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 …
On Monday, December 4, 1967, a body was discovered in the science building of the largest university in West Texas. The next day, citizens of Lubbock gathered for the Carol of Lights, and event typically …
"A program history of the Masked Rider, the primary mascot of Texas Tech University, including a rundown of the riders' horses, as written by a former Masked Rider"--
A new analysis of the development of the Texas oil industry, suggesting that the oil fraternity's internal cooperation, self-regulation, and moral economy coevolved with petroleum engineering science and …
The Edge Rover chronicles the expansive life of Isaac Slover, a fur trapper who was born in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War and who ranged throughout the early American West. The variety and ext…
While mainstream Vietnamese history chronicles a few woman warriors of the past and some contemporary female activists, Vietnamese women always have performed their roles in the quiet shadows of men. To i…
On October 14, 1987, eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure fell into a well, igniting a 56-hour sprint to free her.
The oil boomtown of Midland, Texas, supplied a ragtag crew of rescuers. Firemen, policemen,…
Blackdom, New Mexico, was a township that lasted about thirty years. In this book, Timothy E. Nelson situates the township's story where it belongs: along the continuum of settlement in Mexico's Northern …
Breaking a thirty-year silence, B o Ninh has permitted at last the publication of a new work in English. Ninh is perhaps Vietnam's foremost chronicler of the war, which he joined at age 17. Bringing to li…
What lies beneath the ground? Our poor eyesight cannot penetrate even an inch into the soil, so for centuries, fortune-seekers have tried every way imaginable to see below the surface. Whether searching f…
When you think of a marine environment, what do you picture? Wetlands, possibly; coastal shores, perhaps. When you think of a shrimp farm, what do you picture? Some folks who know a thing or two about aqu…
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
At Close Range. Her debut memoir is the story of wh…
Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire, and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government buil…
An essential Western biography of America's most beloved cowboy poet.
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