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Life on the Hyphen: the Cuban-American Way-Gustavo Pérez Firmat PDF Download

An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author's own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both famous...

The Surprising Design of Market Economies-Alex Marshall PDF Download

The free market" has been a hot topic of debate for decades. Proponents tout it as a cure-all for just about everything that ails modern society

Writing the Story of Texas PDF Download

The history of the Lone Star state is a narrative dominated by larger-than-life personalities and often-contentious legends, presenting interesting challenges for historians. Perhaps for this reason,...

The Fictional Christopher Nolan-Todd Mcgowan PDF Download

From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Characters in the films constantly find themselves deceived by oth...

Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art Trade and Power-Mary W. Helms PDF Download

In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status...

The San Antonio Missions and Their System of Land Tenure-F. (C)Lix D. Jr. Almar PDF Download

San Antonio, Texas, is unique among North American cities in having five former Spanish missions: San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo; founded in 1718), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (1720), Nuestra Se...

Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History 1774-1923: the Impact of the West-Roderic H. Davison PDF Download

The effect of Western influence on the later Ottoman Empire and on the development of the modern Turkish nation-state links these twelve essays by a prominent American scholar. Roderic Davison draws f...

Western Window in the Arab World-Leon Borden Blair PDF Download

Since November 8, 1942, when American troops in Operation Torch first landed on the beaches of North Africa, almost a million Americans-military personnel and their dependents-have lived in Morocco. T...

The Adventures of a Cello: Revised Edition with a New Epilogue-Carlos Prieto PDF Download

In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art-a cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided...

From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic,...

Belo: from Newspapers to New Media-Judith Garrett Segura PDF Download

Founded in Galveston in 1842 with the launch of the Daily News, the Belo Corporation entered the twenty-first century as a powerhouse conglomerate, owning four daily newspapers (including the Dallas M...

Jacques Pepin More Fast Food My Way-Jacques Pépin PDF Download

From “a great teacher and truly a master technician” (Julia Child), a new cookbook full of faster-than-ever food, including dozens of elegant “minute” recipes.Jacques Pépin Fast Food My Way was an imm...

Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film PDF Download

When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known-the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's es...

Ethnographic Film: Revised Edition-Karl G. Heider PDF Download

Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching....

All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music-Michael Corcoran PDF Download

From country and blues to rap and punk, Texas music is all over the map, figuratively and literally. Texas musicians have pioneered new musical genres, instruments, and playing styles, proving themsel...

Crafting Tradition: the Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings-Michael Chibnik PDF Download

Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western c...

Experiencing Nature: the Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution-Antonio Barrera-Osorio PDF Download

As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the natural world, gathered data, drew...

Arab-American Faces and Voices: the Origins of an Immigrant Community-Elizabeth Boosahda PDF Download

As Arab Americans seek to claim their communal identity and rightful place in American society at a time of heightened tension between the United States and the Middle East, an understanding look back...

The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction PDF Download

Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of interaction between the Early Classic Maya and the great empire of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico. Yet the exact nature of the relat...

The Jazz of the Southwest: an Oral History of Western Swing-Jean A. Boyd PDF Download

They may wear cowboy hats and boots and sing about faded love

A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice PDF Download

Speaking for the growing community of Latina feminist theologians, the editors of this volume write, With the emergence and growth of the feminist theologies of liberation

Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World-Stacey Abbott PDF Download

In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters a...

Brave Black Women: from Slavery to the Space Shuttle-Sharon Kahn PDF Download

Brave black women have played important roles in American history. Before the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, black women bore the bonds of slavery with courage and strength. Since Emancipation, bl...

William Wayne Justice: a Judicial Biography-Frank Kemerer PDF Download

In his forty years on the federal bench in Texas, William Wayne Justice has been a formidable force for change. His rulings have prompted significant institutional reforms in education, prisons, and r...