This mesmerizing novel, first published in 1989, marks the debut in English of one of the most brilliant and admired of today's Latin American writers....
Winner, William P. Clements Prize, Best NonFiction Book on Southwestern America, 2004Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de los Rios...
Winner, William P. Clements Prize, Best NonFiction Book on Southwestern America, 2004Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de los Rios...
Rolling Stone hails singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen as 'a writer with a novelist's eye for character and narrative detail comparable to forerunners like John Prine,...
Interest in goddess worship is growing in contemporary society, as women seek models for feminine spirituality and wholeness. New cults are developing around ancient goddesses...
The Paintings Executed In 19641967 By American Artist Mark Rothko For The Rothko Chapel In Houston Represent The Fulfillment Of The Artist'S Lifelong Ambition And...
There is no mistaking a hummingbird. Even people who hardly know a robin from a sparrow recognize that flash of iridescent feathers and the distinctive...
San Antonio, Texas, is unique among North American cities in having five former Spanish missions: San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo; founded in 1718), San...
The Quechua people, the 'singing mountaineers' of Peru, still sing the songs that their Inca ancestors knew before the Spaniards invaded the Andes. Some of...
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic BookLiterature in Latin America has long been a vehicle for debates over the interpretation of social history, cultural identity, and artistic...
Unraveling all the mysteries of the khiputhe knotted string device used by the Inka to record both statistical data and narrative accounts of myths, histories,...
William Carlos Williams wrote from an allencompassing American vision that recalls the spirit of Walt Whitman. Paradoxically, though, this mostAmerican poet sprang from foreign rootsa...
The Spanish element in Texas water law is a matter of utmost importance to many landholders whose livelihood is dependent on securing water for irrigation...
Winner, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2010The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World...
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission celebrated its centennial in 2009. To honor that milestone, former State Archivist David Gracy has taken a retrospective...
Shows that precolumbian tectonic forms (especially as found in sculpture and weaving) appear to be an overlooked source, or anticipation, of much of the art...
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An English Translation Of Chapa'S Historia De Nuevo Len, The First History Of The Region That Eventually Became Texas And Northeastern Mexico.Winner, Presidio La Baha...
Winner, Presidio La Baha Award, Sons of the Republic of TexasIn the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed El Nuevo Reino de Len,...
Texas has thirtytwo bat species, more than any other state. Bats rank among the state's most beneficial and fascinating allies. The majority eat insects, with...
In Texas BBQ, Wyatt McSpadden immortalized the barbecue joints of rural Texas in richly authentic photographs that made the people and places in his images...
Winner, Journalistic Achievement Award, Texas Historical Foundation, 2004From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing mausoleum, every marker in a Texas cemetery...
When nature goes haywire in Texas, it isn't usually an earthshaking event. Though droughts, floods, tornadoes, and hail all keep Texans talking about the unpredictable...
From reviews of the first edition:'Nowhere else have the facts presented here ever been assembled in one place before.... This book ought to be placed...
"The oversize format, lovely color landscape photographs and Smith's intelligent text are consistent with the cookbook's estimable fare."Publishers Weekly"...this is the quintessential Texas cookbook."Books of...
Limestone Hills, Cold Springfed Streams, Live Oaks And Cedar, Old German Townsthe Texas Hill Country May Well Be The Most Beloved Region Of The State....
Shortlisted, Finalist, Mountain Image Category, Banff Mountain Book Festival, 2002Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association.Some Of The Most Beautiful Views In Texas Are Also...