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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.

The Road of a Naturalist is a fascinating autobiographical wonder written by one of America''s most beloved naturalists at the height of his fame. A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet, Donald Culross Peattie takes us on an confessional journey across the landscape of his life. Told in flashbacks of years past and interspersed with impressions of a journey by motorcar across the American West, it is intensely personal. It is American in the best sense of the word. From saying goodbye to the trees at his childhood home on Lake Michigan to a man formed via Harvard and New York City, finally discovering a belief in the nature of things in a cabin in the Grand Tentons, it is not told as as linear life story but rather an adventure in living, in science, in thought.

Cargoes and Harvests, famed naturalist Donald Culross Peattie’s first book, eloquently explores agriculture and trade within America’s past using thoughtful language that is well ahead of its time. Originally published in 1926, Peattie takes readers on a compelling adventure through the socioeconomic histories of staples such as tea, coffee, cocoa, potatoes and tobacco. Starting with the seeds and roots of the American landscape, Cargoes and Harvests illustrates where we’ve been and how far we’ve come. By considering the relationship between a nation and its goods, Peattie unearths countless reflective implications that still resonate within the field of American agriculture today.

A classic of American architectural and urban planning history

With a history more than 290 years old, San Antonio boasts a diverse, eclectic, and important architectural inventory. From the Spanish Missions of the 17th century to invigorating adaptation and restoration of historic buildings alongside landmark new construction, there is a wide array of culturally significant assets reflecting Anglo and Hispanic traditions, alongside regional variations of southern and southwestern American styles.San Antonio Architecture is the comprehensive catalog of the architecture inventory of the city. Complete with color illustrations, keyed maps, and informative essays, it is a must-have book for every armchair and on foot architectural, art, and community historian.

The 1963 picture book about the friendship between two little dogs, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, returns to shelves.

A collection of interviews and letters between beloved poet Gary Snyder and South African writer and scholar Julia Martin

What better way to learn animal names than with eye-catching works of art. With work from across Latin America and beyond, children will become armchair world travelers and art connoisseurs. This bilingual edition introduces early readers, and earlier listeners, to animals in both English and Spanish.

A groundbreaking exploration of the unknown, outermost reaches of the Hawaiian archipelago