University of Texas Press
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Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
$25.00 Add to cartFriends of the Dallas Public Library Award, 2006
Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 2007In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved
- Series: Jack and Doris Smothers Texas History, Life, and Culture #15
- Author: Sitton, Thad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0292706421
- Language: English
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Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
$17.95 Add to cartAt a time when “Friday night lights” shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high sc
- Author: Hurd, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1477318305
- Language: English
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
$19.95 Add to cartIn the ’60s and ’70s, America’s music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting h
- Series: Music Matters
- Author: Tongson, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1477318844
- Language: English
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The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting
$21.95 Add to cartVeteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters don’t know how to tell a story. These writers may know how to format a scrip
- Author: Chamberlain, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1477303731
- Language: English
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Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
$18.95 Add to cartFull-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift–these artists provided pi
- Series: American Music
- Author: Gleason, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1477322582
- Language: English
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Oaxaca Al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy
$65.00 Add to cartNo one has done more to introduce the world to the authentic, flavorful cuisines of Mexico than Diana Kennedy. Acclaimed as the Julia Child of Mexican cooking, Kennedy has been an intrepid, indefatiga
- Series: William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture
- Author: Kennedy, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0292722664
- Language: English
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Why Patti Smith Matters
$18.95 Read morePatti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found–what she fostered–was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her u
- Series: Music Matters
- Author: Rose, Caryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1477320113
- Language: English
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Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly’s Rangers
$24.95 Add to cartOnly an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on hors
- Series: Texas Classics
- Author: Durham, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 01, 1962
- ISBN10: 0292780486
- Language: English
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Honky Tonk Hero
$19.95 Add to cartBilly Joe Shaver was the real deal. Many agree with him that his songs are pure poetry. Shaver sang about a life that was full of hard times, wild living, and a forty-year-long passion for his late wi
- Author: Shaver, Billy Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1477323961
- Language: English
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One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos de Amor
$22.95 Read more“The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna,” Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the back
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0292757603
- Language: English
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Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
$26.95 Read moreTriumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty–it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warn
- Author: Luther, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1477313133
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life
$21.95 Read moreOne of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning. She is re
- Author: Hesse, María
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1477317287
- Language: English
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The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&l Industry
$24.95 Add to cartIn this expert insider’s account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs–in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight
- Author: Black, William K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15, 2013
- ISBN10: 0292754183
- Language: English
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Complete Works and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartAugusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, the
- Series: Texas Pan American
- Author: Monterroso, Augusto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: January 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0292751842
- Language: English
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The Charles Bowden Reader
$29.95 Add to cart“I will make bold to say that Bowden is America’s most alarming writer. Just when you think you’ve heard it all you learn you haven’t in the most pungent manner possible. . . . With The Charles Bowden
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 311
- Publish Date: September 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0292721986
- Language: English
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Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
$19.95 Add to cartSam Shepard was arguably America’s finest working dramatist, as well as an accomplished screenwriter, actor, and director. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he wrote more than forty-five plays, including Tr
- Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections
- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: October 15, 2013
- ISBN10: 0292761961
- Language: English
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Dreamtigers
$16.95 Add to cartDreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as h
- Series: Texas Pan American
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01, 1964
- ISBN10: 0292715498
- Language: English
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How to Suppress Women’s Writing
$21.95 Add to cartAre women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so subtle–strategies that
- Author: Russ, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1477316256
- Language: English
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Platero and I
$22.95 Add to cartThis lyric portrait of life–and the little donkey, Platero–in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ram Jimé§ez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Author: Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: January 01, 1957
- ISBN10: 0292764790
- Language: English
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The Gay Place
$29.95 Add to cartSet in Texas, The Gay Place consists of three interlocking novels, each with a different protagonist–a member of the state legislature, the state’s junior senator, and the governor’s press secretary.
- Series: Texas Classics
- Author: Brammer, Billy Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0292708319
- Language: English
