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';The book addresses chronologically the most striking reactions of the art world to the rise of military engagement in Vietnam then in Cambodia.' Guillaume LeBot, Critique d'art The Vietnam War (19641975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art dominated the American art world, individual artists and art collectives played a significant role in antiwar protest and inspired subsequent generations of artists. This significant story of engagement, which has never been covered in a book-length survey before, is the subject of Kill for Peace. Writing for both general and academic audiences, Matthew Israel recounts the major moments in the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement and describes artists' individual and collective responses to them. He discusses major artists such as Leon Golub, Edward Kienholz, Martha Rosler, Peter Saul, Nancy Spero, and Robert Morris; artists' groups including the Art Workers' Coalition (AWC) and the Artists Protest Committee (APC); and iconic works of collective protest art such as AWC's Q. And Babies? A. And Babies and APC's The Artists Tower of Protest. Israel also formulates a typology of antiwar engagement, identifying and naming artists' approaches to protest. These approaches range from extra-aesthetic actionsadvertisements, strikes, walk-outs, and petitions without a visual aspectto advance memorials, which were war memorials purposefully created before the war's end that criticized both the war and the form and content of traditional war memorials. ';Accessible and informative.' Art Libraries Society of North America

With fascinating insights into how both ordinary and famous Cuban-Americans, including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, Gloria Estefan, and Jose Kozer, have lived "life on the hyphen," this is an expanded, updated edition of the classic, award-winning study of

With almost 200 photographs, many never before published, and an authoritative text that delves into the motivations and aesthetics of the photographers who took them, this is the most ambitious and historically accurate visual record of the Mexican Revol

Continuing the story begun in The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University, this richly illustrated volume offers a highly readable, in-depth exploration of the personalities and events that have made the University of Texas at A

Back in print for the first time in thirty years and thoroughly updated, Texas Furniture is the definitive guide to the state's rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and the craftsmen who produced it.

With fiction, poetry, memoir, and oral history from a stellar collection of writers, including Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Washington Irving, Henry Miller, Sylvia Plath, Leslie Marmon Silko, and John Steinbeck, A Route 66 Companion offers a literary hi

A culinary journey through the flavors of the southwestern borderlands from an agricultural ecologist and ';natural storyteller' (Times Literary Supplement). Why does food taste better when you know where it comes from? Because historyecological, cultural, even personalflavors every bite we eat. Whether it's the volatile chemical compounds that a plant absorbs from the soil or the stories and memories of places that are evoked by taste, layers of flavor await those willing to delve into the roots of real food. In this book, Gary Paul Nabhan takes us on a personal trip into the southwestern borderlands to discover the terroirthe ';taste of the place'that makes this desert so delicious. To savor the terroir of the borderlands, Nabhan presents a cornucopia of local foodsMexican oregano, mesquite-flour tortillas, grass-fed beef, the popular Mexican dessert capirotada, and corvina (croaker or drum fish) among themas well as food experiences that range from the foraging of Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions to a modern-day camping expedition on the Rio Grande. Nabhan explores everything from the biochemical agents that create taste in these foods to their history and dispersion around the world. Through his field adventures and humorous stories, we learn why Mexican oregano is most potent when gathered at the most arid margins of its rangeand why foods found in the remote regions of the borderlands have surprising connections to foods found by his ancestors in the deserts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. By the end of his movable feast, Nabhan convinces us that the roots of this fascinating terroir must be anchored in our imaginations as well as in our shifting soils. Includes illustrations

Wide-ranging interviews with leading architectural thinkers, including Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, Paul Goldberger, Robert Ivy, Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, and Robert A. M. Stern, spotlight some of the most significant issues in a

Tracing the rise of the Marvel Comics brand from the creation of the Fantastic Four to the development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this volume of original essays considers how a comic book publisher became a transmedia empire.

Nathan Lyons is the first comprehensive examination of this visionary photographer, curator, theorist, and educator, one of the most important voices in American photography and a central force in the explosive growth of the field over the past five decad

This moving ethnographic account of Hurricane Katrina survivors rebuilding their lives away from the Gulf Coast inaugurates The Katrina Bookshelf, a new series of books that will probe the long-term consequences of America's worst natural disaster.

This novel, published in 1963 as En Chima nace un santo, makes important connections between the frustrations of poverty and the excesses of religious fanaticism.

The only keyed guide to the more than 400 species of woody plants native to the Trans-Pecos region and adjacent areas.

The first exploration of Texas's Speaker of the House--a role that has evolved from powerless obscurity to heavyweight political pre-eminence

This superb re-envisioning of Keith Carter's highly acclaimed first book presents classic images of small-town life in a completely redesigned volume that also offers insight into Carter's creative process through a new essay, contact sheets, and an amplified travel journal.

The first collection of its kind in scope and ambition, this volume brings together the most prominent western writers of the current generation to create new visions of the American West-"the West that is still becoming."

Exploring the motivations of migrants in countries around the world, this book proposes a new model of immigration that accounts for the cultural beliefs and social patterns that influence people to move-or to remain at home.

A boon for students and instructors of the language, culture, and literature of the Portuguese-speaking world, this language resource manual delves beyond the realm of traditional language textbooks.

From the New York Timesbestselling historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, ';[a] compact summation of our nation's monetary history' (Shepherd Express). The world runs on the US dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely. But how did the greenback achieve this planetary dominance a mere century and a half after President Lincoln issued the first currency backed only by the creditand credibilityof the federal government? In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the powerand the enormous risksof the dollar's worldwide reign.

The first English translation of the national epic of Turkey, which is the heritage of the ancient Oghuz Turks and was composed as they migrated westward from their homeland in Central Asia to the Middle East, eventually to settle in Anatolia.

A completely revised and updated edition of the baseline study of global warming's potential effects on Texas.

In the first anthology of its kind in English, leading Israeli film scholars explore how one of the world's most exciting emerging cinemas has become a vibrant site for the representation of Israeli realities.

This pioneering study of amateur futbol (soccer) clubs in Chile reveals how the world's most popular sport has served to engage citizens in local and national politics and support democratic practices.

With a powerful, erotic, and entertaining Quechua story as a master narrative, Foxboy explores the acts of storytelling and story listening in the Andes to discover how these arts are used to communicate deeply held cultural values.

Spotlighting innovative design projects in places ranging from Texas to Italy and China, this book sounds a call for architects, designers, and regional planners to create a built environment that works on a regional scale in harmony with the planet's eco

Here is the first field guide to the damselflies of Texas-which include more than half of all damselfly species found in North America-richly illustrated with digitally created images that show amazing details, as well as photos taken in the wild.

Expand your gastronomic boundaries with some of the most celebrated recipes of Tyson Cole, winner of the James Beard Award for Best Chef (Southwest) and founder of one of America's premier restaurants for innovative Japanese cuisine, Uchi.

The first English translation of the final and most powerful book of poetry by the beloved, award-winning Israeli poet, Leah Goldberg.

In this beautifully written memoir, the author of the popular China Bayles mystery series meditates on what it means to be married-to a person and a place-while also needing to be alone and experience silence and solitude.

Beautifully illustrated with rich black-and-white photographs of ranchwomen at work, Don't Make Me Go to Town is a remarkable record of women of strength and determination who are striving to preserve an increasingly rare way of life.