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Don E Albrecht
Blinded by the Lights

Using the lens of arguably the state's most popular sport, Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration describes the highs and lows in the ongoing battle for equal educat…

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John B Anderson
Gulf Coast Demise?

The once formidable Rio Grande Delta has vanished, and unsustainable land loss in south Louisiana will result in the virtual loss of the Mississippi River Delta by 2050. Barrier islands, peninsulas, and c…

lieferbar ab 27.6.2025.

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Jennifer L Bristol
Parking Lot Birding

Texas boasts greater bird diversity than almost any state, with more than six hundred species living in or passing through during spring and fall migrations. Jennifer L. Bristol's Parking Lot Birding, now…

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Jim Burnett
Saltgrass Prairie Saga

"Texas during the Civil War period is often viewed through the lenses of military tactics and the state's role in the Confederacy. But what was life like for the families who endured wartime separati…

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Edward Cavallerano
Fire in the Piney Woods

"Fire lookout towers are enjoying a retrospective rebirth, attracting the curious and the adventurous, as Americans seeking escape for moments of solitude rediscover the structures' national signific…

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Stephen S Cure
A Centennial Perspective on Texas in the Great War

"In 2017, the centennial of our nation's military entry into World War I provided the perfect opportunity to bring the war's historical lessons to a wider American and Texan audience. Working in tand…

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Doris Douglas Davis
The Ahern Home of Texarkana

"Focused on an early twentieth-century home in Texarkana, Arkansas, Doris Douglas Davis's The Ahern Home of Texarkana offers not only a discussion of the architecture of a Classical Revival dwelling …

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Kaleta Doolin
Fritos(r) Pie

Fritos(R) Pie is an insider's look at the never-before-told story of the Frito Company written by Kaleta Doolin, daughter of the company's founder. Filled with personal anecdotes, more than 150 vintage an…

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Sylvia Earle
Sea Change

Equal parts memoir, adventure tale, and call to action, Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans has become a classic of environmental literature, at once the gripping adventure story of Earle's three decades …

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Linda English
Run for Your Lives!

"The "Runaway Scrape" is, among Texas historians, at once recognizable but often less understood. While shelves of books examine the fall of the Alamo and the revolutionary victory at San J…

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Brent Evans,
Replenishing Our Hills

"The Hill Country, 'sweet spot of Texas,' is in danger of being loved to death, or so it seems. The first recorded name for the Hill Country was Lomeria Grande, meaning The Great Hills. The unique an…

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Shane Ford
The Ballad of Blind Willie Johnson

In 1977, when the Voyager deep space probes were launched on their journey into interstellar space, they each carried a gold record containing music from a wide variety of cultures. Of the four selections…

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David Garlock
Three Roads to Death: The Massacre at Goliad

In this thoroughly researched account of the Battle of Coleto and subsequent massacre of Texian soldiers at the Presido La Bahía near the settlement of Goliad, Texas, author David E. Garlock describes the…

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Sean P Graham
North American Deserts

"Deserts cover about one third of the earth's surface and are the largest terrestrial ecosystem in the world. They are the only biome that is actually expanding, largely due to human activities and c…

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James C Griffin
Pressed, Clean, and Properly Fitted

"The Corps of Cadets is the oldest student organization at Texas A&M University. Founded in 1876, when the university first opened its doors as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, t…

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Meg Griffiths, Frances Jakubek,
A Yellow Rose Project

"August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee,…

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Michael H Henderson, Melissa L Mednicov
Monumental

As the creator of the 67-foot-tall "Big Sam" statue of Sam Houston that overlooks Interstate 45 just south of Huntsville, Texas, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Tex…

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Basia Irland
What Rivers Know

"What if rivers could talk and tell their stories? What would they tell us? In What Rivers Know, artist Basia Irland insinuates herself as the voice of major waterways as they struggle to navigate th…

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Sam Kindrick
Outlaw Country Reporter

Foreword by series editor, Hector Saldaäna.

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José E Limón
The Streets of Laredo

Arguing that the well-known cowboy ballad "The Streets of Laredo" is an early expression of "discontent with an encroaching modernity," author José E. Limón draws upon ethnomusicology,…

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