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Author: Carl AndersonPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: Aug 30, 2022Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/EducationISBN-10: 1682831426ISBN-13:...

Charting a mother's journey from grief to gun safety advocacy.Author: Leesa RossPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: Feb 13, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In 1919 there were just 6.7 million cars in America. There was no interstate system. The national park system was thirty-seven years young. In this fledgling environment for long-distance travel, H...

Bad Smoke, Good Smoke : A Texas Rancher's View of WildfireAuthor: John R EricksonPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: Aug 20, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Author: Don L. ParksPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: May 25, 2022Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Hardcover/Young Adult NonfictionISBN-10: 1682831442ISBN-13:...

Ibe Liebenberg's first book-length collection of poetry, Birds at Night, explores themes of loss, trauma, PTSD, indigeneity, and familial relationships. These brief, intense poems amplify the...

Recounts the raging legal conflict that lasted three times as long as World War II. The book is titled Broke, Not Broken because that describes Maxey at the time of his legal war. It is being read...

Author: Marilyn H. FedewaPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: May 30, 2020Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 168283056XISBN-13: 9781682830567

What lies beneath the ground? Our poor eyesight cannotpenetrate even an inch into the soil, so for centuries, fortune-seekers havetried every way imaginable to see below the surface. Whether...

Utilizing local analysis to make global conclusions, Drama Under the Skin uses ritual as a lens to examine race and identity formation of both free and enslaved people of African descent and...

Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains counters the narrative held in the West about women and the land of the quaintly "lush" and "charming" Mekong Delta. A rice field in the middle of the...

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, an event...

Linked accounts of frontier crimes and trials from 1885 to 1929 across West Texas, Indian and New Mexico Territories, and Montana trace the evolution of criminal justice in the American...

The inaugural winner of the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize, essays exploring humans' relationship to the natural world.Author: Kate J NevillePublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: May...

Author: J. Knox Jones, Richard W. ManningPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: Jan 15, 1992Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Misc. SuppliesISBN-10:...

The Indigenous nations of the valley of the Rio Grande that is now centered upon Ojinaga, Chihuahua, and Presidio, Texas--the La Junta valley in colonial times--had a long and unique history with...

A firsthand account of 1987's media-charged rescue of Baby Jessica, plus a chronicle of the community aftermath once the news cameras left.Author: Lance LunsfordPublisher: Texas Tech University...

Cassie Pruyn's Lena asks new questions: why we love, why we grieve. We've read elegies before, but not like this. A lush and unsparing first book, Lena asks readers to understand love--crucially, a...

On New Year's Day in 1954, the underdog Texas Tech Red Raiders trounced Auburn, persistent pride of the SEC, in the Gator Bowl. The score was 35-13, and it would be almost twenty years before Tech...

Collected fiction by contemporary Vietnamese women writers, showcasing both established and emerging voices.Author: NAPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: Mar 19, 2024Number of...

Norm Shulman's relationship with his stepson Greg Levenson had always been stable and warm, but it altered when Greg decided to enlist in the Air Force at age 27. This unexpected decision brought...

The Mallet Ranch, from its founding to the present, has followed the arc of most Texas ranches. It has experienced booms and busts, and its owners have fretted over droughts and floods as well as...

Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande is the memoir of Morris Riskind, who was born and lived most of his life in the small Texas border town of Eagle Pass. Riskind's...

Memoiric poetry documenting a family's arrival in AmericaAuthor: Lan P. DuongPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: Feb 24, 2023Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Jerry Craft has given us an engaging and finally touching book. It is a story of racial harmony in an era of racial distrust. I highly recommend it. -Larry McMurtry At the outset of summer break in...

Author: John R. Erickson, Douglas K. BoydPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: Dec 10, 2021Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1682831221ISBN-13:...

Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration is an innovative and interdisciplinary analysis of Latina narratives of transnational migration that underscore the intersections of the...

Jada Ach's scholarship in Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925 seeks to reevaluate the Progressive Era's environmental legacy. Taking an ecocritical...

Traces the discursive production of masculinities in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century literatures of the American West.Author: Ryan Tan WanderPublisher: Texas Tech University...

Six Texas trials from 1896 to 1968 illuminate how unwritten law" permitted violence toward offenders of Southern notions of female virtue, male honor, or sanctity of marriage. Explores the maneuvers...