Bøger udgivet af Trinity University Press,U.S.

Commissioned by the U.S. Committee on Public Information, more than 300 of America’s most famous illustrators, cartoonists, designers, and fine artists donated their services to create more than 700 posters in an effort to build patriotism, raise funds for war bonds, encourage enlistment, and increase volunteerism during World War I. The Winds and Words of War is a rich collection of World War I-era posters created between 1916 and 1917 to motivate the country to abandon a position of remoteness and connect with European allies against German aggression and tyranny. These images became a great equalizing force in American culture, causing people of all backgrounds and classes, rural or urban, educated or uneducated, to rally to the cause.Some 450 of these posters are part of the San Antonio Public Library''s permanent collection, bequeathed in 1940 by Harry Hertzberg, a Texas state senator and avid memorabilia collector. The posters were created by a group of early twentieth-century American artists, among them Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, Guy Lipscombe, Charles Buckle Falls, Haskell Coffin, and Norman Rockwell. The lithographs'' heroic images and patriotic slogans depicted military and civilian effort and sacrifice, aiming to inspire young men and women to enlist, pick up a flag, and support the soldiers and nurses during a trying time in American history.The posters, many of which appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, are both testaments to the people who volunteered their service and excellent examples of the period''s advertising strategies and graphic design.

Beloved poet and essayist Christopher Merrill's personal tale of life and tree limb

Half a century of one of Texas¿s most iconic celebrations

Americäs foremost living poet sifts through life and the inevitability of the end

Fourteen writers and critics examine the craft of a legendary American poet

More than 100 portraits, landscapes, religious paintings, and devotional and secular objects that puts San Antonio's founding in context

Photographs capturing the culture and beauty of tequila, the national spirit of Mexico

The story of the founding and growth of one of the nation's exceptional institutions for higher learning

Leading environmental historian Char Miller looks below the surface of Californiäs ecological history to expose some of its less glittering conundrums

The ultimate handbook for fans of San Antonio sports

Colorful tales of San Antoniös most memorable characters

A history of one of the Army's oldest posts

More than 200 vintage postcards depicting San Antonio's military

Chronicles the richness of San Antoniös filmmaking heritage

A career spanning nearly a half century of work with large animals is distilled in these entertaining vignettes, ranging from fighting an epidemic in Mexico, work with exotic game on Texas ranches, calls to the zoo and one late-night emergency at a local theater.

Translated from German by Regina Beckmann Hurst and Dr. Walter Kamphoefner, professor of history at Texas A&M, these letters vividly describe the author's odyssey from Germany to New York in 1848 and on to Wisconsin and, finally, to Texas, where he established and expanded what became a major milling company.

This concise and lavishly illustrated account balances the significant history of the San Antonio’s missions’ founding and their original function with the stories of their subsequent decay and eventual restoration. New drawings depict all five mission compounds as they first appeared. Built in the eighteenth century by Franciscan friars and Native American converts, San Antonio’s five missions form the largest such cluster in the United States. One is preserved as the Alamo, the others make up San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.

A visual snapshot of the restoration of San Antonio's historic missions

More than 100 photographs of San Antonio's UNESCO World Heritage Site

Vintage postcard portrait panoramas of San Antonio that illustrate a city's transition into modern times

The rise of mechanized transportation in San Antonio

Nearly 1,000 place names in San Antonio inform and delight

A book about love, libido, and lamb, with seventy-five recipes by a writer well versed in the domestic dance between food and relationships

First paperback edition celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the original publication of Trees You Want to Know, the basis for this important work

A timely book that deals with regional identity and the subject of limited water resources in our age of pronounced droughts

Artist Mark Menjivar was in an antique bookshop in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he found 4 four-leaf clovers pressed between the yellowed pages of an aged copy of 1000 Facts Worth Knowing. Their discovery beguiled Menjivar so much that he began a multiyear exploration into the concept of luck and its intersections with belief, culture, superstition, and tradition in people’s lives.Menjivar has spent hours and days engaging people in airplanes, tattoo shops, bingo halls, international grocery stores, public parks, baseball stadiums, and voodoo shops—and out on the streets and in their homes. Along the way he documented his findings to create a physical archive that contains hundreds of objects (rings, underwear, food items, clovers, horses, pigs, herbs, rainbows, lottery strategies, seeds, day trader insights, statues, patches, crystals, spices) and the stories and pictures that go with them.Through photographs and first person accounts, The Luck Archive takes the best of these ideas, thoughts, and objects and gives readers a glimpse into the cultures and superstitions of a colorful array of humanity.

The saga of the tragic, epoch moment in the arc of French colonial rule

More than seventy-five poems, essays, stories, and scripts by contemporary writers provide inspiration for students in writing workshops in prisons, rehabilitation centers, and other alternative learning environments

Architects expect to design buildings. But persuading clients to carry those designs into tangible form almost always involves writing as well as designing. Yet architects, and those who write about architecture, are often more comfortable with images than words.