk will not only help lay readers gain insight into the works of these important writers but will become a valuable resource for scholars and students"--

In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. Blood Ties describes the Azteca's organisational structure and ranks, identifying characteristics, and how the organisation appropriated Aztec culture.

And what a reunion it is! Dan Jenkins reunites many of the most memorable and irascible characters from his most memorable and hilarious novels-starting with Semi-Tough. This is a special commemorative edition of Dan Jenkins's last novel, including a foreword by Tom Brokaw and an afterword by Sally Jenkins.

Offers an exciting and entertaining account of a doctor's first year of practice in an underserved Texas hospital. This book shows a doctor's life at an intimate level, with its many rewards, struggles, and exchanges. This memoir reveals that humour, compassion, and humility make the practice of medicine fulfilling and inspiring.

Presents a remarkable new collection of essays by one of America's best-known and best-loved sportswriters. Served up with the acerbic wit that is Dan Jenkins's hallmark, the essays range over the whole world of sports, taking aim at owners, players, fans, and franchises alike - with results that will make you laugh out loud.

Poets Karla Morton and Alan Birkelbach began a journey to celebrate America's national parks' 100th anniversary, but for these two poets the sojourns quickly became something greater. Their journey, illustrated with gorgeous colour photos of all of America's grand national parks, is a feast for the eyes and heart.

Originally published in 1966 under the pen name Tom Pendleton, The Iron Orchard garnered a cult following for its authentic representation of the people and the industry in the oil fields of Texas and the American Southwest. It is a magnificent and memorable read.

Tells the tale of ninety-five-year-old John Quincy Adams the Second (no relation to the famous historic figure), who meets a graduate student named Annie Baxter and agrees to help her write a history of the culture of the South. The Girls of the Golden West is ultimately a story of finding love for other people and for one's homeland.

This novel is set in three Aprils, those of 1967, '68, and '69, in Music City. It presents characters caught up in events ranging from the thoughtful and sincerely well meaning to the truly felonious and certifiably insane. The novel is humorous, yet serious. Its fire is literal and emotional, and it is not to be stoked.

Provides the most comprehensive academic case study of barrio group dynamics in a major Texas city to date. This is a sociological work on the history of barrio gangs in San Antonio and other large Texas cities to the present day. It examines the century-long evolution of urban barrio subcultures using public archives, oral histories, old photos, and other forms of qualitative data.

Features a lyrical writing style and insights into the traumas and triumphs of the human spirit that can make you feel. Published in the ""Star-Telegram"" from 1991 through 2007, it contains stories that looks at a variety of Texans (a few famous, and all unforgettable) and includes a half-dozen essays from the author about her own colorful life.

A story of survival within an impersonal child-care system, a story filled with vivid characters, pathos, surprising humor, and the tenacity of a young boy who longs for a normal home and can't understand why his mother abandoned him or who his father is.

Hewey is back; older, wiser, and badly banged up trying to break a renegade bronc. His wandering days are over because of his injuries, because of fences that cut up the range, because of trucks and automobiles. But how will Hewey handle the new circumstances of his life? And how will Spring react to his return?

At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers stood apart from Texas' conservative establishment. Calling themselves the Mad Dogs, they closely observed the effects of the events such as the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassination. This is a portrait of these writers who came of age during a period of rapid social change.

First published by TCU Press in 1947, Colby Hall's History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier is the story of the first seventy-five years of the institution. Tracing the evolution of Add Ran College to Add Ran University, and ultimately to Texas Christian University, Hall shows the struggles and success in the transformation of a frontier college.

A guidebook for whiskey lovers. Organised into approximately sixty illustrated essays, the book samples selected topics in whiskey production through the lenses of science and engineering. The story commences with water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight, travels through the manufacturing process, and ends with the molecules that entertain the palate.

For more than one hundred years, Jewish women and men of the Dallas area have responded to Tikkun Olam, the religious challenge to heal the world. Repairing Our World: The First 100 Years of the National Council of Jewish WomenGreater Dallas Section, is a history of this passion to create a more humane society.

"This illustrated book for very young readers (age: 5-7; grade: K to grade 3) follows the sequence of complete metamorphosis in the life of a butterfly named Cora Lynn"--

A dazzling pageant that brings to life stories and traditions originating in medieval times, the Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival is a Christmas celebration that weaves both religious and secular narratives into a radiant tapestry. The festival presented annually during Epiphany at University Christian Church in Fort Worth is the basis for this volume, which includes lavish colour illustrations.

The Silent Shore of Memory chronicles the fictional life of James Barnhill from his days as a young Confederate soldier through the trials of Reconstruction in his native Texas and his later career and as a lawyer and judge. Steeped in the history of the South, The Silent Shore of Memory explores the nuances of views on slavery and the dissolution of the Union, the complexity of race relations and race politics during the thirty years following the Civil War, and the powerful bonds of familial love and friendship.

"It happened on the plaza that never slept - my favorite place in the whole of the city," writes Lupe Perez, to begin her memoir. A mix of historical fact, vintage photos and maps, recipes, music, folklore, and south Texan culture, Lupe's story offers an eyewitness account of life on Military Plaza in San Antonio during the 1880s.

"The Love Family Letters archive displays a vast communication network consisting of writers on both home and war fronts spanning the entirety of the Civil War. The inclusion of domestic writers in conjunction with soldiers from varying units of the C.S.A. provides a vital link between two perspectives of the war and an inside look into the Loves' struggle to maintain family ties.... Seventy-seven of the letters are written by the soldiering Love brothers; Cyrus, Sam, James, and John Love, and brother-in-law John Karner; to their parents and sisters in Texas. In addition, the collection preserves three letters circulated between women on the home front, with authors including Fannie Love and Tennessee Love.... The volume presented here is only a representative sample of a much larger body of epistles; absent, sadly, are letters which were received and not preserved, those which are fragmented or excerpted, and the untold number of letters which were miscarried, captured, or otherwise lost in the confusion of war."--Introduction.

"A Joint Project of the Center of Texas Studies at TCU and TCU Press / Fort Worth, Texas"--title page.

Luke Burgoa is an ex-Marine on a solitary covert mission to infiltrate the Basque separatist organization ETA in Spain and help bring down its military commander, Peru Madariaga. Luke's orders are to sell guns to the ETA and lure Peru into a trap. Instead he falls in love with Peru's estranged wife, Ysolina. Sins of the Younger Sons is a love story exposed to dire risk at every turn.

Presents twenty-eight paintings from the Landmark Series, paintings of historic Fort Worth structures, many of which no longer stand today with text elucidates each painting, explaining details and their historical significance.