Bøger udgivet af University of Texas Press

A new look at the last 150 years of Texas's contentious political history, told decade by decade through the prism of the state's famous, infamous, and unsung figures.

An innovative study argues that in Mesoamerica, holes were conceived and produced as conduits of vital forces and material abundance, prerequisites for the emergence of life.

The Adorned Body is the first truly comprehensive book on what the ancient Maya wore, a systematic survey of dress and ornaments, from head to toe and everything in between.

As the saying goes, "Comedy equals tragedy plus time," but in the face of tragedies on a national scale, comedy becomes the medium through which audiences untangle accepted understandings of what it means to be American.

One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished.

The most comprehensive study to date of Arrian of Nicomedia as a historical thinker, this book enriches broader understandings of the way history is written and sheds new light on intellectual culture in the Roman Empire.

A fresh perspective on the way the Peruvian government's major 1969 agrarian reforms transformed the social, cultural, and political landscape of the country.

A history of the American mass shooter since 1966, and an analysis of how the nation makes sense of the senseless violence.We, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the rise of the mass shooter to dismantle the myths we have constructed around the murderers and ourselves.In 1966, America's first mass shooter, from atop the University of Texas tower, unleashed a new reality: the fear that any of us may be targeted by a killer, and the complicity we bear in granting these murderers the fame or infamy they crave. Addressing individual cases in the epidemic that began in Austin, From a Taller Tower bluntly confronts our obsession with the shooters?and explores the isolation, narcissism, and sense of victimhood that fan their obsessions. Drawing on the experiences of survivors and first responders as well as the knowledge of mental health experts, McGraw challenges the notion of the "e;good guy with a gun,"e; the idolization of guns (including his own), and the reliability of traumatized memory. Yet in this terrible history, McGraw reminds us of the humanity that can stop the killing and the dying."e;An important and extraordinary book that takes us into the mind of the mass shooter and also explores our own complicity in the numbing tragedies that have become far too routine in America. Still, Seamus McGraw manages to leave us with hope that there's a way out of the despair."e; -Perri Pelitz, director and producer, Axios on HBO"e;A meditative history of mass murder by gunfire. . . . A memorable, necessary contribution to the national conversation on gun violence."e; -Kirkus Reviews"e;[From a Taller Tower] traces the history of the American mass shooter and the troubling ways we make sense of senseless violence . . . There's a tragic timeliness to McGraw's book."e; -InsideHook"e;One of the most important books you can read this or any year. It's impossible to read this work without nodding or wincing or even crying."e; -Patrick Skinner, detective, Savannah, Georgia"e;From a Taller Tower is a careful, even cathartic, look at mass shooters and the culture that ushers them forth. McGraw dispels the myths "e;forged in gunfire"e; with a riveting examination of the before, during, and after of mass shootings."e; -Amye Archer, co-editor, If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings

Presenting a new Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) curriculum that can be used in secondary and postsecondary educational settings, this book introduces Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and salient aspects of Educated Spoken Arabic (ESA) to beginning language students.

A graceful and searching photographic ode to the people of the Kerrville Folk Festival, who gather annually in the Texas Hill Country to celebrate music and live an idealistic combination of nonconformity and intentional community.

For decades, the author has traveled the length and breadth of Mexico, seeking out the home cooks, local ingredients, and traditional recipes that make Mexican cuisines some of the most varied and flavorful in the world. This book is filled with more than three hundred recipes and stories that capture the essence of Mexican food culture.

Integrates agro-ecology, anthropology, political economy, and history to trace the symbiotic growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States. This title examines the tensions between the small-scale growers, who dominated the trade in the early years, and the shippers.

In the early and mid-nineteenth century, travelers from Mexico, Germany, and the United States wrote vivid accounts of their experiences in Texas, helping to craft a lasting yet contested identity for the territory.

A first-of-its-kind study of the working-class culture of resistance on the Honduran North Coast and the radical organizing that challenged US capital and foreign intervention at the onset of the Cold War, examining gender, race, and place.

A provocative examination of how the discourse and practice of modern architecture was transformed by its encounter with large populations and the volatile politics of twentieth-century Argentina.

The story of Texas's impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.

The first biography of activist and musician Zilphia Horton, a woman who inspired thousands of working people and left a legacy that changed the world.

Shedding light on the innovative uses of participatory mapping emerging from Latin America's marginalized communities, this diverse collection reconceptualizes what maps mean as representations of identity and place.

In This Far and No Further, photographer William Abranowicz delivers more than one hundred contemporary images of the places that shaped the civil rights movement, proving the Edmund Pettus Bridge and other historic sites still have stories to tell.

A Thirsty Land chronicles Texans' epic struggles over water, from San Antonio's mission-era acequias to today's debates in the face of climate change and population growth, with an eye toward innovative technologies and strategies for increasing the suppl

A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King's Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine women's agency and the decline of modern

A comprehensive biography of Robert E. Howard, the enigmatic creator of Conan the Barbarian and progenitor of the sword and sorcery genre, who published hundreds of short stories and poems before taking his own life at the age of thirty.

The first comprehensive examination of Aztec pictorial encyclopedias and their creation, this book explores how indigenous artists documented their ancestral culture in these texts for those outside their community.

An exhibition catalog featuring the artwork of Charles White, an influential and beloved artist, educator, and activist.

A fascinating memoir by a passionate bibliophile and pioneering venture capitalist.