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The story of a uniquely West Texas aquaculture enterprise: the Permian Sea Shrimp Company.Author: Bart ReidPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: May 21, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Songs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling's unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant of Chassidic rebbes, a rationalist, a Reform...

Explores the history, different variations, and spread of chili, includes several varieties of recipes--Author: Judy AlterPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2015Number of...

I've been there beforeAnd I'll try it againBut any fool knowsThat there's no way to winThose lyrics have been sung by Ray Charles, Norah Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, and...

The Air War in Vietnam is a deep dive into the effectiveness of air power during the Vietnam War, offering particular evaluation of the extent to which air operations fulfilled national policy...

The story of the expansive life of Isaac Slover, mountain man of the early American West.Author: Timothy E. GreenPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: May 28, 2024Number of Pages:...

In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to...

In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman's relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and...

In the summer of 1925, Enid Justin--daughter of H. J. Justin, founder of legendary Justin Boots--announced to her family that she was going to start her own boot company in her hometown of Nocona,...

Despite their self-proclaimed reputation as the "greatest gamblers" and the fiercest of free-enterprise capitalists, Edward W. Constant II argues that oilmen in Texas quickly evolved a closely-knit...

Meticulously researched and documented, The Reckoning examines all the players in the struggle for law and order in the vast, waterless tablelands of the Edwards Plateau of Texas. Rose shows frontier...

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 newly updated book makes exactly...

A story about NFL quarterback Tony Romo's journey to stardom, intended for young readers.Author: Jorge Iber, Raquel IberPublisher: Texas Tech University PressPublication Date: Sep 30, 2022Number of...

Water is a collection of poetry, watercolors, and pen-and-ink drawings from poet and author Susan Brind Morrow.Water is the organizing concept; it is also the urtext of the artistic process, the...

Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state's roots in slavery, segregation, and cotton make it southern...

He was the top male box office attraction at the movies, one of the most widely read newspaper columnists in America, a radio commentator with an audience of more than 60 million, and a globetrotting...

Wilmettie is the story of one family?s covered-wagon journey from West Texas to New Mexico Territory in the early 1900s. When Wilmettie?s stepfather decides to follow his dream and claim a homestead...

Written for players at all experience levels, this updated edition provides instruction on the skill and strategy of 42, the team domino game with a Texan heritage. Illustrates both basic and...