University of Texas Press
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The Book of Merlyn: The Conclusion to the Once and Future King
$18.95 Add to cartThis magical account of King Arthur’s last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T. H. White’s papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, spent twenty-six weeks
- Author: White, T. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 19 2018
- ISBN10: 147731721X
- Language: English
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Yucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition
$60.00 Read moreWinner, James Beard Foundation Best Cookbook of the Year Award, 2015
James Beard Foundation Best International Cookbook Award, 2015
The Art of Eating Prize for Best Food Book of the Year, 2015The Yu
- Series: William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Cultur
- Author: Sterling, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0292735812
- Language: English
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A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove
$55.00 Add to cartWidely acclaimed as the greatest Western ever made, Lonesome Dove has become a true American epic. Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was a New York Times best seller, with more than 2.5 mi
- Series: Southwestern & Mexican Photography Series, the Wittliff Coll
- Author: Spong, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0292735847
- Language: English
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Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary
$21.95 Read moreWhy has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query “is he musical?” become code, in the twentieth century, for “is he gay?” Why is music so inheren
- Series: American Music
- Author: Geffen, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 147731878X
- Language: English
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Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas
$35.00 Read more2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize
2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas
2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society“Harrigan, surveying th
- Series: The Texas Bookshelf
- Author: Harrigan, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0292759517
- Language: English
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Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture
$17.95 Read more“To be a fan is to scream alone together.” This is the discovery Hannah Ewens makes in Fangirls: how music fandom is at once a journey of self-definition and a conduit for connection and camaraderie;
- Series: American Music
- Author: Ewens, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1477322094
- Language: English
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Bowie: An Illustrated Life
$21.95 Read moreDavid Bowie was a master of artifice and reinvention. In that same spirit, illustrator Mar? Hesse and writer Fran Ruiz have created a vivid retelling of the life of David Robert Jones, from his workin
- Author: Hesse, María
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1477318879
- Language: English
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Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions
$24.95 Read more2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
2023 The Jud- Series: American Music
- Author: Royster, Francesca T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1477326499
- Language: English
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Armadillos to Ziziphus: A Naturalist in the Texas Hill Country
$29.95 Read moreA collection of essays on the ecology, biodiversity, and restoration of the Texas Hill Country.
For most of five decades, evolutionary biologist David Hillis has studied the biodiversity of the Texas- Author: Hillis, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1477326731
- Language: English
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Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States: A Field Guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida
$39.95 Add to cartThe weather patterns and topography of America’s Gulf Coast create favorable growing conditions for thousands of species of mushrooms, but the complete region has generally gone uncharted when it come
- Author: Bessette, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: July 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1477318151
- Language: English
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DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
$29.95 Add to cartDJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed.
- Series: American Music
- Author: Walker, Lance Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1477325131
- Language: English
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The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
$45.00 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Foundation Book Award, 2016
Art of Eating Prize, 2015
BCALA Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 2016Women of Africa
- Author: Tipton-Martin, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0292745486
- Language: English
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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
$24.95 Read moreFinalist, 2024 Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Award for Arts and Culture
A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs- Series: Music Matters
- Author: Denise, Lynnée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1477321187
- Language: English
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John Prine: In Spite of Himself
$21.95 Add to cartWith a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” and “Paradise” to the classic country music parody “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” John Prine is a son
- Series: American Music
- Author: Huffman, Eddie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 147732593X
- Language: English
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Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot
$18.95 Add to cartAs an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes–identity, mon
- Author: Goldman, Vivien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 147731654X
- Language: English
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Best Seller
2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction
2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction
A February IndieNext Pick
Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, N- Series: American Music
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1477316485
- Language: English
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Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters
$24.95 Read moreA stirring defense of Sin?ad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her.
In 1990, Sin?ad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a supersta- Series: Music Matters
- Author: McCabe, Allyson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1477325700
- Language: English
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Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan
$35.00 Add to cart“ONE OF THE SHARPEST, FUNNIEST, AND BEST BOOKS EVER ABOUT ANY ROCK ARTIST”–Rolling Stone
“WEIRD AND WONDROUS”–New York Times
“I ADORED IT”–Michael Chabon
A literary and visual exploration of the songs
- Series: American Music
- Author: Pappademas, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1477324992
- Language: English
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100 Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos de Amor
$19.95 Add to cart“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: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0292756518
- Language: English
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Why Mariah Carey Matters
$22.95 Read moreThe first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey.
When it comes to Mariah Carey, star power is never in doubt. She has sold hundreds of millions of albums and cut more ch- Series: Music Matters
- Author: Chan, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1477325077
- Language: English
