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The most comprehensive collection yet of American poetry about nature and the environment

A compelling visual narrative of San Antonio in the early twentieth century by way of more than six hundred historic postcards

A photographic and scientific ode to a beloved Costa Rican relic tree

Plath's The Bell Jar and McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter meet South Texas struggles with gender, class, and race

The comprehensive history of one of the nation’s foremost city parks

Debut essay collection exploring landscapes and mythologies at the intersection of environmental, indigenous, and social justice

A stunning visual account of the 1914 U.S. invasion of Mexico

Feminist essays by a reknowned writer on rural life as a third generation veterinarian in Spain

The 1921 flood that put a spotlight on environmental and social inequality in a southwestern city

A collection of memorable lines, regretful remarks, and soulful sayings about the Lone Star State

An artist explores Virginia's natural and human history through essays, sketches, and multimedia assemblages

The unforgettable story of Laika-the Soviet space dog, the Cold War, and the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union

An international exploration of how our physical environments shape and define us

The influential story of early Spanish immigrants to Texas from the Canary Islands

Eighty groundbreaking essays on why it's wrong to wreck the world

Eyewitness statements compiled by a woman who survived the Tulsa race massacre of 1921

Essay collection offers a lively, surprising tour of small town and big city Texas

Miraflores reveals the story of an internationally significant cultural landscape in Texas

Essays on animal rights, silence, mortality, eroticism, film, and language

From trunk to tail, these thirty-three essential historical, scientific, and cultural writings on the elephant range from folktales to current practices, creating a greater understanding of this creature.

A thorough and highly-accessible history of San Antonio's economic and political development

Commissioned by the U.S. Committee on Public Information, more than 300 of America’s most famous illustrators, cartoonists, designers, and fine artists donated their services to create more than 700 posters in an effort to build patriotism, raise funds for war bonds, encourage enlistment, and increase volunteerism during World War I. The Winds and Words of War is a rich collection of World War I-era posters created between 1916 and 1917 to motivate the country to abandon a position of remoteness and connect with European allies against German aggression and tyranny. These images became a great equalizing force in American culture, causing people of all backgrounds and classes, rural or urban, educated or uneducated, to rally to the cause.Some 450 of these posters are part of the San Antonio Public Library''s permanent collection, bequeathed in 1940 by Harry Hertzberg, a Texas state senator and avid memorabilia collector. The posters were created by a group of early twentieth-century American artists, among them Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, Guy Lipscombe, Charles Buckle Falls, Haskell Coffin, and Norman Rockwell. The lithographs'' heroic images and patriotic slogans depicted military and civilian effort and sacrifice, aiming to inspire young men and women to enlist, pick up a flag, and support the soldiers and nurses during a trying time in American history.The posters, many of which appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, are both testaments to the people who volunteered their service and excellent examples of the period''s advertising strategies and graphic design.

The story of the founding and growth of one of the nation's exceptional institutions for higher learning

Nearly 1,000 place names in San Antonio inform and delight

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

From the land of LBJ, a brash and beautiful story of a legendary Texas Hill Country ranch and the family who cherished its rugged land and lifestyle

A Kite in the Wind is an anthology of essays by 20 veteran writers and master teachers. While the contributors offer specific, practical advice on such fundamental aspects of craft as characterization, character names, the first person point of view, and unreliable narrators, they also give extended, thoughtful consideration to more sophisticated topics, including “imminence,” or the power of a sense of beginning; creating and maintaining tension; “lushness”; and the deliberate manipulation of information to create particular effects.The essays in A Kite in the Wind begin as personal investigations — attempts to understand why a decision in a particular story or novel seemed unsuccessful; to define a quality or problem that seemed either unrecognized or unsatisfactorily defined; to understand what, despite years of experience as a fiction writer, resisted comprehension; and to pursue haunting, even unanswerable questions.Unlike a how-to book, the anthology is less an instruction manual than it is an intimate visit with twenty very different writers as they explore topics that excite, intrigue, and even puzzle them. Each discussion uses specific examples and illustrations, including both canonical stories and novels and writing less frequently discussed, from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, by both American and international authors.The contributors share their hard-earned insights for beginning and advanced writers with humility, wit, and compassion. The first section of the book focuses on narration, with particular attention paid to various kinds of narrators; the second, on strategic creation and presentation of character; the third, on some of the roles of the visual, beginning with establishing setting; and the fourth, on structural and organizational issues, from movement through time to the manipulation of information to create mystery and suspense.

Profiles of four American writers showing how they interact with the landscapes they live and write in