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A Thirsty Land chronicles Texans' epic struggles over water, from San Antonio's mission-era acequias to today's debates in the face of climate change and population growth, with an eye toward innovative technologies and strategies for increasing the suppl

A detailed look at the evolution of superhero comics from cheap pulp products to a billion-dollar film and publishing industry, and the artists' battles for their intellectual property and financial freedom.

A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King's Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine women's agency and the decline of modern

A deeply researched work that sheds light on growing income inequality in Texas and how early education programs, particularly among low-income Latina/o populations, result in varying degrees of success and failure.

In this sixth and final installment of his "Unnatural History of America" series, journalist Charles Bowden contrasts the intractable violence of man with the enduring beauty of the natural world, and its potential for regeneration.

From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both.

Since 1984 Lake|Flato Architects has been winning awards for its unique buildings committed to sustainability, beauty, and community; this generously illustrated book presents the firm's most striking creations.

In this first book on The LEGO Movie, renowned film and TV scholar Dana Polan shows how, through irony, savvy self-awareness, and knowingness about the culture industry, the blockbuster animated film makes for essential cinema.

Featuring over one hundred photographs taken after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this book forces us to confront the human and environmental costs of nuclear war.

The first scholarly book on John Hughes examines Hollywood's complex relationship with genre, the role of the auteur in commercial cinema, and the legacy of favorites such as Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Robert Clark returns to the photographs of the Permian Panthers he took thirty years ago for the iconic Friday Night Lights, with a selection of his previously unpublished photos plus portraits of the players and the community as they are today.

The inspiring biography of Donald Seldin, the physician, scientist, and academic leader who transformed the ramshackle Southwestern Medical College into a powerhouse of scientific research and patient care.

Acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson explore what it means to be a fan, even as ethical concerns--from doping to domestic violence--complicate the games we love

A Grammy Award-winning singer and scholar explores how Chican@ artivistas in East Los Angeles, from 1995 to the present, have created a unique community of process-based political engagement influenced by the Zapatista and Fandango movements.

A reissue from the author of Blue Desert and The Red Caddy that charts the disintegration of the land, the loss of friends to drugs, and the decline of American innocence.

A field guide to Texas snakes. It offers resources to identify snakes including: 110 full-colour photos that show various snake, as well as 39 line drawings; 110 range maps; species accounts that describe each snake's appearance, look-alikes, size, and habitat; and, information on poisonous snakes and preventing and treating snakebites.

Asking tough questions and connecting the dots across decades of suspicious events, from the Kennedy assassinations to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, this book raises crucial questions about the consequences of Americans' unwillingness to suspect high gove

A poignant tale of childhood imagination that follows lonely six-year-old Ines as she explores both her fears about the outer world and the even greater mysteries of family life.

';An excellent introduction to the band that might have evolved, [the author] suggests, into the Beatles.' New York Journal of Books Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early surf, car, and summer pop and their later hippie, counterculture, and ambitious rock. No other group can claim the Ronettes and the Four Seasons as early 1960s rivals; the Mamas and the Papas and Crosby, Stills and Nash as later 1960s rivals; and the Beatles and the Temptations as decade-spanning counterparts. This is the first book to take an honest look at the themes running through the Beach Boys' art and career as a whole and to examine where they sit inside our culture and politicsand why they still grab our attention.

';Unequivocally fresh and engrossing. Even the biggest fans will find something new to enjoy here.' Razorcake The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who's somehow defective, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing. The fans, argues Donna Gaines, got it right away, from their own experience of alienation at home, at school, on the streets, and from themselves. This sense of estrangement and marginality permeates everything the Ramones still offer us as artists, and as people. Why the Ramones Matter compellingly makes the case that the Ramones gave us everything; they saved rock and roll, modeled DIY ethics, and addressed our deepest collective traumas, from the personal to the historical.

In her first nonfiction collection, the beloved, award-winning Sarah Bird showcases four decades of wise yet riotously entertaining essays and articles on womanhood, Texas, motherhood, and her weird, wondrous journey as a writer.

A study of five graphic novels or memoirs that have reshaped the narrative of civil rights in America-and an examination of the format's power to allow readers to participate in the memory-making process.

The first book devoted to the hybrid genre of the film photonovel, applying a comparative textual media framework to a previously overlooked aspect of the history of film and literary adaptation.