Bøger udgivet af Texas Tech Press,U.S.

A lifetime collection of poems by esteemed Texas literary voice Walt McDonald, as selected by the poet himself.

Adrian Gabriel ""Gabe"" Rivera was one of the greatest players in the history of Texas Tech football. Sports historian Jorge Iber's newest book chronicles this Mexican American athlete's rise to prominence and later life.

The first biography of Enid Justin, lady bootmaker and the visionary who founded the Nocona Boot Company. Utilizing archival material, hundreds of newspaper articles from across, and many personal interviews, The Lady Makes Boots tells the complete story of this multi-faceted woman.

As the Vietnam War was beginning to turn towards its bitter end, Le Quan fought under beloved general Tran Ba Di in the army of South Vietnam. An unlikely encounter thrust the two men together, and they developed a mutual respect. Forty years later, the two men reconnected in a wholly unlikely setting: a family road trip to Key West.

What if the harbinger of our greener future was a small power plant set in the middle of nowhere in West Texas? Longtime alternative energy executive Andy Bowman's book makes exactly this case, outlining what he suggests is a more sustainable future for American capitalism.

Based on prodigious research into many formerly classified sources, Edward Marolda relates in dramatic detail how America's top naval leaders tackled their responsibilities, their successes, and their failures. This is a story of dedication to duty, professionalism, and service during a time of great national and international adversity.

Tells Kim Vui's story, in her own words. From her challenging childhood and rise to prominence, to her torrid romance and bitter separation from an American committed to war in her country, Kim Vui candidly describes a place now lost to history and a love that spans continents and lifetimes.

Examines the effectiveness of air power during the Vietnam War, offering an evaluation of the extent to which air operations fulfilled national policy objectives. Using previously classified and little-known archival sources, Michael Weaver blends new sources with material from the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States Series.

While relating a tale of gut-wrenching destruction, Bad Smoke, Good Smoke provides a more nuanced view of what is often a natural event, giving the two-sided story of our relationship with fire. Not just a first-hand account, this volume also synthesizes and explains the latest research in range management, climate, and fire.

In Windmill Tales, in nearly one hundred beautiful full-colour images, photographer Wyman Meinzer shows American windmills as they appear today. Many of them are still working, and others have fallen or are preserved at the American Wind Power Center in Lubbock, Texas, but all illustrate the way of life that was made possible by the windmill.

In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the city's identity and align itself with a progressive future.

In Sand, Water, Salt Jada Ach reevaluates the Progressive Era's environmental legacy. Taking an ecocritical approach to turn-of-the-century literature set in the American West, Ach interrogates texts by asking what kinds of environmental, national, and cultural stories the elements have to tell about land and oceanic management.

Tells the story of Jacob Sonderling's unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Jonathan Friedmann and John Guest document and analyze Sonderling's experience and expression of Judaism through music.

An innovative and interdisciplinary analysis of Latina narratives of transnational migration that underscore the intersections of the physical, psychological, sociocultural, and legal / structural traumas endured by migrants and their families.

Focuses on the mammalian fauna of Texas. The book includes a reprinting of Vernon Bailey's 1905 ""The Biological Survey of Texas"" with new annotations and updates. In the rest of the book, the authors discuss changes in landscapes, land use, and the status of Texas mammals in the last hundred years.

Tells the story of what happens when a twenty-three-year-old feminist makes her way into the land of machismo. This is a war story, a love story, and an open-hearted confessional within the burgeoning women's movement, chronicling its demands and its rewards.

Uses legislation and court cases to tell the political history of the state of Texas. Writing out of decades of experience, Steve Bickerstaff traces the story of this political practice from 1836 up to the present and prognosticates what lies ahead for the 2020 census and 2021 redistricting.

R, a non-binary femme character, narrates their experience of disease and recovery through recurrent letters to doctors, pets, family members, lovers, and a ""Master"". R also explores the paradoxical experiences of queer non-reproductivity, chronic illness and disability, and the healing that can be found in the liminal spaces between.

Tells the story of Sister Maria of Agreda's remarkable life. Maria was born in Agreda, Spain, in 1602, and vowed there as a nun at age seventeen. From birth to her death in 1665, she never left the small town. Yet her accomplishments had a lasting impact in Spain and as far away as the American Southwest, where she is celebrated to this day.

Since her groundbreaking memoir In My Father's House, which recounts an agonizing break from fundamentalist polygamy, Dorothy Allred Solomon has continued to publish on the lives of Mormon women. Finding Karen springs from a decade of research into her paternal great-great grandmother, Karen Sorensen Rasmussen.

Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that her family endured, a horrific and sudden death that led her to write this book. This is the story of what happened after her son died in a freak gun accident. Ross unsparingly shares the complexities of grief as it ripples through the generations of her family.

Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture; from the European landscape of World War II to the war in Iraq, this title opens the author's personal world to the world at large. It includes poems that explore the historical, social, and scientific, relishing life's juxtapositions.

A historical novel written by Estelle Laughlin, a Holocaust survivor. Laughlin grew up in Warsaw before she was deported to multiple Nazi death camps, from which she was eventually liberated in January 1945. Hanna, I Forgot to Tell You is an imagining of what might have been.

Tells the story of one family's covered-wagon journey from West Texas to New Mexico in the early 1900s. When Wilmettie's stepfather decides to follow his dream and claim a homestead of his own, Wilmettie's younger brothers are excited, but twelve-year-old Wilmettie is reluctant to leave her familiar surroundings and the grandmother she loves.

John Poch's newly curated collection, Gracious: Poems of the 21st Century South, spotlights both emerging and notable voices from this poetry-rich region. This book promises to be the best and most influential anthology of Southern poetry published in over thirty years.

Nature writer B.C. Robison presents a unique portrayal of birds of the Texas Coast. Through the stories of birds that have a special bond with coastal Texas, Robison shows not only the importance of the Texas Coast to North American bird life but also the intimate dependence of coastal birds on our use of the land.

With words and photographs, Rain in Our Hearts takes readers into Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, 196th LIB, Americal Division in 1969-1970. Jim Logue, a professional photographer, was drafted and served as an infantryman; he also carried a camera.

""Analyzes the major issues and dilemmas facing early twentieth-century US judges--specifically George M. Bourquin, Federal District judge in Montana from 1912 to 1934--in the American West"--Provided by publisher"--

When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" was one of only two he could recognize-in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would catch his first glimpse of the legendary highway. It was enough to lure Henriksson four years later to the second international Route 66 festival in Fl...

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