Bøger udgivet af Texas Tech Press,U.S.

Presents the history of the twentieth century on the front lines of American culture. Pairing the original memoir with a commentary, this title guides the reader across the wild prairies of central Texas at the turn of the century into World War I with the infant Army Air Force and around the world in the Merchant Marine.

In these eight stories that share the same setting across time, Joyce Gibson Roach writes of the place that sparked her treasured West Texas sensibility. Her fictive Horned Toad calls to stand and speak itself into existence-to live again in words. The characters are all familiar West Texas-types speaking in the tongues of dry places.

Uses four case studies to examine food rationing policies, practices, and results in the United States and South Australia. Tamara Levi explores how differences in environment, indigenous and colonial populations, and overall indigenous policies impacted the rationales for and implementation of food rationing as a tool for forced acculturation.

The essays and primary research studies presented in Perspectives in Interdisciplinary and Integrative Studies extend the field of integrative studies further by drawing a clear distinction between integrative and interdisciplinary studies, in which integrative studies provides for a synthesis of study and life, an application of interdisciplinarity to complex problems.

A raucous, hilarious journey through political dangers that come in all shapes, cup sizes, and sexual identities, a trip into the wild, sometimes outrageous world of the Texas-Mexico border and all geographical and anatomical points south.

During his thirty-plus years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota, physician and neurologist Tom Hutton discovered that a doctor's best teachers are often his patients. Part memoir and part homage to those patients who faced major illness with grace, grit, and dignity, Carrying the Black Bag invites readers to experience what it is like to be a doctor's hands, eyes, and heart.

Texans love to eat, and one dish they can't get enough of is chili - so much so that chili con carne is Texas's state meal. This seemingly simple staple of Texan identity proves to be anything but, however. Texas Is Chili Country is a brief look at the favoured fare - its colourful history, its many incarnations, and the ways it has spread both across the country and the world.

Focusing primarily on Henry Fielding, this title includes the essays that employ and defend positions within feminism, Marxism, Bourdelian analysis, queer theory, and cultural studies, along with a theoretically savvy version of formalist criticism. It gathers together a dozen essays from the various regions of the ideological spectrum.

Cotton stickiness is a worldwide contamination problem. Following a general overview of cotton stickiness, the authors evaluate various detection methods, including chemical tests and physical tests, and review the advantages and limitations of high-speed stickiness detectors. They also discuss the effect of stickiness on fiber processing.

Bruce Lack's poetry confronts the human cost of sending young men and women to fight a war of questionable justification against an insurgency unbound by rules of engagement. Lack's poems engage honestly with the frustration of fighting an elusive, ruthless enemy, the guilt of surviving when others do not, and the residual anger that may never leave the generation of veterans of the War on Terror.

While seeking inspiration among the historical artifacts contained in the trunk, Hannah, her brother Nick, and friend Jackie are suddenly thrown back through time, finding themselves at an old Spanish mission in San Antonio. This title lets you join Hannah, Nick, and Jackie as they learn valuable lessons about honor and the importance of history.

In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed fool proof was hatched up. The scheme failed and led to two murders. With his usual rough-and-tumble tenacity, Bill Neal undertakes the investigation of these murders.

LaSalle's intense, haunting novel beckons readers into the shadowy lives of undocumented workers in the US and the difficult choices they must face. Written as a single book-length sentence, Mariposa's Song is also a truly innovative achievement in the novel form itself, as it continually startles and satisfies with stylistic daring and sheer lyrical radiance.

Revolving around the deaths of the poet's parents and first wife, this title focuses on the nature of love and its transformations. It conveys the emptying of self and world through the loss of a sustaining love, and the grim, gradual outliving of that state.

Lynwood Krenecks screenprints are recognized throughout the world for their imaginative, often humor-filled content, vivid colors, and always superb technical execution. This title follows the artists rise from a lonely childhood on a South Texas farm to recognition as one of the leading printmakers.

Its the South Plains, 1873. Bison herds are dwindling on the Kansas prairie. Logan Fletcher, a young faith healer from Kentucky, labors as a skinner on a buffalo hunting crew, waiting for the taming of the plains and the chance to spread the Word to the coming immigrants.

A personal ecology is what poet and writer Peggy Pond Church called the journals she kept for more than fifty years on New Mexicos Pajarito Plateau. This title includes journals from her childhood in the 1930s through 1986, the year of her death.

Ho Anh Thai's dark fable draws readers into the divided society of 1990s Vietnam, to an underground economy in which anything may be bought and sold, youth seek speed, sex, and thrills, and past crimes still haunt the pure and the guilty alike. In this riveting, fast-paced cautionary tale, citizens of all ages and situations must come to grips with the sordid, unforeseen consequences of a war once meant to liberate them.

Is comedy postmodern? In a literary age that purports to champion diversity, comic writers remain an underclass huddling at the fringes of the canon. This title challenges the status quo by inviting the comic writer into the center of literary debate.

Documents the life and work of James C Watkins, one of the major Texas pottery artist. This book shows how the vessels are built, how various materials are used to create different surfaces, how clay slips are made from organic materials, and how both technology and serendipity are part of the firing process.

From the Texas panhandle to the mountains of Arizona, Amy Auker has lived the cowboy life - as wife, as mother, as cook, as ranch hand, as writer. In fine-grained detail she captures the prairie light, the traffic on small farm-to-market roads, the vacant stillness of shipping pens when fall works are over. But she also captures the unmistakable westernness of the people and creatures around her.

"First English edition published by Oneworld Publications, copyright c 2007 by Judith Buber Agassi"--Title page verso.

"Frank Scotton, assigned to Viet Nam from 1962 to 1975, details counterinsurgency technique used and shares observations and conclusions about the challenges faced in the US's involvement in the Viet Nam War"--Provided by publisher.

Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof's life growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants and, later, his twelve-year imprisonment during the military dictatorship.